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Program Guide October/November 1996 BLUE MOON begins new season(s) live folk music at Illinois Wesleyan University recorded concert highlights on GLT's Acousticity ver the past few years, GLT has been extremely pleased to bring you recorded C highlights from one of the community treasures of live music in Central Illinois - OIllinois Wesleyan University's Blue Moon Coffeehouse. The Blue Moon, under the leadership of Darcy Greder, is beginning its fifth full season this fall. GLT's Bruce GLT goes all night on the weekend Bergethon will be sitting by Darcy's side for most of the shows, recording and taking with BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE notes in order to bring you a new season of broadcast highlights. For the last two seasons, we've recorded all the shows and then brought them to you during the summer. This fall, we're going to try something a little different - eginning in October, GL T is proud to announce the addition to our schedule broadcasting the Blue Moon Tapes on the first Sunday of each month. That way, there of a program frequently requested by blues fans: Blues Before Sunnse with will be at least one monthly performance from the Blue Moon on the air throughout BSteve Cushing. Since we have waited a long time to add this long-running the year. It's also our hope that it will allow the students who make up a substantial show to our air, we decided to give you a double dose. Blues Before Sunrise portion of the Blue Moon's audience to hear the shows while they're still on campus. comes to you each Saturday and Sunday morning from I :00 AM to 5:00 AM. As before, we'll bring you the Blue Moon Tapes on Sundays at 9:06, during Acousticity Of course, you can think of it as Friday night (following GLT's Delta Doctor) and - and we'll continue to include interview and discographical information along with Saturday night (following the Hillbilly Surf Hour), if you prefer. the taped performances. Steve Cushing, who brings Blues Before Sunrise to Chicago audiences every Below is a schedule of both Blue Moon performers for 1996-97 (current as of Saturday night at midnight, has been producing this unique program for many September) and the planned broadcast dates for highlights from their performances. years. Steve focuses on the artists, compositions and styles that made up the Tune in, and howl along at the Moon! overlapping worlds of blues, jazz and gospel music from the turn of the century up until the early I 960s. A typical show will include blues shouters, jump and jive styles, gospel harmony quartets, Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers, concert date performer(s) broadcast date on GL T and the innovators of the electric styles of postwar blues especially associated September 14 CARRIE NEWCOMER with October 6 with Chicago. JENNIFER KIMBALL September 21 TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA November 3 Cushing is a collector and scholar of the music he presents, so listening to Blues September 28 IRENE FARRERA December I is an educational experience as well as enjoyable entertainment. Before Sunrise December7 AL & ANDI TAUBER December22 We hope you'll tune in, or stay up, to discover a whole delightful world you October4 ANN REED January 5, 1997 might never have heard before. That's Friday night/Saturday Blues Before Sunrise, October 11 PATTY LARKIN February 2 morning from I :00 to 5:00 AM, and again, Saturday night/Sunday morning dunng November2 KRISTINA OLSEN March 2 the same hours. November 16 PIERCE PETTIS April 6 January 24, 1997 VANCE GILBERT May4 February (date TBA) SAFFIRE: THE UPPITY June I BLUES WOMEN March 7 CHERYL WHEELER July 6 LK: How well do you think this marriage of radio and poetry works/ CG.: It's an interesting, combative marriage, full of skullduggery and deals with the devil. L.K.: Stop it Cecil, you're scaring me. B.B.: The problem with radio is that the majority of the time, people aren't paying close attention to it. And poetry is a condensing of language into an intense form. In that sense, it's a challenge to use a medium which is a background for most people to bring them stuff that rewards I I 0% attention. Because of that we use poems which aren't too dense and are viscerally appealing to the ear. We hope that even if you don't get the whole poem on first hearing, there's something there that will make you go "Aaah!" L.K.: Do you feel that Poetry Radio makes poetry more accessible/ GLrs Poetry Radio celebrates B.M.: One of the premises in starting the show was that poetry is not something that's remote, but something that works all day, everyday and all you have to do is listen. Poetry isn't esoteric and I hope we've won some converts with "Poetry 4th Anniversary! Radio." t was back in October of '92 when GLT listeners were greeted by a cheery CG.: I think we've made a great conduit between the cool medium of a book "Hello, citizens!" one Tuesday morning at I 0:00am, and then were surprised and the hot medium of radio. Ito hear poet/reader Jim McGowan read 'To My Son, Old Enough for Bass." L.K.: Have you learned something new about poetry since starting this show? It was the first broadcast of Poetry Radio, a co-production of GLT and ISU's English department. The producers - GLT's Bruce Bergethon and English B.M.: I've learned that there are poems that are better on the page than they are professors Bill Morgan and Cecil Giscombe - recently sat down and refiected in the voice and vice versa. There are page poems and voice poems. on the past four years of free verse and iambic pentameter. CG.: I see more possibilities for poetry as a public "thang" than I might have LAURA KENNEDY: What was your original intention with Poetry Radio! before. BRUCE BERGETHON: The primary intention was to find a way to put poems L.K.: Do you have a favorite memory from the past four years/ on-the-air as if they were musical selections. Some of them work better than B.M.: A listener phoned in during fund drive saying she wanted to make a special others. In a way, we defined our programming goal negatively, that if it was not donation for Poetry Radio because she liked it so much. I smiled at Bruce and he intrusive and not something people perceived as a tune-out, that was success. smiled back and we both thought we must have a winner here. The whole thing was kind of a sneaky way to get people who think they wouldn't be interested in poetry to listen to it. L.K.: And what about the future of Poetry Radio! L. K.: When you first started producing Poetry Radio, did you think it would CG.: There's the possibility of a web page in our future. What I would like to succeed as well as it has? see is listeners and computer jocks having access to a printed version of a poem, perhaps while an audio version is playing on their computers. BILL MORGAN: I have to say I was worried when we first started, but for the last couple of years, it's become clear that the program is successful. The public B.B.: It can give you the opportunity to hear and read the poem over and over seems to like it. I'm pretty confident that we have a winner. again, which you obviously can't do on radio, Plus they could find out more about the poet and where to find books by that writer. L.K.: What's been the most surprising thing about producing Poetry Radio! But for now, we can enjoy the lovely produced version of Poetry Radio CECIL GISCOMBE: We now have an odd sort of fame or notoriety in this each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at I 0:00 AM and PM exclusively on community. I certainly never expected it. People seem to recognize us and commercial-free GLT - the only public radio station that will not go gentle associate us with Poetry Radio, which apparently an astounding number of people into that good night. listen to. We appreciate also the businesses and libraries throughout central Illinois that Series of Special Events Benefit served as drop-off points for donations for the sale from the public. And thank you for bringing everything from LPs, CDs, and instruments to 8-tracks and 78s to Vitesse Cycle, Horine's Pianos Plus, McLean County Historical Society, University GLT Equipment Fund Ford and the Bloomington, Normal, Peoria, Lakeview Branch, Washington, Eureka and Morton Libraries. by Kathryn Carter, Development Director But the biggest factor in this year's success was the volunteers who aided the Each year the GLT staff prioritizes the station equipment needs as we develop a staff by working tirelessly the two weeks prior to the sale.