Attention
Deadheads: Get ready for 24-hours of the Grateful Dead at their prime. WNRN
[link], Charlottesville, Virginia is hosting 24/’77, a full day and night
playing music exclusively from the Grateful Dead’s 1977 live archive. The party
begins this Friday (6/9) at 6:00pm.
The theme – 24/’77
– was chosen to coincide with the release of a three CD box set of a historic
Grateful Dead concert at Cornell University on May 8, 1977.
The release, Cornell 5/8/77, is part of an eleven CD ongoing package of live
Dead concerts called May 1977: Get Shown
the Light. The WNRN pledge drive will be wall-to-wall music recorded at
live Dead concerts during 1977.
WNRN listeners who
pledge during the one-day drive will be entered into a raffle to win tickets to
see Phish at Madison Square Garden later this summer. The pledge drive will be
streamed online at WNRN.org.
WHY THE GRATEFUL DEAD
MATTERS TO LISTENER-SUPPORTED PUBLIC MEDIA
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| The Grateful Dead in the mid 1970s |
Deadheads tend to
be purists. Authenticity and quality are as important to fans of the Grateful
Dead as credible source are to a NPR News junkie. Certain concerts are historic
and revered among the “family.”
The Grateful Dead
took great care to make certain their followers had a primo experience at their
shows. The sound, visuals, vendors and song selection mattered to the band and
the fans. 24/’77 is a perfect
fundraiser for Triple A stations like WNRN because it reinforces the notion
that the station cares and by pledging listeners can show their appreciation.
The May 8, 1977
Cornell University show is iconic for Deadheads. Earlier in 2017, Sam Sodonsky
wrote about the Cornell show and the recording made that night for the
respected indie music site Pitchfork [link]:
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| The Grateful Dead May 8, 1977 at Cornell University |
On May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, on the
Cornell University campus, in front of 8,500 eager fans, the Grateful Dead
played a show so significant that the Library of Congress inducted it into the
National Recording Registry.
Many Deadheads claim that the quality of the
live recording of the show made by Betty Cantor-Jackson (a member of the crew)
elevated its importance. Once those recordings—referred to as "Betty
Boards"—began to circulate among Deadheads, the reputation of the Cornell
'77 show grew exponentially. With time the show at Barton Hall acquired
legendary status in the community of Deadheads and audiophiles.
Cornell '77 is about far more than just a
single Grateful Dead concert. It is a social and cultural history of one of
America's most enduring and iconic musical acts, their devoted fans, and a
group of Cornell students whose passion for music drove them to bring the Dead
to Barton Hall. Cornell '77 is still considered a touchstone in the history of
the band.
MEDIA EDUCATOR &
INSTRUCTOR NEEDED IN NORTH CAROLINA
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| Molly Davis |
Every once in a
while you see a job listing that is so appealing you think about dropping
everything and relocating. Such is the
case with the opening at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. Molly Davis, Assistant GM at WFDD – Public Radio for the Piedmont – posted
this message on the PRADO bulletin board:
Are you passionate about
public radio and storytelling, and interested in sharing that passion with
young people? WFDD is upping the ante on our long-standing education program.
Since 2010, we’ve held Radio
Camp for middle schoolers every summer; since 2011, we’ve worked with high
school students after school to produce stories for our series Radio 101; we’ve
even hosted Radio Camp for Grown-Ups.
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| High school students at WFDD's Radio Camp |
Starting this fall, our Radio
101 program will be embedded in a local high school as a course for credit, and
we’re seeking a dynamic individual to take on all these projects.
Over the last few years, WFDD
has seen tremendous growth in both revenue and audience, and we have amazing
listener engagement. We are the state of North Carolina’s charter NPR affiliate
station, and we celebrated our 70th birthday last fall.
We serve 32 counties in the
Piedmont and High Country of North Carolina, and parts of southern Virginia.
The station is licensed to Wake Forest University, and as such, staff members
are University employees who receive generous University benefits.
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| Skyline of Winston-Salem |
Our offices are located in
beautiful and historic Winston-Salem, NC, the City of Arts and Innovation, home
to the nation’s first locally- established Arts Council, the nation’s first
public arts conservatory (UNC School of the Arts), and the prototype for the
Empire State Building.
Winston-Salem is conveniently
centrally located, close to both the mountains and the coast, boasts a low cost
of living, and offers a robust culinary and music scene, plus plenty of
activities for outdoor enthusiasts. The climate is temperate: I tell folks it’s
almost always spring or fall.
I could go on and on, but
instead, I’ll encourage you to check out the job description here.
Sign me up Molly!
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