The Saturday Light Brigade

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Marvin Irish, Aiden, Nathan and Zoe Magely, Edgar O’connell, Desmond Rucker, Selena Williams, and Mike are students in instrumental and vocal music in elementary school at Pittsburgh Dilworth PreK-5. We’re pleased to have them share their work and talent, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Susanne Ortner and Tom Roberts preview Sunday’s CD release party celebrating the release of “Hot World Chamber Music Swing,” featuring early calypso, tango, gypsy, klezmer, valse musette, classical, harlem stride, and rembetika, among others. Hear the duo’s interview as well as selected cuts from the album, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: The cast members of Gemini Theater’s “A Fairly Wizardly Adventure” preview their production of this unconventional story, live on SLB. Show opens March 31 and runs through April 22, 2012.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Maura Webster, Hannah Buerkle, Kaitlyn Eylicio, Breyanne Mycyk and Nadia Mycyk are members of Girl Scout Troop #11150. Here they share stories, essays and experiences of being members of Girl Scouts of America, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Christian Wig, proud to be named after his grandfather Christian Christianson, is a published historian, folk music aficionado, and very talented multi-instrumentalist. Hear Christian and Mark Ward performing traditional appalachian music for fiddle and banjo, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Meet a “big/little” pair matched by Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh and learn how you can make a difference in a child’s life. This week, we’re joined by Big Brother Tim Ryan and Little Brother Logan, along with BBBS staff member Cheryl Jones.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: 27 young violinists from the Seton Center School of Music in Brookline, under the excellent direction of Mr. John Ott, join us to perform highlights from their repetoire, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Nameless in August is Zach Rock, Jason Buzon and Patrick McGinley performing folk-rock songs on banjo, acoustic guitar and bass, live on SLB.

New at Neighborhoodvoices: Kaitlyn Goerl, a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, and Thomas Bryant, a recent Pitt alumni, stopped by to tell us a little about themselves and let listeners know about their non-profit student organization heroiKs. The organization will host its biggest event of the year, the 2nd Annual Pittsburgh Super Stroll, on Sunday March 25th, 2012, at 12:00pm. Listeners are invited to come join the heroiKs crew in Oakland on Sunday. All information can be found at http://www.heroiks.org

Colin, 5, Noah, 7, Lucinda, 8, Dean, 9 and Chloe, 10, are all pianists from the Pittsburgh Music Academy, performing live on SLB.