Youth Expression Showcase

Our weekly radio program invites students in Grades K-12 to perform live on the air. Hear young musicians, singer/songwriters, photographers, writers, poets and other people who express themselves through the arts.

Oral History

SLB Radio’s Oral History Program connects teens with adult role models in their communities. Click here to listen.

Callers

Since 1978, The Saturday Light Brigade has broadcast LIVE spontaneous on-air phone calls from kids and adults as part of its Saturday morning radio program. Now you can hear some of the most memorable calls from people participating in on-air games and other participatory features or simply calling to tell us about something exciting.

Performance

Join us as we celebrate the original talent in our midst with these weekly archives of in-studio performances by regional and national musicians and artists. Folk, bluegrass, jazz, singer/songwriter, international, storytellers and more!

Interviews

Audio replays from the hundreds of arts, human services and other non-profit organizations interviewed by SLB each year.

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Live Music: Good Thing

July 26, 2014 – 1:44 pm
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From 7-26-14: Live music with folk duo Good Thing, featuring Brittany Hautz and Ryan Williams.

Live Performance: Three Rivers Storyteller Mary Morgan Smith

July 26, 2014 – 1:42 pm
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From 7-26-14: Mary Morgan Smith with the fourth installment of our series on the 2014Three Rivers Storytelling Festival.

Radio Camp 2014 – Day 18 – My Favorite Memory (Part 2)

July 25, 2014 – 10:19 am

It’s hard for us to believe, but we’re already on our eighteenth day of Radio Camp! Campers got a second chance to finish recording their outstanding “My Favorite Memory” pieces.

Grow Pittsburgh’s Urban Farmers in Training: 2014 Reflections

July 24, 2014 – 11:11 am
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Grow Pittsburgh’s Summer Intern Program at Braddock Farms provides local teens with the opportunity to gain summer employment while learning about the value of growing and eating healthy food. Here, the interns from 2014 share their thoughts on gardening, harvesting, fresh food, herbs, and favorite experiences.

Radio Camp 2014 – Day 17 – My Favorite Memory

July 24, 2014 – 9:54 am

On our seventeenth day, Radio Campers wrote about their favorite memories. Afterwards, they further experimented with the Makey Makey by testing things in the classroom they believed to be conductive. They then played Dance Dance Revolution on tin foil!

Wilkinsburg Summer Program: Building Radio Kits

July 23, 2014 – 3:52 pm
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Students build radio kits.

Radio Camp 2014 – Day 16 – Electricity (After)

July 23, 2014 – 9:48 am

Now, with a fresh understanding of electrons, conductivity, circuits and watts, we tasked our Radio Campers with (again) writing and recording about electricity!

Radio Camp 2014 – Day 15 – Makey Makey

July 22, 2014 – 9:28 am

After having to make some educated guesses about electricity, campers not only got to learn about electrons, circuits and conductivity, they experienced these things first hand thanks to the “Makey Makey,” an invention kit created by JoyLabz LLC that turns everyday objects into buttons for computers. From becoming a human piano to playing Pong on oranges, students experimented with basic circuit building.

Radio Camp 2014 – Day 14 – Electricity (Before)

July 21, 2014 – 10:20 am

On our fourteenth day we asked our Radio Campers what they knew about electricity. They were also given the opportunity to write a “silly” explanation of this shocking phenomenon.

Live Music: Daryl Fleming and Megan Williams

July 19, 2014 – 1:00 pm
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From 7-19-14: Daryl Fleming and Megan Williams performing jazz-inspired original music.