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Live Music: The Saturday Giant
From 9/21/13: Live music with The Saturday Giant, aka Philip Cogley, a multi-instrumentalist who uses looping devices to create layered folk and pop tunes
Live Music: Danny Kalb
From 9/7/13: Legendary guitar player Danny Kalb playing live in our studios the morning after his Friday 9/6 performance at this weekend’s Bluegrass and Beyond Music Festival in Harmony, PA
Live Music: Charlie and the Foxtrots
From 8/31/13: Nashville-based percussive acoustic folk group Charlie and the Foxtrots
Live Music: Marc Reisman and Bill Toms
From 8/24/13: Live blues and soul with Marc Reisman and Bill Toms
Preview: Tuskegee Airmen Memorial
From 8/17/13: Rich Dieter and Regis Bobonis, Sr. discussing the 9/15/13 dedication of the Tuskegee Airmen of Western Pa. Memorial in Sewickley Cemetary. Special guests include Josh White, Jr. (whose father Josh White wrote the 1941 song Uncle Sam Says and served as a key voice of the fight against Jim Crow practices in the U.S. military), Bill Hicks, Sr. (Tuskegee Airmen) as well as Bill Hicks, Jr., and Kim Slater-Wood, each of whose father served as a Tuskegee Airman.
The Green Compass Season 5
Where we are and where we are going…
In July 2013, twenty-eight recent high-school graduates created these radio features while serving as Summer Interns at The Heinz Endowments. The resulting features cover a range of community issues. While SLB provided training and coaching, the features presented here were conceived and created entirely by the students in a single week.
Live Music: Brian Peters
From 8/3/13: British traditional singer, guitarist and squeezebox player Brian Peters performing live while in the area for the Augusta Heritage Festival and a concert at St. Andrew Lutheran Church on 8/3
Inclined to Care: Lifting the Alleghenies to New Heights, 2013
In Summer 2013, the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies welcomed five students as its inaugural Youth Philanthropy Interns. This eight-week program was made possible through a grant from The Heinz Endowments and is based on its long-running similar program in the Pittsburgh area. Throughout the course of their internship, students assessed community needs through research, site visits and interviews. They determined that the region would benefit from a stronger educational program aimed at preparing students for jobs in Bedford, Cambria and Somerset counties and – with $25,000 to award — issued a request for proposals to build a program that will connect students, parents and businesses to meet this objective in a cohesive, sustainable and measurable way.
Live Music: Sounds of Pittsburgh Chorus
From 7/27/13: Live music with Sounds of Pittsburgh, an award-winning women’s a …
