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Volunteer of the Week:
Deb Carey
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WDIY is proud to honor the more than 120 volunteers that make Lehigh Valley Public Radio Possible.
This week, we are recognizing Deb Carey! Deb, or "Yard Girl" as she's known on the air, is one of the hosts of WDIY's Sunday afternoon world music show, World Bop.
Deb is a former board member of the Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association. She also sits on the board of several other local community non-profit organizations, and she works as Assistant Controller and Human Resources for TuWay Communications in Bethlehem.
Three cheers for Deb!
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Photos & Video:
Groovin' in the Grove 2024
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We just had some Groovin' in the Grove photos and video arrive courtesy of our friends at Vision Spirit Filmz. Check out some of the fun we had back in May celebrating our 29th anniversary!
Thanks again to everyone who attended for making the event so special.
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NPR Special Presentation:
We the Voters - Issues That Matter
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This Friday at 6 p.m. following All Things Considered, join host Steve Inskeep for a one-hour dive into the topics that NPR listeners and readers say matter most when voting for a President — gun violence, the economy, immigration, reproductive rights, and healthcare.
New interviews will look at the records of Trump and Biden on all of these issues, and how voters' opinions have evolved on them as well.
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WDIY Classics
Host: Andrew Tomlinson
Monday, 9 a.m - 12 p.m.
Highlights today include Antonin Dvorak’s entertaining and evocative 8th Symphony, written just before he came to New York and wrote his much-loved New World Symphony. This contrasts with some of Debussy’s delightful early piano music which, although written at the same time, introduced a much different sound world, more free-flowing and impressionistic. We’ll hear JS Bach’s effervescent Wedding Cantata, written in his early years in Weimar, along with music written by his famous son Carl Philip Emmanuel from half a century later, including his charming double concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano – the only one of its kind. Sparkling Italian orchestral music from Caldara and Corelli from the late 1600s provides some Southern European excitement to our time together, and viol compositions of the Elizabethan composer Alfonso Ferrabasco the Younger showcase the work of this consummate musical survivor, who played at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and thrived over the subsequent years of change in the English Court, eventually to be appointed as King’s Composer by Charles I.
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Hear this and other WDIY music shows after they have aired using our Two-Week Music Show Archive! Available on the WDIY app or wdiy.org.
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The Blend
Host: Arnie Lichten
Monday, 1 - 4 p.m.
Back to regular programming on this Monday’s Blend, with lots of new music from St. Vincent, X, Lizzie No, Fastball, Newski, Lake Street Dive, Wilco, and more. Older stuff from Liquid Soul, Muddy Waters, The Count Five…the list goes on.
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Lehigh Valley Arts Salon
Host: Kate Scuffle
Monday, 6 - 6:30 p.m.
Back to regular programming on this Monday’s Blend, with lots of new music from St. Vincent, X, Lizzie No, Fastball, Newski, Lake Street Dive, Wilco, and more. Older stuff from Liquid Soul, Muddy Waters, The Count Five…the list goes on.
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At the Movies
Host: Paul Willistein
Monday, 6:25 p.m. during Lehigh Valley Arts Salon
Paul Willistein reviews the comedy animation film, Despicable Me 4. The Minions rule in this fourth installment of the popular series, featuring the returning voice talents of Steve Carell (Gru) and Kristen Wiig (Gru’s wife) are back. New voices include Will Ferrell (Maxime Le Mal), and Sofia Vergara (Valentina). Chris Renaud, Parkland High School (Class of ’85), directs.
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HealthBEAT
Host: Margaret McConnell
Monday, 6:30 - 7 p.m.
Host Margaret McConnell leads a round table discussion with Nathan Boateng, Vice President of Community Impact & Engagement at Valley Health Partners; Teri Haddad, Vice President of Community Initiatives & Advancement at Community Services for Children; and Darian Colbert, Executive Director at Cohesion Network — they talk about their collective role as Pool Fellows and how being involved with that group and the Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health helps them create positive change in the community.
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Folk Classics
Host: Steve Aaronson
Monday, 7 - 9 p.m.
It’s another case of 'Folk Classics Favorites’. Featured artists include Patrick Sky, The New Christy Minstrels, and The Chad Mitchell Trio. There will also be unusual duets, like Judy Collins and Theodore Bikel.
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Milestones
Host: Rob Reagan
Monday, 9 - 11 p.m.
Starting tonight's program we'll hear from groups led by drummers Johnathan Blake, Jared Schonig, and Allison Miller. A "Beatles" set with tunes covered by Joyce Grant, Jesse Palter, Synia Carroll, Paul Jost, and Brad Mehldau rounds out the first hour. Live recordings from over the years at the Montreux, Switzerland, Jazz Festival will be featured in hour two, with selections from Charles Lloyd, Archie Shepp, Les McCann & Eddie Harris, Michel Petrucciani with Jim Hall & Wayne Shorter, and Billy Cobham.
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Blues Cruise
Host: Steve Capwell
Monday, 11 p.m. - Tuesday, 1 a.m.
On the Blues Cruise we have some songs about appropriate summer wear — Texas Johnny Brown takes on our theme songs, Cow Cow Davenport tells us he "Ain't No IceMan", Warren Lucky with all the angles does "Fish Bait", Little Joe Washington serves up "Bossa Nova and Grits," and the Rev. G.M. Gates "Flies Away".
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On the Media
Host: Brooke Gladstone
Tuesday, 6 - 7 p.m.
This week's show: What the Media Get Wrong About Immigration
Immigration is one of the most important issues in this year’s presidential election. This week, On the Media traces how root causes of mass migration from Central America to the United States over the past decade stem back to the Cold War. Plus, a deep dive on terms like “colonialism” and “decolonization,” and what they mean in the context of Israel-Palestine.
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Live from Godfrey Daniels
Host: Dave Fry
Tuesday, 7 - 9 p.m.
Host Dave Frey features recent shows from Annie Sumi, Kinky Friedman, Wood Flower, Kieran Kane and Rayna Gellert — plus The Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band ('22), Martin Carthy ('02), John Renbourn ('91), Jesse Winchester ('94), John McEuen, and other delights.
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Roots After Hours
Host: Doug Ashby
Tuesday, 11 p.m. - Wednesday, 1 a.m.
Roots After Hours plays around in Texas for a while with tunes from Lemon Jefferson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Roky Erikson, Steve Earle and a lot of other outlaws, ne'er do wells, and rebels. Roots Reggae spends time with Gregory Isaacs, the Upsetters, and Dawn Penn sings, "No, No, No..." with her sublime reggae.
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WDIY Classics
Host: Karen El-Chaar
Wednesday, 9 a.m - 12 p.m.
Today's program features Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir de Florence" performed by the Borodin Quartet + 2, Telemann's "Concerto in F major for recorder, bassoon, strings and continuo" (with amazing double-tonguing passages by the bassoonist Klaus Thunemann), composer Benjamin Britten conducting his own work "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, op. 13" performed by pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the English Chamber Orchestra and a performance by Italian mandolinist and prior WDIY guest Carlo Aonzo. The program closes with music for old-time 4th of July celebrations and the witty "Symphony No. 5 1/2 'A Symphony for Fun'" by American composer Don Gillis.
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Lehigh Valley Business Beat
Host: Sally Handlon
Thursday, 6 - 6:30 p.m.
Thinking about starting a business or expanding your current business? Listen in to learn about the world of franchising with Pam Barlette, former franchise owner and Certified Franchise Consultant. Whether looking from a franchisee or franchisor perspective, Pam offers tips that will help you pursue your options with a basic understanding. Pam is also the author of Frankly Franchising — Demystifying Franchising to Help You Invest in the Best Franchise for You.
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YANA LV
Hosts: Brannagh Breslin, Diya Sharma
Thursday, 6:30 - 7 p.m.
WDIY's newest Youth Media Program show focused on mental health returns for a new episode. Hosts Brannagh Breslin and Diva Sharma welcome Carlos Andrés Gómez, a Colombian American poet and performer, and award-winning author. Much of Carlos' writing wrestles with the complexities of family, dismantling oppression, and his struggles with growing up a sensitive boy in a violent, machismo culture. His own struggles with mental and emotional wellness are inextricable from the destructive and suffocating prescriptions of patriarchy.
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Galactic Travels™
Host: Bill Fox
Thursday, 11 p.m. - Friday, 1 a.m.
Bill Fox continues the month-long focus on Montreal-based ambient music artist Dino Pacifici. The Featured CD at Midnight will be Kinetic N-R-Gee by Dino Pacifici on Scorpio Rising Music. You will also hear new music by Onasander and Gydja on Winter-Light Records, by Volker Lankow on Iapetus Music, by Field Lines Cartographer on DiN Records, and by Alias Zone.
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We the Voters - Issues That Matter
Host: Steve Inskeep
Friday, 6 - 7 p.m.
NPR has been digging into the issues that voters say matter most when choosing a leader. Consistently top of mind for NPR listeners and readers are gun violence, the economy, immigration, reproductive rights, and health care.
In this special program, derived from the highlights of the We the Voters issue weeks, host Steve Inskeep presents a one-hour dive into these topics to help people make sense of the issues. In new interviews, we will look at the records of Trump and Biden on all of these issues and hear how voters' opinions have evolved.
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Unlimited Possibilities
Host: George Libricz
Friday, 7 - 9 p.m.
Little George and The Old Guy host Unlimited Possibilities (folk and beyond) this Friday evening. They will feature tunes, new and not so new, from artists such as Nina Simone, Willie Nelson, JJ Cale, The Mavericks, Red Molly, and Jim Keller. The Old Guy is searching his bag of goodies for just the right polka.
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Hearing Voices
Host: Karen El-Chaar
Sunday, 7 - 9 p.m.
This evening's program begins with Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ariodante." Perhaps a lesser-known work today, it opened Handel's first season at Covent Garden to great success. Composer Arvo Part created a new style of music, "tintinnabuli," based on chant music dating from the Middle Ages and earlier and the Early Music Consort of London performs music of the Gothic Era. Italian tenor Andrea Becelli closes the program.
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Footlight Parade
Host: Bill Rudman
Sunday, 9 - 10 p.m.
This week's show: 1948 on Stage
Kiss Me, Kate is the headliner, but there's also Where's Charley?, which gave us Frank Loesser's Broadway debut; an astonishing collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner; Bea Lillie clowning her way through Inside USA, and much more.
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PA Shakespeare Festival Presents:
The Color Purple
LaBuda Center, DeSales University, Center Valley
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Jazz Upstairs Presents:
Vik & Gene
Rodale Room, Miller Symphony Hall, Allentown
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PA Shakespeare Festival Presents:
Cymbeline
Schubert Theatre, DeSales University, Center Valley
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This Week's Member Ticket Giveaway | |
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Hey WDIY members, check out what we're giving away in our next Weekly Member Ticket giveaway on Sunday, July 21! Watch your email Sunday at noon for your chance to enter.
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PA Sinfonia Orchestra Presents:
Valley Vivaldi
Wesley Church, Bethlehem
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If you are a WDIY member who has contributed at least $60 for the year or you are actively supporting WDIY as a Sustaining Member, you are eligible for WDIY's Member Ticket Giveaway! If you are not receiving this member benefit on Sundays, please email shamusm@wdiy.org. | | | | |
