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Activate! – Donna & Otto Ray: Songwriter’s Showcase and the Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington

Donna and Otto Ray didn’t ever expect that they would find themselves behind the scenes as volunteers supporting songwriters in Bloomington. They don’t write songs and only dabbled in playing music. It was a twist of fate and the close connections that Bloomington provides that brought them together four years ago as a couple. Soon, their shared love of original …

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Local Live – Toby Foster

Toby is a singer-songwriter turned powerpop full band. The group consisting of Toby himself on guitar, Matthew Lynch on drums, and Cathleen Paquet on guitar/bass recently released their first album together titled, “100 Ways.” Toby describes his music as “catchy and poppy, with sincere and direct lyrics.” Their new album can be found on their bandcamp, tobyfoster.bandcamp.com. Originally Aired: 7-19-17 …

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Local Live – Kacie Swierk

Kacie is currently based in Bloomington, IN. She is a 22-year old musician, singer and songwriter. Her music is mixed between folk, roots, and blues. Kacie’s songs strive for authenticity in both lyricism and composition. Her debut album, “This is Water,” was released on June 10th. She describes her music as being, “Laid back, but powerful. Stripped down, but bold.” …

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Local Live – John The Silent

John the Silent is a prolific singer/songwriter from Crawfordsville Indiana. His songs are reflective of 90’s era shoegaze rock. It’s an introspective type of folk that is emotive and personal. 1.) I Am A Boy 2.) Worktown 3.) Thin Places 4.) Boys Will Be Boys 5.) God Weighs In Originally Aired 2/15/2017 Engineers: Jim Lang, Dan Withered, Ilze Akerbergs, Kate …

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Local Live – Samuel Sheffield

Samuel Sheffield is a young artist still discovering his style and how to name it. In fact, many of his songs don’t even have titles. Despite the amorphous nature of his music, there is a definite joy that comes in its playing and listening. This performance marks his radio debut. 1.) Little Bird 2.)Three Little Birds 3.) Untitled 4.) The …

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Local Live – Lilly Meister

Lilly was only 7 years old when she started playing guitar and becomming a singer-songwriter.  She is now a 17-year-old junior at Edgewood High School.  At 13, she won second place in a “Battle of the Bands Competition. 1.)Time and Idiums 2.) Everything seems to end 3) New Song 4) Rose Tinted Glasses 5.) If you died tonight Originally Aired …

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Local Live – Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart injured his hand and was unable to play guitar as planned for this session. However, he brought some early recordings from musical sessions with his family and discussed the delightful process of writing, creating and performing music with his son and daughter. We spun tunes from these early recordings and Stephanie interviewed Dave with an enlightened insight into …

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Saturday’s Child – Opal Fly & Kapow

Saturday’s Child is WFHB’s longest running live, remote broadcast featuring local musicians from all walks of life. Check out this archived session featuring Opal Fly and KAPOW!. Check out more Opal Fly and KAPOW! at http://opalflyandkapow.com/   Originally Aired 09/10/2016

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Saturday’s Child – Jason & Ginger 2016

Saturday’s Child is WFHB’s longest running live, remote broadcast featuring local musicians from all walks of life. Check out this archived session featuring Jason & Ginger. Check out more Jason & Ginger at http://www.jasonandginger.com/   Originally Aired: 08/10/2016

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