Listen Up: What’s Happening at Radio St. Pete
Featured photo: Beauty and the Burg Cindy Stovall with Terri Lipsey Scott.
RadioStPete.com Sunshine 96.7 FM has big plans to see you this fall! Check out the RSP crew at these events: October 25 is Halloween on Central, November 13 is Runfest, November 14-15 is the new Booker Creek Festival, and December 9 is the Holiday Happy Hour fundraiser (Tom Petty live tribute at BayBoro Brewing).
John McEuen Joins The Florida Folk Show This just in from Music Director J Kolb: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founder and international American folklore star John McEuen has recently upped and moved from Nashville to the St. Petersburg area, joining Pete Gallagher and Tim Valle as a co-host for the Saturday morning LIVE Radio St Pete Florida Folk Show. McEuen has visited here on tours several times over the years and recently decided to actually live here full time – his wife Marilyn hails from the Tampa Bay area!
John’s diligence in finding, bringing back to the stage and promoting such American music legends as Mother Maybelle Carter, Earl Scruggs, Chubby Wise, Merle Travis, Jimmy Martin, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, even a suspicious Roy Acuff! – a precious list that goes on and on – bringing new fame to the old guard beginning with the Dirt Band hit 1972 Album “Will The Circle Be Unbroken,” also the title for a much acclaimed multi-show documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns. The NGDB broke the international barrier as the first American rock band to appear in Russia. “I first met John through the NGDB albums that myself and banjo-playing friend Jack Piccalo listened to in high school. While working with Chief Jim Billie and the Seminole Tribe, says Pete: “ I hired John to star at one of the first Fire On The Swamp Music Festivals the Tribe once presented each year out in the Big Cypress. We’ve been friends ever since!”
Music Scene revs up this fall with local musician interviews as well as national interviews with artists performing at Clearwater Jazz Holiday Oct. 15-18 and Suncoast Jazz Festival DATES. I just interviewed Chris Botti for the station and Bay Magazine’s September issue! Strong arts coverage features Friday’s Bill DeYoung’s Arts Alive, Cindy Stovall’s Beauty & The Burg, Stephen Riordan’s Big Broadway Energy, Brenda McMahon’s Art & Inspiration and Domino Potorero’s Soundscape interviews. Storytime’s Janet Keeler took a road trip to Selby Gardens, Kerry Kriseman’s Making Memoir Magic’s Kerry Kriseman inspires us to write, Historically St. Pete’s Rui Farias Monday interviews with famous Rowdies legends and our lively roster includes authors, actors, film and stand up chats with Paul Wilborn, Mary Rachel Quinn, Eugenie Bondurant, Station 12 Studio improv group, Green Light Cinema’s Mike Hazlett, Book + Bottle Dominic Howarth and Alvinette Downing’s Sounds of Healing.
As part of America 250, our One Place, Many Voices (powered by Heritage Village with a grant from Florida Humanities) and Neighborhood podcasts showcase St. Pete and Pinellas County now and then, including chats with Banana Records, skateboarding legends, Dr. Brandi Stark on haunted Pinellas and more. Count on regular community updates Nicole Waters The Edge, Grand Central news, university podcasts from USF St. Pete, St. Petersburg College (including an upcoming 100 year look back) and Eckerd College.
Florida Folk Show’s first Conservation Conversations with Pete Gallagher and co-host Tim Valle launched with Rachael Curran, staff attorney at Stetson University College of Law. Good Deeds continue (AARP Challenger grant winner Friends of Trails John Barkett, Hypatia) and we have added a new podcast featuring non-profits, DO GOOD VOICES with host Meredith Pericles (Do Good Day, Do Good Foundation) and her talk with Friends of Stray’s Jessica Salmond. Email wiser86@gmail.com with your idea for a community conversation.
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