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WBCR-news: June 2007

“In Loving Memory of Rev. Esther Dozier”

Please join us in remembering the life of the late Rev. Esther Dozier.  WBCR will broadcast the funeral service from June 18, 2007,  The program was recorded by community-access cable, CTSB-TV as a community service, and is approximately two hours, thirty-five minutes in length. 

You can hear it Sunday, June 24 at 9am and Monday, June 25 at 7pm. Our thanks to CTSB-TV for providing the audio portion of their broadcast.

→ Posted on Thu. June 21st, 2007 by biotic.

Professor of BU’s Beatles Course to Appear on “Can You Feel It”

Jeremy Yudkin, Professor of musicology at Boston University and Visiting Professor of Music at Oxford University will appear on WBCR’s Can You Feel It, Friday June 15 from 8-9pm.  Jeremy teaches a course at BU called “Music of the Beatles”.  The course covers all 208 of their officially released songs in chronological order, analyzing the music itself and the social and cultural history of the times.

Jeremy’s appearance on WBCR will be in conjunction with the upcoming Beatles event at the Lenox Library on June 24th.  During a 2pm symposium music experts will offer their insights and there will be open discussion of the music of the Beatles in the Lenox Library.  There will also be a 7 pm concert of Beatles covers at the Lenox High School.

Jeremy also teaches medieval music, jazz, Beethoven, and popular music. He is the author of seven books, including the most recent The Lenox School of Jazz (2006) and Understanding Music (2007).

→ Posted on Tue. June 12th, 2007 by biotic.

Berkshire Community Radio Alliance Signs Lease for New Studio Facility

Berkshire Community Radio Alliance, Inc. (BCRA) is thrilled to announce that it has signed a lease with Joan Ackerman for the basement level of the Granary Building on Rosseter Street in Great Barrington. Formerly the home of the Berkshire Food Co-op, the 1800 square foot space with be the new home of WBCR-LP 97.7 FM, an all-volunteer community radio station serving south Berkshire County. The new space will feature full handicap accessibility and a high-efficiency heating system.

“We can’t wait to move in” said Jan Seward, president of the board of BCRA and host of the “Radio 2 Women” program, “we’ll now have totally accessible space for studios, a meeting room and a media library, as well as access to the Mixed Company theater upstairs for broadcast events.”

Build-out of the space by station volunteers and tradespeople will start immediately, and an October 1 move-in is anticipated.

→ Posted on Fri. June 29th, 2007 by biotic.

WBCR at the Market and the CO-OP Solstice Festival

There is a busy weekend on tap with a WBCR Info table at both the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market and at the Berkshire CO-OP’s first Solstice Festival.  Come and visit us this weekend. 

The GB Farmers’ Market is at the old GB Train Station.  The Market is held from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. 

The CO-OP is holding their event at Memorial Field next to their store.  It is scheduled to run from 9 am until 6:00 pm.

WBCR will have information about our programs and tickets to Howard Zinn’s July 2 lecture…not to mention smiling, happy people.

→ Posted on Fri. June 22nd, 2007 by biotic.

WBCR Goes to Market

Come down and join us at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market every Saturday through September.

We will have a table with information and folks from the only community station we know of in the Southern Berkshires.  Let us know what you are thinking.  Become a member.

We will be broadcasting live from the Farmers’ Market from 11 until Noon.  Our microphones will be open to the community for one hour every Saturday all summer long.

Everybody into the pool!

→ Posted on Tue. June 12th, 2007 by biotic.

WBCR Program Maps Hit the Streets

Get your program map today.  WBCR is “Destination Radio” and you’re going to need a map. 

We have just released our Summer program guide.  The Program map will help you find and mark your favorite shows from around our schedule.  We are community radio and have over 60 programs and programmers…something for everyone’s taste.  Use our new map to navigate our airwaves.

You can find a map at locations around town, here in our studios (located under the Pink Cloud Gallery on Main Street in Great Barrington) or at our weekly table at the Great Barrington Farmers’ Market.  Or, give us a call at (413) 644-9797 and let us send you one.

Find your way to 97.7 FM.

→ Posted on Thu. June 7th, 2007 by biotic.