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PROGRAM Tips on streaming MP3s	DATE AIRED	AUDIO STREAM	COMMENTS All Programs 28'30"

Betty Moon Sampson	09-05-2010	High MP3	Steve Grauberger interviews Betty Moon Sampson, bluegrass musician and Master Artist in the Arts Council's Folk Arts Apprentice Program. Betty tells stories about various aspects of her life growing up in Holly Pond, Alabama and learning to play and sing music with her father, banjo maker and musician Arlin Moon. She talks about her family band Dixie Bluegrass and shares examples of her music.

Tom Davenport founding director of Folkstreams.net.	08-29-2010	High MP3	Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Tom Davenport an independent filmmaker and founding director of Folkstreams.net. During the program Davenport discusses how Folkstreams preserves and gives new life to documentary films about American folklore and roots cultures by streaming them on the internet. He talks about several important Alabama films featured on the website, as well as his own work making folklore documentaries and dramatic adaptations of Grimm’s fairy tales.

Belinda George Peoples	08-22-2010	High MP3	Yvette Jones-Smedley, Performing Arts Program Manger interviews Birmingham’s own, Belinda George-Peoples, a recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award in Music. Belinda shares the inspiring tale of her journey which began at the age of six, singing from the church pews and led her to center stage in a musical written especially to showcase her immense talent in the Red Mountain Theatre’s world premier of “Respect.”

Teresa Hollingsworth Senior Program Director and Gerri Combs Executive Director of South Arts	08-15-2010	High MP3	In this program, Deborah Boykin talks with South Arts Senior Program Director Teresa Hollingsworth about the programs and services offered through this regional arts organization. In the second half of the program Gerri Combs, Executive Director of South Arts discusses the organization's role in helping to shape arts policy and advocacy in the Southeast.

Deborah Rankins, Assistant Director of Library Services at Alabama Southern Community College and the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum	08-08-2010	High MP3	Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviews Deborah Rankins, Assistant Director of Library Services at Alabama Southern Community College and the Kathryn Tucker Windham Museum in Thomasville. Rankins furnishes information about the Windham Museum and discusses a calendar of events that feature various regional storytelling groups that are part of the Kathryn Tucker Windam Storytelling Club in Southwest Alabama.

Robin Wade Furniture Maker	08-01-2010	High MP3	Georgine Clarke interviews Florence, Alabama furniture builder Robin Wade. He discusses the techniques used in making his large slab tables and benches and describes cutting trees up to 60" in diameter using a special Austrailian saw mill. The slabs are then both air-dried and kiln dried before the construction begins. Wade talks about his philosophy in working with wood and the aesthetics of the pieces. He describes the finishing process, care of the furniture in a business or home and also his interest in finding and using large historic trees when they have been taken down.

Elie Lazar, Artistic Director of Montgomery Ballet	07-25-2010	High MP3	Performing Arts Program Manager Yvette Jones-Smedley interviews Elie Lazar, Artistic Director of Montgomery Ballet and recipient of a Fellowship Award in Dance from the Alabama State Council on the Arts (ASCA). Elie talks about his journey as a dancer and choreographer from Israel to New York to Alabama and his professional accomplishments that led to statewide recognition with the ASCA Fellowship Award. Mr. Lazar also discusses the upcoming season at the Montgomery Ballet and about the exciting collaboration with the Montgomery Choral and other performing arts organizations.

Chris Holmes and Paige Wainwright	07-18-2010	High MP3	Alabama Center for Traditional Culture Director Joey Brackner interviews Chris Holmes, Executive Producer at Alabama Public Television (APT) and Paige Wainwright, Curator of the Metal Arts Program at Sloss Furances about the new APT production Sloss: Industry to Art having its public premiere July 23rd at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark at 7 P. M. The television premiere is on July 25th at 7 P. M. on APT.

New Book Gospel Shapenote Singing CD	07-10-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Folklife Specialist Deb Boykin interviews Steve Grauberger about the new CD project Traditional Musics of Alabama Volume 5 New Book Gospel Shapenote Singing produced by the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture and the Alabama Folklife Association.

Joseph Wujcik of Calera	07-03-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews wood turner Joseph Wujcik of Calera. Wujcik is a recipient of the Council's Individual Artist's Fellowship in Craft. He describes his source of the natural wood burls and the process of creating hollow formed vessels. He also talks about the finishing and care of the pieces as well as marketing his work at Art Festivals throughout the United States.

Susan Robertson and Alison Beeson	06-27-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Joey Brackner interviews Susan Robertson and Alison Beeson of Dothan's Wiregrass Museum of Art, The Wiregrass Museum of Art is the result of a community’s genuine desire for the arts in the city of Dothan, Alabama and surrounding communities of the Wiregrass Region. Begun in 1991, WMA has grown to be the flagship of the arts in the Wiregrass with a mission to bring the fine arts and art education to Dothan and the Wiregrass Region.

Jan Pruitt, Executive Director of the Kentuck in Northport, Alabama	06-20-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Jan Pruitt, recently appointed Executive Director of the Kentuck program in Northport, Alabama. They discuss the nationally recognized Kentuck Festival of the Arts, celebrating its 39th year in October 2010. The Kentuck art center facilities are located in historic downtown Northport and include resident artists, exhibition spaces, and a shop. Other Kentuck activities including the December celebration "Dickens Downtown" are covered in the program.

Larry Register and Don Fabiani	06-13-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Larry Register and Don Fabiani about the Wiregrass Festival Of Murals project in downtown Dothan. As proclaimed by the Governor, Dothan is a Mural City. Murals painted on many downtown buildings by nationally and internationally known muralists showcase early scenes of local and state history.

Ted Rosengarten	06-06-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This show is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Ted Rosengarten about his award winning book All God's Dangers: The Life of Nat Shaw and his book A Portion of the People: 300 Years of Southern Jewish Life

David Dionne and Mike Mahon	05-30-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	For this week's program, Joey Brackner interviews David Dionne of the Red Mountain Park and Mike Mahon of the Friends of Red Mountain Park. Red Mountain Park is a new urban park in Birmingham featuring both the natural and cultural history of the area.

Bettie Fikes	05-23-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This week Deborah Boykin interviews singer and civil rights activist Bettie Fikes, who discusses her experiences as a Freedom Singer and the performers who influenced her style as blues singer. Ms. Fikes recently performed in Tuscaloosa with the Alabama Blues Project and talks about returning to her home state to sing with these students.

Poetry Out Loud National Finalist, Youssef Biaz	05-16-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Poetry Out Loud seeks to foster the next generation of literary readers by capitalizing on the latest trends in poetry - recitation and performance. The program, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, provides opportunities for high school students to master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage. Diana Green, Arts in Education Program Manager interviews the 2010 Alabama State Champion, Youssef Biaz from Auburn High School, along with his English teacher and mentor, Davis Thompson. Following this interview, Youssef competed in Washington D.C. in the National semifinals and finals, placing as one of the top 9 finalists (out of 53 champions nationwide) receiving an additional $1000 scholarship and $500 for his school.

Sue Brannan Walker, Alabama's Poet Laureate	05-09-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Alabama poet laureate Sue Brannan Walker about her work and Negative Capability Press.

Kenny Brown	05-02-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This week Deborah Boykin interviews bluesman Kenny Brown, who recently appeared at the Chicken and Egg Festival in Moulton. Brown talks about R. L. Burnside and the other musicians who were his influences. He also discusses his North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. The event pays tribute to Brown's musical roots by presenting most of the performers currently playing in the distinctive hill country blues style he learned as a child.

Guadalupe Lanning Robinson	04-25-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke talks with Guadalupe Lanning Robinson, Huntsville ceramic artist and recipient of the Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft from ASCA. Robinson, native of Mexico City, has brought her cultural traditions into her contemporary work. She discusses ways in which she markets her pottery as well as the important role of the Alabama Clay Conference to potters of the region. She provides information about art activity in Huntsville, particularly studio spaces of Lowe Mill, a recently developed center which helps create an artist community in the area.

Author, John Sledge	04-18-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this week's program, Joey Brackner interviews Mobile preservationist, historian, book reviewer and author John Sledge about his career and his latest book The Pillared City available from the University of Georgia Press.

Kevin Nutt, Archive of Alabama Folk Culture	04-11-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews archivist Kevin Nutt about his work at the Archive of Alabama Folk Culture located in the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery. During the program Nutt shares samples of traditional music selected from the archive including old-string band music, a capella gospel and Sacred Harp singing.

Poet Mary Kaiser	04-04-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this interview, executive director Jeanie Thompson of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, talks with Mary Kaiser, one of two recipients of a fellowship from the Alabama State Council of the Arts and a featured poet at the 5th Alabama Book Festival, April 17 in Montgomery, Ala. Kaiser, a faculty member at Jefferson State Community College, talks about the genesis of her chapbook, Falling into Velazquez, which won the 2006 Slapering Hol Chapbook Award from the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center.

Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum	03-28-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Randy Shoults, program manager for literature at ASCA, talks with Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and producer of two events for the 5th Annual Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, Alabama on April 17 in Old Alabama Town. Thompson produces the Festival’s Poetry Tent and directs the Teacher Workshops associated with the Book Festival. Thompson tells about the range of poets highlighting generations of writers in the state, from up and coming young poets through the state’s poet laureate, and reads selections of poets’ works. For a complete list of poets and other authors at the Alabama Book Festival, go to www.alabamabookfestival.org.

Alabama Music Hall of Fame director David Johnson	03-21-2010	High MP3	In this program Joey Brackner interviews Alabama Music Hall of Fame director David Johnson about the 13^th Induction Banquet and Awards Show to be held in the Convention Center in Montgomery, Ala., Thursday, March 25. The inductees and their categories are: Performing artist/group category- The Blind Boys of Alabama and Eddie Levert, (the lead singer of the O’Jays); Music creator- Dothan songwriter/record producer Buddy Buie and Florence session musician Jerry Carrigan; Entertainment industry-Elba native, record producer/musician Paul Hornsby; John Herbert Orr Pioneer Award- The late Muscle Shoals musician Terry Thompson and singer/Colbert-Lauderdale County State Senator Bobby Denton.

Bob McClain, Executive Director of Old Alabama Town and Ashley Gordon, Alabama Book Festival.	03-14-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	For this program Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, interviews Bob McClain, Executive Director of Old Alabama Town and Ashley Gordon about the 5th Annual Alabama Book Festival. The Festival will be held again in downtown Montgomery at Old Alabama Town on April, 17 and will feature over 50 Alabama authors. This event is free and open to the public.

David Boley, Executive Director of the Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame	03-07-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Deborah Boykin interviews David Boley, Executive Director of the Alabama Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, about the 2010 Hall of Fame inductees and other activities of the Alabama Bluegrass Music Association. He also discusses the state's rich tradition of bluegrass festivals.

Molly Gamble and Fran Pierce of Arts Revive	02-28-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Community Arts Program Manager Randy Shoults interviews Molly Gamble and Fran Pierce about Selma's Arts Revive and the conversion of the Carneal Auto Service building into their organization's arts center.

Marcus Johnson of the Bay City Brass Band	02-21-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing Marcus Johnson of the Bay City Brass Band of Mobile. They discuss brass band history and music in the Mobile Mardi Gras tradition.

Randy Gachet, Individual Artist Fellowship recipient in sculpture from the Alabama State Council on the Arts	02-14-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This week's program features Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviewing artist Randy Gachet, Individual Artist Fellowship recipient in sculpture from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and art faculty member at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Gachet discusses themes of his work, much of which is constructed with wire and tire material he picks up along roadways. He talks about the process of teaching art to high school students and directions of contemporary art using non-traditional materials.

Henry Gipson and Lenny Madden of Gip's Juke Joint	02-07-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Joey Brackner interviews Henry Gipson and Lenny Madden of Gip's Juke Joint in Bessemer.

Individual Artist Fellowship Recipient Gary Chapman	01-31-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews Gary Chapman, Professor of Art at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Chapman's paintings are in the collections of all of Alabama's Art Museums. He was included in ASCA's 2008 publication "Alabama Masters: Artists and Their Work" and is a two time recipient of the Council's Individual Artist Fellowship. During the program, Chapman discusses his painting and teaching philosophy as well as the use of symbolism in his paintings.

Bullfrog Jumped	01-24-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of ACTC Director Joey Brackner inteviewing Alabama Folklife Association Director Joyce Cauthen about the new CD release called Bullfrog Jumped, culled from original recordings made in Alabama by Byron Arnold in the late 1940s.

American Gospel Quartet Convention	01-17-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is a rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger interviewing George Stewart, producer of the American Gospel Quartet Convention. Also included are interviews from the convention in 2005 with veteran gospel singer Roscoe Robinson and Ricky McKinney of the Blind Boys of Alabama. Gospel quartet musical examples are included.

Felecia Jones Executive Director of the Black Belt Community Foundation	01-10-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Felecia Jones, Executive Director of the Black Belt Community Foundation. The Council began working in partnership three years ago with the Black Belt Community Foundation to identify, celebrate and support the arts and culture of the black belt region of Alabama.

Jacky Jack White of the Sucarnochee Revue	01-03-2010	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In honor of musician Jacky Jack White receiving a 2010 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship award, this program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Jacky Jack White of the Sucarnochee Revue. The Revue, a performance series of southern music is performed at Bibb Graves Auditorium on the campus of the Universityof West Alabama and broadcast throughout the region via radio.

Dr. Henry Glassie	12-27-2009	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing renowned folklorist Henry Glassie in honor of Dr Glassie winning the prestigious Haskins Prize for lifetime achievement. In this program Glassie discusses his life and research of vernacular architecture in the Southern United States, and particularly in Alabama.

Christmas Music from Alabama Musicians	12-20-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This week's program features Christmas songs selected from the Fretted Instruments Christmas CDs. For the past six years Herb Trotman, Wayne Anderson, and numerous Alabama musicians have put together CDs of Christmas music which are distributed each year at Fretted Instruments, Trotman's music store in Homewood. The project involves what Herb calls "the Large and Amorphous Group", made up of area bands and musicians who record Christmas music especially for each year's CD. The songs include traditional carols, original songs such as Christmas in Alabama and Empty Stocking Blues, and popular favorites like White Christmas and The Christmas Song.

Birmingham musician Herb Trotman	12-13-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This week Deborah Boykin interviews Birmingham musician Herb Trotman, who talks about banjo playing and tells stories from three decades of performing old time and bluegrass music in Alabama.

Joe Watts and Colette Boehm	12-06-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In this program Joey Brackner interviews Joe Watts of the Alabama Scenic Byways Program and Colette Boehm of Alabama's Coastal Connection. Alabama's Coastal Connection has just been named a national byway by the National Scenic Byways Program.

Charlie Lucas and Chip Cooper	11-29-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	For this week's program Joey Brackner interviews Charlie Lucas and Chip Cooper about the new book Tinman published by the University of Alabama Press. Tinman features a narrative by Charlie Lucas, edited by Ben Windham, and beautiful photography of Lucas' work by Chip Cooper.

Ernestine Hill Robinson Director of the Plantation Heirs	11-22-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Steve Grauberger interviews Auburn native Ernestine Hill Robinson about her life as a singer and the director of the a cappella Negro spiritual singing group, The Plantation Heirs. Musical examples are included in the program.

Susan Perry of the Alabama Humanities and Folklife Researcher Fred Fussell	11-15-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Susan Perry of the Alabama Humanities Foundation and researcher Fred Fussell about the exhibit New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music.

Andrew Freear, director of The Rural Studio	11-08-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Deborah Boykin interviews Andrew Freear, director of The Rural Studio, a project of Auburn University's School of Architecture. He discusses how this community-based program enables students to learn through projects that ultimately provide affordable homes and public spaces in rural West Alabama.

Ezra "Buddy" Knight	11-01-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Steve Grauberger interviews gospel songwriter and music teacher Ezra "Buddy" Knight about his career as a singing school and piano teacher, gospel songwriter, editor and distributor for the Stamp/Baxter Music Company, a major publisher of shapenote convention songbooks.

Ralph "Buddy" Palmer, President and CEO of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham	10-25-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Buddy Palmer, President and CEO of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham.

Bobby Horton	10-18-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Alabama's curator of historic song - Bobby Horton. Best known for his CDs of Civil War era music and membership in the popular band Three On a String, Mr. Horton also discusses his family's musical heritage and his work composing songs for numerous Ken Burns' documentary films. Bobby Horton was a recipient of a 2005 Governor's Arts Award.

Dr. Thomas Bice State Deputy Superintendent of Education	10-11-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	For this week’s program, Diana Green interviews our Deputy State Superintendent of Education Instructional Services, Dr. Thomas Bice. Dr. Bice talks about the need for school reform and how the arts may play a role. Evident in the discussion is Dr. Bice’s passion for reaching all of Alabama’s students by asking adults to start thinking outside the box. His premise: “Adults can fix this problem!”

Curt Long and Meaghan Heinrich of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra	10-04-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	For this week's program Joey Brackner interviews Curtis Long, Executive Director and Meaghan Heinrich, Education Manager of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

Author Rick Bragg	9-27-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Council Executive Director Al Head interviews renowned Alabama author Rick Bragg about his upbringing in Alabama and his writing career. They discuss Bragg's books, All Over But the Shoutin', Ava's Man, The Prince of Frogtown, and his yet unnamed, upcoming novel of essays built around stories of mill workers at the now defunct Union Yarn Mill in Jacksonville Alabama.

Richard Metzger, Executive Director of the Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Complex	9-20-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Richard Metzger, Executive Director of the Troy-Pike Cultural Arts Complex in Troy, Alabama. He explains how the exhibition space was created in a historic Post Office and describes the programs. The discussion features the current exhibition "Celebrating Contemporary Art in Alabama: The Importance of Being Southern." This presentation includes works by forty-one artists who have received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Works range from photography, painting, sculpture and printmaking to hot glass, ironwork, ceramics and quilts. The exhibition marks the first time such an exhibition has been mounted in Alabama.

James Alex Taylor and Barry Taylor, Birmingham Sunlights	9-13-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In this program Steve Grauberger interviews James Alex Taylor and Barry Taylor, two of the five members of the gospel a cappella group the Birmingham Sunlights. This September 22nd the Birmingham Sunlights will receive a National Heritage Fellowship for master folk and traditional artists in a ceremony in Washington D. C. from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). On the 24th of September they will preform at the 2009 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert. In this interview James and Barry describe the history of their group, its members and the travels they have experienced singing and representing Alabama in Africa, France, Italy and the United States. Musical examples of their singing are presented as well.

Kelly Barsdate, Chief Program and Planning Officer for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies	9-06-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In this program Barbara Edwards interviews Kelly Barsdate. Ms. Barsdate is the Chief Program and Planning Officer for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in Washingon, DC. She was a presenter at the Council’s 2009 Bill Bates Leadership Institute and discusses some of the topics she advanced at the Institute concerning Arts Participation.

Robert Stewart, Director of the Alabama Humanities Foundation	8-30-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Robert Stewart, Director of the Alabama Humanities Foundation, about the AHF mission and their programs including SUPER, the speakers bureau and grants to organizations.

David Davis of the Warrior River Boys	8-23-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Bluegrass musician David Davis talks with Deborah Boykin about his musical influences, including shapenote singing, Charlie Louvin, and his uncle, Cleo Davis, one of Bill Monroe's original Bluegrass Boys. He also discusses his experiences as leader of the Warrior River Boys, one of Alabama's most prominent bluegrass bands. The program includes music from their latest CD, Two Dimes and a Nickle.

Wanda Robertson	8-16-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This week Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews quilter Wanda Robertson of Florence about teaching quilt making in the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. Two of her students also discuss their experiences during the program.

Bill Ivey	8-09-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This program is a rebroadcast of Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviewing Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Subjects discussed are Ivey's background as past head of the National Endowment for the Arts, his involvement with the Curb Center and issues concerning Ivey's book published last year, arts, inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights.

Theodore Arthur, Jr.	8-02-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This week Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews jazz and blues musician and bandleader Theodore Arthur, Jr., of Mobile about his music career and his recent tour of Europe and the Middle East. Several of his music students join him during the program.

George Devours	7-26-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	George Devours, musician and promoter talks with Deborah Boykin about the Blackwater Bluegrass Festival and his experiences in bluegrass music, including the Brushy Creek festivals of the 1970's and his friendship with bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs.

Foster Dixon	7-19-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green interviews Foster Dixon, creative writing instructor at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Dixon was named a 2009 Surdna Foundation Arts Teaching Fellow. During this interview he explains his proposed project for which he won the fellowship.

Martha Pullen	7-12-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Heirloom sewing is the subject of this week’s program on Alabama Arts Radio. Folklorist Anne Kimzey interviews Martha Pullen of Huntsville, an internationally-known sewing teacher, author, publisher and host of public television’s popular show Martha’s Sewing Room.

Kathryn Tucker Windham	7-05-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Kathryn Tucker Windham at her home in Selma about homecomings, unique graveyards and unusual grave stones.

Sebastian Matthews	6-30-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews poet and editor Sebastian Matthews, who appeared at the April 18 Alabama Book Festival. Matthews is the author of the poetry collection We Generous (Red Hen Press) and a memoir about his poet father, the late William Matthews, In My Father’s Footsteps. He co-edited, with Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews. Matthews teaches at Warren Wilson College and serves on the faculty at Queens College Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. His poetry and prose has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, and on The Writer’s Almanac, among others. Matthews co-edits Rivendell, a place-based literary journal, and serves as poetry consultant for Ecotone: Re-Imagining Place.

Blue Note Five	6-23-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Steve Grauberger interviews Eric Newby, Thomas Kelly, Gerald Johnson, Charles Draper and Willie Jordan of the Huntsville Police Department's Blue Note Five a cappella quartet (quintet) group. Selections from their CD are included.

Fred Kuwornu Filmmaker	6-16-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	The Alabama State Council on the Arts sponsored a cultural exchange program with the City of Pietrasanta, Italy April 16-May 2. Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Fred Kuwornu, an Italian filmmaker. Mr. Kuwornu wrote and directed a historical documentary entitled "Inside Buffalo." This documentary uncovers the historical and human events of the 92nd Division of the American Army, nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers. During the cultural exchange this documentary had its premiere screening at the Capri Theatre in Montgomery.

New Dance Drama, from Pietrasanta, Italy	6-09-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	As part of the Council’s International Exchange in April 2009, Diana Green interviews members of the New Dance Drama, from Pietrasanta, Italy. This Graham based modern dance company, with artistic director Adria Ferrali, spent three weeks in residency, rehearsing at the Montgomery Ballet studios, teaching and performing at Alabama State University, and performing as part of the sculpture Festival in Sylacauga. Adria Ferrali is joined in the interview by her dancers Thomas Johansen, Angelica Stella, and Sabrina Davini.

Bruce Walker and Joseph Trimble of the Alabama Storytelling Association.	6-02-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Alabama Center for Traditional Culture director Joey Brackner interviews Bruce Walker and Joseph Trimble of the Alabama Storytelling Association.

Betsy Irwin and Jay McGirt	5-26-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Alabama Center for Traditional Culture director Joey Brackner interviews Betsy Irwin of Moundville Archaeological Park and Creek Indian weaver Jay McGirt about Indian art and the creation of new exhibits for the Moundville Museum.

Terry Norris	5-19-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In this program Community Arts Program Manager Randy Shoults interviews Terry Norris, founding President of the Grove Hill Arts Council (GHAC). They discuss the various programs, events and town mural project sponsored by the GHAC.

2009 Alabama Folk Heritage Award Winner the late Willie King	5-12-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	To honor the late Willie King as the 2009 Alabama Folk Heritage Award winner this program is a rebroadcast of Rebecca Ryals interviewing Willie King at the 2003 Freedom Creek Blues Festival in Old Memphis near Aliceville, includes musical examples.

Arts Award winner Beth Nielson Chapman	5-05-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	2009 Distinguished Artist Award winner Beth Nielsen Chapman is interviewed by Arts Council Executive Director Al Head about her life as a popular singer/songwriter and as an educator. They also discuss Chapman's inspirations and her unique process of songwriting.

Scooter Muse	4-28-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Scooter Muse, the virtuoso banjo and guitar player from Florence, Alabama. Muse discusses his musical development and his continuing fascination with Celtic music.

Pietrasanta	4-21-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Georgine Clarke interviews Valentina Fogher, Collaborator of Cultural Activities for the City of Pietrasanta, Italy, about the Cultural Exchange Exchange between the State of Alabama and Italy. The program began in the summer of 2008 when Alabama took artists, musicians, exhibitions, film, and literature to Pietrasanta. From April 16-May 2, 2009, Italian artists, dancers, musicians, and film will be in Alabama. The focus of activities will be in Montgomery, with additional programs in Birmingham and Sylacauga. The City of Montgomery will sign a Sister City agreement with Pietrasanta. The theme of the Exchange this year is Michelangelo and His Heirs.

Jim Murphy	4-14-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Poet Jim Murphy is interviewed by Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum. Murphy is the author of Heaven Overland, published this year by Kennesaw State University Press. He is associate professor of English at the University of Montevallo, and his poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Brooklyn Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Fine Madness, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Puerto del Sol, and in other journals, as well as in The Memphis Sun (Kent State University Press, 2000). He serves as Director of the Montevallo Literary Festival, held on campus each spring, and as an editor in poetry for Red Mountain Review, a Birmingham-based literary journal.

Author Mary Ward Brown	4-07-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, travels to Selma to attend the public library's 'Lunch at the Library' program series and record their guest writer, Mary Ward Brown as she discusses her just published memoir, Fanning the Spark. After Ms. Ward’s presentation, long time friend and Instructor of English at University of North Alabama, Pam Kingsbury conducts a short interview.

Old-Time Banjo Champion Robert Montgomery	3-31-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Alabama native and National Old-Time Banjo Champion Robert Montgomery talks with Deborah Boykin about his musical influences and the upcoming Chicken and Egg Festival in Moulton on April 18-19, 2009. In the program he demonstrates old-time banjo styles and discusses his recordings.

Cassie Allen and Emily Creel, Christian Harmony Singing School	3-17-2009	High MP3 Low 56K History of 1958 edition by Cassie Allen	Steve Grauberger visits County Line Church in Corner Alabama to interview Cassie Allen and Emily Creel about their Christian Harmony singing school and next day singing held February 7th and 8th, 2009. Discussed in this program is the history of the 1958 Alabama edition of William Walker's Christian Harmony and the necessity of holding singing schools to teach shape-note singing. Also included in the program are songs recorded during this year's event.

Paddy Bowman, Director, Local Learning. The National Network for Folk Arts in Education	3-10-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Deborah Boykin interviews folklorist Paddy Bowman, Director, for Local Learning. The National Network for Folk Arts in Education about her recent workshop for Alabama educators at the statewide Arts Education Summit. Bowman, who moved to north Alabama as a teenager, uses this experience to explain the importance of community and culture in the classroom.

24th annual Alabama Clay Conference	3-03-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In honor of the 24th annual Alabama Clay Conference sponsored by the Alabama Craft Council and planned for Huntsville March 13-15, Georgine Clarke interviews Chris Greenman and Steve Loucks. Greenman is on the art faculty of Alabama State University and Loucks teaches at Jacksonville State University. Both are art professors as well as professional craft artists working in clay. The discussion covers the process of producing ceramic pieces, marketing, and the importance of the annual conference.

Jerry Brown	2-24-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	To help promote the upcoming Jerry Brown Arts Festival , this program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Jerry Brown about the process of pottery making at his shop in Hamilton Alabama. This year the Jerry Brown Arts Festival is located at the Old WalMart Building at 1500 Military Street South, in Hamilton on March 7-8, 2009.

Blackbelt Tour CD	2-17-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Cinque Cullar. Mr. Cullar is founder and artistic director for the Tribe of Judah, a youth gospel group of students from Alabama State University and the Montgomery community. Mr. Cullar and Ms. Edwards talk about the newly released Black Belt Gospel Tour CD featuring students from Tuskegee Booker T.Washington High School, Greensboro East High School, Selma High School, Francis Marion High School and Judson College Voices of Praise.

Kathleen Driskell	2-10-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell, author of Seed Across Snow and Laughing Sickness. Driskell’s poems have appeared in leading literary journals and she teaches in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY. Driskell will be in Alabama April 17-18, 2009, to participate in an Alabama High School Teacher Workshop on Friday and the Alabama Book Festival Poetry Tent on Saturday. Driskell reads from Seed Across Snow and talks about her subjects in poems – domestic emergencies, motherhood, and everyday life that resonates with lush language and a deeply held sense of the world’s value. She also discusses teaching creative writing, and the value of the arts in our schools. Thompson interviewed Driskell in the studios of WFPL in Louisville, Kentucky, and extends thanks to the staff for assistance.

Alabama Arts Education Summit 2 ”Speaking with One Voice"	2-03-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This is a rebroadcast of our 2nd program on the Alabama Arts Education Summit 2008 held in Troy, Alabama. This year the Summit will take place, in Troy, Alabama February 18-20, 2009. Our second show focuses on the essential link needed between higher education and K-12 schools. Diana Green, arts in education program manager interviews Professor and arts educator Larry Percy, who hosted the Summit at Troy University last year. Mr. Percy discusses the potential for higher education to take a leading role in providing quality arts education in K-12 schools.

Alabama Arts Education Summit 1 ”Speaking with One Voice"	1-27-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This is a rebroadcast of our program on the Alabama Arts Education Summit 2008. This year the Summit will take place in Troy, Alabama February 18-20, 2009. The theme for this year's statewide conference is ”Speaking with One Voice." In this radio show, performing arts program manager Yvette Daniel interviews the four partners that were instrumental in the planning and implementation of the 2008 Summit: Diana Green, arts in education program manager at the Council, Donna Russell, executive director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, Martha Lockett, executive director of the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts, and Sara Wright, director of academic innovative initiatives at the Alabama State Department of Education.

Shapenote singing in Alabama	1-20-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This program is a rebroadcast of Alabama shapenote music and its history, in preparation for this year's Annual Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shapenote Singing that will be held January 31st at the Alabama Department of Archives and History off of Union St between Adams and Washington in Montgomery. The singing will start at 9:30 am and end at 3pm. The public is welcome to come and listen or sing. For more information call 334-242-4076, x-225.

Film maker Robert Clem and Auguster Maul of the Delta Aires Quartet	1-13-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	In the first half of the program Joey Brackner interviews Film maker Robert Clem about his new film Gospel Highway. In the second half Joey interviews Auguster Maul, lead singer for the Delta Aires Quartet.

Dr. Wayne Flynt	1-6-2009	High MP3 Low 56K	This program is a rebroadcast of ASCA folklorist Joey Brackner interviewing preeminent Alabama historian Dr. Wayne Flynt about his book Alabama in the Twentieth Century. In the interview Dr. Flynt outlines the significant cultural contributions of Alabamians during the late century. Wayne Flynt is the Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University.

Henri's Notions	12-30-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Henri's Notion creates a musical mix of traditional Celtic and American music as well as their own compositions that have a rhythm and voice reflective of their Southern heritage, which lends a pleasing familiarity to the music.

Heim Duo	12-23-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Seasonal music from husband and wife duo, Annette and Bret Heim, who combine the flute and classical guitar in an exquisite, intimate experience. Their ability to bring their audience into their performances ensures repeat request and performances. They present compositions by living American and British composers of note in an audience-friendly way. Their performance at the National Czech and Slovak Museum was described as "absolutely astonishing."

Four Eagles a cappella Gospel Quartet	12-16-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	A full program of music of The Four Eagles Quartet a capella gospel group is presented from a program originally recorded during the "Sounds of the Seasons" performance series held at the Alabama State Capitol building in 2002.

Dr. Henry Glassie	12-09-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews renowned folklorist Henry Glassie about his life and research of vernacular architecture in the Southern United States, and particularly in Alabama.

Alabama Linguists Tom Nunnally and Catherine Evans Davies	12-02-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews linguists Dr. Thomas Nunnally and Dr. Catherine Davies about the new Tributaries: Journal of the Alabama Foliklife Association Vol X that deals entirely with the dialects of Alabamians and southern speech.

Banjoist Doug Back	11-25-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	This program is a rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger interviewing Doug Back on the history of Classic Banjo. The program includes musical examples from Back's CD releases, The Banjo Goes Highbrow and The Big Trio Reprise on the Belmando label.

Ella Joyce	11-18-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Yvette Daniel interviews actress and playwright Ella Joyce about her one woman play A Rose Among Thorns: A Dramatic Tribute to Rosa Parks. Also discussed is Joyce's career on the stage, silver screen and in television.

Jennifer Horne	11-11-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	ASCA Literature Fellowship Recipient in Poetry, Jennifer Horne talks with Jeanie Thompson, Executive Director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, about Horne's love of Southern farming and gardening, her work as an anthologist, and her forthcoming poetry collection Bottle Tree (WordTech, 2010). Horne's anthologies include Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, published in 2003 by New South Books, and All Out of Faith: Southern Women Writers on Spirituality, edited with Wendy Reed and published by the University of Alabama Press. Horne holds an MFA from the University of Alabama, has published poems online in StorySouth.com and other literary journals, and is poetry book reviews editor for the Forum's Book Reviews on line.

Kathryn Tucker Windham	10-28-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Betty Ann Lloyd interviews Kathryn Tucker Windham about the John Reese photo exhibit featuring the people of Gees Bend, now on display at Gees Bend Quilt Collective. Kathryn also discusses her time as a newspaper reporter and amateur photographer.

Jannetta Whitt-Mitchell	10-21-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Randy Shoults interviews Jannetta Whitt-Mitchell about various aspects of the Gulf Coast Ethnic and Heritage Jazz Festival that takes place during the first weekend in August each year in Mobile.

Beth Nielsen Chapman	10-14-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviews Beth Nielsen Chapman about her life as a popular singer/songwriter and as an educator. They also discuss Chapman's inspirations and her unique process of songwriting.

George Culver	10-07-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager interviews George Culver the Executive Director of the Historic Ritz Theatre of Talladega, Alabama. On October 31st and November 1st 2008. the Ritz will be hosting Hal Holbrook in MARK TWAIN TONIGHT. These performances are billed as among the final few of this historic production's run. Culver also discusses educational programs connected to Ritz Theatre presentations and the interesting history of this historic theater in Talladega.

National Heritage Fellow Bettye Kimbrell	09-30-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Jefferson County quilter Bettye Kimbrell about her work with 4-H Club students and their quilt exhibit at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Kimbrell is a 2008 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition The Quilts of Bettye Kimbrell: Celebrating the National Heritage Fellowship is on display at the Alabama Artists' Gallery in the RSA Tower, 201 Monroe Street, Montgomery from September 19 - October 31, 2008. A reception honoring Mrs. Kimbrell is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, 2008, from 4-6 p.m.

Robert J. (Jeff) Jakeman, Clair Wilson and Ben Berntson	09-23-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews editors Jeff Jakeman, Claire Wilson and Ben Berntson about the new online Encyclopedia of Alabama.

Yvonne Wells	09-16-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Georgine Clarke interviews Tuscaloosa quilt artist Yvonne Wells, whose quilts are known as story or picture quilts. Her hand-stitched fabric constructions use rich symbolism and vivid colors, with themes ranging from religion to social and political issues. She also frequently produces whimsical and humorous pieces. Of particular note are her portrayals of the Civil Rights movement, with quilts depicting the history of slavery as well as icons Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. She has represented the State of Alabama in international cultural programs in France and Italy. In the interview, Yvonne talks about her choice of materials and also discusses two projects: twelve quilts she describes as "a book" titled On the Move and a group depicting the Seven Deadly Sins.

Bill Ivey	09-09-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviews Bill Ivey, Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Subjects discussed are Ivey's background as past head of the National Endowment for the Arts, his involvement with the Curb Center and issues concerning Ivey's recently published book, arts, inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights.

Dekalb Fiddling Convention, Eric McKinney and Russell Gulley	09-02-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Eric McKinney and Russell Gulley about the Annual Dekalb Fiddling Convention held in Ft Payne.

Birmingham Rhapsody Project	08-26-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Joey Brackner interviews Sally Smith and Jamie Lawrence of Alabama Contemporary Theater. They discuss "Birmingham Rhapsody" a play being developed from oral histories that the theater has been collecting about Birmingham's Civil Rights era.

Photographer Stephen Savage	08-19-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Georgine Clarke interviews Alabama artist Stephen Savage of Daphne. Savage received the 2002 Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in photography in 2002. He teaches and also produces both commercial and fine art photography. The discussion covers elements of the art form and the uses of digital photography as well as current approaches to teaching. Savage describes the Alabama Photo Book project which he is producing with print maker and art book designer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. In this project participating Alabama photographers provide a photograph which is used with limited text to produce a simple eight page book.

Gene Ivey	08-12-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Sand Mountain fiddler Gene Ivey is the subject of this week’s program on Alabama Arts Radio. Folklorist Anne Kimzey talks to Mr. Ivey and his apprentice Joseph Coleman about playing music and making handcrafted fiddles at Ivey’s workshop in Ider.

Dr. Billie Jean Young	08-05-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	This show is a repeat of an earlier broadcast in acknowledgment of playwright and educator Billie Jean Young as a recipient of the 2008 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship in the area of theater. Fellowships are the most prestigious of grants awarded to individuals by the Council. In this program, Steve Grauberger interviews actor and playwright Dr. Billie Jean Young, in Yantley Alabama, about her play Oh Mary Don't you Weep: The Margaret Ann Knott Legacy. Also interviewed is Choctaw, County educator and civil rights activist Carrie Mae Johnson.

Folk School at Camp McDowell	07-29-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	In this program, Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, travels to the Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell near Jasper. She talks with Folk School director Megan Huston and potter Sandra Heaven about pottery making and other craft and music classes offered in this natural retreat setting.

Kevin Nutt	07-22-2008	High MP3 Low 56K	Rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger interviewing Kevin Nutt, of CaseQuarter Records talking about his research on early blues recording artist Ed Bell from Greenville, Alabama. His Tributaries article on the subject can be obtained at Alabamafolklife.org Kevin can be heard weekly, online, at WFMU with his radio program Sinners Crossroads.

Sacred Harp Book Company (Cooper revision)	07-15-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is a rebroadcast of Steve Grauberger interviewing Stanley Smith, John Etheridge, and Bill Aplin, elected officers of the Sacred Harp Book Company (Cooper revision), includes Sacred Harp singing examples.

VSA Arts of Alabama Arts in Heathcare Program	07-08-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Meagan Vucovich, summer intern for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Patti Hendrix Lovoy, director of VSA Arts of Alabama, along with Ali DeCamillis, art therapist, Dr. Rodney Tucker, director of the UAB Palliative Care Unit, Dr. Avi Madan-Swain, a Pediatric Psychologist/Neuropsychologist at UAB. The discussion focuses on VSA Arts of Alabama’s Arts in Healthcare program.

Your Town Alabama Workshop	07-01-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is a repeat of Gina Clifford, director of Design Alabama, interviewing Cheryl Morgan, Professor at Auburn University and Director of the Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, about Your Town Alabama Workshop. Your Town Workshop is an intensive two-and-half day event that includes: lectures, case-study presentations, and interactive group problem solving scenarios involving community planning and design work in a hypothetical small town.

Bobby Horton	06-24-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing Alabama's curator of historic song - Bobby Horton. Best known for his CDs of Civil War era music and membership in the popular band Three On a String, Mr. Horton also discusses his family's musical heritage and his work composing songs for numerous Ken Burns' documentary films. Bobby Horton was a recipient of a 2005 Governor's Arts Award.

Thomas Hylton, Save Our Land Save Our Towns	06-17-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	DesignAlabama was honored to have Thomas Hylton, of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns as a speaker at their 2008 DesignAlabama Mayors Design Summit. As a former newspaper, man, this Pennsylvania native and resident has turned a passion for a walkable world into a successful non-profit organization promoting walkable communities, downtown redevelopment and historic preservation. Join us during this radio program as we learn more about what individuals and communities can do to save our land and save our towns.

Mark Gooch	06-10-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Birmingham photographer Mark Gooch about his career and his recent project documenting Alabama folk artists for the exhibition Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. (click here for PDF)

Poet Jake Adam York	06-03-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet and Gadsden, Alabama native Jake Adam York, whose collection A Murmuration of Starlings was recently published by Southern Illinois University Press. The book won the Crab Orchard Review Open Poetry Competition in 2007. Thompson talks with York about the elegies for slain civil rights workers and other individuals, including Emmit Till who was killed in Money, Mississippi, that comprise the collection. York's previous book, Murder Ballads, contains the first of these elegies, and he plans to continue the sequence through several more poetry collections. He teaches at the University of Colorado in Denver where he directs the undergraduate creative writing program.

National Heritage Fellowship Recipient Bettye Kimbrell	05-27-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Jefferson County quilter Bettye Kimbrell about her work with 4-H Club students and their quilt exhibit at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Kimbrell is a 2008 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Kate Gale and Richard Goodman	05-20-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews two writers who participated in the 3rd Annual Alabama Book Festival on April 19. Kate Gale, founding editor of Red Hen Press of Los Angeles, California, and Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt and The Soul of Creative Writing, also taught writing techniques and discussed publishing on April 18 at the inaugural creative writing workshop open to the general public as part of the Festival outreach. Dr. Gale is a poet (Fishers of Men, Selling the Hammock, Mating Season) novelist, and librettist. She maintains a busy teaching schedule in the Los Angeles area, manages Red Hen Press – one of the top selling poetry/prose independent presses in California – and pursues her own writing. Mr. Goodman teaches in the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY. He lives in New York, NY. Dr. Gale read in the poetry venue, dubbed Poetry SouthWest, for the cross fertilization of Southern and Western writers. Richard Goodman read from his two books and discussed writing with festival-goers.

Michael Vigilant and Elyzabeth Wilder	05-13-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Yvette Daniel interviews Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Chief Operating Officer Michael Vigilant about upcoming events and his new play Bear Country. Also on this program is an interview with Elyzabeth Wilder about her new play Furniture of Home. Both plays were developed through the Southern Writers Project at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Mary and Bill Smith, basket makers	05-06-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Deborah Boykin interviews basket makers Mary and Bill Smith about their participation in the Folk Arts Apprenticeship program, their work with local Alabama craftsmen, and their observations about the basket making process.

Alabama Arts Education Summit part 3	04-29-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Part III of our Series on the Alabama Arts Education Summit held in Troy, Alabama February 21-23, 2008. Focusing on the essential link of communities and K-12 schools, Diana Green interview Dr. Lisa Stamps, principal at Gordo Elementary in Pickens County, about the partnerships she has developed to enhance the arts in her school, and how the Summit supported her efforts.

Alabama Arts Education Summit part 2	04-22-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Part II of the our Series on the Alabama Arts Education Summit held in Troy, Alabama February 21-23, 2008. Focusing on the essential link needed between higher education and K-12 schools, Diana Green, arts in education program manager interviews Professor and arts educator Larry Percy, who hosted the Summit at Troy University in Troy Alabama. Mr. Percy discusses the potential for higher education to take a leading role in providing quality arts education in K-12 schools.

Alabama Arts Education Summit part 1	04-15-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Part I of our Series on the Alabama Arts Education Summit held in Troy, Alabama February 21-23, 2008. The theme for this statewide conference was “Creating partnerships to ensure quality arts education in Alabama.” As an introduction to this series, performing arts program manager Yvette Daniel interviews the four partners that were instrumental in the planning and implementation of the Summit: Diana Green, arts in education program manager at the Council, Donna Russell, executive director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, Martha Lockett, executive director of the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts, and Sara Wright, director of academic innovative initiatives at the Alabama State Department of Education.

Rheta Grimsley and Ace Adkins	04-08-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Ace Atkins and Rheta Grimsley Johnson, two authors who will be joining 70 others at the 3^rd Annual Alabama Book Festival, April 19 in Montgomery’ Old Alabama Town from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Rheta Grimsley Johnson’s latest book Poor Man’s Provence, chronicles her home away from home in Cajun Louisiana. Grimsley, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, is an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and has earned numerous awards for her writing, including the National Headliner Award for commentary in and Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Memorial Award. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary and is also author of Good Grief, the authorized biography of Charles Schulz. Currently she writes a syndicated column for Kings Features Syndicate. Ace Atkins, a native of Troy, Alabama, is the author of critically acclaimed Nick Travers crime novels, including Crossroad Blues, Leavin’ Trunk Blues, Dark End of the Street, Dirty South, and White Shadow. Atkins talks with Thompson about his new novel Wicked City, a fictionalized account of Phenix City, Alabama in the 1950s.

Dan Halcomb	04-01-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This weeks program features Georgine Clarke interviewing Dan Halcomb, Deputy Director of the Huntsville Arts Council. Subjects discussed deal with issues of Huntsville area arts organizations, educational programs and various attributes of this year's Panoply Festival, to be held April 25th the 27th, 2008.

Author Kirk Curnutt	03-25-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, interviews Montgomery author Kirk Curnutt. Curnutt is a 2007 Literature Fellowship recipient from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. His novel called Breathing Out the Ghost has just been released from River City Publishing in Montgomery. Kirk Curnutt is the author of several scholarly works, most recently The Cambridge Introduction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Coffee with Hemingway (an entry in Duncan Baird Publishers’ series of imaginary conversations with leading historical figures). He is also the author of a collection of short stories, Baby, Let’s Make a Baby, also from River City Publishing. He is a former finalist for both the Tennessee Book Award/Peter Taylor Prize and the Dana Literary Awards. Curnutt is a three-time consecutive winner of the Hackney Literary Award for short stories. Thompson speaks with him about the craft of writing, shaping the structure of a novel, and the relationship of an author’s mythic landscape to his work.

Anne Kimzey	03-18-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This week, Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Anne Kimzey, folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts. They discuss the state’s master artists whose craft and music traditions are featured in an exhibit titled Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program.

Vassie Welbeck-Browne and Malik Browne	03-11-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Diana F. Green, arts in education program manager, visits with Vassie Welbeck-Browne and Malik Browne, after a performance of Langston Hughes: Emperor of the Muse, which was held for students at Demopolis High School on Friday, February 28^th. Vassie & Malik are teaching artists from StoryTree Company, participating with the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts, as part of a Dana Foundation project. This project trains artists in the Black Belt region to partner with local schools to implement arts integration programs. Vassie and Malik work primarily in Greene County, where they have developed an anti-violence/conflict resolution drama program for high school students.

Sena Jeter Naslund	03-04-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is a rebroadcast of executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum Jeanie Thompson interviewing Sena Jeter Naslund, 2000 Harper Lee Award Winner, Hall-Waters Award Winner and recent participant in last year's 2nd Annual Alabama Book Festival. Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of five novels, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette , Four Spirits, Ahab's Wife; Or, the Star-Gazer, Sherlock in Love, and The Animal Way to Love, also two short story collections, The Disobedience of Water and Ice Skating at the North Pole. Naslund founded and directs the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY and is Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville. She is currently the Kentucky Poet Laureate.

Sudha Raghuram	02-26-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is a rebroadcast Anne Kimzey, Folklife Specialist for the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviewing Sudha Raghuram a dancer in the Indian classical tradition of Bharatanatyam (Bah-rah-tah Nah-tee-yahm). She is a master artist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts' folk arts apprenticeship program. In the interview, Sudha describes this ancient dance form and tells about teaching it here in Alabama.

David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame	02-19-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this week's program, Joey Brackner interviews David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, about the 2008 Induction Banquet and Awards Show presented February 22nd at the new Marriott Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center in Montgomery. Johnson discusses this year's award recipients and the talent to perform during the event. Musical examples are included.

Tommy McPherson Director of the Mobile Museum of Art	02-12-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program, Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews Mobile Museum of Art director Tommy McPherson. McPherson discusses the various collections and educational programs his museum has to offer the public. Also discussed are future exhibits and the museum's connection to the immediate community of contemporary artists in the Gulf Coast area.

Playwright Dr. Billie Jean Young and educator Carrie Mae Johnson	02-05-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program, highlighting Black History Month, Steve Grauberger interviews actor and playwright Dr. Billie Jean Young, in Yantley Alabama, about her play Oh Mary Don't you Weep: The Margaret Ann Knott Legacy. Also interviewed is Choctaw, County educator and civil rights activist Carrie Mae Johnson.

Ceramic artists Larry Percy and Scott Bennett	01-29-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	To help promote the 23rd Alabama Clay Conference, to be held this year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on February 8-10, this program is a rebroadcast of Georgine Clarke interviewing two Alabama ceramic artists who taught at the 21st Alabama Clay Conference. Larry Percy is on the Art faculty at Troy University. His work has been inspired by the time he has spent in the Southwest, particularly New Mexico. He talks about that influence of the land in his sculptural, vessel forms. He also discusses his ways of teaching at a college level. Scott Bennett owns Red Dot Gallery in Birmingham, where he produces his work and also teaches classes. As a relatively new Alabama resident, Scott talks about the strong clay community of artists in the state and also describes approaches to his own work.

11th Annual Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shapenote Singing	01-22-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is a rebroadcast of Alabama shapenote music and its history in preparation for this year's Annual Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shapenote Singing that will be held on Saturday, February 2nd. Due to a scheduling conflict, the singing will not be in the Capitol Rotunda but at the Alabama Department of Archives and History off of Union St between Adams and Washington in Montgomery. The singing will start at 9:30 am and end at 3Pm. The public is welcome to come and listen or sing. Afterwards, at 3pm, there will be reception for the exhibition "Carry On: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Alabama Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program" at the Alabama Artists Gallery located on the first floor of the RSA Tower at 201 Monroe Street. For more information call 334-242-4076, x-225.

Piddler's Storytelling Festival	01-15-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Joey Brackner interviews storyteller Donald Davis and the Brundidge Historical Society's Johnny Steed about this year's Piddler's Storytellin' Festival that will feature Sheila Kay Adams, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Donald Davis and Andy Offutt Irwin. Included in the program are stories told by Donald Davis, Kathryn Tucker Windham and Andy Irwin.

Johnny Shines 1991 Radiovisions	01-08-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream Original Program MP3	This program is a broadcast of a 1991 Radiovisions series that features bluesman Johhy Shines. Radiovisions is a production of Russell Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council of Ft. Payne Alabama. The Radiovisions series of programs were initially released as audio cassettes. This particular program is a brief biography of the late Johnny Shines and his music.

DeKalb County Veterans Oral History Project	01-01-2008	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Robert Moehr, Julia Brown and Jordan Phillips about documenting the personal narratives of WWII Veterans in DeKalb County, Alabama.

Sounds of the Christmas Season 2007	12-25-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program features Christmas Holiday music of the Mariachi Garibaldi storytelling of Kathryn Tucker Windham and the music of The Tribe of Judah, Bobby Horton and soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton.

Hannah Leatherbury	12-18-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager for the Southern Arts Federation. Ms Leatherbury talks about the Southern Artistry program and other programs and projects offered by Southern Arts Federation to assist artist and arts organizations in the South.

Rosemary Johnson, Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council	12-11-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green, interviews Rosemary Johnson, executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council, about the Alabama Dance Festival which takes place over President’s weekend each January in Birmingham. This January, the Festival includes tracks for many age groups, a new community program entitled “Dance Across Birmingham” and performances by Bridgeman Packer Dance.

Cinque Cullar, Tribe of Judah	12-4-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Cinque Cullar, Artistic Director for the Tribe of Judah. As a part of the Black Belt Arts Initiative, the Council sponsored a contemporary Gospel tour featuring the Tribe of Judah in Selma and Union Springs. The tour included an education component and a public performance. During this interview, Mr. Cullar offers his definition of Gospel music, talks about his work with the Tribe of Judah, and comments on the Black Belt Gospel Tour.

Winky Hicks, Musician and Instrument Maker	11-27-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Steve Grauberger interviews musician and instrument maker Winky Hicks from Grove Hill, Alabama. Mr. Hicks received a Folk Arts Apprenticeship grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts to teach the art of bluegrass banjo to interested students. He discusses his method of teaching and performs a few musical examples on his banjo. Hicks also describes his craft of mandolin, guitar and banjo construction.

Cathey Hendricks, Brenda Lindsey, Deborah Clark, and Grace Quantock	11-20-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Arts 4 Excellence is a school arts initiative sponsored by the Alabama State Council on the Arts. An Arts 4 Excellence school is committed to strong comprehensive arts programs across the curriculum. Arts classes spend equal amounts of time creating, performing and responding to art in order to develop the greatest understanding possible. Every member of the school community uses the arts in some way to enhance their own unique contribution to the learning community. Three schools in Montgomery County have begun the planning and professional development required for the program. Diana Green interviews Cathey Hendricks, Brenda Lindsey, and Deborah Clark who are principals at Carver Elementary, Vaughn Road Elementary and Brewbaker Intermediate schools, respectively. She also interviews Grace Quantock, a 5th grade teacher at Vaughn Road Elementary.

Congressman Artur Davis	11-13-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Arts Council Executive Director Al Head interviews Representative Artur Davis at Cheaha State Park after Congressman Davis spoke to participants of the annual Bill Bates Leadership Institute. Davis discusses his fondness for reading and writing as well as his interest in community revitalization and the role of the arts in public education.

Woodcraft sculptors Dale Lewis and Bobby Michelson	11-06-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews Dale Lewis from Oneonta and Bobby Michelson from Birmingham, two artist fellowship recipients from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Fellowships are given annually for excellence of work and to assist with career development. These professional, full-time artists work with wood and are furniture builders. Discussions range from uses and types of wood to marketing, design, and ways of commissioning work.

Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention, 2 of 2	10-30-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This rebroadcast is the second of two programs that Steve Grauberger interviews participants of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and publishing, piano playing, and singing schools. Music examples are also included. This and the previous program is to help promote the 77th Annual Convention held November 9th and 10th, 2007 at Trinity Baptist Church in Oxford Alabama. For more information contact Lonnie Hilley at 256-237-5761 or email

Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention, 1 of 2	10-23-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This rebroadcast is the first of two programs of Steve Grauberger interviewing participants of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and publishing, and singing schools. Music examples are also included. This program is to help promote the 77th Annual Convention held November 9th and 10th, 2007 at Trinity Baptist Church in Oxford Alabama. For more information contact Lonnie Hilley at 256-237-5761 or email

Mozell Benson and Sylvia Stephens of Opelika	10-16-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews mother and daughter quilters Mozell Benson and Sylvia Stephens of Opelika. They discuss their participation in the State Arts Council’s Folk Arts Apprenticeship program and share family memories of quilting and farm life in Lee County. Mrs. Benson also talks about her experience of being selected by Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction to have a quilt studio designed and built for her by college students. Mozell Benson is a nationally recognized quilter, having received a National Heritage Fellowship in 2001 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Cary McQueen Morrow, Executive Director of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University	10-09-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Each summer the Council sponsors the Bill Bates Leadership Institute, a retreat for arts professionals in the state. This gathering provides an opportunity for arts professionals to meet and to discuss broad issues and common interests. Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director of the Council, interviews Cary McQueen Morrow, a featured speaker for the 2007 Bill Bates Leadership Institute. Ms. Morrow is the Executive Director of the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University. In the interview, Ms. Morrow shares information on the work of the Center for Arts Management and Technology and discusses trends in software applications and social networking technology.

Claire Robitaille and Christopher McNulty	10-02-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews Claire Robitaille from Magnolia Springs and Christopher McNulty from Auburn, two artist fellowship recipients from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Fellowships are given annually for excellence of work and to assist with career development. Claire is a mixed media sculptor, using fiber techniques, metal and seed beads in her constructions. Christopher is on the faculty at Auburn University and produces drawings as well as wood sculpture. Discussions range from international exhibitions to concepts in creating art to ways of teaching.

Keith Cromwell, Director, Red Mountain Theatre	09-25-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director of the Council, interviews Keith Cromwell. Mr. Cromwell is the Executive Director of Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham and the Council’s 2008 Arts Administration Fellowship recipient. In the interview, Mr. Cromwell talks about his career as a professional theatre artist and the impact of the Arts Administration Fellowship on his career and Red Mountain Theatre.

Visual Arts Achievement Awards	09-18-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Visual Arts Program Manager Georgine Clarke interviews six student participants in the Council's annual Visual Arts Achievement Program. The Program provides a statewide exhibition competition in six districts statewide, culminating in an exhibition in the Alabama Artists Gallery in Montgomery. It also provides a portfolio jury review resulting in $500 college scholarships. Students interviewed on the program include three scholarship recipients as well as the best in show winner and the teacher of the year, all from Bob Jones High School in Madison. Also on the program are two scholarship recipients from BTW Magnet School in Montgomery. The Council considers Arts in Education Projects to be a highest priority.

Amita Bhakta	09-11-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Amita Bhakta a rangoli artist in Florence. An art that comes from India, rangoli are temporary designs drawn in rice flour and other materials to decorate the floors and courtyards of the homes in India. Ms. Bhakta, who is originally from India, received a Folk Arts Apprenticeship grant from the State Arts Council to teach rangoli to children in the Indian community in Florence as a way of passing on this tradition and connecting them with their cultural heritage.

Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers on Radiovision	09-04-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is the broadcast of a 1989 Radiovisions production. It features Charlie Louvin of the legendary Louvin Brothers of Sand Mountain. The program includes a narrative history of the Louvins as well as various recordings made by them. Russell Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council of Ft. Payne Alabama produced the Radiovisions series that were released originally on cassette tape.

Peggy Denniston and Shelia Hagler	08-28-2007	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is a rebroadcast with Diana Green interviewing writer Peggy Denniston and photographer, Shelia Hagler, and two middle school students. Sheila Hagler is the Alabama State Council on the Arts 2007 Fellowship recipient for photography. An incredible photographer in her own right, Sheila partners with Peggy to encourage new photographers in Bayou La Batre, a shrimping community once ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. A selection of student work created after the storm traveled to Chicago as part of a project called Eyes of the Storm – a Katrina Hurricane Relief Effort, and subsequently entered the Photography Hall of Fame in Oklahoma.

William Christenberry 2	08-21-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Alabama native, and renowned artist, William Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C. This is the second of two interviews with Christenberry discussing his life’s work as an artist that includes his acclaimed photographic documentation of rural Alabama, his unique dream house sculptures, the Klan Tableau, and ongoing mixed-media work.

William Christenberry 1	08-14-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Alabama native, and renowned artist, William Christenberry at his home in Washington D.C. This is the first of two interviews with Christenberry discussing his life's work as an artist that includes drawing and painting as well as his unique dream house sculptures and acclaimed photographic documentation of rural Alabama.

Steve Miller interview 2	08-07-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this second program, Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, continues a conversation with professor Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama. This is the second of a two-part series where Miller describes hand papermaking and discusses two recent book projects featured in the Southern Arts Federation exhibit conceived through American Masterpieces, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Steve Miller interview 1	07-31-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In this program, Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews professor Steve Miller, coordinator of the Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama. This radio show is the first in a two-part series, where Miller discusses the art of making books by hand, including letterpress printing and hand papermaking. Hear how the faculty and students of Alabama’s Book Arts Program use ancient technology to produce cutting edge work.

Sena Jeter Naslund	07-24-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Executive director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum Jeanie Thompson interviews Sena Jeter Naslund, 2000 Harper Lee Award Winner, Hall-Waters Award Winner and recent participant in the 2nd Annual Alabama Book Festival. Sena Jeter Naslund is the author of five novels, Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette , Four Spirits, Ahab's Wife; Or, the Star-Gazer, Sherlock in Love, and The Animal Way to Love, also two short story collections, The Disobedience of Water and Ice Skating at the North Pole. Naslund founded and directs the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Writing Program in Louisville, KY and is Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville. She is currently the Kentucky Poet Laureate.

Dr. Jim Brown and National Heritage Award Recipient John Henry Mealing	07-17-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream Original 37min WVSU program MP3 Folkways radio program by Anne Kimzey on Gandy Dancers (real media)	Rebroadcast of folklore researcher and history professor Jim Brown of Samford University narrating an interview with "Gandy Dance Caller" John Henry Mealing who was a National Heritage Recipient. The ASCA show is edited from the original Samford University WVSU Radio Production done the 1980s. For more on Gandy Dancers. Gandy Dancers film on folkstreams.net Click here for Gandy Presentation by Maggie Holtzberg.

Fred Fussell Folklorist	07-10-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviewing folklorist Fred Fussell about his many years documenting the rich folklife of the Chattahoochee Valley.

Andy Meadows- photography teacher at Booker T Washington Magnet, Montgomery	07-03-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This program is a rebroadcast of a 2005 program of Ryan Hora and Mary Louise Thrower, Booker T Washington (BTW) Magnet students, interviewing their photography teacher Andy Meadows as well as two fellow students.

Ruth Wyers, traditional Christian Harmony singing school teacher	06-26-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviews traditional Christian Harmony singing-school teacher and singer, Ruth Wyers, about the upcoming singing school to be held at Pleasant Hill Upper Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Centerville, Alabama July 9-13 & 16-20, 2007 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.. The school will culminate with an all-day Christian Harmony singing Sunday, July 22nd starting at 9:30 a.m..

David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame	06-19-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, about the contributions of Alabamians to American Music

Helen Keller Festival of the Arts	06-12-2007	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke and Steve Grauberger visited the Helen Keller Festival of the Arts in June, early on a Saturday morning as the artists were setting up their booths for displaying and selling their artwork. The conversations with artists and festival organizers give listeners an idea of what to expect at the many outdoor art shows in Alabama. Artists talk about the importance of such shows and the ways they make their work available to the public. This year, 2007, the festival is held June 20th to the 24th in Tuscumbia.

Storyteller, Wanda Johnson	06-05-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Yvette Daniel and Diana Green interview Fellowship Award winner Wanda Johnson about her work as a professional storyteller in the Rural School Touring Program for the Arts Council. Wanda shares with us how she began her professional career in her hometown of Prichard, Alabama, absorbing the colorful history and rituals of a southern town. She has gained national recognition as her professional career as a storyteller has taken her from conventions, to the court room to summer camps and corporate retreats. In this interview Wanda challenges her audience to take pride in the lessons, rituals and experiences of life as she encourages young and old to appreciate their personal stories as wealth that should be passed on and preserved.

Come Home It's Suppertime	05-29-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Joey Brackner interviews musician Lennie Trawick, Sarah Bowden and Sherrill Tatum about the play "Come Home, It's Suppertime," a production of the We Piddle Around Theatre of Brundidge, AL.

Bluesman Willie King, Freedom Creek Blues Festival	05-22-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	To help promote the 2007 Freedom Creek Blues Festival on May 25-26, this program is a rebroadcast of Rebecca Ryals interviewing Willie King at the 2003 Freedom Creek Blues Festival in Old Memphis near Aliceville, includes musical examples.

Jazzmin Almaz Franklin, Khadijah Ameerah Robinson	05-15-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation contest, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. Seven private and public high schools, including more than 70 English classes throughout the five county river region, participated in the program this year. Diana Green, Arts in Education Program Manager, interviews a number of people involved in the program. Winner of the original poetry competition, Jazzmin Almaz Franklin, a senior from Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, recites her impassioned poem entitled The Question My Conscience Plagues Me With. State Champion Khadijah Ameerah Robinson, a senior at Loveless Academic Magnet Program in Montgomery, recites Robert Frost’s, Birches.

Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Alabama Folk Heritage Award Winner	05-08-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	This program is a rebroadcast to help promote the Alabama State Council on the Arts' "A Celebration of the Arts Awards" held May 16th, 2007 at the Davis Theater in Montgomery where bluesman Jerry "Boogie" McCain received the Alabama Folk Heritage Award. In the radio program Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviewed Jerry McCain about his life and music career at his home in Gadsden Alabama. Musical examples are included in the program.

George Washington Carver Arts and Crafts Festival	05-01-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Steve Grauberger interviews Dr. Charles Thompson, President of the Tuskegee Area Chamber of Commerce; Elaine Thompson, retired Art professor at Tuskegee University and past State Arts Council board member; and National Park Ranger Shirley Baxter about the annual George Washington Carver Arts and Crafts Festival held in downtown Tuskegee.

Glenn Dasher, Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Casey Downing, professional artist from Mobile.	4-24-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Georgine Clarke interviews two important Alabama sculptors, Glenn Dasher, Chairman of the Art Department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and Casey Downing, professional artist from Mobile. Topics range from commissioning public art to the importance of art in the schools to ways of teaching student artists. Dasher discusses his approach to making art, producing pieces that combine elements that appear to come from antiquity with contemporary elements. Downing explains the process of casting bronze figurative sculpture and also constructing abstract forms with stainless steel. Both provide insight into the philosophy and ways that artists work.

Jay Lamar, director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University	4-17-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum shares a lively conversation with Jay Lamar, director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival. The Book Festival is a project of the Alabama Center for the Book, one of the programs of the Draughon Center and takes place April 21, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in Old Alabama Town in Montgomery . The family event featuring 73 authors and artists is free and open to the public.

Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum interviews Marlin Barton	04-10-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum interviews Marlin Barton, 2007 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship Recipient. Barton is the author of two short story collections, The Dry Well and Dancing at the River, and a novel, The Dry Well. In addition to writing prize-winning fiction, Barton teaches in the Alabama Writers’ Forum’s Writing Our Stories program, a juvenile justice and the arts initiative now in its tenth year. Thompson and Barton discuss the writing process, and how teaching juvenile offenders has impacted Barton’s work

Montgomery Symphony Orchestra manager Helen Steineker.	04-03-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager, interviews Helen Steineker, Manager of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in recognition of the 2006-2007 30th Anniversary Season. The Montgomery Symphony Orchestra began as a community orchestra in 1976 with 30 musicians and a part-time director under the auspices of the City of Montgomery Parks and recreation Department. Twenty-eight years later, the MSO has 75 members, a full-time maestro and manager, and operates under the guidance of an independent Board and League.

The Official Alabama State Fiddling Championship	3-27-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	This program is to help promote the 2nd Annual, Official Alabama State Fiddling Championship in Huntsville that will be held during the Panoply Festival on April 28, 2007. At last year's event Steve Grauberger interviews co-producers of the competition, Alabama State Representative Mike Ball and Mark Ralph about the history of this fiddling competition. He also interviews last year's Huntsville Arts Council President Beth Wise, as well as various contestants involved in last year's 1st annual event. Musical examples recorded at that time are also included in the program.

Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager	3-20-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture interviews Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Shoults describes various aspects of the grant programs that he manages.

2007 Alabama Dance Festival	03-13-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Arts in Education Program Manager, Diana Green, interviews Anne Green Gilbert, a special guest at the Alabama Dance Festival. Rosemary Johnson, executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council, in partnership with Martha Lockett, executive director of the Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts, have provided this dance education workshop to classroom teachers and dance educators statewide. Ms. Gilbert is the Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope, a children’s creative movement dance company in Seattle, Washington and is known as one of the leading dance educators in the country. She has developed “brain appropriate” dance instruction and shares it with teachers across the nation. Diana Green interviews Rosemary Johnson, Anne Green Gilbert, Martha Lockett, and 4^th grade teacher Lisa Moran and occupational therapist, Kayla Briggs, about the education track offered at the dance festival in Birmingham on January 13, 2007.

William Cobb	03-06-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews William Cobb, recipient of the 2007 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer. Thompson and Cobb discuss his novels and plays, and his latest work The Hermit King (from Livingston Press). Cobb receives his award at the Alabama Writers Symposium on May 4th in Monroeville.

George Lindsey, Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2005 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient	02-27-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	To help promote the upcoming 10th Annual George Lindsey Film Festival this program is a rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing television legend and Jasper native George Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr. Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2005 Distinguished Artist Award.

George Wallace: The Clayton Years	02-20-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager, travels to Clayton, Alabama and talks to Rebecca Beasley about The Barbour County Governor's Trail and their upcoming stage production, "Wallace: The Clayton Years," a play by Ty Adams that depicts the early career of George Wallace. " Also included in the interview are Representative Billy Beasley and Alva Lambert, who portrays Governor Wallace in the play.

Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture	02-13-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Anne Kimzey interviews Joey Brackner about his newly published book, Alabama Folk Pottery, recently released on University of Alabama Press. Brackner discusses various aspects detailed in the publication.

Brian Jones, Regional Director-Mountains Region in the Marketing/Group Travel Division at the Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel.	02-06-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Joey Brackner interviews Brian Jones, a Regional Director in the Marketing/Group Travel Division of the Alabama Bureau of Tourism & Travel. Brian discusses the Tourism & Travel promotion of the Year of the Arts campaign. He describes materials produced for and attributes of the Year of the Arts.

Elyzabeth Wilder, Playwright	01-30-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Steve Grauberger interviews playwright and screenwriter Elyzabeth Wilder about her play Gees Bend, produced by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF). The play premiered Jan 19th to Feb 11, 2007 to a sold-out house. The play developed from Wilder's interest in the women quilters of Gee's Bend and her participation in the Southern Writer's Project at ASF. Wilder also talks about growing up in Mobile and her education in New York City as an actress and a playwright.

Alabama State Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shape-Note Singing 2006	01-23-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	This program promotes the 10th annual Capitol Rotunda, Four-Book, Shape Note Singing to be held in the Alabama State Capitol Rotunda on Feb 3rd starting at 9:30 AM. Included in the program are descriptions of the four different Alabama shape-note books used in the singing and recorded musical examples from past Rotunda singings.

The Thomas Sisters Singers from Alexander City	01-16-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Steve Grauberger interviews the Thomas Sisters Singers from Alexander City. Margie and Bernice Thomas have been a singing gospel music for over 60 years in and around Alexander City, performing on radio and TV as early as the 1950s. In December, shortly after this interview was taped, Bernice Thomas passed. Included in the program are recently recorded songs sung by Margie and Bernice Thomas, and Margie's daughter, Phyllis.

Eric Essix top	01-09-2007	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Rebroadcast of Barbara Edwards interviewing Jazz musician Eric Essix about his work with the rural schools touring program and his work as a musician

Kimberly Ramsey and *Shakespeare Can Be Fun*	01-02-2007	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Diana Green interviewing Kimberly Ramsey, an English teacher from Holy Cross Episcopal School in Montgomery, about a new arts education program entitled *Shakespeare Can Be Fun, a program which began at a teacher workshop in the summer of 2005. Shakespeare Can Be Fun* is a program that involves all 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at Holy Cross Episcopal School in the study and performance of Shakespeare.

Quinton Cockrell, ASCA’s 2006-2007 Theatre Fellowship recipient	12-26-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager, interviews Quinton Cockrell, ASCA’s 2006-2007 Theatre Fellowship recipient. Discussed are his plans to develop new works for the American stage and about his career as a professional actor in New York and in regional theatres across the country.

Mariachi Garibaldi, Kathryn Tucker Windham, The Tribe of Judah, Bobby Horton and Bessie Hunter-Shelton.	12-19-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This radio show features music of the Mariachi Garibaldi storytelling of Kathryn Tucker Windham and the music of The Tribe of Judah, Bobby Horton and soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton.

Shana Berger and Nathan Purath from the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in York, Alabama	12-12-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager, interviews Shana Berger, Executive Director and Nathan Purath, Artistic Director of the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture in York, Alabama. Located in Sumter County in West Alabama, York has a population of approximately 2,600 residents. The projects of the Center range from a public art, artist in residence program to regular exhibitions of local and national artists' work. Unique programs, particularly in photography, are provided for children.

Jacky Jack White and the Sucarnochee Revue	12-05-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Jacky Jack White of the Sucarnochee Revue. The Revue, a performance series of southern music is performed at Bibb Graves Auditorium on the campus of the Universityof West Alabama and broadcast throughout the region via radio.

Mary Settle Cooney, Director of the Tennessee Valley Art Association	11-28-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Mary Settle Cooney, Director of the Tennessee Valley Art Association programs. She discusses the Art Center and Ritz Theater as well as the role of the arts in education and community development.

William Bailey	11-21-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews William Bailey of Poarch Creek Indians. Mr. Bailey discusses surviving cultural traditions among Creek Indians in southwest Alabama

Bill McGee and George Culver	11-14-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Randy Shoults, Community Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, sits down with Director George Culver and board member Bill McGee of the Antique Talladega and The Ritz Theatre. They discuss the past, present and future of their organization, the Ritz Theatre and the impact that it has had of the City of Talladega. George Culver is also a recent recipient of an Alabama State Council on the Arts Administration Fellowship.

Bluesman George Connor	11-07-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews blues musician George Connor of Aliceville. Mr. Connor recounts his experiences playing the blues in Chicago, on the road, and in Alabama.

Clayton Bass	10-31-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Clayton Bass, President and CEO of the Huntsville Museum of Art. The discussion ranges from the roll of the Museum in community economic development to services for artists to the general nature of programs at the Museum. Included is information about the exhibition schedule, educational approaches to interpreting objects on exhibit, classes, and even the Museum restaurant and shop. Bass views activities in the Museum as being a complete experience for the visitor.

Dr. Bill Ferris	10-24-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews folklorist Bill Ferris of the University of North Carolina about southern culture and his experiences as director of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss.

Whitney Green, Black Belt Arts Project Coordinator for the Black Belt Community Initiative in Selma.	10-17-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Whitney Green, the Coordinator for the Council's Black Belt Arts Initiative. Whitney talks about her job as the Black Belt Arts Coordinator and the exciting projects and activities of the black belt region.

Gee's Bend quilter, Lucy Mingo	10-10-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviews Gee's Bend quilter Lucy Mingo about her life and experiences quilting for her family and friends. Also interviewed in the program is her daughter Polly Raymond. Mingo's quilts are included in the nationally toured art exhibit, The Quilts of Gee's Bend, and publications derived from the exhibition. She is a master artist with the Alabama State Council on the Arts' folk arts apprenticeship program.

David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame	10-03-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews David Johnson, director of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, about the contributions of Alabamians to American Music

Helen Keller Festival of the Arts	09-26-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke and Steve Grauberger visited the Helen Keller Festival of the Arts in June, early on a Saturday morning as the artists were setting up their booths for displaying and selling their artwork. The conversations with artists and festival organizers give listeners an idea of what to expect at the many outdoor art shows in Alabama. Artists talk about the importance of such shows and the ways they make their work available to the public.

Donna Walker-Kuhne	09-19-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards interviews Donna Walker-Kuhne. Walker-Kuhne, recognized as the nation's foremost expert on Audience Diversification by the Arts and Business Council, was a presenter at the 2007 Bill Bates Leadership Institute. In the interview Walker-Kuhne discusses practical strategies and methods to engage diverse communities in the arts and the importance of marketing to diverse audiences.

Archive of Alabama Folk Culture	09-12-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Joyce Cauthen of the Alabama Folklife Association, Debbie Pendleton of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and archivist Trey Bunn about the new Archive of Alabama Folk Culture.

Radiovisions Radio Rebroadcast : J. R. "Pap" Baxter	09-05-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream Original Unedited Radiovisions Program MP3	Re-edited broadcast of the 1991 Radiovisions program produced by Russell Gulley and the Big Wills Arts Council. The program features the songs of J. R. "Pap" Baxter and an extended interview by Al Malone, Baxter's nephew, about the life and time of this well-known Southern Gospel singer/songwriter and publisher.

Interview with poet Marlin Barton and teacher Sandra Whatley-Washington about DYS "Writing Our Stories Project"	08-22-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast from 2004 of Alabama Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviewing teaching writer Marlin Barton and Department of Youth Services teacher Sandra Whatley-Washington about the innovative Writing Our Stories: Anti-Violence Creative Writing Program, now in its ninth year.

Yvette Daniel	08-15-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Anne Kimzey, Folklorist with the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews Yvette Daniel Performing Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Ms. Daniel discusses how the agency's performing arts program supports high quality performances of music dance and theater in Alabama and assists performing arts organizations and artists throughout the state.

George Jones	08-08-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews George Jones, newly selected recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in Craft. Jones is a fourth-generation broommaker whose family begain making functional brooms in 1932 to help with the economic challenges of the depression. Using time-honored traditional tools and materials, he has begun to create one-of-a-kind pieces which are very sculptural in form. Jones markets his work at art festivals throughout the region.

Cooper-Hewitt and the City of Neighborhoods	08-01-2006	High MP3 Low 56K	Gina Clifford interviews Hettie Jordan Vilanova, Fran Nagy and Caroline Payson about the exciting three day workshop, City of Neighborhoods that took place in Birmingham, June 15-17, 2006. This workshop was an unique opportunity for the residents of Avondale, to explore their neighborhood to better plan for its future. It was sponsored by DesignAlabama in partnership with the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt National Design Musuem, Alabama Alliance for Arts Education, MainStreet Birmingham, American Architectural Foundation and the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham.

ASCA Apprenticeship Program	07-25-2006	High MP3 Low 56K	Rebroadcast of Folklife Specialist Anne Kimzey interviewing Joey Brackner about the Folklife Master Apprenticeship program that he administers. Music examples of traditional master artists are included.

Poet Peter Huggins, 2006 Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellow top	07-18-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviewing poet Peter Huggins. Huggins is one of two 2006 Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellows. A native of Louisiana, he teaches in the English Department at Auburn University and his books of poems are Necessary Acts (River City Publishing, 2004), Blue Angels (River City Publishing, 2001) and Hard Facts (Livingston Press, 1998). Huggins' poems have appeared in more than 100 journals and magazines. He is also the author of a forthcoming novel for middle readers, In the Company of Owls. Huggins' first picture book, called Trosclair and the Alligator, is just out from Star Bright Books in New York.

Ceramic Artists, Larry Percy and Scott Bennett	07-11-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews two Alabama ceramic artists who taught at the 21st Alabama Clay Conference. Larry Percy is on the Art faculty at Troy University. His work has been inspired by the time he has spent in the Southwest, particularly New Mexico. He talks about that influence of the land in his sculptural, vessel forms. He also discusses his ways of teaching at a college level. Scott Bennett owns Red Dot Gallery in Birmingham, where he produces his work and also teaches classes. As a relatively new Alabama resident, Scott talks about the strong clay community of artists in the state and also describes approaches to his own work.

Kimberly Ramsey and *Shakespeare Can Be Fun*	07-04-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Diana Green interviews Kimberly Ramsey, an English teacher from Holy Cross Episcopal School in Montgomery, about a new arts education program entitled *Shakespeare Can Be Fun, a program which began at a teacher workshop in the summer of 2005. Shakespeare Can Be Fun* is a program that involves all 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at Holy Cross Episcopal School in the study and performance of Shakespeare.

David Ivey and Jeff Sheppard and Camp Fasola top	06-27-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing David Ivey and Jeff Sheppard about the annual Camp Fasola held each year at Camp Lee near Anniston Alabama.

Bessie Hunter-Shelton top	06-20-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager interviews Ms. Bessie Hunter-Shelton, Music Instructor/Choir Director at Lawson State Community College in Birmingham. Ms. Shelton shares insights regarding how higher education impacts the students of today, especially those preparing for a career in the field of music. She stresses the importance of ones development as a solo artist, and about valuing ones natural gifts.

Dennis George, Fyffe Alabama top	06-13-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Steve Grauberger interviews Dennis George and Bill Henson about an old-time music and bluegrass program that teaches fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo to beginning students after school in Fyffe, Alabama, funded, in part, by an ASCA Master-Apprentice grant. Included in the program is information on the annual Fyffe Fiddling Contest as well as examples of music performed by Dennis George.

Peggy Denniston and Shelia Hagler top	06-06-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Diana Green interviews writer Peggy Denniston and photographer, Shelia Hagler, founders of Merging our Cultures, a program that provides creative writing and hands-on experience with photography for students in South Mobile County. Each student uses a camera and a darkroom to create their own photographs. These photographs then become the inspiration for the student’s creative writing. Student work is exhibited in contests, museums and schools. A selection of student work recently traveled to Chicago as part of a project called Eyes of the Storm – a Katrina Hurricane Relief Effort. Alabama artists, Peggy Denniston and Sheila Hagler will be interviewed along with two of their middle school students.

Poets, Greg Pape and Frank X. Walker top	05-30-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Alabama Writers' Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson interviews two poets who participated in the inaugural Alabama Book Festival, April 22, in Montgomery. Montana poet Greg Pape, author of American Flamingo, winner of the 2004 Crab Orchard Review Open Competition Award and other works, talks about teaching at the University of Alabama as well as his recent visit to Julia Tutwiler Prison with the Auburn Prison Arts and Education Project. Kentucky poet Frank X. Walker, who recently received a prestigious Lannan Fellowship and is a founding member of the Affrilachian poets and a Cave Canem Fellow, reads new works from Black Box, his latest collection from Old Cove Press.

Steve Miller MFA Program Coordinator, Associate professor, letterpress printing & hand papermaking. top	05-23-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Steve Miller MFA Program Coordinator, Associate professor, letterpress printing & hand papermaking, interviews Glenn House Sr., a founder of the BookArts Program at University of Alabama School of Library Information Studies. The program is edited from a StoryCorps project interview made at the Kentuck Arts Center, Northport, AL in 2005. That recording is available in its entirety here (click this link if you want to hear it). Glenn House Sr. has spent a lifetime making art. From his studio in Gordo, Alabama, he spins clay objects, handmade paper, and printing projects. Miller questions House about these subjects as well as his work with the MFA program in Book Arts at the University of Alabama.

Dr. Scott Meyer, Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo top	05-16-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Dr. Scott Meyer, Professor of Art at the University of Montevallo about the unique clay furnace called an anagama kiln. Dr. Meyer describes how this 40 foot long brick structure takes a week using wood to fire about 1000 pieces of clay pottery and sculpture. Its design is based on a traditional Japanese method of firing pottery. Dr. Meyer built this kiln and fires it several times a year, bringing potters from throughout the Southeast as well as providing a unique learning opportunity for students at Montevallo. The kiln was a focal point of the recent 21st annual Alabama Clay Conference held near Montevallo.

Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis top	05-09-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Arts in Education Program Manager Diana Green interviews Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman-Davis. Thaddeus is a dancer and choreographer from Montgomery, Alabama who has successfully launched his career in New York City and founded his own dance company, Wideman/Davis Dance. Thaddeus has returned to Alabama with his lovely wife, Tanya. They perform an original work commissioned by Auburn University Women's Studies, based on the lives of the women in Gee's Bend called The Bends of Life. He has just completed a tour of five Black Belt counties, where both he and his wife taught master classes in dance to children in the schools.

Birmingham Children's Theater top	05-02-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Donna Russell Director of the Alabama Alliance for Arts in Education interviews company members from the Birmingham Children’s Theatre (BCT) about its upcoming 60th anniversary celebration, and the various programs offered by the company. Donna speaks with Pat Anderson-Flowers, the artistic director; Shannon Chambliss, the marketing director and Alexa McElroy, director of education outreach regarding the quality of the programs offered for families and students.

Conecuh People top	04-25-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Randy Shoults, Community Arts and Literature Program Manager travels to Union Springs to interview participants in the annually held community play, *Conecuh People, a poignant story of one boy's coming of age in rural Alabama in the 1950. The play, adapted by Ty Adams is based on the book, Conecuh People: Words Of Life From The Alabama Black Belt*, by Bullock County native, Wade Hall. The play is staged at the Red Door Theatre in downtown Union Springs April 27,28,29 and May 4,5,7. For further information call 334/737-8687.

1st Annual Alabama Book Festival 04-22-2006 This inaugural event takes place April 22 in Montgomery’s Old Alabama Town from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event features more than 50 writers and performers from across Alabama and elsewhere top	04-18-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Alabama Writers Forum Director Jeanie Thompson interviews Conner Henton of the Alabama Center for the Book about the upcoming Alabama Book Festival. Also in this program, Thompson interviews one of the featured writers to be at the Festival, Wayne Greenhaw (Montgomery), 2006 Harper Lee Award recipient and author of The Thunder of Angels, and more than 16 other works.

Bullfrog Jumped top	4-11-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	ACTC Director Joey Brackner inteviews Alabama Folklife Association Director Joyce Cauthen about the new CD release called Bullfrog Jumped, culled from original recordings made in Alabama by Byron Arnold in the late 1940s.

Rick Lowe, Founding Director of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas top	04-04-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Rick Lowe, an Alabama native, is founding director of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas, an arts and cultural center located in 22 historic "shotgun" houses and based on his innovative concept of the transformative power of art in community revitalization. Project Row Houses has received national recognition and provides both art gallery space and a variety of social programs including the Young Mothers Residential Program. Lowe will discuss Row Houses as well as his ideas for a community program along the Civil Rights Trail in Alabama and the leadership of artists in re-development of New Orleans.

Poet Peter Huggins, 2006 Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellow top	03-28-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Jeanie Thompson, executive director of the Alabama Writers' Forum, interviews poet Peter Huggins. Huggins is one of two 2006 Alabama State Council on the Arts Artist Literature Fellows. A native of Louisiana, he teaches in the English Department at Auburn University and his books of poems are Necessary Acts (River City Publishing, 2004), Blue Angels (River City Publishing, 2001) and Hard Facts (Livingston Press, 1998). Huggins' poems have appeared in more than 100 journals and magazines. He is also the author of a forthcoming novel for middle readers, In the Company of Owls. Huggins' first picture book, called Trosclair and the Alligator, is just out from Star Bright Books in New York.

Country Musician and Songwriter Cast King and apprentice Matt Downer top	03-21-2006	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing musicians Cast King and Matt Downer from Sand Mountain. Guitarist and songwriter Cast King and his former band The Country Drifters recorded with Sun Records of Memphis in the 1950s. Matt Downer, a young musician, has been working with Mr. King for a few years to learn his guitar style and to record his music and life history. During the program Mr. King performs three of the approximately 500 songs he has written in his lifetime.

Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Performer, Poet and Coordinator for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute top	03-14-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Randy Shoults, Community Arts, Literature and Design Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Priscilla Hancock Cooper about her literary works. Cooper is the coordinator for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and she is also a teaching writer with the Writing Our Stories Project (Chalkville Campus), an anti-violence creative writing program for incarcerated youth. Writing Our Stories takes place through a cooperative arrangement between the Alabama Writers' Forum and the Alabama Department of Youth Services (DYS). Cooper is a recent Fellowship recipient, and will read samples from previous literary works, new works and works in progress

Anita Miller Garner, 2006 recipient of an Alabama State Arts Council fellowship in fiction. top	03-07-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Jeanie Thompson, Director of the Alabama Writers’ Forum, talks with Anita Miller Garner, 2006 Artist Fellowship recipient in literature. A native of Rockford Alabama. She is an Associate Professor of English at University of North Alabama in Florence. She also is chair of the Forum’s High School Literary Arts Awards Competition that recognizes young Alabama writers and their schools. Garner’s collection of short stories, Delectable Waters, was selected runner up for the Virginia Prize and is currently under consideration for publication. During her fellowship year she is working on a novel set in the 1970’s and the present in Alabama.

George Lindsey, Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2005 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient top	02-28-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Rebroadcast of Joey Brackner interviewing television legend and Jasper native George Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr. Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2005 Distinguished Artist Award.

African American Gospel music scholar, Dr. Horace Boyer. Boyer top	02-21-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	A rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing African American Gospel music scholar Dr. Horace Boyer. Boyer visited Alabama in 2004 to lead a music workshop in Lowndes County in conjunction with an event honoring Civil Rights martyr Jonathan Daniels. In the radio interview Dr. Boyer discusses Alabama's rich musical heritage, his own musical roots, and how he came to edit the African-American hymnal Lift Every Voice and Sing.

Marcus Johnson, Director of the Bay City Brass Band of Mobile top	02-14-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing Marcus Johnson of the Bay City Brass Band of Mobile. They discuss brass band history and music in the Mobile Mardi Gras tradition.

Eric Essix top	02-07-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Rebroadcast of Barbara Edwards interviewing Jazz musician Eric Essix about his work with the rural schools touring program and his work as a musician

Alabama State Capitol Rotunda Four-Book Shape-Note Singing 2006 top	01-31-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	This program promotes the 9th annual Capitol Rotunda, Four-Book, Shape Note Singing to be held in the Alabama State Capitol Rotunda on Feb 4th starting at 9:30 AM. Included in the program are descriptions of the four different Alabama shape-note books used in the singing and recorded musical examples from past Rotunda singings.

James and Rachel Bryan top	01-24-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey interviewing James Bryan and Rachel Bryan, a father-daughter, old-time music duo from Mentone. James Bryan is one of Alabama's best-known fiddlers. He grew up in Northeast Alabama, the son of an old-time musician. James continues this musical legacy with his 17 year-old daughter Rachel. On this program, listeners will hear the Bryan family talk about their music, as well as perform a number of tunes, with James on fiddle, accompanied by Rachel on guitar.

American Gospel Quartet Convention top	01-17-2006	High MP3 Lower Stream WMA	Steve Grauberger interviews George Stewart producer of the American Gospel Quartet Convention about the 14th annual convention beginning 12-17 and ending 12-21-2006. Also included are interviews with Roscoe Robinson and Ricky McKinney from last year's convention. Gospel quartet musical examples are included.

Rosemary Johnson and Caron Thornton top	01-10-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Rosemary Johnson of the Alabama Dance Council and Caron Thornton of the Alys Stephens Center about the upcoming Alabama Dance Summit. The Alabama Dance Summit is Alabama's premiere dance event. Presented by the Alabama Dance Council each January, the Summit is a time of study, exploration, exchange and personal renewal for the state's broad fellowship of dance students, teachers, performers and audiences.

Artists Craig Wedderspoon and Melissa Tubbs	01-03-2006	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts interviews two Alabama artists whose work has recently been exhibited in the Alabama Artists Gallery. Craig Wedderspoon is a sculptor and a member of the art faculty at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Melissa Tubbs is a Montgomery artist who specializes in pen and ink drawings of architectural structure and detail. Both artists talk about their techniques, choice of materials and approaches to making and teaching art.

Community Scholars Institute	12-27-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rebroadcast of Anne Kimzey, interviewing participants of the Alabama Community Scholars Institute. Kimzey speaks with Joyce Cauthen director of the Alabama Folklife Association that sponsors the Community Scholars Institute. Anne also interviews three of the community scholars: Lori Sawyer of Atmore, Ana Schuber of Tuscaloosa, and Diane Gerard of Mobile.

Prison Arts & Education Project of the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University.	12-20-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews faculty of the Prison Arts & Education Project of the Center for the Arts and Humanities at Auburn University. Director Kyes Stevens and Auburn art professor Barb Bondy discuss poetry, drawing and photography created in Tutwiler Prison for Women, Frank Lee Youth Center, Elmore Correctional Facility, two work release units, and the L.I.F.E Tech facility of Pardons and Paroles. Work from the program has been on exhibit at the Alabama Artists Gallery in Montgomery and at Gulf ArtSpace in Fairhope.

Sounds of the Season at the Alabama State Capitol Dec. 12th to the 16th, 2005 No admission to attend	12-13-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is the second of two programs to promote the ongoing Sounds of the Season performance series continuing from Dec. 14th to the 16th, 2005 in the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery at the Old Archives Chamber located on the 2nd floor of the South Wing. In this program the music of Bobby Horton (performing Dec. 14), soprano Bessie Hunter-Shelton (Dec 15th), and The Tribe of Judah chorus (Dec 16th) is featured.

Sounds of the Season at the Alabama State Capitol Dec. 12th to the 16th, 2005 No admission to attend	12-06-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	This is the first of two programs to promote the upcoming Sounds of the Season performance series to take place Dec. 12th to the 16th, 2005 in the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery at the Old Archives Chamber located on the 2nd floor of the South Wing. This radio show features music of the Mariachi Garibaldi (performing Dec. 12), storytelling of Kathryn Tucker Windham (performing Dec. 13) and the music of Bobby Horton (performing Dec. 14)

Rosa Parks Museum Director Georgette Norman	11-29-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Georgette Norman about the upcoming celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Holguer Pimiento	11-22-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Anne Kimzey, folklorist for the Alabama State Council on the Arts interviews Colombian singer and guitarist Holguer Pimiento, who now lives in Birmingham. On the program he discusses his musical background and performs a variety of Latin-American musical styles, including the tango, cumbia, and bolero.

Gay Powell Hanna, Society of Arts in Healthcare	11-15-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, interviews Gay Powell Hanna. Dr. Hanna is executive director of the Society of Arts in Healthcare, Washington, DC. The Society of Arts in Healthcare is an interdisciplinary membership organization dedicated to the integration of the arts into healthcare. The arts are becoming an established part of our nation's healthcare system. Dr. Hanna will share with the listening audience examples of healthcare arts integration programs and discuss the importance of these partnerships.

Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention, 2 of 2	11-08-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In the second of two programs Steve Grauberger interviews participants of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and publishing, piano playing, and singing schools. Music examples are also included. This and the previous program help promote the 75th Annual Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention held at Shocco Springs near Talladega on Nov 11 to the 13th 2005.

Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention, 1 of 2	11-01-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Steve Grauberger interviews participants of the 2004 Alabama State Gospel Singing Convention about convention history, song writing and publishing, and singing schools. Music examples are also included.

Author Charlie Rose	10-25-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Randy Shoults interviews Auburn University professor and author Charlie Rose about his writing career and new novel. Rose reads excerpts of his work.

Dr. Jim Brown and National Heritage Award Recipient John Henry Mealing	10-18-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream Original 37min WVSU program MP3 Folkways radio program by Anne Kimzey on Gandy Dancers (real media)	Folklore researcher and history professor Jim Brown of Samford University narrates an interview with "Gandy Dance Caller" John Henry Mealing who is a National Heritage Recipient. The ASCA show is edited from the original Samford University WVSU Radio Production done the 1980s. For more on Gandy Dancers. Gandy Dancers film on folkstreams.net Click here for Gandy Presentation by Maggie Holtzberg.

Sherrie VanPelt	10-11-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Dr. Sherrie VanPelt, Executive Director of VSA Arts Alabama. During the interview Dr. VanPelt discusses the various programs/services offered by VSA Arts Alabama.

George Lindsey	10-04-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews television legend and Jasper native George Lindsey about his roots, his career and his current activities. Mr. Lindsey is the recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts’ 2005 Distinguished Artist Award.

Debbie Bond and Alabama Blues Project BluesCamp	09-27-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Barbara Edwards, Deputy Director, conducts an interview with Debbie Bond, Executive Director of the Alabama Blues Project. The Alabama Blues Project is a non-profit organization, located in Tuscaloosa, which focus on the promotion, documentation and presentation of the Blues.

Fellowship Award Winner Sara Sanford	09-20-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Yvette Daniel, Performing Arts Program Manager for the Alabama State Council on the Arts, interviews Sara Elyse Sanford a 2006 Performing Arts Fellowship recipient. Sara is a company member of the Alabama Dance Theatre (ADT) where she began as a student dancer seven years ago. In 2001, she attended the Alabama Governor’s School of Arts and Technology and won Dance Magazine’s full scholarship to the National Craft of Chorography. Sara soon advanced to the ranks of choreographer at ADT where her work as an emerging choreographer earned her repeated recognition at the Southeastern Regional Ballet Association (SERBA).

Gee's Bend Quilters	09-13-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Matt Arnett of Tinwood Media and quilter, Arlonzia Pettway during the opening of the Quilts of Gee's Bend Exhibition in Mobile 2003. This is a rebroadcast to promote the same exhibition running from September to December 2005 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn.

Linda Munoz and Mary Jane Everett	08-30-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews two crafts artists who have studio space in York Alabama, glass artist Linda Munoz and basket artist Mary Jane Everett who is recipient of an individual artists award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Artists Rachel and Tony Wright	08-23-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager interviews Rachel and Tony Wright, two artists living in Mobile. Rachel exhibits her work widely, using a variety of materials to express her contemporary art forms. She is also involved as a frequent curator for exhibitions at Space 301. Tony is a ceramic artist on the art faculty of the University of South Alabama and is a leader in the state craft community.

Black Belt Roots Festival	08-16-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner, visits the 2004 Black Belt Roots Festival in Eutaw, Alabama. He talks with festival organizers, craft artists and a Fayette County step group that performed at the recent event. Repeat from 2004 to promote 2005 festival to be held Aug 27-28. Photos from 2003 festival

Poet Andrew Hudgins	08-09-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Alabama Writers' Forum executive director Jeanie Thompson interviews 2005 Harper Lee Award-winning poet Andrew Hudgins, who spent his teenage and early adult years in Montgomery and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The author of six collections of poetry and recipient of numerous other awards, Hudgins reads from several poems in his new collection Ecstatic in the Poison Thompson asks Hudgins to talk about being a Southern writer and his work as an essayist.

Black Belt Design founder Marilyn Gordon and designer Lillie Mack	07-26-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews Marilyn Gordon and Lillie Mack, artists with Black Belt Designs in York, Alabama. This program, affiliated with the Coleman Center is designed to teach residents of the area to design and create clothing. The pieces are stitched from re-cycled blue jeans and African mudcloth. Among other locations, the textiles have been shown in New York and in a special exhibition at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Hank Willett	07-19-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Steve Grauberger interviews Hank Willett, former director for the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture about the new CD release Wiregrass Notes Revised: African American Sacred Harp Singing from Southeast Alabama This is a reissue of the historic 1980 LP with added material from the original reel-to-reel recording. Sacred Harp singing from the CD is featured on the program.

Bob Sanders	07-12-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	In a continuation of the previous program Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD. Bob reads stories from his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing Up in West Alabama, a compilation of articles taken from his weekly newspaper column Esoterica for Everyone.

Bob Sanders	07-05-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Steve Grauberger interviews storyteller, writer, and 50-year veteran radio personality Bob Sanders of Auburn’s WAUD. Bob reads stories from his publication Friends, Family and Frontier Country: Growing Up in West Alabama, a compilation of articles taken from his weekly newspaper column Esoterica for Everyone.

Charles Norman Mason, Rome Prize recipient.	06-28-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rosemary Johnson Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council interviews Charles Mason, professor of composition at Birmingham Southern University, about his receiving the prestigious Rome Prize for musical composition that carries an eleven month residency in Rome Italy.

Visual Artists Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. and Carl Pope	06-21-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke interviews two artists working with the Coleman Center in York, Alabama. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is a printmaker who has created posters and other materials for many events and organizations in the state. His work has also been collected by such museums as the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Carl Pope is a nationally recognized artist who was selected for exhibition in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, an important showcase of contemporary art, in New York.

Community Scholars Institute	06-14-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Anne Kimzey, interviews participants of the Alabama Community Scholars Institute. Kimzey speaks with Joyce Cauthen director of the Alabama Folklife Association that sponsors of the Community Scholars Institute. She also interviews three of the community scholars: Lori Sawyer of Atmore, Ana Schuber of Tuscaloosa, and Diane Gerard of Mobile.

Ralph Frohsin and the Alexander City Jazz Festival	06-07-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Performing Arts Program Manager Yvette Daniel interviews Arts Council Board Member Ralph Frohsin about his work with the Alexander City Jazz Festival. Included is information about the 2005 festival held June 10-11.

Fred Fussell Folklorist	05-31-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner, Director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, interviews folklorist Fred Fussell about his many years documenting the rich folklife of the Chattahoochee Valley.

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts Director Michael Panhorst	05-24-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Georgine Clarke, Visual Arts Program Manager, interviews Michael Panhorst, Director of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. The discussion covers the Museum's Permanent Collection, which includes The Advancing American Art Collection of paintings purchased in 1948 by Auburn University when they were auctioned by the State Department as war surplus. The 40,000 square-foot modern building incorporates eight exhibition galleries, a gift shop, a restaurant, and an auditorium.

Shane Porter of the New South Jazz Orchestra	05-17-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Joey Brackner interviews Shane Porter, Alabama State University music professor and member of the New South Jazz Orchestra (NSJO). Porter discusses the repertory and educational goals of the newly developed instrumental group and of the NSJO members that consist primarily of jazz educators from Universities in the State of Alabama. Music from the NSJO's new CD is featured.

Honda Dream Lab Project	05-10-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Rosemary Johnson Executive Director of the Alabama Dance Council interviews Catherine Gilmore, President of the Metropolitan Arts Center, and Terry Wexler of Southern Dance Works about their collaboration in Honda America's Dream Lab Project that encourages creativity in children through rhythm and dance. Wexler also talks about her work with sit-down dancers.

Your Town Alabama	05-03-2005	High MP3 Lower 56K WMA Stream	Gina Clifford, director of Design Alabama, interviews Cheryl Morgan, Professor at Auburn University and Director of the Center for Architecture and Urban Studies, about Your Town Alabama Workshop. Your Town Workshop is an intensive two-and-half day event that includes: lectures, case-study presentations, and interactive group problem solving scenarios involving community planning and design work in a hypothetical small town.

Margie and Enoch Sullivan, 2005 Alabama Folk Heritage Award recipients.	04-26-2005	High MP3 Low 56K	Folklife Specialist, Steve Grauberger interviews Margie and Enoch Sullivan of the Sullivan Family Band at their home in St. Stephens about their lives and ministry of gospel bluegrass music. Includes musical examples.

Alabama Historian Wayne Flynt	04-19-2005	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	ASCA folklorist Joey Brackner interviews preeminent Alabama historian Dr. Wayne Flynt about his new book Alabama in the Twentieth Century. In the interview, he outlines the significant cultural contributions of Alabamians during the late century. Wayne Flynt is the Distinguished University Professor of History at Auburn University.

Bobby Horton	04-12-2005	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	This week ASCA folklorist Joey Brackner interviews Alabama's curator of historic song - Bobby Horton. Best known for his CDs of Civil War era music and membership in the popular band Three On a String, Mr. Horton also discusses his family's musical heritage and his work composing songs for numerous Ken Burns' documentary films. Bobby Horton is a recipient of a 2005 Governor's Arts Award.

Martha Lockett, Deborah Ferguson, and Russell Gulley	04-05-2005	High MP3 Stream Lower 56K WMA Stream	Diana Green interviews Martha Lockett, Executive Director for the Alabama Institute for Education in the Art, about the teaching artist training program. Diana also interviews two of the artists in this year's program, stor