Community Connections: Highlighting a diversity of voices in  the Merrimack Valley - 91.5FM WUML Lowell

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Community Connections is dedicated to highlighting and sharing the work of the diverse community radio producers broadcasting at 91.5FM WUML Lowell.

Sat
23
Sep '06

Thinking Out Loud

Category: Talk, Public Affairs, Opinion,
Time: Monday-Thursday, 10am-noon
Hosts: Dan Toomey (DJ/Producer), Jim Giddings (DJ), and others
Email: thinkingoutloud(at)wuml.org
Website: Thinking Out Loud

Description/Favorites: Thinking Out Loud is a public affairs program covering the workplace, the community, and the environment from a pro-labor, leftist point of view, and with a prospective that ranges from local to global. It is broadcast in English from 10 to 11 a.m., with a different language each day from 11 a.m. to Noon (Khmer, Spanish, or Brazilian Portuguese). Thinking Out Loud offers underreported news, information and opinion. We are affiliated with the National Radio Project, the Independent Media Centers, the Workers Independent News Service, and TUC radio. We welcome listener input by phone, email and mail.
Send comments to thinkingoutloud(at)mindspring.com.

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Swing Time

Category: Swing
Time: Thursday Noon-2pm
Host: Bill Themelis
Email: swingtime(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Swing Time features the sounds of the big bands (some with vocalists) from the “swinging generation,” including Artie Shaw, Glen Miller, Stan Kenton, Buddy Morrow, Les Elgart, Billy May, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton, Sammy Kaye. Swing Time plays the best music ever recorded by the best Swing Bands, Jazz Bands, Dance Bands and Sweet Bands. A little color and information is offered with each number. “Come Dance With Me!â€?

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Mediterranean Melodies

Category: Ethnic - Greek
Time: Sunday 7pm-9pm
Host: Bill Themelis
Email: mediterraneanmelodies(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Greek and Belly Dance music from Greece and the Near East

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Your French Connection

yourfrenchconnection.gif Category: Ethnic - French
Time: Sunday 5pm-7pm
Hosts: Jeannine Richard, Christopher Williams
Email: yourfrenchconnection(at)wuml.org
Website: jrichard.com

Description/Favorites: It’s Sunday night and 5:00 o’clock. Open up a bottle of Côtes-du-Rhône,spread some St-André on toasted pieces of French bread, close your eyes and listen to the best variety of French music from around the world. You’ll be glad you did.

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Voice of Cambodian Children

Category: Ethnic - Cambodian
Time: Sunday 1pm-5pm
Host: Sunny Liang
Website: http://www.cambodianvoices.org/
Email: voiceofcambodianchildren(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Voice of Cambodian Children provides community news, health news, events, and the latest information from Cambodia as well as playing traditional and new Cambodian songs from the homeland as well as within the United States.

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Armenian Heritage

Category: Ethnic - Armenian
Time: Sunday 11am-1pm
Host: Michael Benlian

Description/Favorites: Armenian Music and Information

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Radio Amizade

Category: Ethnic - Portugese
Time: Sunday 9am-11am
Host: Dimas Espinola
E-mail: radioamizade(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Radio Amizade offers Portuguese music and Portuguese-language news, community information and sports.

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Cafe Latino

Miguel Lopez
Email: cafelatino(at)wuml.org
Website: Cafe Latino

Description/Favorites: Café Latino offers the rhythms and styles of Latin American Music mixed with Spanish-language news, community information, weather forecasts and live interviews. Music includes salsa, cumbia, meringue, bolero, rock and more. One segment is dedicated to romantic Latin music of the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

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Ritmo De La Noche

Category: Ethnic - Latin
Time: Saturday 6pm-9pm
Host: Richard Chavez
Email: ritmodelanoche(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Ritmo de la Noche offers everything from salsa to Gregorian chants. The program includes music, interviews and occasionally live bands.

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Blues Deluxe

Category: Blues
Time: Saturday 3pm-6pm
Host: John Guregian
Email: bluesdeluxe(at)wuml.org
Website: Blues Deluxe

Description/Favorites: Deluxe features some of the best contemporary, regional and local blues music. Every Saturday at 4:30 p.m. we feature “The New Blues CD of the Week� played uninterrupted in its entirety. Occasionally, live interviews and live local and regional acts are offered.

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Almost Acoustic

Category: American - Music by Folks
Time: Saturday Noon-3pm
Host: Tracey
Email: almostacoustic(at)hotmail.com

Description/Favorites: Almost Acoustic offers the best acoustic and not-so-acoustic music of today and yesterday, bluegrass, blues, non-rhinestone cowboy, mountain alternative, and psychedelic Americana. From Jerry Garcia to Jerry Douglas. Email requests to almostacoustic@hotmail.com.

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Gunjan

gunjan.jpg Category: Ethnic - Indian Music
Time: Saturday 9am-Noon
Hosts: Bipin Parekh, Ravi Singh, Sujit Potdar
Email: gunjan(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Gunjan offers music from India and South Asia, including pop, film songs, devotionals, Ghazals, and lots of requests. Gunjan has been on the air since 1983. We provide a lively – and unique — mix of songs every week.

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Radio Bom Dia

Category: Ethnic - Portugese
Time: Day 6am-9am
Hosts: George Oliveira and Duarte Correa
Email: radiobomdia(at)wuml.org

Description/Favorites: Radio Bom Dia offers Portuguese music, news and information.

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Coffee & Cartoons

Category: Folk/Comedy (See Description)
Time: Friday 2pm-4pm
Host: Kornflake
Email: coffeeandcartoons(at)wuml.org
Website: Coffee and Cartoons

Description/Favorites:  If you could drink the airwaves and get a caffeine buzz — Coffee and Cartoons would be your cup of tea…i mean, jo! It would be a cup of a beverage of your choice. And you could leisurely sip it, or slurp or gulp! I’m getting carried away again. Tune in. We’ve saved you a seat!

Wed
23
Aug '06

Hodgeheg

Turtle Ride from Billy Popgun

Category: folk (positive, choral, harmony, world, British Isles, funny, stories&poems etc.)
Time: Winter/Summer Break: Wednesday 12 Noon to 2:00 pm
(maybe other times during year)
Hosts: Jim Giddings
Email: hodgeheg@halfredhouse.biz
Website: (none)

Description/Favorites:
Hodgeheg is an eclectic Folk-based (but not folk-limited) program that appears at odd times of year when there are vacant slots that can be filled by volunteers.

Brief Description/Favorites/Notes: Coope Boyes & Simpson, Tracey Curtis, Martha Tilston, Leon Rosselson, Plethyn, Ar Log, Close Enough, Anna Tabbush, Yusuf Islam, Carl Sandburg, L. Frank Baum, Blue Murder, Nada Prem, Guardabarranco, Quilapayun, 78’s and cylinder recordings, Mills Brothers ,,, the list goes on and on