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

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 Thea