Category: Interviews

Interviews with newsmakers and everyday folks in Central Virginia. Some are conducted by Coy Barefoot on his WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now or Sean Tubbs of Charlottesville Community Media.

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Home Grown: Music: Alice Claire and Richelle Claiborne

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie take a double dip into local music. First, Alice Claire is back on the show talking about her new album (and her first solo album), Loop. We talk to Alice about the life of a multi-project musician and what it took to bring this album to the light of day. Catch Alice at her album release concert at the Southern Cafe and Music Hall. Next, David and Leslie fall into full love fest with Richelle Claiborne. Her next project is a concert called Black Music Excellence through the Ages at the Front Porch Roots Music School. We’re here to help you plan your artistic week on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Translating Life Into Lessons & Inspiring Dreamers Without Borders

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Leona Sevick PhD, award-winning poet, Provost and Prof. of English, Bridgewater College, advisory board, Furious Flower Poetry Center, on her new book Lion Brothers, a collection of poignant, private yet profound poems; and Alex Zorychta, Asst. Dir. for Technology Entrepreneurship, Program Dir., Works in Progress, UVA, on inspiring innovative entrepreneurial students to create start-ups, non-profits and new technologies.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Observing Social Climate Change & Native American Is American

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Karen E. Bender, Visiting Distinguished Prof. of Creative Writing, Hollins Univ., fiction editor, Scoundrel Time, award-winning author, on her politically timely book of short stories, The New Order; and Susan Devan Harness, oral historian, speaker, noted author, on her new memoir Bitterroot, the emotional and complicated journey to unearth her American Indian past.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Second Chances: Susan Patrick and Katie Baldwin

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie are back on the mic with two new artists. First Susan Patrick comes on the show for the first time. She’s primarliy a painter, but she comes to us to talk about her 20 year side project — graphite and ink drawings of discarded objects that she’s found and arranged. Her show, Debris is up at New Dominion Bookshop now, running through the month. David and Leslie ask Susan about her process in this work, her artistic philosophy, and the importance of appreciating the little things that get discarded and ignored. Next, author Katie Baldwin returns to the show. Her second romance has supernatural adventure and is called Ghost of a Chance. We talk to Katie about what writing book number two was like and what research she both did and did not need to do to depict serial killers, 90s Satanism, and a heavy metal band. Once artists let themselves out of their studios, we get them in our studio to talk to you here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Social Media, Social Justice & Framing A Photographer’s Life

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Meredith D. Clark PhD, journalist, author, Asst. Professor, UVA Department of Media Studies, on the wide-ranging impact of black twitter and the digital archiving of social justice; and Preston Lauterbach, music journalist, award-winning historical author, VA Humanities Fellow, on his new book Bluff City, which chronicles the secret life of photographer Ernest Withers.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Playing: Guitar Charlottesville and Theater of the Oppressed

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie welcome two guests who speak softly yet carry some big art. First Rafael Scarfullery comes on the show and is very patient as we commit ourselves to correctly pronouncing his name. Scarfullery is a professional classical guitarist, and he has started Guitar Charlottesville to promote classical and classical influenced guitar in Charlottesville. We talk about GuitarCharlottesville and get a chance to question our stereotypes with classical music. Next, Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Brad Stoller returns to the show, as it’s time for his annual Theater of the Oppressed Workshop. Brad describes what the “Theater of the Oppressed” is and how he and his partners (Matthew Slaats and Mecca Burns) work it into a workshop. We also talk to Brad about art’s role in addressing the need for safety. It’s the art that quietly moves this week on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Wonderful Things: Hello, Dolly! at 4CP and a New Album from The Currys

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David and Leslie do a music double dip. First Edward Warwick-White from Four County Players returns to the show. This time he’s here as the director of Four County’s next musical, Hello, Dolly!. We talk to Edward about the need to bring a big show to the stage with small resources and how to communicate story components in the show that are easily missed. Next, Galen Curry from The Currys comes on the show for the first time. The Curry’s latest CD is This Side of Glass, out now. We talk to Galen about where and how the this album was made and about what makes it different from their previous two albums. The weather outside is frightful, but the artists are so delightful on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Fresh-Baked Southern Comfort & Tackling Global Destruction 101

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Brian Noyes, proprietor, baker-in-chief of Red Truck Bakery, about his nationally-recognized, rural VA sweet spot and its new cookbook; and Adam Nemett, award-winning writer, co-founder MIMA Music, creative dir. History Factory, filmmaker, on his debut novel We Can Save Us All — modern day superheroes battling the collapse of civilization.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Preconceptions: Accessible Music Project and McGuffey coverage ends with Michael Willams

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Clinton is on his own, holding down the fort with two fascinating sets of guests. First the Accessible Music Project’s co-founder, director, and board president Greg Morgoglione visits the show for the first time. The AMP works to bring music to the “access-limited” population — people in hospitals, assisted living communities, and nursing homes. Clinton talks with Greg about the preconceptions of playing to those communities versus the reality, about how both artist and audience benefit, and about how his organization challenges our very assumptions of where art is done and who gets to have access to it. Next, our month-long focus on the McGuffey Art Center’s Black History Month exhibit comes to an end. Our final in-studio artist is Michael E. Williams. Williams works in oil paint, painting vibrant scenes of Black Charlottesville, many of which are disappearing. We talk to Mike about his approach to his subject matter and about his use of color. Finally, we round out the month with organizer Bob Anderson shouting out two absent artists in the show — deceased McGuffey member Liz Cherry Jones, who has a retrospective in the exhibit and Charlottesvillian-turned-Californian Rose Hill, who boldy takes racist images (a la and including Little Black Sambo) and makes them a part of her art. She also started the Inmate Art Program at the Albemarle Regional Jail, which current runner Daniel O’Niell talks about. Today we end up looking at a lot of preconceptions people attach to art on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.