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The Back Room Radio Hour’s Annual All-Star Christmas show! Join Host Bill Ward as he welcomes an array Chautauqua County musical artists, and some very special Western New York luminaries. “Every year, the musical community responds in a generous and wonderful way to this event, and December’s show is certainly no exception,” Ward said. “Everybody is very excited about the new venue, and this tradition really sets the mood of the season for a lot of us.”

Appearing:

– Adam McKillip
– Amanda Barton
– Bill Ward
– Infinity Visual and Performing Arts Students
Danelle Donelson and Miranda Wilcox
– Karl Lydell
– Stan Barton
– Oldfish
– Juli Bessey
– Mark Mincarelli
– Sue Tillotson and Jim Cunningham
– John Cross
– Deep Fried and Dipped in Honey
– Aaron and Boaz Mecham

The Back Room Radio Hour is a monthly live music radio show performed in front of a studio audience in the Media Arts Studio at the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. It is presented on the second Thursday of each month and then broadcast on WRFA radio the following Monday. The shows are then archived on the WRFA website.

To attend a show, please text or call 716-753-2800 or send an email to backroomradiohour@gmail.com to confirm a reservation.

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Originally airing Friday, May 13, 2019

WRFA’s Jason Sample interviews local musician Cindy Haight, who’s also joined by fellow musicians and Cindy Haight & The Loves bandmates Amanda Barton and Sara Rafaloski.

Cindy Haight (center) with Amanda Barton (left) and Sara Rafaloski.

PAST ARTS ON FIRE ARTIST FEATURES

• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Matthew Baxter and Jay Peterson from Feverhawk – April 26, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Steve Johnson and Adam McKillip of The Probables – April 5, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Warren Sischo – March 22, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Macklehat Merffy – March 15, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Deep Fried and Dipped in Honey – March 8, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Qwister in the Studio – March 1, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Cold Lazarus in the Studio – Feb. 22, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Musician Mike Brunacini – Feb. 15, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Amanda Barton w/Benny Ernewein – Feb. 8, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Kings Express in the Studio – Feb. 1, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Musician Will Russell – Jan 25, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Chris Lee of Desecrator – Jan. 18, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Sean Lander from The Hallow Society – Jan 11, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Juli Bessey from Flossie & the Gunslingers – Jan. 4, 2019

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Originally airing Friday, Feb. 8, 2019

WRFA’s Jason Sample talks with local musician Amanda Barton. Plus Amanda plays a couple of songs with the help of friend and fellow musician Benny Ernewein.

Amanda Barton and Benny Ernewein

PAST ARTS ON FIRE LOCAL ARTIST FEATURES

• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Kings Express in the Studio – Feb. 1, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Musician Will Russell – Jan 25, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Chris Lee of Desecrator – Jan. 18, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Sean Lander from The Hallow Society – Jan 11, 2019
• [LISTEN] Arts on Fire – Juli Bessey from Flossie & the Gunslingers – Jan. 4, 2019

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Episode 36 of the Back Room Radio Hour, hosted by Bill Ward featuring local musicians Adam McKillip, Amanda Barton, Barbara Jean and Steve Strickland, Bob Henry, Eric Kane, Kayle Dean and Reiley Kolstee (Students from Infinity Visual and Performings Arts), Karl Lydell, Mark Alpaugh, Mike Bratt, Tom Swanson, and Teal Weatherly.

Recorded Dec. 13, 2018 at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, NY.

Photo by Jamie Probst

Lynn says the Day-Long event is being held to help raise awareness about the drug addiction problem in the community.

“This city has never seen an event quite like this. I know that people want to bring awareness to the situation and I believe there is awareness, but we also want to bring solutions,” Chanda Lynn said during an interview with WRFA. “We want to tell people who show  up and are addicted, this is where you can go, this is the help we can get you today. You will hear stories about people overcoming their addictions. You will hear performers and musicians. But, most importantly, you will hear about solutions for this city and we want to let people know that we’ll make you aware of the issue but we’ll also provide a solution.”

• [LISTEN] Community Matters – Chanda Lynn Discusses Rally to Recover Jamestown

The rally will include speakers from across the country, food vendors and tables providing recovery information, and live music from Smackdab, Bill Ward, Amanda Barton, and REM One.

For more information about the event, go to the “Rally To Recover Jamestown” page on Facebook.

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Executive Director Jeff Smith was a guest on this week’s Community Matters program and provided more details on the event. According to Smith, for the admission price of $10, guests will be treated not only to an evening of live musical entertainment, but a meal consisting of specialty soups.

“You can have a wonderful meal. The soup will be prepared by chef Carrie Gifford of Murdock’s Restaurant (Sherman, NY) and the Hotel Atheneum (Chautauqua Institution) and Bill Ward and Amanda Barton, two wonderful musicians, will be coming down to the center and playing for a couple of hours to entertain our guests.”

The Soup menu will include:

• Roasted Garlic, Parsnip and White Bean Soup
• Stuffed Pepper Soup
• Chicken Wing Soup
• Potato Soup
• Broccoli Cheese Soup

Soup and a Song will take place on Saturday at St. Susan Center, located at 31 Water St. Doors open at 6 p.m., with the entertainment beginning shortly after and playing until 8 p.m. Tickets are $ 10 at the door. Tickets for children 12 and under are $5.

Proceeds from the event will benefit St. Susan Center, which provided nearly 120,000 meals for its guests in 2015.

Recorded Thursday, May 7, 2015 at Trinity Guitars in Jamestown, NY.

About Trinity Guitars’ Back Room Radio Hour: A live music radio show recorded monthly in Jamestown, NY. Hosted by Bill Ward and featuring music from local performing artists.

More info on the Back Room Radio Hour program:
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JAMESTOWN – Trinity Guitars will present it’s sixth regular episode of the Back Room Radio Hour on Thursday, March 6, which will be recorded and broadcast on WRFA 107.9 FM the following week.

Hosted by Bill Ward, the March show will present a host of regional Bluegrass artists celebrating the Lenten/Easter season with Bluegrass Gospel. Also featured on the show will be the Celtic duo, Sue Tillotson and Jim Cunningham.

This broadcast will also highlight Project Chacocente, an a project which began to move families out of the Managua, Nicaragua dump, La Chureca. Project Chacocente exists to educate and enrich the community it now has become. Many Chautauqua County residents, including Ward and his family, have visited the community.

The program will be taped in front of a live audience at 7 p.m. March 5 broadcast on 107.9 FM at 7  p.m. on Monday, March 9. It will also be streamed on wrfalp.com.

ABOUT BLUEGRASS GOSPEL

Many denizens of the popular “Thursday night Bluegrass Jam at the Lakewood Legion” will be on hand. Some of the artists scheduled to appear:

• Matt Homan
• Steve Strom
• Amanda Barton
• Bill Ward
• Steve Eng
• Pat Corey
• Vern Ahlgren
• Don Strom

ABOUT SUE TILLOTSON AND JIM CUNNINGHAM

Sue and Jim have played music together for many years bringing a love of Celtic music and exciting instrumentation to their audiences. You will hear Sue on fiddle, whistle and vocals and Jim on guitar, bouzouki, cittern, Celtic harp and vocals.

ABOUT PROJECT CHACOCENTE

The featured service organization for the show is Project Chacocente, which began in January 2003, in response to the pleas of a high-school-aged youth delegation called the Mission of Peace.

“After visiting the vast, smoky wasteland of the Managua dump, the kids kept saying, ‘We have to do something,’” explains executive director Cheryl Avery. “At first, we tried to tell them how futile it would be to rescue people without the help of the government or a large NGO. But they insisted, and finally I stopped saying ‘But…’ and started asking ‘Why not?’”

While its primary goal is to transform the lives of these people who lived at the bottom of the social ladder, Project Chacocente’s secondary goal is to show that an NGO can successfully work with the poorest of the poor, and to share that model worldwide with other NGOs.
www.outofthedump.org.

ABOUT BACK ROOM RADIO HOUR

Hosted by Chautauqua County musician Bill Ward and presented on select Thursdays at 7:00 pm from October to May at Trinity Guitars, 800 West Third Street. Each show features the live performances of two independent artists from the Chautauqua region. Each show will also highlight a community, regional or world service organization.

For more information or to reserve seats for the March 5 “Trinity Guitars’ Back Room Radio Hour” call Trinity Guitars at 716.665.4490 or email info@trinityguitars.com. Reservations may also be made by visiting trinityguitars.com or visiting the event’s Facebook page.