JAMESTOWN, NY – The Great American Picnic is back for another year at Southern Tier Brewing Company!

WRFA’s annual summer fundraiser is taking place Tuesday, June 21 from 5 to 9 p.m. at STBC’s Empty Pint in Lakewood, NY and will once again feature live music, food, and tasty STBC beverages!

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The theme for this year’s fundraiser is “hAll Fired Up!” – celebrating the artists in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame!
Musical acts include:

• Juda H. Priest (Chris Lee & Friends)
• Backlog
• Cold Lazarus
• Cindy Love & Her All Star Band
• Porcelain Bus Drivers
• Gary Peters Jr.
• Matthew Larson

To support WRFA, please consider purchasing a $20 ticket, which includes two complimentary STBC beers. Anyone with a ticket will also receive one complimentary ticket for the WRFA Gift Basket Giveaway (additional tickets can be purchased for $1 each).

The Gift Basket will include items from a variety of local businesses!

Hot Dogs will also be sold and there will also be a 50/50 raffle!!
(Attendees under 21 get in for free).

Call the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts box office for Tickets – (716) 484-7070 – or buy them on line at www.RegLenna.com.
All to benefit WRFA!!

On Saturday night, Nov. 13, WRFA welcomed Cold Lazarus to the Reg Lenna Multimedia Studios for a special live broadcast performance!

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ABOUT AOF LIVE
Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County’s local artists via a live, in-studio performance! For five Saturdays in the Fall 2021, we’ll bring you a new live session featuring well-established acts, spanning styles and genres! The program will not only be broadcast live, but also replayed the following week during our regular Arts on Fire time slot – Fridays at 5 p.m. on WRFA.

The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY.

All Arts on Fire LIVE performances for 2021 are made possible in part by support from the United Arts Appeal of Chautauqua County Projects Pool Grants Program and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s American Rescue Plan Act Stabilization Grant.

LAKEWOOD, NY – The 2021 WRFA Great American Picnic, taking place on Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at Southern Tier Brewing Company. An annual fundraiser for Community Radio in Jamestown!  This year’s fundraiser focused on music from the 90s, and featured performances from Sixpence, Bill Ward and Friends, Cindy Love, Gary Peters and Friends, Cold Lazarus, Feverhawk, and Black Tooth Grin!  Over $2600 was raised as part of the fundraising effort. Thank you to all who supported the cause!

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The theme for this year’s fundraiser is “We Love the 90s!” – celebrating the music and songs from the 1990s. Musical acts include:

• Black Tooth Grin
• Cold Lazarus
• Feverhawk
• Gary & Legit Musicians
• Bill Ward
• Cindy Love
  
• Sixpence

To support WRFA, please consider purchasing a $20 ticket, which includes two complimentary STBC beers and one complimentary ticket for the WRFA Gift Basket Giveaway, featuring items from a variety of local businesses including National Comedy Center/Lucy-Desi Center, BioDome Project, Brindle Barn, Chautauqua Music, Full Moon Rising Bakery, Jamestown Skate Products, Jamestown Tarp Skunks, Liquid Monkey, Reg Lenna Center for the Arts and WRFA!

Hot Dogs will also be sold and there will also be a 50/50 raffle!

(Attendees under 21 get in for free).

Call the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts box office for Tickets – (716) 484-7070 – or buy them on line at www.RegLenna.com.

ABOUT WRFA: WRFA is a listener supported, non-commercial, low power FM radio station provided as a public service by the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts. It is dedicated to providing access to the arts, cultural and educational programming and a forum for the discourse of both national and local public affairs. Funding for WRFA comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, corporate underwriting, and donations from individuals and groups in the community. It broadcasts at 107.9 FM in Jamestown and also streams worldwide at WRFALP.com. 

JAMESTOWN – Reg Lenna Center for the Arts and WRFA radio presents a special holiday program in December.

Home for the Holidays 3: Christmas with The Reg premiered on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. with the full video now available for viewing on the WRFA youtube channel.

Hosted by the Reg Lenna’s Len Barry, the program was produced inside the Reg Multimedia Studio and features musical performances by Gary Peters Jr., The Porcelain Bus Drivers, Bill Ward with Adam McKillip, Cold Lazarus, and Sue Tillotson & Jim Cunningham with Michael Hart.

Enjoy a mix of standards, pop, rock, folk and Celtic songs of the season at your home!

Donations to support the program and Reg Lenna/WRFA Radio are appreciated.

Home for the holidays 3: Christmas with the Reg is made possible through the support of Summit Wealth Management, The Office of Dr. Vejendla, and UPMC Chautauqua.

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WRFA’s Great American Picnic at the Southern Tier Brewing Company on June 18, 2019 – celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Featuring music from Bill Ward and Friends, Cold Lazarus, Gary Peters Jr. and Friends, Steve Davis and Friends, Feverhawk, and Astroglide (members of We Speak Canadian, Two for Flinching, and Porcelain Busdrivers).

This year’s festival will feature over 60 artists and will be celebrating local, regional and international talent across several venues, including Jamestown Brewing Company, Winter Garden Plaza, Shawbucks, Jamestown Wine Cellar, Labyrinth Press Company,  the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, and 3rd on 3rd Gallery. 

This year’s festivities include multi-genre musical performances by internationally touring bands, including the high energy reggae/funk rock of  Tropidelic, fresh off 311’s Caribbean Cruise. Other acts include After Funk, LeSpecial, Funktional Flow, Witty Tarbox, Company Townes, Space Junk, Qwister, Cold Lazarus, Wanyama, Vibe Supply, The LEC, Bill Ward, Cindy & the Loves, Amanda Lynn’s Shenanigans, Smilo & the Ghost, Phantasm, Feverhawk, Trip the Deuce and the special reunion show of Jamestown’s The Audience – plus many more.

Whirlybird 2019’s comedy program will be headlined by Steven Rogers. Known for his clever, clean and hilarious comedy, Steven recently appeared on The Late Show with Steven Colbert and regularly opens for Brian Regan. Local comedy team Karate Sleepover will feature a regional comedy showcase and open for Steven along with Buffalo’s up and comer Jesse Winterhalter.

Whirlybird 2019 features a FREE, all age and family friendly Street Festival taking place on 3rd street between Main Street and City Hall as well as Winter Garden Plaza, Saturday July 20 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Whirlybird Street Fest will feature four outdoor stages, 25 musical acts, the Jamestown Public Market Farmer’s Market, love painting, carving and crafting, arts and craft vendors, a beer garden, local food, kids activities, a hooping workshop and more.

According to organizer Miki Girts, Whirlybird’s mission is to strengthen the thriving creative culture of Jamestown, New York through organization and inspiration.

“Whirly brings out the best in our city in collaboration with a community of incredible people, local organizations, venues and businesses for a good cause and a great time,” Girts said.

Along with spearheading a summer music program at YMCA Camp Onyahsa, Whirlybird is also partnering with local arts events including Third Thursday at Winter Garden Plaza, Karate Sleepover Open Mic, Wine Cellar Open Mic and Pulse Poetry Slam, and Jamestown Public Market.

Whirlybird 2018 succeeded in raising and donating over one thousand dollars to local non-profit youth organizations. Whirlybird 2019 is aiming to double that donation to raise funds for the Jamestown Skate Park Project & YMCA Camp Onyahsa music and scholarship programs.

For more information, including the complete schedule of events, visit www.whirlybirdmusicfestival.com.

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Originally airing Friday, May 31, 2019

WRFA’s Jason Sample talks with Gavin Paterniti from Cold Lazarus about the band’s new album Color and Lights.

Cold Lazarus

JAMESTOWN – The Third Thursday Concert Series returns to downtown Jamestown at the Winter Garden Plaza on Thursday night, May 16.

Now in its eighth year, Third Thursday is series of free downtown concerts, held on the third Thursday of each month from May through September. It is organized by the Active Artists Alliance with support from the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation.

Tonight’s musicians will feature the bands Cold Lazarus and Trip the Deuce.

Third Thursday is a free, all ages event and all members of our community are encouraged to attend.