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Originally airing Thursday, Feb. 9 on WRFA’s Local Rush Hour program.

WRFA public affairs director Jason Sample talks with Humble g the Fiddla, a Cleveland OH musician who is scheduled to perform at Jamestown Community College on Thursday night, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. The show is free and open to the public.

The performance is presented by JCC’s Voices of Diversity program and made possible by the college program committee, Black Student Union, and the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation’s Sarita Hopkins Weeks JCC Concert Fund.

Humble g, born Myles Alexander Keaton Smith, grew up in Cleveland, is a self-taught fiddler. His music focuses on “Hip-hope” – positive hip hop music — and Afripean music featuring African drums and European strings.

Humble g is the co-founder of and a partner in Global Entertainment, a Cleveland-based company that focuses on intellectual and inspirational forms of entertainment. He is a member of Violins Against Violence, a program which strives to put violins in the hands of third graders in Ohio schools.

For more information on Humble g, following on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/HumblegThaFiddlaFanPage/

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Originally airing Wednesday, May 18, 2016 during the Local Rush Hour.

WRFA Public Affairs Director Jason Sample invites Bill Thomas from the Active Artists Alliance into the studio to discuss the return of Third Thursday on Thursday, May 19 in downtown Jamestown. Plus Bill gives some details about the AAAlliance Spring Party and Art Burn, happening Saturday June 4. And he also talks about being a downtown business (Biodome Project) owner in Jamestown.

More info on Active Artists Alliance at www.activeartist.org/

If you want to get tickets to see Jerry Seinfeld perform in Jamestown this coming August, you better make your purchase soon.

That’s according to Lucy Desi Center Director Journey Gunderson, who said tickets for the Aug. 1 event – which is comprised of two shows – are selling at a record rate.

“At this point there are only single seats remaining for the 7 o’clock show,” Gunderson told WRFA during a Monday afternoon interview on The Local Rush Hour. “There’s also a 9:30 show, with just a couple hundred seats available. We sold out the equivalent of one full show in the first 12 hours of the pre-sale one week ago… but of course there are two shows and people were buying tickets for both.”

Seinfeld’s appearance is part of the 2015 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, with tickets going on sale to lucy-desi center members last Monday, Feb. 2. They then went on sale to the general public yesterday, and Gunderson says the phones were ringing non-stop. As a result, it’s likely both Senfield shows will sell out much faster than last year’s headliner Jay Leno, who only did one performance.

“If we sold out Leno in two or three weeks then it looks like at this rate Seinfeld will sell out two shows in a record amount of time,” Gunderson said.

More details on the 2015 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival are expected to be made in the coming weeks.

Tickets and information on the Seinfeld Show are available at LucyComedyFest.com & 716.484.0800.

Originally airing on WRFA’s Local Rush Hour program, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.

WRFA Public Affairs Director Jason Sample talks with local artist and musician Joe Grice (AKA Joey Cobra) about an upcoming show in Jamestown, NY at Shawbucks, featuring his band Wake, along with a reunion show featuring the band Plug. The show will take place Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.