WRFA’s 2023 Great American Picnic Fundraiser featuring the theme – Women Who Rock – celebrating the some of your beloved female musicians! Presented by Southern Tier Brewing Co., Save-A-Lot Foods, WRFA-LP and Reg Lenna Center for the Arts! June 11, 2023 at Southern tier Brewing Company.

Musical acts include:
Two For Flinching, Marla Harris & Friends, Cindy Love & Friends, Son, Emily Strong, Sara Rafaloski & Gavin Paterniti, Miranda Wilcox, The Assembly, Sixpence, Tempus, and Owen Murphy.

Will Russell and Ellen Paquette of the band Sixpence join WRFA’s Anthony Merchant in studio to discuss the bands debut album Songs of Sixpence, their musical beginnings and how they began working together, Ellen’s artwork endeavors outside of the band and much more
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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!

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.

This special presentation of Arts on Fire LIVE is made possible in part by 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!

• PURCHASE TICKETS

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. 

WRFA’s Jason Sample invites Sixpence into the studio to talk about their music and also perform some songs. Featuring Will Russell on guitar and Ellen Paquette on harp.

Sixpence – Will Russell (left) and Ellen Paquette