Hail Fleet Admiral Perry!

They’re Feeling Okay: The Okay Feeling is considering a name change.

The summer schedule will begin at midnight tonight.  You can click here or on the program guide menu item on the left to view the new schedule.

We have a lot of new and exciting shows for you this summer, so be sure to stay tuned.  This Sunday will be our first community show with Andy. Here is a quick outline.

The show this Sunday's theme:  Food - the vital community connection

Interviewees:

McCabe Coolidge & Karen Day (Portable Produce; Grow a Row; and, Share a Seed -- all activities designed to get surplus produce to shut-ins and families in need, Floyd County)

Jenn Kivlin, SHARE Food Distribution Program (Self-Help And Resource Exchange; nonprofit, nonsubsidized, bulk food distribution program; no give aways; families pay and do community service in exchange for fresh food boxes)

Polly Hieser, 651-3226 (Seven Springs Farm) (community-supported agriculture farm, Floyd)

Jeanne Schwanke (Blacksburg Farmers Market)

Megan Foster, Slowfoods (movement counterforce to MacDonalds, et al.)

Tammy Lemons, Backpack for Kids program (on weekends, provides youngsters who are on free lunches at school with a backpack of food to carry them through the weekend)

Here is the interview with Jeff Reed and Taylor Lynskey talking to the band Saves the Day.  www.wuvt.vt.edu/audio/Saves_the_Day_Interview.mp3

Pictured from left to right are Jeff Reed, Chris Conley, Arun Bali, Manuel Carrero, Taylor Lynskey, and Durijah Lang.  Saves the Day was interviewed in the WUVT studio at 5:00 PM on May 2, 2009 before playing a show in Squires Student Center.  Saves the Day will be on tour with Alkaline Trio until May 16th, and then begin work on their new album, Daybreak, expected later this year.

This past week was a good one for concerts in Blacksburg. The Lantern in particular managed to grab two larger acts in a row on Wednesday and Thursday, and I had the good fortune to be able to attend both.