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Homegrown Music is WVIA-FM's exclusive series which each week showcases the talents of regional contemporary music artists in recordings produced in the WVIA-FM studios by series host George Graham.

The series presents monthly two-hour concert-broadcasts from the Sordoni Theater at WVIA.

 

HOMEGROWN MUSIC LISTINGS

March 2
SGR - SGR was an 8-piece funk and ska band featuring a tight horn section, and danceable original material. From the Lehigh Valley and nearby New Jersey, they were together between 1996 and 2005 and toured up and down the East Coast, performing regularly in the WVIA listening area. The group went their separate ways not long after this 2005 session, which captured the band at the top of their form. (Encore)

March 9
The Trapps - A fine roots rock band from Upstate New York, the Trapps released their CD Cheap Seats to considerable acclaim and airplay on WVIA's Mixed Bag. The band make their Homegrown Music debut with mostly new, non-album material.

March 16
Kenny Luck - Wyoming Valley singer-songwriter Kenny Luck has been appearing on Homegrown Music since his teens. Now, after studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he is back with a new collection of songs and a diverse group accompanying him.

March 23
Ed Pall - A fine guitarist from the Wilkes-Barre area, Pall took up the harp guitar, an distinctive antique instrument with an extra set of strings. This archive edition of the program from 2000 features a wonderful set of traditional and original instrumental pieces. (Encore)

March 30
The Cosmic American Derelicts - This long-running New Jersey band has had evolving personnel and ranges from roots rock, to country influence, to a jam-band sound. This 2007 session spotlights the group incorporating those stylistic ingredients in their tasteful original compositions. (Encore)

 

imageGeorge Graham

Meet the team

One of the first staff members at WVIA. Produces and hosts Mixed Bag, All That Jazz and Homegrown Music on WVIA Radio, and the Homegrown Music Concerts on WVIA-TV.
 
Graham was the first employee of WVIA Radio, and has been on the WVIA staff since 1972. A native and resident of Carbondale, PA, he is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he majored in electrical engineering. He joined the WVIA staff in connection with the studio design and construction of WVIA-FM, but with his four years of on-air experience at the Duke University radio station, he immediately moved into on-air work. He sought to bring the kind of eclectic contemporary music radio programming that marked student radio at Duke (where he was program director) in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 
He introduced Mixed Bag, which has become purportedly the longest continuously-running program of what is now called "album adult alternative" music in the country. Graham introduced Homegrown Music, a program to spotlight talented regional artists in performances from the station's studio. The series has been running continuously as a weekly series since 1976, and includes weekly recording session broadcasts, and monthly live concerts performed before a studio audience.
 
He also hosts WVIA's All That Jazz, and presents extensive annual radio coverage of the region's jazz festivals from Delaware Water Gap and Scranton. Graham has written for regional publications, and also works as a free-lance recording engineer, producer and mastering engineer.

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