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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 High Definition Theater at WVIA.

 

HOMEGROWN MUSIC LISTINGS

Sept. 7
Lazlo - A fine roots and country-rock influenced quartet from Western New Jersey and Eastern PA, Lazlo performs outstanding original compositions marked by thoughtful lyrics, great vocal harmonies and first-class musicianship. Their 2005 CD Old Steel Company was been featured on WVIA's Mixed Bag. This encore from 2005 features then-unreleased music in a fine performance in the WVIA studios.

Sept. 14
Kids of Bikes - An energetic but mostly acoustic rock band from Northeastern Pennsylvania making their Homegrown Music debut with first-rate original music.

Sept. 21
Laura Vecchione - A folk-influenced singer-songwriter Laura Vecchione has released two nationally-distributed CDs Girl in the Band and Deeper Waters, which were both spotlighted on WVIA's Mixed Bag. In her second HGM appearance, she performs her original music in a solo acoustic setting. (Encore from 2009)

Sept. 22
A Homegrown Jazz Special: THE JAY RATTMAN QUARTET - Saxophonist and composer Jay Rattman grew up in the rich environment of the Poconos jazz scene, and was a standout with the COTA Cats all-star high school student big band at the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts. Now a student at the Manhattan School of Music, Jay returns to his home area with a three fellow Manhattan School of Music students for a set of outstanding original music and jazz standards in his Homegrown Music debut. Note: Air time 7:00 PM during WVIA's All That Jazz.

Sept. 28
Sarah Holgate - A few years ago, Sarah Holgate was one of the featured high school Artists of the Week on WVIA-TV. Earlier this year, the talented singer-songwriter and pianist released her second CD Somewhere Past Distraction to very favorable reviews. She has been performing in New York City as well as in her native Wilkes-Barre area. She makes her Homegrown Music debut with some new material plus re-interpretations of songs from her CD, joined by a quartet including her brother Eric on bass.

 

 

 

 

 

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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