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99.9 Bangor
Downeast, Midcoast,
& Central Maine
A Voice of Many Voices
Our Fall Pledge Drive took place on November 3-10 and it was a good one! Thanks to listener support we raised over $21,000! Thank you to everyone who donated (welcome New Members!) and volunteered (on the air and answering pledge phones alike). Working together we made it happen!
We still have $58,862 to go to reach our year-end goal of $80,000, and 48 New Members to hit 100. Thank you in advance for any help you can offer! DONATE HERE!
Maine Singer-songwriter Martin Swinger will play live on Front Porch Folk with Charlie Pugh at 9 a.m. this Tuesday morning, November 13. He will be playing music from his wide repertoire of original and contemporary folk songs, Americana standards, and socially conscious tunes that are sure to make you think. You’re sure to love Martin so tune in!
On Friday, November 16, 10-11 AM, the Democracy Forum will focus on who won in Maine and why. How do the election outcomes in Maine reflect national trends–or not–along the dimensions of party majorities, women and minority candidates, voter turnout, demographics, and voter suppression? What does it all mean for governing in the biennium ahead? We’ll take listener calls during the second half of the show.
Program Guests: John Baughman, Associate Professor of Politics, Bates College; and Jill Goldthwait, Award-winning columnist for the Ellsworth American and the Mount Desert Islander, retired nurse and former independent Maine State Senator.
Read more about this show at www.lwvme.org.
Hymn for Her will be joining us on air Saturday, November 17, 9-10 AM, on the Saturday Morning Coffeehouse. They are a very cool Americana/R&R duo very much worth tuning in for!
Hymn for Her have been busy touring across the country and abroad over the past few years, injecting juiced-up backwoods country blues with a dose of desert rock psychedelia that has been described as “Hell’s Angels meets the Amish,” and “Hillbillies with electronics opening Pandora’s Box”
They’ll be in concert at Fogtown Brewing Company in Ellsworth on Saturday, November 17, 7-10 PM.
In November there will be two Community Advisory Board meetings that will provide opportunities for listeners to speak to WERU’s management and Board of Directors to share feedback about the radio station. These meetings will be held at WERU in East Orland on November 14 and 28 at 6:30-8:00 p.m. Members of the public are welcome to attend. For more information or to share feedback please email info@weru.org.
WERU Community Radio has been selected to participate in a grant initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and administered by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) that will work with 10 public radio stations serving rural communities as part of NFCB’s “Community Counts” initiative.
Democracy Forum, our monthly public affairs program that presents engaging topics in participatory democracy (every third Friday, 10-11 a.m.), was recently recognized for excellence by the Maine Association of Broadcasters with the 2018 First Prize Award in the public affairs category! The program is a collaboration of WERU and the League of Women Voters of Maine – Downeast.
“The Melody Of Rhythm” (Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain) are our “Featured Artist” this week. Each morning at 7:45 AM our volunteer disc jockey will play a cut from that 2009 record and will give away a FREE pair of tickets to their performance on Sunday, November 18th at 7 PM in the Collins Center for the Arts (2 Flagstaff Road in Orono). The show starts at 7 PM.
WERU’s very own Scot Cannon (host of “Family Radio Hour” on Saturdays at 10 AM) will interview Bela Fleck via the telephone and you can hear that on-air on Friday, November 16th at 8:30 AM (ET)!