Studio Virginia

Studio Virginia airs Thursdays at 7:30 pm

JULY

7.22.09 - On this week's program: a novel about ghosts from a Roanoker; the new director of the Virginia Film Festival; the Garth Newel Music loses its director and the James Madison home and museum at Montpelier looks for a makeover Listen.

7.15.09 - A FloydFest preview on this week's episode. Also, a new exhibit is featured at Hollins University. Finally, a young producer hopes to shoot a film at Smith Mountain Lake Listen.

7.9.09 - On this week's Studio Virginia, a Charlottesville resident writes a book to help others. Also, a grab-bag of stories including the Virginia Heritage Awards, the Barter Theatre and more. Listen.

7.1.09 - The Wintergreen Summer Music Festival returns! Also, a Buena Vista man writes a 9-volume series about the American Revolution. Listen.

JUNE

6.25.09 - Charlottesville authors target teen readers; a retired "Revenuer" has a new book on public relations and blues guitarist Jimmy Thackery returns to the area for a concert Listen.

6.21.09 - On this week's show, The Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival takes place at Sweet Briar College and the Roanoke Valley Pen Women win a Kendig Award. Listen.

6.11.09 - On this week's program, Floyd County writer, Fred First, talks about his new compilation of essays; the author of a book on the Columbine shootings comes to the New River Valley for a talk near the Virginia Tech campus, and Dumpstaphunk performs in Roanoke Listen.

6.6.09 - Weekend Virginia's Sarah Jessee visits a dog park and finds the owners having as much fun as the dogs. Listen.

6.4.09 - A New River Valley novelist releases "Gray Baby," about a bi-racial teen; the Carless Brit Museum gets ready to open in Roanoke and a Charlottesville music historian catalogs local bands that didn't quite make the big time. Listen.

MAY

5.28.09 - An artist's retreat in Amherst County; the annual Sidewalk Art Show in Roanoke and unusual graduation music in Crozet Listen.

5.21.09 - The Garth Newel Music Center; Roanoke social activist Cabell Brand's memoir, and using art to overcome a creative block Listen.

5.17.09 - A Radford University professor writes a novel about "The Safety of Deeper Water," ... and Local Colors celebrates diversity in Roanoke Listen.

5.7.09 - 16 Blocks magazine, the Holocaust as viewed through the arts, a unique handwriting program involves music and "Open Projector Night" at the Grandin Theatre Listen.

APRIL

4.30.09 - A young readers novel on the Civil War, a Virginia Tech professor's book of poetry and a student songwriting workshop in West Virginia. Listen.

4.23.09 - A Southern Virginia University professor writes a best-selling book about an eminent domain case that wound up in the Supreme Court … an exhibit at U-V-A pays tribute to Edgar Alan Poe, and the late blues master John Cephas is remembered. Listen.

4.16.09 - A Vietnam War-era aerial cameraman urges young people to think about “The Other side of the Clouds” in his new memoir … plus a day of drumming at Roanoke’s Earth Day celebration, and Lucinda Roy’s no-holds-barred book about the April 16th tragedy at Virginia Tech. Listen.

4.12.09 - The Montgomery Museum seeks to raise funds and awareness with concerts featuring Opera and Bluegrass… the “Car-Less Brit” experiment is celebrated with music and art in Roanoke… and a University of Virginia Drama Professor is honored with a lifetime achievement award. Listen.

4.3.09 - An exclusive inverview with movie director John Walters - the man who brought you "Hairspray" and "Pink Flamingos" will speak at Sweet Briar College later this month....and an experimental theater space called "Studio Roanoke" is set to debut. Listen.

MARCH

3.26.09 - LINCOLN’S 200TH BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED WITH A “3-D” PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION AT JEFFERSON CENTER … BEST-SELLING NOVELIST DAVID BALDACCI GETS READY FOR AN APPEARANCE IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, AND JAZZ-GUITARIST CHARLIE HUNTER PERFORMS IN ROANOKE – WITH HIS 7 AND 8 STRING GUITARS. Listen.

3.20.09 - New programs and exhibitions at the Taubman Museum of Art … a Radford native comes home to sing jazz at Jefferson Center … plus “Bread and Butter” art at Center in the Square, the Radford University Literary Festival, and a Lynchburg book signing that concerns a politician well ahead of his time. Listen.

3.13.09 - An in-depth look at the upcoming Festival of the Book in Charlottesville... from famous authors like John Grisham and David Baldacci, to local, little-known Virginia writers, the Festival of the Book is a five-day center of the literary universe Listen.

3.5.09 - A Roanoke physician writes a book about his relief missions in Haiti … the Downtown Music Lab is back in business at Jefferson Center … and the art of water tasting. Listen.

FEBRUARY

2.27.09 - Inside the Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College … the new director at the University of Virginia’s art museum… plus essayist Dan Smith on the fairness doctrine, and a Roanoker learns the Tango in South America. Listen.

2.19.09 - Haunting images from war-torn Cambodia are featured in an exhibit at Hollins University … plus the second annual Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, and 1950’s crooner Tommy Edwards gets his day in the sun. Listen.

2.12.09 - An all-writers show, featuring readings and interviews from a recent conference in Roanoke … plus a novelist spins a tale about things that go bump in the night on a Virginia farm. Listen.

2.5.09 - Two new books of poetry - written from the heart by a Radford University instructor … plus legendary songwriter J.D. Souther at the Gravity Lounge, alternative theater options with Mill Mountain’s closing and Valentine’s Day at the Paramount in Charlottesville Listen.

JANUARY

1.23.09 - The life and times of John Brown Baldwin, an Augusta County leader during the Civil War era … plus highlights from the second half of the season at Jefferson Center, and a music program for children in Lynchburg called “Kid Pan Alley” Listen.

1.15.09 - O. Winston Link Museum director Kim Parker talks about five years of photography centered around the steam locomotive era … plus gypsy jazz at Jefferson Center, “Blue Ridge Chronicles” from far southwest, and the second annual Roanoke Regional Writers Conference Listen.

1.8.09 - From football star at Virginia Tech to advocate for the mentally ill, Tommy Edwards is designing programs that use music and visual arts as teaching and healing tools. Listen.

1.1.09 - The executive director of the Historical Society of Western Virginia talks about plans for the History Museum of Western Virginia and a new exhibit on moonshine...and a new public television series on Appalachia. Listen.