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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

Aug. 3
Bob Malone - Witty singer-songwriter and impressive pianist in encore from 2007.

Aug. 4
Homegrown Jazz Special: Marko Marcinko Latin Jazz Quintet - Ubiquitous Northeastern Pennsylvania drummer, member of the David Liebman Group and artistic director of the Scranton Jazz Festival leads his own quintet in a new session with creative Latin-influenced arrangements of jazz standards. (Group will be performing on August 7 at the Scranton Jazz Festival.)
Note: Airtime: 7:00 PM during WVIA's All That Jazz.

Aug. 10
Celeste Triebeneck - Celtic-style vocalist Triebeneck performs traditional British-isles songs with guitarist Paul E. Mitchell. (Encore from 2008)

Aug. 17
Field House - Bluesy original music from a young Northeast PA group making their Homegrown Music debut.

Aug. 24
John Ginty Band - Great roots rock from New Jersey keyboard man who has an active career as a studio musician, and as former member of the Robert Randolph Band. This archive recording from 2000 features a guest appearance by Neal Casal.

Aug. 31
Steven Gellman - Singer-songwriter Stephen Gellman returns to Homegrown Music after a six year absence with a new collection of his thoughtful original songs in a solo acoustic setting.

 

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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