Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,Karen M.
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 09:09 PM

Gosh, you folks are fast!

WEMU's fund drive was during the same time frame as WDET and WUOM and all the rest. (Some years ago NPR figured out that we *really* don't like to listen to pledge periods, and if they all run the beg-a-thon simulataneously there's no escape.)

After I threw $1 at WDET, I rang up WEMU. (I no longer live in metro Detroit, and was driving home to Grand Rapids at the time.) While WDET did not read a thank-you on air (probably because the phone answerers were in West Bombay), their friends down the street milked this for all it was worth. "If someone from **Grand Rapids** can pledge, you can too!!"

Interestingly, WEMU deleted a popular progam a couple of years ago, and that host found a local commercial station willing to pick him up. www.thayrone.com.

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: Big Mick
Date: 07 Nov 04 - 09:28 PM

Karen M, where are you at in Grand Rapids? I am from the area and involved in the folk community there. Drop me a line at [e-mail].

I received this back already from WEMU:

Hello Mick,

Thanks for writing! Welcome to WEMU. We're welcoming Matt with open arms (and ears!) and all of the wonderful people who listen to his show. We know it's going to be great for Matt, WEMU and for you.

Again, thanks for writing.

Linda

Linda Yohn
WEMU Music Director
[e-mail]
734.487.2229
www.emich.edu

If you good folks would, drop them a line and let them know how much you appreciate what they have done.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: denise:^)
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 02:25 AM

I should have known that the news had already reached Mudcat, but I thought I'd check, anyway!

Now I have to see if Ypsilanti radio can reach all the way to St. Clair Shores.

(Will you be able to get it in GR, Karen?)

denise :^)

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: denise:^)
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 02:41 AM

WCAR? Where is WCAR?

Did a Google search, and all I could find was "Michigan Catholic Radio, WCAR, 1090 AM, Detroit..."

That can't be it, can it? (They sure don't list any folk programming!)

Hmmmmmmmm...........

denise :^)

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 08:28 AM

Denise, if you go back to my post, you will find a link to the station.

Mick

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,Karen M.
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 04:41 PM

Denise wrote:

   Nope. Too many "big sticks" in Southfield. You might be able to get it bouncing, on your car radior.

<(Will you be able to get it in GR, Karen?)

   Can't even get it much past Fowlerville, let alone Lansing. Going south, it fades somewhere near Milan. ('EMU was my forst choice radio station for years. Listen to them on the day before Ash Wednesday to truly appreciate them.)

   Webcast is your friend!

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,Karen M.
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 04:50 PM

http://www.wemu.org/hosts_watroba.html

FLU is not yet in the program schedule, but it's only a matter of time before the on-air promos hit.

As it happens, I have a Civil War ball event (I call dances) on the other side of the EMU campus that evening. So before the final lilting strains of Stan Rogers and "Ashokan Farewell" and the "Bunkhouse song" fade away, I will be on the steps of King Hall with my re-doubled pledge.

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: Cool Beans
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 05:23 PM

WEMU comes in all static-y on my car radio in and around Detroit. Anyone have advice on improving my reception?

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,Karen M. (former Ypsi resident)
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 06:55 PM

CB wrote:
WEMU comes in all static-y on my car radio in and around Detroit. Anyone have advice on improving my reception?

Get yourself west of Telegraph and south of about 14 Mile. (When I drive in from GR I start getting clear reception about Howell, and once I'm past I-275 things go downhill fast.)

When I moved back to the metro (Dearborn) I'd go sit in the car in order to hear "Wait Wait" at 11 am. Car had much better reception than home. Westland picks up the dulcet tones of Linda, Art, Joe, Michael x 2 et al much better.

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: IvanB
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 11:58 PM

denise, WCAR should be WKAR, Michigan State University's FM station. Their folk programming runs mainly from 6:00-10:00 pm on Sunday evenings. It's at 90.5 on the dial if you're within reach of the signal, also webcast at http://wkar.org/.

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,former DET fan
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 12:23 PM

Great that Matt W will be on WEMU.   What about Larry McDaniel? Will he keep doing his great show?

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,Karen M. (incredulous)
Date: 16 Nov 04 - 06:40 PM

Matt just sent this out:
...
When I was forced out of WDET, I lost about one third of my CD library. For the first 14 years or so of my run at WDET I checked EVERYTHING into their library...even stuff I purchased or was sent directly to me. WDET was kind enough to give me some of it back, but they held on to most of it. ...

and he's asking for donations. (He says he doesn't even own any Stan Rogers. Still downtown on Cass Ave.) WEMU used to have a folk library, but they unloaded it during a big sale during a Heritage Festival some years back. (Lots of LPs, remember those?)

Of course I sent it to [e-mail].

Fulfilling my "pledge" was enormously satisfying. I took markers and wrote "Folks Like Us" and "Arkansas Traveler" on the $1.00 bill. Hope they spend it well.

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: GUEST,john in avoca
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 12:35 AM

Larry will surely be missed, I started listening to him back in 1982 I think,it was after another bluegrass program by carl vanover was cancelled on WCXI am Just another of the long line of "different" programs that have fallen by the wayside like WJR's Night Flight 76 or WRIF's wrif rock cafe. WJR's patterns in music and wdet's dropping of a prairie home companion to make room for more of the same cookie cutter programming with no originality, personality or ambiance of those fantastic radio programs of days gone by. good luck Larry, and thank you for the great memories and music of days gone by

Subject: RE: Obit: Folk, bluegrass radio in Detroit
From: Devilmaster
Date: 14 Dec 05 - 11:39 AM

And after 15 months, the phoenix shall rise from the ashes....