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Schedule in brief, scroll down for details:
Sunday, 1 p.m.: ST. LOUIS on Hell or High Water
Sunday, 8 p.m.: THE PRAYERS & TEARS OF ARTHUR DIGBY SELLERS on the 
Backyard BBQ

ST. LOUIS on Hell or High Water, Sunday 1-2 p.m.
This week's program will be devoted to African-American music from St.
Louis, Missouri. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the beginning of
the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the centennial of the Louisiana
Purchase Expedition, better known as the St. Louis World's Fair. Thus,
this seems an opportune time to celebrate some of the Gateway City's many
contributions to American music. St. Louis is a cultural crossroads of
East and West, North and South. Both a center of agricultural commerce in
a slave state during the antebellum period and a major mid-American
industrial metropolis in the twentieth century, the city has experienced
multiple influxes of African-Americans over more than two centuries and
possesses a rich and multilayered African-American history.  Many black
St. Louisans have been among the most influential contributors to American
music. We will hear examples of ragtime, blues, R&B and black gospel from
the Gateway City by such musicians as Scott Joplin, Tom Turpin, Lonnie
Johnson, Roosevelt Sykes, Henry Townsend, Ike Turner, Chuck Berry, Albert
King, Oliver Sain, Martha and Fontella Bass, Brother Joe May and others.

THE PRAYERS & TEARS OF ARTHUR DIGBY SELLERS on the Backyard BBQ, Sunday 8
p.m.
This week we will be joined by Chapel Hill's The Prayers and Tears of
Arthur Digby Sellers, a six-piece band who use acoustic stuff and
electronic noodlings to come up with some interesting downtempo melancholy
rock. See them live at De La Luz in Carrboro on Friday, August 20. Go to
http://www.templeball.com for more information.

Also this week and every week:
-ORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL: traditional and neo-traditional music of the
world, Sunday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
-BROKEN MUSIC: longer, more "difficult"  pieces, Sunday 2-3 p.m.
-INDYMEDIA NEWS: news/talk show produced by the North Carolina Independent
Media Center, every other Sunday 6-7 p.m.
-SUNDAY SURPRISE: you never know what you're going to get! Sunday 7-8 p.m.
-NEW SCIENCE EXPERIENCE: a live electronic mix, Sunday 10 p.m.-12 a.m.
-THE NEW MUSIC SHOW: spotlight on new releases right out of the mail bin,
Monday 9-10 p.m.
-INSIDE TRACK: a new release is played in full, Wednesday 9 p.m.
-THURSDAY NIGHT FEATURE: a DJ explores a musical topic of his or her
choosing, Thursday 9 p.m.-midnight

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