Month: June 2017 (Page 5 of 5)

The PopCulteer
June 2 , 2017

It is the weekend after Memorial Day. your PopCulteer is headed to Louisville for WonderFest USA and will bring you much in the way of photos and video from that cool event in the next week. However, we are now (unofficially) in the swing of Summer, and that means that Charleston is knee-deep in cool and interesting things to do.

While I’m in Kentucky hob-knobbing with ace model builders and special effects gurus, you guys can stay right in town and get into all sorts of fun trouble. There’s free music, non-free music, theatre, wrestling, culture and tons of other things happening in town.

As usual, this is just a rough collection of events that had ready-to-use graphics. I’ll bet you dollars-to-donuts that you can find even more stuff if you just get off your butt and look, instead of complaining that “there’s nothing to do” in Charleston.

I mean, just look at this stuff…

Friday

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Thursday night at 10 PM we have BRAND-NEW episode of Six Degrees of Separation featuring an interview with David Dunkley. You can hear it exclusively on The AIR,  or on this embedded radio player…

Friday night Mother’s Nature featuring Lola Spencer will kick off the 2017 Special Olympics Summer Games with a concert at Live On The Levee, and sitting in on drums will be the legendary David Dunkley, a Dunbar native who spent thirteen years touring the world and recording albums with Tim McGraw. Of course, the guitarist for Mother’s Nature is another local legend, Johnny Compton. Tonight you can hear both men interviewed by Tim Dorsey and Jason “Roadblock” Robinson on Six Degrees of Separation, which is recorded at The World Famous Empty Glass.

In the first show, it’s a never-before-heard interview with David Dunkley, who coincidentally has known your PopCulteer probably longer than anyone else on the music scene. David talks about his career ups and downs and how he came to be part of Tim McGraw’s band. It’s a terrific hour-plus of in-depth interviewing.

Following that we will replay the classic episode of Six Degrees of Separation with Johnny Compton, who traces his musical path to Charleston. This is all to shine the spotlight on Mother’s Nature featuring Lola Spencer, who take the stage Friday at 6:30 PM to usher in the Special Olympics Summer Games.

You can hear these interviews again Friday at Noon on The AIR, just to get you in the mood to come out and listen to this great band at a wonderful FREE event…and even the weather is expected to be fantastic.

As I said Last week, “If you think that headline means that we’re bringing you reruns all day on The AIR….well, you’re right.” Your PopCulteer took it easy for a few weeks while undergoing cataract surgery, and spent this week in what experts call “deadline hell.”

Most of the day Thursday is going to, once again, be a day for you to catch up with some of the wonderful programming you may have missed on The AIR.

Radio Free Charleston International, which is usually new Thursdays at 3 PM, is going to be an encore of a recent show. But it’s a good one, so you’ll still want to tune in at the website, or on this handy embedded radio player…

Starting at 7 AM you’ll get replays of Curtain Call, Radio Coolsville, Ska Madness and Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. Then at 3 PM, tune in for an episode of Radio Free Charleston from March.This one opens with new music from Bob Dylan.

You can then listen to this week’s new Radio Free Charleston, with all-new music from Pale Nova, Scarlet Revolt and more at 5 PM, and The New Music Show at 6 PM , The Crazy Show at 6:30 PM. In prime-time, it’s this week’s episodes of The Swing Shift and Curtain Call.

We are working on a special surprise NEW program at 10 PM, but I’ll have to tell you about that later, so keep checking PopCult.