Category: Interviews

Interviews with newsmakers and everyday folks in Central Virginia. Some are conducted by Coy Barefoot on his WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now or Sean Tubbs of Charlottesville Community Media.

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Home Grown: First Steps: King Gemini and Ty Copper

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Leslie leaves us behind leaving David to get behind the mic with two guests. First, he talks to rapper King Gemini. A Charlottesville native, he’s just back in town from living in California and he’s taking the first steps towards getting a music career on track. David talks to KG about beginnings and we listen to his first single. Next Ty Cooper returns to the show. After years of documentary filmmaking, he’s attempting his first narrative film project. David and Ty talk about his conception for the work, the need to be cruel in writing, and about some of the ins and outs of filming your work. Every piece of art has a moment when it starts, and we’re here to talk about those moments just as we talk about finished pieces on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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Apropos Of Something: Fostering Climate Change Resilience

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Sierra Gladfelter, Interim Project Manager, UVA Institute for Engagement & Negotiation, VA Chapter Development Associate, Sierra Club, geographer, writer, researcher, on climate-exacerbated water scarcity and the ways in which communities are creatively adapting to these changes.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Third Time Charmed: FellowMan, Remy St. Claire, and Nine Pillars

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, it’s Leslie and David and one set of guests for one whole show. FellowMan and Remy St. Claire return! They were here when they started it. They were here when they brought it back. Now, it’s year three, and it’s still going strong — 2019 Nine Pillars Cultural Hip Hop Fest!!! We talk about what and who’s the same and what and who’s different this year. We also talk about anything else that comes into our heads: community representation; financial support of artists, and the question of “the Charlottesville Sound.” Local art makes the community, shakes the community, sometimes even rakes the community, but it only ever builds and never breaks the community, and you can hear about it here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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2019 Democratic Candidates Forum: Bea Lapisto Kirtley for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

Bea Lapisto Kirtley

Hosts Jeff Lenert and Bob McAdams talk with Democratic candidate Bea Lapisto Kirtley about her run for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. Topics include: Affordable housing and making ends meet in Albemarle County.

A 94.7 WPVC special presentation.

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Apropos Of Something: Community-Driven Social Activist & Cooking Up Culinary Careers

Apropos Of Something hosts Ellen Daniels and Nancy Laurence talk with Don Gathers, Cville social activist, co-founder of Cville Black Lives Matter and Congregate Cville member, whose community efforts, like his thinking, always lean forward; and Antwon Brinson, founder and president of Culinary Concepts AB, on cooking up the career path of a lifetime for young adults.

Apropos Of Something seeks out guests who are passionate about the arts, politics and society at-large. Co-hosts Ellen Daniels in Charlottesville and Nancy Laurence in New York City chat with experts, activists, and the most interesting people they can find. We guarantee every show will be Apropos Of Something.

Join Ellen and Nancy on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, every Saturday from 10-11 a.m.

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Home Grown: Art that Makes: Amelia L. Williams and Brandon LeeBangah

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, Leslie’s a little early, David’s a little late, but the art is right on time with two new guests. First, we talk to ecoartist and poet Amelia L. Williams. She has spent the last few years thinking about how she can use art to counter the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. We talk to her about her latest project, The Ties that Bind, a piece that experiements with community sourced art. Next, Brandon LeeBangah blesses the house for the first time. His first album A Long Way from Home is out now. We talk to Brandon about how his business efforts work with his artistic pursuits, and we also talk about the responsibilies that can come from being listened to by kids, especially, who don’t have many good messages coming at them. From the people to the artist and then from the artist back to the people on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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2019 Democratic Candidates Forum: Jerrod Smith for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

Jerrod Smith

Hosts Jeff Lenert and Bob McAdams talk with Democratic candidate Jerrod Smith about his run for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors. Topics include: Strategies for handling hate-based rallies. Race relations in Albemarle County.

A 94.7 WPVC special presentation.

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Home Grown: Saving Poetry: the Book of Will and National Poetry Month

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, David is back and riding solo with a duet of guest duos. First J. Taylor and Tanya K. Manwill visit the show. Both are designers for Live Arts’ upcoming production of The Book of Will. David talks to J. about how he approaches set design in general and what he has done with the set to Book of Will in particular. Then, David talks to Tanya about her sound design and the experience of working collaboratively with other designers on this show. We also hear a piece of original music she’s written for the show. Next, it’s April, which means it’s National Poetry Month again. In honor of such, we welcome back the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s co-chairs of their National Poetry Month activities, Tim Carrier and Brittany Eversberg. Tim and Brittany talk about the joy of poetry and prepare us for this year’s Poem in Your Pocket Day and Poetry on the Steps events. If you want to compare us to a summer’s day, we’re hardly more lovely or more temperate, but we’re here to bring artists to you on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.

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2019 Democratic Candidates Forum: Bob Fenwick for Charlottesville City Council

Bob Fenwick

Hosts Jeff Lenert and Bob McAdams talk with Democratic candidate Bob Fenwick about his run for Charlottesville City Council. Topics include: Restoring trust in Charlottesville’s City Council and improving working relationships among city councilors.

A 94.7 WPVC special presentation.

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Home Grown: Meander and Explode: Jane Alison and Rich Tarbell

Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art

Today on Home Grown, A sick David leaves Leslie and Clinton to do the show like they did it in the beginning. Fortunately, they have two great guests to make things fun. First, Jane Alison returns to the show. She’s taken a detour from creative writing to write a new book about writing. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative takes on the strangle hold that “The Narrative Art” has on the way we write. We talk to Jane about her bold move against the canonical practice, about how patterns in nature can be reflected in storytelling, and about how a gain and loss of tumesence need not be the only game in town. Next, Rich Tarbell visits the show for the first time. He and Coy Barefoot have turned Rich’s photographic and oral history of music in Charlottesville, Regarding Charlottesville Music into an exhibit, presented with the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society at City Space — It’s a Music Town: Exploring the Sights, the Sounds, and the Stories of Charlottesville in the Modern Rock Era. We talk to Rich about what he learned in doing the book and the exhibit, of how scenes grow and why they shift and why they die. We deep dive with some deep artists here on Home Grown: Your Show about Local Art.

Home Grown is heard on 94.7 WPVC the Progressive Voice of Charlottesville, Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.