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Hear Together: Jefferson Center Beat Camp

The Harry and Levon Webb Education Center at Jefferson Center in downtown Roanoke is presenting Beat Camp from Tuesday, February 18th through Friday, February 21st. During this 4-day camp, Middle-High School aged students will learn about beats, bars, and production. Students will have access to Music Lab equipment and will have the ability to learn side by side with Roanoke Producers 808-Ray and Poe Mack. 

More information is online at jeffcenter.org/education

Jefferson Center is a proud financial supporter of WNRN.

Sense of Place, Boston: Wally’s Jazz Cafe on World Cafe

Wally’s Jazz Cafe is a tiny live room, sitting among a sea of brick row homes in Boston. Founder Joseph Walcott launched the business in 1947, wanting to create a place where Black folks could enjoy jazz alongside Whites – his was the first integrated club – and where students could play alongside more experienced musicians. His great grandson, Frank Poindexter, runs the club alongside his mother and brothers and joins World Cafe to discuss how they have kept Joseph Walcott’s dream going.

Hear Together: Virginia Discovery Museum Carnival

The Virginia Discovery Museum is a nonprofit children’s museum in Charlottesville that aims to foster intellectual curiosity and development among young children through educational and imaginative play.

They’re hosting Carnival, a family-friendly Mardi Gras festival, on Friday, February 21st from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at the Virginia Discovery Museum in downtown Charlottesville. They welcome you join them for an evening of magic, movement, and merriment as they celebrate traditions from around the world through games, activities, dancing, and more.

Proceeds support their exhibit design, sponsored admission and scholarship programs.

Hear Together: VPAP Gubernatorial Election

The Virginia Public Access Project, also known as VPAP, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to remaining fiercely non-partisan. Their mission is to simplify complex information about Virginia’s state and local politics and government so our fellow citizens can better understand and make informed decisions that align with their values.

With the gubernatorial election coming up this year, all eyes are on Virginia. At VPAP, they provide tools and resources to help you stay engaged, including data visuals that break down complex political information, VaNews, which aggregates the day’s top political headlines, insights into money in politics, and civics education resources for educators.

Whether you’re following election news, exploring interactive data, or catching up on unbiased political updates, VPAP is here to keep you connected.

Sense of Place, Boston Encore: Jonatha Brooke on World Cafe

For 3 decades, Jonatha Brooke has followed her own path as a singer songwriter – first in the duo The Story and then as a solo artist – and it all began in Boston. She has penned a number of albums, an off Broadway one woman show and at the time of her 2019 visit to World Cafe, an EP called Imposter. She reveals the advice she would have given her younger self in an encore edition of World Cafe.

Sense of Place, Boston: Club Passim on World Cafe

Nestled in an alley in Cambridge’s Harvard Square, there’s a music venue that’s been a sanctuary for folk musicians and fans for over 60 years. On the next World Cafe, as part of the Sense of Place Boston series, visit Club Passim, the intimate venue where Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan and many more legends have graced the stage. Managing director Matt Smith shares the story of Club Passim and how the venue has worked to expand the traditional definition of folk music.

Les Temps Perdu Playlist 1/19/25

On Sundays from 12-2 p.m. Drew, Dan, and Mike practice indie-rock archaeology as co-hosts of Les Temps Perdu. Tune in for two hours of old-school glam, punk, new wave, alternative, grunge, and indie-rock from the 70s through the mid-90s.

WNRN Craft Beverage Trail

WNRN’s Craft Beverage Trail is live. From The Blue Ridge to The Bay, you can drink in the benefits as you travel around the Commonwealth. Collect three stamps from any of the locations in the link below to be entered to win tickets to a local concert! Use WNRN’s Craft Beverage Trail to find the places making the best beer, wine, cider, mead, sake and spirits in your neighborhood or throughout Virginia and support the businesses that make WNRN happen.