I'm coming home to you
Like a lighthouse in the dark
I reach for you whenever we're apart
~ Coming Home to You, Ellis

Minnesota-based singer-songwriter Ellis has been busy since her last visit to Fairfield, including working on a new album and showcasing at the Sundance Film Festival!  With her sweet voice, gigantic grin and heart-opening songs, I'm sure she made a whole bunch more new fans. 

New fans and longtime fans in the area can see her live at Cafe Paradiso on Saturday 2/13!

Tune in to Lyrical Venus on Tuesday morning to catch up with Ellis. The show starts at 9:00 am central, Ellis will call in around 9:30.

Listen early for two selections from CD "Women of Africa" that is part of the Putumayo World Music collection.   Photo here shows artwork of Nicola Heindl, famous British artist who does most of the Putumayo CD covers.  From this CD you will hear Maria de Barros, sharing music from the island nation, Cape Verde, off the northwest coast of Africa. Also, you will hear singer Nawal from the island nation of Comoros, off the east coast of Africa.  Soon thereafter on this night, Single Gun Theory with lead singer, Jaqui Hunt (photo), takes the Fringe Toast stage.

No, no, no...not that Frank.  This Frank:

Stuart and James speak with Reverend Kevin Annett, former United Church of Canada minister, who has chronicled the abuses at residential schools by church groups of the indigenous and native peoples with his film Unrepentent. He is in southewast Iowa speaking at Iowa Wesleyan in Mount Pleasant.

Also featured on the show is professional writer Caty Titus talking about her forrays to the Cannes Film Festival and elsewhere in pursuit of turning a script she has written into a full-length feature movie production and the great strides she has made in that direction.

A blank canvas is an opportunity for creativity, a portal to a world brimming with vibrant possibility. Break out your new canvases and paint the life you live while the artists from the Load and Clear netlabel provide a sweet sonic backdrop for all creative festivities.
Sunday night February 7th 2010
Beginning @ 11e/10c/9m/8p
::Obvious World::

Author, coach, speaker, and self-love expert, Christine Arylo, is our next guest on Writers' Voices. In her book, Choosing Me Before We, she teaches that loving yourself first opens doors to finding the relationship, and the life that you truly want. In 2008, she launched "Madly in Love with Me", an international movement to inspire women and girls.  

Christine traded in her career helping to build brand images for companies like Gap, Visa, and Frito Lay, to help 21st Century women, who can now do anything and feel that they have to do everything.

Chamaigne Montana and Caroline Kilbourn will host this interview. 

New J DILLA THEMED SOUL PRODUCT TONIGHT @ 10PM on KRUU FM! ---

Featuring many amazingly produced Dilla tracks from artists such as..

-The Pharcyde

-Q Tip

-Domingo

-Common Market

-The High & Mighty

-GZA

-Keith Murray And Much more..

Get your beat fix tonight from 10PM to 11PM 100.1 FM on your radio dials in Fairfield... And Listen live streaming globally

Have you ever sat down to lunch with someone and felt like you’ve become a memory sandwich? Say your present is a slice of multi grain and the sandwich goes down through strata of deviled whatever, shredded cheddar, a cool crisp year of Romaine, an autumn of roasted garlic till you hit that subtly spicy bit of sweet relish that’s been haunting you all along. She was hard to forget, wasn’t she? And equally hard to forgive.

Such entrées veteran fiction writer Gladys Swan (who, by the way, is a major presence in The Iowa Source’s recently released poetry anthology, Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day) serves us in her short story collection, A Garden amid Fires, released in 2006 by BkMk Press.

Sorry for the late notice but the live stream might be down for a short while between 10PM & 11PM CST tonight. With the recent webserver failure, we thought it would be a good time to rethink some systems & upgrade where possible. The streaming server is being replaced with a more efficient low power solution & fits great into our backup scheme. With any luck it will you should barely notice it.

So here is a picture of a Taj Mahal album cover. I am featuring a mini-set by Taj, but not of this particular album. I am actually playing three songs from 'Recycling The Blues and Other Related Stuff', but this album is also SO GOOD, I am essentially double-dipping here.... Anyway, Taj Mahal is my feature, but I am also playing a number of tracks from bands that I deem 'obscure', simply because few people bother to go back and listen to this stuff! So I am playing Green era Fleetwood Mac, and you will love this song: Coming Your Way. I have the Clay Idols with 'Nothing Lasts Forever'. I am going toplay 'Slippin' Into Something' by The Feelies because it is my fave song by them. Hour two will include Paul McCartney doing 'Kreen-Akrore' from his debut release, Robin Lane, Jeff Beck, Fred Neil (!), and George Thorogood.