From: "Brigadier Briefings" <slb@slbradio.org>
Subject: Weekly puzzle; Mother's Day cards; live world music, classical, jazz and folk (5/12)...
Date: May 10th 2012

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1. A Busy Week of Giving Voice to Other People
2. Make a Keepsake Audio Mother's Day Card
3. Weekly Puzzle
4. New at Neighborhood Voices
5. This Week's SLB
6. Thanks
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1. A Busy Week of Giving Voice to Other People

We’ve had a busy week.  Our daily classes continued at Propel Montour.  At Winchester Thurston School, we began an oral history project this week in which thirty eleventh graders interviewed nine veterans who served in the Viet Nam war era and also recorded heartfelt reflections from thirty fifth graders about how they were impacted by interviews they conducted with ten people born in other countries.  We also conducting after school programs at Propel Montour and Pittsburgh Manchester, finalized CDs featuring personal narratives from 30-plus students at Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5, helped about 100 children make audio Mother’s Day cards, and made preparations for community oral history projects in Homewood, Hazelwood and the Hill District.

SLB continues to grow every day, both in terms of the number of people and locations we visit but, more importantly, in the depth and impact of our work.  We are grateful for the opportunity to work with more and more children and adults daily.  Thanks for your belief and support in what we do.

2. Make a Keepsake Audio Mother's Day Card

Our studios in the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh are open for children to make Audio CD Cards for Mother’s Day. We’ll conduct a personal interview about the person the card is for and record it on an audio CD that can be decorated, affixed to a special card, and brought home that day as a Mother’s Day gift that will be cherished for a lifetime.  Studio hours are 1 to 4 pm through 5/13. No appointment is necessary.  Purchase of a CD Creation Card Kit from the Museum Store is required with proceeds benefiting SLB programs for youth and families.  Our thanks to Highmark, MSA, Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation and Bender Consulting for their generous support of this year's card making activities.

3.  Weekly Puzzle

What do postage stamps, drawers and magnets have in common?   You’ll find the answer in this week’s program highlights on the left-hand side of www.slbradio.org.

4.  New at Neighborhood Voices

Singer/songwriter Malcolm Holcombe  is among the latest additions to Neighborhood Voices.   If you love our live features -- and would also like to listen to the hundreds of students we work with each week in off-air workshops -- please visit www.neighborhoodvoices.org.

5.  This Week's SLB

We'll have a great mix of acoustic music, games and family fun on this week's edition of The Saturday Light Brigade as well as a full and diverse lineup of live performers, including world music, jazz, classical and old-time folk tunes.  Special features include:

--  John Ford discussing the upcoming performance of the renowned USCT Drum and Bugle Corps at Saluting Service,  5/22 (6 to 8 pm), Solider and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum (7:50 am)

 -- Musician Victor Beltran and band with Peruvian music and a preview of the 55th Annual Pittsburgh Folk Festival , 5/18 to 5/20, Monroeville Convention Center (9:05 am)

-- Sky Visco (tenor sax), Sam Harris (bass), Aaron Karsh (drums) and Paul Thompson (flugelhorn) with a preview of a Pittsburgh CAPA 6-12 fundraising event, 5/19, 5:30-10:30pm (10:05 am)

-- Grace Callahan (soprano, Duquesne University) performing in the first installment of our annual showcase of Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist Competition winners (10:35 am)

--  Mark Tamsula (fiddle) and multi-instrumentalist Richard Withers (banjos, flute) with old-time music from southwestern Pennsylvania as featured on their newest release Up on the Batten House (11:05 am)

As always, you're welcome to stop by and participate in the broadcast when our studios open to the public at 10 a.m.  For directions, see www.slbradio.org/directions.

6.  Thanks

Thanks for being part of SLB! 

 

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