Maybe you've heard about Kiosk Thursday, a unique sales event that celebrates kiosk commerce. This year we're getting in on the action. This morning we set up a kiosk in our space, and we're selling various things at great prices, like Avant-Gardener t-shirts for just 20 bucks.
Here's a podcast that we produced about Kiosk Thursday, the Sell Without Walls Sales Event.
The thing about producing a DIY public radio show is that eventually the DI becomes to much for the Y to handle. So we'd like to bring in another I to help us prepare for Season 3 of the Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio. If you've heard of the show and kind of like the idea of helping us out you're a candidate. We don't care if you're a college student or not. If you are a college student though, this could be a great internship opportunity for you. Here's what we need help with:
Booking venues and bands for upcoming shows, taking the show on the road to Lead and Yankton and Watertown and Deadwood and maybe Washington DC, managing merch, reminding Oil Can to bring his sound effects to gigs, helping us to create a stage set, helping us to plan our upcoming television debut, helping us find vintage kazoos, sales (actually we don't call it sales in public radio but that's what it is), planting squash, managing our production schedule, papers, business papers, and a lot more.
If you're interested please email ted@pickfresh.com. Write "avant-gardener" in the subject line. We'd like to have somebody in place by the end of the year so do it fast. Please.
This November we celebrated some of our favorite listeners by forcing them to eat squash live on the show. Butternut! Acorn! Speckled Hound! And more! Thanks to everyone for playing along. And thanks to Queen City Bakery for baking the squash. You can listen to the whole broadcast right here.
Download VOL 2 - 8 RGT SDPB 129 SQUASH MOSH
The Squash Mosh free range rock-n-roll playlist:
The Gourds - Country Love
Darron Hanlon - There's Not Enough Songs About Squash
Tall Tales And The Silver Lining - The Understanding
Andrew Bird - Spirograph
Beachwood Sparks - The Orange Grass Special
Deadman's Bones - Pa Pa Power
Clark Bueling - Early American Gourd*
*Songs played on a cucurbitae banjo
Below, News From Pierre introduces the squash.
You're invited to Squash Mosh '12.
What?: A listener appreciation party (with lots of squash) for the loyal avant-gardeners in our listening area. Because we couldn't do it without you. And because we have a bunch of extra squash that we need to use up before it goes bad.
Huh?: A listener appreciation party for people that listen to our show. We're going to bake a bunch of Coach's squash, with some help from our friends at Queen City Bakery, and then people at the party will willingly sample it.
Come again?: People at the party will eat squash. Then they'll vote for their favorite variety. Then they'll tell us why and we'll get it on tape (boom-box).
What for?: The Rock Garden Tour is a rock and roll gardening show, we need the audio for our radio program.
What else?: There will be music, and live performances by Flowerman and the Godfather of the Rowena Polo Club Jim Groth, and a panel discussion featuring commentary from experienced and inexperienced squash eaters.
When?: November 13, Tuesday night, starting at about 7pm - panel discussion of experienced and inexperienced squash eaters will start around 8pm.
Where?: Latitude 44 Music Bar in downtown Sioux Falls, SD.
And?: Free buttons and/or gig posters, News from Pierre might be there to sign stuff, you can share your favorite squash story in the Telestory Booth, you can take photos with Badger and Tonya and the rest of the Rock Garden Tour crew, booze (regular price), free ice-water (after mail-in rebate), Avant-Gardener t-shirts, and...
We hope to see you at Squash Mosh '12.
We played October's live tape recording of the Rock Garden Tour pretty much by the book. We talked about psychic gardening and how it's too main stream a topic for our show. We tried to talk about the harvest season but were only able to unearth a single positive story, about a Lake County gardener who grew a massive sweet potato. Then we sang a song about a Trolley Fax Machine and called it good. All in all, it was a pretty standard live tape recording of the original rock and roll garden show from Latitude 44 in Downtown Sioux Falls, SD. The show also featured original songs by Godfather of the Rowena Polo Club, Jim Groth and featured guest Burlap Wolf King, Thomas Hentges. Here's the rest of the playlist:
Jaill - Everyone's Hip
Parquet Courts - N Dakota
Sonny And The Sunsets - I Was Born
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead - Time And Again
Honorable Mentions:
Catherine Irwin
Fergus & Geronimo
Mama Fratelli
Rick Astley
It wasn't easy to cram our entire crew into a combine. That's Oil Can, Tanya, Badger (our tech crew team leader), our staff of Ghost Writers, The Rock Garden Tour Family Band, our Spotlight Operator, various correspondents, papers, business papers, and an entire in-studio audience. Thanks to Lincoln County farmers Matt Adams, Jed Olbertson, and Coach Jim Heeren for putting up with us. And thanks to John Deere for putting out one massive piece of farm implementation. This month's show features field recordings of various farmers talking about stuff while driving a combine. The audio gets a little muddled at times, and there are beeps and things to deal with, but all in all this turned out to be one of our favorite episodes yet.
Download VOL 2 SDPB 95 FIELD RECORDINGS
And the playlist from this month's show:
Aaron Embry - Raven's Song
Mac Demarco - I'm A Man
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Family Band - We'll Get Through
TEEN - Come Back
Calexico - Fortune Teller
The Gourds - Country Love
Aaron Embry - When All Is Gone
The Avett Brothers - Geraldine
Band of Horses - Knock Knock
Steve Martin - Words Unspoken
The January to June series concludes just in time to be two months behind on the rest of the summer. What are you gonna do? Time flies, right? The fifth and final post in this series highlights tunes from seasoned alt-rock vets The Walkmen, lo-fi rock darlings Japandroids, everyone's favorite Russian songstress Regina Spektor, John Waters' chauffeur Here We Go Magic, neo-hippies Ed Sharpe, and Swedish troubadour Tallest Man on Earth.
- The Music Director
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