Representatives from Marfa Public Radio once again shared with Marfa High School students the exciting life of a public broadcaster, on their annual Career Day.
Rachel Osier Lindley and Anne Adkins spent the morning at Marfa ISD, and showed interview techniques to the students, and shared public radio stories from youth-centered programs like Youth Radio and Generation Next.
Rachel & Anne also talked about the possibility of high school internships, which in the past has beneffited both the student and the station.
Doris Daley (Photo courtesy of texascowboypoetry.com)
Today we hear from Doris Daley, a cowboy poet from Calgary, Southern Alberta, Canada. Daley is one of the headliners for the 26th Annual Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering this weekend in Alpine.
She’s wild and wooly, talks just a bit strange, hangs her hat on the Canadian range. She’s full of rhymes and full of grit, quick on the uptake, slow to spit. She scrubbed her neck, she fiddled and fussed. Her battle cry is “Alpine or bust!” Her poetry takes her throughout the west, but she always says, “I like Texas best!” She rides through life on a wing and a prayer; she’s never skinned or roped a bear. Her accent will only occasionally perplex us: it’s Doris Daley, thrilled to be back in Texas!
She’ll be joined by Don Cadden, the gathering’s committee president, and a cowboy poet himself. Don has performed his music and poetry at numerous other gatherings in Texas, Canada, and Arizona. He performs songs and poems that he has written, as well as the cowboy classics. Read more about Don here.
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KRTS interviews Cowboy
All weeklong on KRTS 93.5 FM, we’re previewing the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering, held in Alpine this coming weekend, February 24-26.
Listen to special interviews all week on Talk At Ten and to evening programs like Blues Monday.
You’ll hear songs and poems from the greats, as well as interview guests like Hal Cannon, Doris Daley & Don Cadden, plus a live remote broadcast from Opening Ceremonies of the Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, from the Marshall Auditorium on the campus of Sul Ross State University.
KRTS previewing Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Mark Pollock (standing) and JP Schwartz (sitting), February 20, 2012.
KRTS previewing Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Doc Cactus and Sheriff Jim Wilson, February 20, 2012.
Marfa Public Radio seeks two new members of the KRTS team. KOCV 91. 3 FM, the non-commercial affiliate of NPR for the Permian Basin, is being re-launched under new management by Marfa Public Radio. With plans underway for a new transmitter, greatly improved regional coverage, and a higher profile community image.
We are now accepting applications for the positions of Development Manager (based in Odessa/Midland) and part-time Operations Manager (based in Marfa).
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Hal Cannon is the founding Director of the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada, and its famous child, the Cowboy Poetry Gathering.
Cannon has published scores of books and recordings on the folk arts of the West including his bestselling anthology, Cowboy Poetry, A Gathering.
Read more about his long and varied career here.
He was recorded last year at the time of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Alpine, but finally broadcast this year, in 2012.
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Canadian songwriter and country music artist Deric Ruttan recently stopped by the KRTS studios in Marfa for an interview.
Ruttan was here in late January filming a music video in Marfa. His latest album, Up All Night, was released in September 2011.
Country music artist Deric Ruttan, at the KRTS Studios, Marfa TX, January 25, 2012.
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LISTEN NOW: Joseph Menn
Joseph Menn, investigative reporter on the internet for the Financial Times, will be joining us from San Francisco to discuss “hacktism”, recent developments in the extra-ordinary and extra-legal uses of the internet around the world
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Michael Ismerio stops by the KRTS studios on Friday at 10:30 AM for an interview. He is fiddler, banjo-maker, and square-dance caller. He performs in Marfa on Friday night, with guitarist Brian Bagdonas.
Michael Ismerio is from Portland, Oregon.
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LISTEN NOW: Lonn Taylor
Today Lonn Taylor discusses his new book “Texas, My Texas: Musings of a Rambling Boy” out this month from Texas Christian University Press. Listeners of KRTS will recognize Taylor as the host of The Rambling Boy, heard Mondays at 9:30 AM and 7:06 PM.
According to TCU Press, “Lonn Taylor traverses the very best of Texas geography, Texas history, and Texas personalities. In a state so famous for its pride, Taylor manages to write a very honest, witty, and wise book about Texas past and Texas present.”
Taylor will be reading from the book and signing copies at the Marfa Book Company this Friday, February 17, at 6 PM.
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