WGXC-90.7 FM

WGXC Afternoon Show: Jill Salerno and Jeff Rovitz (Alan Skerrett Scholarship Fund)

Sep 26, 2024: 4pm - 6pm
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Alan Skerrett

Alan Skerrett. Photo by Antoine Lutens, Feb. 27, 2015, from the Wave Farm Archive. (Feb 09, 2023)

Hosted by Kieran Riley (Monday), Pastor Kim Singletary (1st, 3rd Tuesday), Randall Martin (2nd, 4th Tuesday), Tom DePietro and Selha Graham (Thursday), and a rotating collection of hosts (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday)

The 4 p.m. hour of today's "WGXC Afternoon Show" is a tribute to the prominent Hudson community member Alan Skerrett, who passed on January 19, 2023. Alan was involved with WGXC from its founding and had a show on the station called "Crossroads in Rhythm." The hour begins with an interview featuring Jill Salerno, longtime partner of Alan, and Jeff Rovitz, friend of Alan and former director of the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties. In the interview, they discuss Alan and his life, the upcoming exhibition of Alan's photographic collection at Columbia-Greene Community College, and the Alan Skerrett Scholarship Fund. The 4 p.m. hour also includes clips of Alan's show "Crossroads in Rhythm," call-ins to the tribute show WGXC broadcast on February 9, 2023, and interviews that WGXC programmers Maria Manhattan of "The Hudson Cafe" and Rob Gelles of "Rob Around the County" conducted with Alan.

Tune in “WGXC Afternoon Show” for local news; interviews with community leaders and personalities; reports on cultural issues; a rundown of public meetings, local, and regional events; with weather updates and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The show begins each day with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events.

The "WGXC Afternoon Show" is considered partially station-run with Saturday’s emphasis being on radio art and art on the radio and Sunday’s show is called "Li Le, Li Tan," which focuses on promoting Haitian language, music, arts, and culture.

Segments featured on the show include "Better Weather” on weekdays produced by the Catskill Makers Syndicate, "Las Brujas Bilingues" produced by Arielle and Gloria, "Food Segment" by Tepper B.T., "The Ag Report" by Brendan Donegan, and "Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley” hosted by Jean Thomas and Tim Kennelty, and produced by the Master Gardeners of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene and Columbia counties with science-based information about gardening and all things nature in New York's Hudson Valley. Also featured are the segments "Specific Objects: Talks on Art in the Catskills" hosted by Miriam Atkin, "Cool Katts: Some cat-tastic and meow-mazing music" by DJs Electro Kitty and Meow Meow Kitty, "The Conduction Series," and the quarterly "Shaker Show" produced by Shaker Museum.

Tune in for previews of upcoming interesting events in the Hudson Valley with "The Month Ahead with Chosen Family Zine" from Mike Amari, an event organizer for Opus 40, Basilica, and others; and Liam Singer; the owner of The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY and a member of Wave Farm's Board of Directors. And for previews of agriculture-related events, tune in "The Month Ahead at Cornell Cooperative Extension with Deven Connolly."

Also featured are movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees from their show "Dim The Lights" as well as interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Morning Show," Justin Maiman from his "Ginger Radio Hour," and other WGXC shows.

Philip Grant and Tom Roe bring you the weekly "WGXC Congressional Report," with reports about the representatives and candidates of New York's 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congressional Districts on Mondays, and Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show.

Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Also tune in for national headlines from the Public News Service on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are also broadcast live here.

WGXC is always looking for contributors who have an interesting idea for a recurring segment on either the "WGXC Morning Show" or the "WGXC Afternoon Show." Email your idea to info@wgxc.org.

Playlist:
  • I'll See You at World's End feat. A Song For Fyo / RISLING! & Low Earth Orbit
  • Get Ready / The Temptations
  • Since I Lost My Baby / The Temptations
  • Hallelujah, I Just Love Him So / Katie Webster
  • Something Beautiful / Trombone Shorty
  • If I Can Help Somebody / Mahalia Jackson (瑪哈莉雅傑克森)
  • Down By The Riverside / Louis Armstrong
  • Radio Song / The Felice Brothers
  • The Cowboy Outlaw / BRIAN DEWAN
  • The Violin / Eileen Ivers
  • Take It Back / Emily Ritz
  • How Many Roads? / Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers
  • Born on a Train / The Magnetic Fields
  • Derby / Buke & Gase
  • Nobody Hears It / Jason Wolfman Martin