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Ryder Cooley of carnival-like, Hudson-based group Dust Bowl Ferries is in conversation with WOOC's Andrea Cunliffe. Appearing in the Capital Region over the next 10 days, the Dust Bowl Ferries are appearing at the Linda in Albany and in Troy at the Troy Music Hall Square summer program. Dust Bowl Faeries is a dark-carnival band from the New York Hudson Valley. Their eclectic repertoire of songs draw inspiration from circus, post-punk and Eastern European folk music. Accordion, singing saw, ukulele, lap-steel, acoustic guitar and percussion combine to create the Dust Bowl Faeries otherworldly sound. The band was founded by Ryder Cooley (faerie queen) and her taxidermy spirit animal Hazel the Ram. Their Album, The Plague Garden, was released in 2020. The DUST BOWL FAERIES full band will be the Capital Region performing some new songs and a selection of their dark cabaret favorites on Aug. 19 at 8 p.m. at The Linda, and Saturday August 28 for the Troy Music Hall Square summer program.

The WGXC Morning Show is a radio magazine show featuring local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC. The Catskill Makers Syndicate produce the "Better Weather" for the show. Rob Gelles produces the Columbia County history segment "Rob Around The County" and "This Month in History" for the show. Julia Joern produced the "Hudson Valley Word of Mouth" interview segment each week. The "WGXC Congressional Report" also airs here. Some reports come from our partner station, WOOC-LP in Troy, out of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show. At 9 a.m. "The WGXC Daily," with local headlines, weather, and previews of community events, airs. At 10 a.m., national headlines from Public News Service are on WGXC. Sometimes national, state, or local press conferences, meetings, or events are broadcast live here.