An evening of poetry, music, and video featuring: Coleen Murphy Alexander + Brenda Coultas + Frank Cuthbert + Brian Dewan + Stephen Elliott + Nick Flynn + Lex Grey + Jared Handelsman + Peter Head + Kim Jaye + Rachel Levitsky + Timothy Liu + Paul McMahon + Daniel Nester + Loni Pont + George Quasha + Michael Ruby + Ira Sher + Violet Snow + Sparrow + Christopher Stackhouse + Charles Stein + Studio Stu + Hudson Talbott + The Unbearables, as well as works available by the Garden Goddesses in support of in support of WGXC: Hands-on Radio in Greene and Columbia Counties.

The "Garden Goddesses" are a group of working artists who garden in Catskill and the surrounding areas. Members have been meeting for just under a year at each other's homes, studios, and gardens. Although the artists work in various media including music, painting, photography, poetry, and sculpture. Their love of gardening and their pioneering spirits bring them together to reflect on their work, their gardens, and how they influence each other. At the November 14th benefit the Garden Goddesses will exhibit works by "the goddesses" and photos of them in their gardens, that will be for sale in support of WGXC. This installation is a glimpse into the personal worlds of the artists and the forces that drive them creatively and spiritually. The Garden Goddesses include Victoria Brill, Alice Caulfield, Sasha Chermayeff, Tasha Depp, Lex Grey, Ruth Leonard, Portia Munson, Dina Palin, Fawn Potash, Erica Potrzeba, and Cate Woodruff.

Catskill WGXC Sound-Voice Benefit is organized by Sam Truitt, with Fawn Potash, and Paul Smart.

WGXC is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia counties. This multi-faceted project will be much more than just a radio station. With studios in Catskill and Hudson, WGXC activities will include special exhibitions and events, workshops and media training for youth and adults, a news blog with writing and photography, and a local calendar of events, meetings, and other resources.

WGXC volunteers are working hard to launch a 3,300-watt community radio station. More than 78,000 people throughout Greene and Columbia counties will be able to receive the signal on 90.7-FM. WGXC received its license from the FCC and a grant from the US Commerce Dept that will cover 50 percent of our equipment needs. We now need to raise matching funds in order to get on the air. Join us on November 14 and help launch WGXC-FM.

DONATE FUNDS

Your donation (to free103point9, WGXC's parent organization,) is tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.

Location and Description: This edition of Giant Ear))) is hosted by Hunter Inter-Media Arts/MFA candidate Bleakley McDowell focusing on Hunter graduate student work from NYSAE Co-Chair Jonny Farrow's Sound Environments class. You will hear a wide range of NYC sounds from the Bronx to the Battery and points east and west. The show will feature works by: DaHye Lee, Elizabeth Knafo, Meredith Goncalves, Melissa Hacker, Samantha Stalling, Satoko Sugiyama, and Sean Weiner and some sounds from Solo, Indonesia.

Radio Ruido live from Brooklyn.

Deep winter approaches. Instant, drastic climate change aside, it will be getting colder. In the majority of New York City buildings this means old steam radiators will be sputtering to life. The first half of today’s broadcast is collection of recordings of these radiators from various apartments. Listen for the water hammer...it’s getting hot in here. We follow that with paranoid, beyond-the-grave wax cylinder recordings and a journey to mystical Surakarta, Indonesia. False gong - neither a beginning nor an end, a start nor a finish. With work by Edmund Mooney, Jonny Farrow and Bleakley McDowell.

Kee Koo brings post-network dub counter-tactics to Studio Cyclops in Brooklyn with host Radio Ruido.

Ticket pre-sales are now closed, BUT YOU MAY BUY TICKETS AT THE DOOR FOR $30 TONIGHT.

Basilica Industria, the enormous performance space just down the street from the Amtrak Train Station in Hudson, will host a giant fundraiser for WGXC this New Year's Eve. A masquerade ball, the event will feature two stages of music, performances, theater, dancing, and more.

Save the date for the biggest party in Columbia or Greene County New Year's Eve. There will be bands, DJs, and all sorts of other performers. Lady Moon, M.A.S.S., Saber Coup, Bella's Bartok, Abby Lappen, DJ Jackie Thomas, Mother Fletcher, Young Paris, Trixie (MC), Diata Diata, Hudson City Ramblers, Evan Randall,The Magic Stranger, Rob Hervey, DJ Jim McCabe, Ryan Clover & astickandastone, The Bleeding Hearts, Liv Carrow, an aerial performance from Ryder Cooley, a Norman Douglas radio play, and Alpha Psi Ecdysia Burlesque featuring Lucida Sans, Spartacus Rising, Gemma Stone, Angelique A'Lamode and more are some of the confirmed performers/performances.

Jason's Upstairs Bar will help with the champagne toast (included with admission) and the bar with beer from Chatham Brewing; The Main Street Public House in Philmont will sell food; Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters will keep everyone going; Verdigris Tea is providing hot tea; Migliorelli Farm is providing hot cider; Pronto Taxi will be on hand to safely get you home; Chronogram magazine is co-sponsoring the whole show, and many other local businesses will be involved.

We are encouraging folks to wear masks and/or costumes, but this is not mandatory. Masks made by members of the community will be on sale at the door. Please dress festive.

WGXC got a 3,300-watt non-commercial license from the FCC to start a community radio station that will cover most of Greene and Columbia counties. WGXC hopes to go on the air next summer. WGXC recently got a $71,000 grant from the Commerce Department to pay for half of the transmitter, antenna, and studio equipment. WGXC needs to match the other half of the grant, and raise $71,000 by March 31, 2010. Please help us bring community radio to this area.

Also buy tickets in person at Spotty Dog Books & Ale, 440 Warren St. in Hudson, NY.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS/PERFORMANCES

Mother Fletcher is a rhythmic Hudson-based band.

Alpha Psi Ecdysia Burlesque, featuring Lucida Sans, Spartacus Rising, Gemma Stone, Angelique A'Lamode and more is the Hudson Valley's only burlesque troupe. Founded by production director Lucida Sans on the SUNY New Paltz campus in 2008, A.P.E. has risen from the nation's premier undergraduate burlesque troupe to "among the most ambitious producing entities in the new neo-burlesque", performing regularly in New York City, New Paltz, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and beyond. "Dangerous-minded and infectious", A.P.E. features some of burlesque's finest ingenues in acts scandalous, bizarre, theatrical, grotesque, gorgeous and always sexy. The women (and man) of A.P.E. where their hearts on their sleeves and little else. They strive to be naked before their audience, even before the last panty falls.

Young Paris is a Hudson-based hip hop performer who will perform with Saber Coup at this event.

Bella's Bartok Western Massachusetts' premier Acoustic Gypsy Punk Circus Band, and sometimes Western Massachusetts's premier Gypsy Balkan Rockabilly Fusion Party in a Box (just squeeze).

Diata Diata The Percussion Ensemble of Diata Diata International Folkloric Theatre is led by husband and wife team André and Pamela Badila, accompanied by their children, who were raised on the stage in New York and France. Founded in 1985, Diata Diata presents folkloric dance of ancestral Africa as international theatre, including wildly popular performances at Hudson schools.

Hudson City Ramblers The Hudson City Ramblers were born on a winter night in Columbia County when slap bassist Mikey "Chops" LeConte invited Slink Moss to perform at a benefit at the Taconic Wayside Inn in Copake, New York. Slink Moss brought Aigars Kildiss and Joe Lucas from the Slink Moss East Coast Band and they jammed wildcat rockabilly with the house band.

Abby Lappen is a singer-songwriter, who lives in New York State's beautiful Hudson Valley, and performs in the northeast.

Rob Hervey of Saugerties has been studying didjeridoo since 1996 and plays the Australian instrument through a variety of effects.

Ryder Cooley is an inter-disciplinary artist, performer and musician. She will perform aeriel dances several times throughout this event.

Jackie Thomas is a Hudson-based DJ who has spun on WBCR (Great Barrington), and at many events in Hudson and NYC.

Lady Moon is a Hudson-based performer, who will play with Saber Coup at this show.

Evan Randall recently moved to Hudson from Great Barrington.

The Magic Stranger is John Cleater of Columbiaville, who is a founding member of internationally acclaimed Performance Group, The Builders Association, creating designs for many of their cross media productions. He has worked as project architect with Asymptote for clients including the New York Stock Exchange, Documenta XI, BMW Headquarters, The Guggenheim Virtual Museum, and Carlos Meile. He will DJ at this event, international psychedelic music from 1969.

Jim McCabe is a Columbia County resident who will DJ at this event.

Liv Carrow is a Hudson-based guitarist.

The Lottery at Hudson is a fictional work/radio play by Norman Douglas that uses the radio documentary format familiar to listeners of National Public Radio. Stylistic paradigms can be found in such programs as Joe Frank (now in reruns on WNYC AM Sunday nights at 11, wnyc.org), WBEZ's This American Life, WNYC's RadioLab, and even a few podcasts like the memory palace. "The Lottery at Hudson" is the small but intricately woven story of how a humble community of approximately 7500 souls living alongside the banks of upstate New York's mid-Hudson River transforms itself into a functioning utopia of sorts. What sort of utopia seems to have arisen largely from the appeal of one person's singular perspective, a multifaceted vision culled from various sources that an otherwise unremarkable teacher and student of history has stumbled across during his twenty-odd years of service in the field of public education.