Horses Report

On March 30, BCAT (Brooklyn Community Access TV) began airing HSNOI on Tuesdays, 12:30 PM on Time Warner 34; Cablevision 67; RCN 82; Verizon 42; Also streams via www.bricartsmedia.org/community-media/bcat-tv-network ; Brooklyn resident and Ralh's Furry Harmonica Brother, Alan Podber, acting as the local access "producer" of the series, filled out all the paperwork and met with the people at BCAT to make it happen.

We taped two fine shows in March:

486) 3/10/10 Robert Hill Band - 1st place 2005 Unisong Internat’l Songwriting Contest AAA/Americana category for "My Corner"; 2nd place in 1st Annual Nat’l Slide Guitar Festival, Acoustic Competition roberthillband.com

487) 3/10/10 Helen Levin – singing some favorites from the repertoire of Jacques Douai, a "troubadour of modern times" who interpreted rich, sometimes Surreal, imagery of French folkloric or "chansons poetiques" HelenLevin.com

Upcoming:

4/21/10 6:45 Gar Francis Band- from Plainfield, NJ, in '70’s formed The Rockids, regulars at CBGB’s & Max’s Kansas City in NYC, sharing stage w/The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads & Roger McGuinn garfrancis.com

4/21/10 8:00 Chris Ayer - Brooklyn, NY-based singer-songwriter, 2006 Award winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the Folk category; pop, rock, soul & even country permeate his sound myspace.com/chrisayer

5/25/10 6:45 Richard Stillman – Actor, Singer, Musician, Tap Dancer, Storyteller http://mysite.verizon.net/richardstillman

5/25/10 8:00 Lori Lieberman – singer-songwriter (“Killing Me Softly”) lorilieberman.com

For June, I've been trying to arrange a taping date for Broadside Electric, but they haven't agreed on it yet.

I also completed burning the DVDs for Don Riemer to edit into a "Best of the Blues on HSNOI" Compilation and handed them off to Don. For those interested, the selections to be included are listed in the attachment.