30 Songs thru 30 Years

From 1950 to 1979

It’s more than music trivia… It’s more than “Name That Tune”…

You’ll be taking a fantastic journey through musical history and each of the thirty stops along the way will broaden your knowledge, delight you eardrums and some will even have your toes tapping. For each of the tunes presented during the show, you’ll be given the artist and the year the song came out and asked to give the song title. Many of the choices will be quite familiar others perhaps not. In either case, the song will be played through and there will be a number of clues given. A blank answer sheet will be provided, and you’ll be asked to fill in your selections. After all thirty tunes are presented we’ll tally the results. A perfect score would be 30 points. The night’s winner will receive a $75.00 gift packet for the P. Buckley Moss Museum. There will also be other prizes throughout the evening.

The major goal of the show will be to HAVE FUN! and enjoy the evening’s entertainment. The hope is that you’ll come away with having learned some songs and/or artists that you’ll now really enjoy. You’ll also be reminded of tunes out of your past that you’ve perhaps not heard since they were originally aired.

Background

My name is Paul Sanders, born in Waynesboro, Va. I bought my first 45 rpm record in 1956 at the age of 14. The difference between then and now is that I now get my music from the iTunes store and play them on my smart iphone. I started DJing in 1968 and still have a gig every once and a while. My passion is music and I listen to just about every genre that’s out there. Tonight’s show will highlight that diversity, so sit back, open your ears and your mind and ENJOY!

May 18

6:30 pm & 8:00 pm

The Popular Night Hawk Mysteries return to May’s  River City Radio Hour.  This time the would-be private eye takes on a homicide at the local amusement part.  Cora the owner of Cors’ Big Cups Restaurant is to be married to her childhood sweetheart.  Before the big day, a killer strikes.  Night Hawk and  Murder at the Wedding was written by Bob Crawford and stars Bob Lunger as Night Hawk with Richards Anderson, Clair Myers, Boomie Pedersen, and Llyn Walker.   The shows are at 6:30 and 8:00 pm at 329 West Main in downtownWaynesboro.

The May 18^th performances include The Boogie Kings under the direction of the multi-talented Richard Adams, William Hayes with his amazing keyboard skills and J. T. Fauber.  Sitting in with the Boogie Kings is Mr. Mojo Saturday Night, Kevin Chisnell.

Also at the May Radio Hours will be Marsha Howard,Waynesboro’s First Lady of Laughter.  She has been out and about seeking new material.  Although she appreciates all the jokes given to her by her fans,  her jokes are PG or at most PG13 and are chosen to make her audience laugh not blush.

The guest of the month will be Gary Kirby, voted the best sound man in the Valley by musicians throughout Central Virginia.

Reserved tickets for the River City Radio Hour are $10 and are available online or by calling 540-943-9999.  Remaining tickets will be available at the box office on the night of performances.

May 19

8:00 pm

Narissa Bond, a favorite of listeners throughout Hampton Roads, brings her folk, jazz and blues roots to WTA’s Gateway for Mojo Saurday Night on Saturday, May 19th, 2012.   ! “Get your Mojo Workin!” says host Kevin Chisnell The performance at 329 West Main in downtown Waynesboro will start at 8 pm. Doors open at 7:30.

Narissa Bond is a rare folk/blues artist whose warmth and wisdom captivate audiences through intimate, honest storytelling. Narissa’s melodies and harmonies reflect their rich folk and jazz influences. She brings a new meanng to singer-songwriter.

Narissa was named one of the leading 20 Black Female recording artists in the 2007 release of the book “I’ve Got Thunder” Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft.  In 2009, Narissa’s CD “Three Words” won best album and song of Hampton Roads and a Porfolio Award by Porfolio, The Magazine of the Visual Arts. Barry Graham of Norfolk’s WHRV said, “Narissa Bond has set a new standard for the art of singing and songwriting…She instantly became a favorite of listeners…She is the real thing.”                

Narissa Bond recently shared the stage with Grammy nominated blues artist “Ruthie Foster” at the Attucks Theatre in January of this year.

 Reserved tickets for Mojo Saturday Night are available online or by calling the box office 540-943-9999. Available tickets will be at the box office on the evening of the performance.

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The Richard Adams Variety Show will give cat lovers a turn on the Friday, May 11^th performance.  Besides a full list of musicians, Richard will hold his first “You Can Sound Like a Cat” competition.  Like his “You Can Sound Like a Dog” competition, contestants will mount the WTA’s Gateway stage and mew, purr, or howl to the scrutiny of the audience.  The winner will take home a valuable prize.

Also appearing on the Variety Show will be a solo turn by the keyboard wonder William Hayes.  Rhythm Road will perform songs from their repertory and the Bame Duo will bring their joint talents to the event..

William Hayes is a member of The Boogie Kings and has appeared with that group on the River City Radio Hour.  William is also the accompanist for the Virginia Dreams syndicated tv show.  His appearance on the Richard Adams Variety Show is an opportunity to see his amazing skills as a soloist.

The Bame Duo is a father-and-son musical treat.  The father Orville Bame  is a pianist of note while his son Eric is one of the top high school trombonist in the region since his a freshman year in high school. Last year Eric was 2ndChairAllState on Trombone.  Together they demonstrate the unique sounds of the two instruments in duets.

Rhythm Road’s quartet is composed of veteran musicians of several Shenandoah Valley bands. Their sound is described as “a musical journey through Celtic lands, to the American heartland, with an Afro-Latin pulse.” With Jim Harrington on the accordion, Joe Dockery on percussion, Kevin Walsh on bass and Buddy Thomas on acoustic guitar, the group lends its unique style to everything from Irish jigs and reels to Bob Wills’ Texas swing to Paul Simon’s world beat sound.

Hosting the evening will be Richard Adams with his side-kick Bill Martin who is running for President on the Coffee Tickets.  They will reveal more plans for the one-day-only, Presidential Campaign Event in Dooms,Virginia.

Reserved tickets for the Richard Adams Variety Show are $9.99 and are available online or by calling 540-943-9999.  Remaining tickets will be available at the box office on the night of performances.

WTA’s Gateway is proud to announce the engagement of Comic Brett Leake for a performance of his new show “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to ‘The Tonight Show’ ”.  Leake has performed at the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center and Wolftrap will add the Gateway to his list of venues.  The Saurday, May 12 performance will be at 8 pm at WTA’s Gateway, 329 West Main in Downtown Waynesboro.

Brett Leake worked as a standup comic from 1983 until 1997 when he began working as a sit-down standup comic. In 1998, he started to work also as a motivational speaker adding to his standup act, personal stories and what have been called ‘philosophic lecturettes’, that address using humor as a problem-solving device, and as a means to get more out of life.  He performed at the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, and Wolftrap. Corporate clients include IBM,Toyota, and Ford.

Brett has facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. In 1991, he became the first comedian with a physical disability to appear on NBC’s The Tonight Show about which Jay Leno said, “He broke up the whole room. People realized here’s a man with a disability and he’s not gonna’ let it bother him.” Other television appearances include Entertainment Tonight and the American Comedy Awards. In 2003, public broadcasting stations around the country began running his hour-long comedy special “Laughing Matters with Brett Leake.”

Tickets for the May 12^th  performance are $10.  They are available online, or by calling 540-943-9999.  Tickets are also available at the door on the evening of performance.

To learn more about this amazing comedian, visit his website: www.brettleake.com

Paul Sanders bought his first 45 as a 14-year-old. For a first record, he didn’t do too bad, walking home with Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” to spin on his record player and drive his parents crazy.

“It was one of the #1 songs of 1950, and many will say the entrance of rock-n-roll,” said Sanders, the host of “30 Songs Through 30 Years,” a program at WTA’s Gateway that takes its audience on a journey through music history.

Sanders, who started deejaying in 1968 and has literally thousands of records in his personal collection, picks out #1 hits from the years 1950-1979 and spins them for the Gateway audience, whose job it is to try to figure out the name of the song with a series of prizes at the end as the reward for the most adept.

Sanders is a Waynesboro native and retired DuPonter who came back home in 2006. After a career as a corporate consultant, he’s happy to be able to devote more of his time to his passion, music.

“I listen to just about every genre that’s out there,” said Sanders, whose shows at the Gateway highlight his diversity of musical tastes.

The next “30 Songs Through 30 Years” show is scheduled for Thursday, May 17, at 7 p.m. at the Gateway.