In its six years of independent public broadcasting, WDVX has intensified a sense of place in our region.  WDVX resists marketing to a narrow demographic, serving a rural and urban audience which includes many sectors seldom reached by public radio.   Regional and visiting musicians play live from their ever-expanding studios and remotely from the field.  Framing their weekday Americana format are locally produced programs of world music, blues, classic Country, independent singer-songwriters, new releases by local performers, bluegrass gospel, bluegrass, and bluegrass.  Most of Sunday afternoon and evening has long been devoted to programming that explores the deep roots and strange turns of Southern mountain music.  Jubilee Community Arts is proud to be recognized for its contribution with the "Sunday Jubilee."

For 35 years Paul Campbell, Director of the UT Social Work Office of Research and Public Service and long an active member of the Appalachian Studies Association, has hosted bluegrass and regional music on WUOT's "Music of the Southern Mountains" and "Mountain Jubilee."  We are pleased to announce that "Mountain Jubilee," featuring bluegrass and area music and excerpts from concerts at the Laurel Theater, is now rebroadcast at 6 pm Sunday on WDVX, with production assistance and continued support from WUOT, which schedules a prior broadcast at 9 pm each Saturday.

 "Live at Laurel" presents prerecorded concerts from the Laurel Theater, owned and operated by Jubilee Community Arts.  In addition to showcasing regional traditional arts that serve JCA's primary mission, many popular artists, local artists, and touring acts from traditions outside the region can be heard. 

 Folklorist Brent Cantrell, Executive Director of Jubilee Community Arts, hosts "Wild Hog in the Woods," a program of old-time Southern Appalachian music including raw unaccompanied ballads, timeless early country recordings, radical styles of traditional fiddle and banjo performed by the old masters, all soaked in subtleties of rhythm irreproducible in our time.  Native to rural Warren County on Tennessee's Highland Rim, Brent has done folklore fieldwork in Togo, in the Haitian and other ethnic communities in Miami, and in Tennessee.  His unusual perspective on culture reflects both academic training and intense social experience near and far from home.

Bob Fulcher, Park Manager of the Cumberland Trail and founder and long time Director of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project, is internationally renowned for his encyclopedic and enthusiastic knowledge of the nature and culture of the Cumberland Mountains and for many years of important fieldwork and presentation in the traditional arts.  On "Music of the Cumberland Trail" Bobby plays many rare custom recordings of undiscovered musicians living or passed, as well as the professional output of those who made their mark, "the music of our neighbors" in the eleven-county corridor of the 283-mile foot trail under construction from Signal Point to Cumberland Gap.  He also keeps us up to date on the projects of the Cumberland Trail Conference coordinating the efforts of eager trail-building volunteers.

Joe Bussard has spent a lifetime pursuing rare surviving examples of early 20th century American music. His private archive contains more than 25,000 obscure recordings from the golden age of old-time music.  His "Country Classics" radio programs have aired on many stations since 1959, showcasing the tastiest gems in his vast collection and his ebullient and entertaining personality.  The Tennessee Arts Commission makes possible this special program devoted to the early recordings of Tennessee.

 JCA Concert Manager Toby Koosman took the reins of WDVX's "A Celtic Sunset" in 2001, shifting the emphasis of the program away from the best known contemporary Celtic music towards more rustic lines of tradition not shaped for an international market.  This cousin music to that of our neighbors has its own ragged gems and classic performances emerging from an older time.  "Last Night's Fun" develops this focus exploring the music of Ireland, Scotland and England.  Toby has nourished a love of traditional music for twenty-five years and is a student of Ireland's premier concertina player Noel Hill, whose keen memory and respect for his forebears in Western Ireland form the critical link from recorded sounds to a concrete culture. 

 Jubilee Community Arts thanks WDVX for the opportunity to air these shows every Sunday from 6 to 11 pm, at 89.9 FM Clinton, on the web at www.wdvx.com and on its Knoxville translator at 102.9. 

Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916  (865) 522-5851 info@jubileearts.org