Walnut Valley Fest webcast collaboration - WSUiR and Front Porch Radio

[Lauren Hirsh]

Front Porch Radio is broadcasting live from Winfield again and this year is teaming up with WSUiR to bring even more festival sounds via the Internet to the sad folks who couldn't make it to hear them in person...

Front Porch Radio streams hours of live music from their stage at the Walnut Grove - check out past years' events right now! WSUiR will be scouring camp sites to record the culture that makes Walnut Valley one of the most loved festivals around. Recordings of interviews and music of festival-goers will be broadcast the following day along with Best-Of Yesterday's Front Porch Radio and the James Gates Show. To catch the main stages, you've got to get yourself there in person, but to hear what you're missing from the campgrounds- jump on the Internet and listen to Front Porch Radio and WSUiR.

* Check out our tentative schedule on the attached flier.

This is a huge effort and all volunteer, so you'd like to help up make it happen, let us know now! We could definitely use your help:

• let us know which camps you want to hear about - even meet up with us there and show us around!
• sign up for our text group: if you're on the list, you can text to irnut...@googlegroups.com to send everyone an alert that some amazing music is happening and where we should come to record it.
  
• clue us in to other people already recording or otherwise documenting the festival
• gather field recordings
  
• basic audio editing
• uploading/driving content to Wichita for broadcast
• spread the word!

To contact WSUiR:   ws...@wichita.edu
At the festival:   Find the Front Porch Radio stage in the Walnut Grove

We keep our Winfield notes on a collaborative web space. Check in to see how our planning is going (and for proof of how much we could use YOUR help!)


See you there, or hope you're tuning in!

WSUiR and Front Porch Radio