Community Connection: Girls On The Run Fall Coaches
Girls on the Run Central Virginia and Blue Ridge are currently in their 18th year of bringing this life-changing program to the girls in our communities, and have served over 14,000 participants. With your help, they look forward to helping even more girls reach their limitless potential this year and beyond.
Community Connection: Virginia Discovery Museum Summer Camps
The Virginia Discovery Museum is a nonprofit children’s museum in Charlottesville that fosters intellectual curiosity and development among young children through educational and imaginative play.
This summer, they’re hosting their annual week-long, half-day Summer Camps from June 10th through August 16th. Whether your child is brand new to the camp experience or already knows the ropes, their camps for children 4 and older provide opportunities for kids to gain confidence, make friends, and explore a range of enrichment-focused topics through hands-on learning and play.
Campers can dive into the amazing world of insects, exercise their mind muscles with chess, bring books to life through robotics, and more!
KXT Presents an Alejandro Escovedo Cinco De Mayo Radio Special
Join KXT for a Cinco De Mayo performance by Alejandro Escovedo at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on Sunday, May 5 at 8 p.m. CDT (9 p.m. EST).
Encore: Sturgill Simpson on World Cafe
It’s been nearly a decade since Sturgill Simpson released his breakthrough album Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. On the next World Cafe, hear an interview and performance recorded in 2014 just before Simpson was named the Emerging Artist of the Year at the Americana Music Awards. He reveals that the record’s success came as a huge surprise – he originally thought it would be the last album he would ever make.
Thao In-Studio Session
Thao with her band visits In Your Ear Studios in Richmond for an In-Studio Session in front of an audience of WNRN Members. She’ll introduce us to two brand new, unreleased songs and give us a look into the making of her 2020 album, Temple.
Justice on World Cafe
For their latest album, the French electronic duo Justice turned to Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker to help take their bombastic fusion of disco, funk, and electronic music to new places. On the next World Cafe, Justice’s Garpard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay join us to talk about Hyperdrama, why electronic music is made better with the human element and making their own loops for the record.
