A Li’l Music Buzz: “Soup to Nuts: Live”
Local musicians have a new hope coming their way in the next few months as far as regional recognition. WHQR 91.3 FM–whose signal reaches all the way north to Jacksonville, west to I-95, and south to N. Myrtle Beach–will soon begin recording for a new forum at which local musicians will be performing live, Soup to Nuts: Live.
All performances will be taking place on Thursday nights, and will be open to the public (and free… for at least a while).
Beyond the buzz? This is very rare for Wilmington area radio stations, who have few, if any, performances on air that are solely devoted to increasing regional awareness of Southeastern NC’s music scene…which is filled to the brim with talented song-writers and musicians who often go unrecognized due to the difficulties of getting on-air at stations whose focus tends to be national pop-culture rather than community support.
WHQR’s Soup to Nuts: Live will provide talented and tested live local musicians an answer to these difficulties. It’s a live venue. It’s a radio venue.
Broadcasts for the new program will not be broadcast real-time for the first few performances. Rather, the show to be hosted by WHQR’s George Scheibner (Midday Edition and Soup to Nuts) will be set up as a live concert to be recorded live in the WHQR Gallery, and set to broadcast at a later date.
Stay tuned for more details and the first official Soup to Nuts: Live performance Thursday, tentatively scheduled for sometime at the end of July.
For booking & other info, contact David Howell at WHQR 91.3 FM by email at dhowell@whqr.org
That’s great news, David. Please do post the bookings and dates here as you know them.