Rhythm, Roots, and A New Show

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion was a smash hit! Our thanks to Leah and all the great volunteers who make this one of the nation's premiere events every year. Heritage TV is proud to be a media sponsor of the reunion. It may take just a little patience, but the performances we captured this year will be making it to our channel in drips over the next months. Please keep an eye on the schedule on our main webpage. It was great fun and also a lot of work for everyone. My thanks go out to HTV's great crew. Even braving sudden downbursts of rain. Just like all the participants and musicians, we could sleep for another week or so, but alas, we are back at it.

This Thursday (Sept. 24) we will be taping our very first "Spotlight on Music" show in front of a live audience at Java J's on State St. in Bristol at 6pm. Hope you will be there. Again we ask for patience. It's our first one and we will be feeling our way around to get things the way we want them. (Then we will change them again for the second show because we probably didn't get it right the first time, and on and on.) We are honored to begin this new program with a special and unique talent, Annie Robinette. We will talk a little with Annie about whatever comes up, including questions from the audience, and she will perform as well. Other artists coming up in this series include Lightnin' Charlie, Reagan Boggs, Houser & Co., and April Taylor. We will let you know days and times as they approach. But, be there Thursday. Jerry Phillips and I will co-host the show, Amanda Clark will woman the cameras, and Lawson Garrett will get the sound right. Thanks to Julie Marion for all her helpfulness and hospitality at Java J's. It's going to be fun! Be there and help us out with our first show.

David

Spotlight on Music

Great news for music fans of all kinds. Heritage TV has developed a new music program that's just a little bit different and you are going to enjoy (we kind'a just took a guess on that). Jerry Phillips and I will co-host a monthly show live at Java J's on State Street in Bristol on the first Thursday of every month beginning in November at 6pm. Except (there is always an exception, but instead of an "*" I thought I would go ahead and explain it here. The first show will take place on Sept. 24th. After that it's the first Thursday of every month at 6pm. We are going to tape the show with a live audience, so we hope that a capacity crowd will show up for the first taping and all subsequent shows. A huge list of performers have already expressed interest in performing. And since it's monthly (at least right now) the slots are limited. But if you are a performer that may be interested in getting on the list, send us some stuff. Info and demo. You can get the ways to send it from our website: www.heritagetv.com. We also are holding out hope that eventually we will be able to cablecast the program live on BVU/OptiNet channel 3. That's up to those great techs at BVU to figure out the details of that and if it is feasible. In the meantime, it will be taped in front of a live audience with an airdate to be announced. There are actually people at HTV who do the scheduling and I never have an idea when it will be until they tell me. I always get that question. Aaron and I did youth football last night at Sugar Hollow Park and got that same question, "When will it be on?".

We will post an update when we get the answer to the regular airtime spot for the Spotlight on Music show. The main thing is to get your body and your buddies to Java J's on Sept. 24th at 6pm. Jerry, Amanda, the performers, and I all look forward to seeing/meeting you.

David