Press Release

August 6, 2013 For Immediate Release: For press info contact Roger Ganley Roger@wruw.org or 330-998-0438 cell

Join 91.1 WRUW-FM Cleveland for the 2nd annual Fairport Harbor Music Festival!
Sunday August 18, 2013 1PM - 5PM FREE and open to the public!
The Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse Fairport Harbor, Ohio
Celebrate the final days of summer with WRUW and a host of performers from NE Ohio. Listen to local favorites span the spectrum of folk music --- from Celtic rock to eastern dance and honky tonk blues, the Fairport Harbor Music Festival has it all! Be sure to bring blankets, lawn chairs and a picnic lunch--but no glass bottles please!

This year's line-up:

LochErie

LochErie is a trio playing the best of the best when it comes to contemporary Celtic folk music. They dabble in traditional Irish music and like to throw in some Maritime music as well. Bill, John, and Steve have been playing together as LochErie for several years, and draw upon their eclectic backgrounds in rock, folk, electronica, and ethnic music to bring you the music they love and the sounds that stir the hearts and souls of the listener. They are based in Lake County and are currently playing all around the Greater Cleveland area.

Anita Keys and Friends

Singer-songwriter Anita Keys performed in cover bands for more than 20 years before embarking on a solo career. Making regular appearances at the Barking Spider Tavern, Brothers Lounge and Wilbert's, Anita Keys currently performs with Ryann Anderson on bass, Lorne Franklin on percussion, Quinn Sands on backup vocals and Matt Harmon on guitar. Anita Keys and Friends were selected to perform at Ingenuity Festival 2012, Breastfest 2012 and Hessler Street Fair 2013. Anita, Ryann and Lorne just completed her second full-length CD "Twenty-Twelve," a collection of Anita's original songs from 2012.

De Queens of De Nile

Belly dancers De Queens of De Nile have wowed audiences throughout the Greater Cleveland area with their unique combination of Classic American Cabaret, Turkish, Egyptian and Folkloric dance styles. De Queens perform with leader and veteran choreographer Helen Morrison.

Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys

A band comprised of four professionals with long histories in roots/Americana, blues, country, rock, jazz and swing, Rachel Brown and the Beatnik Playboys embrace all of their musical influences and combine them into an overall sound that seeks to find what the best of these styles have in common. Rachel Brown is an experienced singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Playing and studying music for over 25 years, she holds a master's degree in music education with a classical piano/choral emphasis. Brown has opened for many renown artists including Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.. Bassist Bill Watson has made an extensive, successful career out of performing. He also plays with The Numbers Band, Hillbilly Idol and Alex Bevan. Percussionist Roy King has had the pleasure of performing with living legends Moses Allison and Bucky Pizzarelli as well as local heroes Alex Bevan, the Gopher Broke Swing Band, Mike Petrone and Joe Hunter. Guitarist Dave Huddleston is a lifelong student and lover of music. As a multi-instrumentalist, his influences include Bach, Artie Shaw, Elvis, the Temptations, the Beatles, and Ella Fitzgerald among many others.

A big thank you to our community partner, the Lake Humane Society! We are asking fest attendees to donate to the LHS Pet Food Drive. Recommended items include: canned cat and kitten food, canned dog food, kitten milk replacement, cat litter and other pet care supplies. Please visit www.lakehumane.org.

For directions and more information on the Fairport Harbor Marine Museum and Lighthouse go to: www.ncweb.com/org/fhlh

Who We Are
WRUW 91.1 FM is the campus radio station of Case Western Reserve University, located in the University Circle section of Cleveland, Ohio. WRUW is a non-profit, commercial free, all volunteer staffed radio station. WRUW operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. Although WRUW is the student radio station of Case, numerous community volunteers and alumni are involved, giving WRUW continuity not found in most college radio stations. In addition to broadcasting at 15,000 watts, WRUW is also webcasting, with the web stream available here. WRUW streams its on-air signal, giving WRUW a world-wide audience. WRUW also archives every show on the air for a period one week, making them available for downloads. WRUW prides itself on presenting a wide range of music not found on the commercial end of the dial. WRUW's programming encompasses jazz, rock, blues, folk, electronica, polkas, metal, international, reggae, and other forms of audio entertainment, making it one of the most diverse radio stations in existence. Since being founded in 1946, WRUW has amassed an enormous music library, featuring over 100,000 albums and 45s and over 100,000 CDs. There are no playlists or "push boxes" at WRUW - each programmer is free to choose the content of their own weekly radio show. The guiding principle is to provide audio entertainment not readily available anywhere else. WRUW's official motto is "More Music, Fewer Hits". WRUW also broadcasts public affairs programming, both syndicated and locally produced, providing viewpoints and perspectives not readily available in the mainstream media. WRUW supports local music and live music with a weekly show called Live From Cleveland, which runs Thursday evenings, from 10 to 11 PM. Live From Cleveland affords local musicians, bands, and performers the opportunity to come to the studios of WRUW and perform live on the air for an hour. The performance is recorded as it happens, stored onto DAT or CD, and made available for play by the WRUW DJs. Additionally; WRUW offers its annual music festival Studio-A-Rama at the end of every summer. This is a free, open to the public, ten hour long outdoor concert featuring a national headliner (past headliners have included Guided By Voices, The New Bomb Turks, and The Upper Crust) and seven or eight local openers. The concert is broadcast and webcast live as it happens. WRUW also shows its commitment to the community by broadcasting and webcasting the main stage of the Hessler St. Fair, a two day festival held in the historic Hessler St neighborhood in University Circle, across the street from the studios of WRUW.

In a recent issue of Details magazine, WRUW was named "the [Cleveland] area's most consistently eclectic college station." Additionally, Scene Magazine (a weekly free alternative newspaper in Cleveland) named WRUW "Cleveland's Best Radio Station" for 3 years in a row. If you're looking for radio the way it oughta be - no commercials, no jingles, no playlists, no payola, no corporate conglomerates - then you've found it at WRUW. Broadcasting at 15,000 watts, webcasting and archiving, and staffed by enthusiastic volunteer DJs who are given complete freedom to present the music of their choice in a unique, creative manner, WRUW is truly a beacon of light in a dark radio world.

A Brief History of WRUW

In 1946, WFSM was founded by the Flora Stone Mather Radio Club, "broadcasting" via a public address system. Since that time, it evolved into an AM carrier-current station (WRAR, starting in 1955) and then (on February 26th, 1967) to the FM broadcast station it is now. WRUW 91.1 FM began as a ten watt mono station serving the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland. WRUW gained stereo capability in 1974 and, in 1980, raised its power to 1,000 watts. The evolution of WRUW was competed when, on March 5th 2002, WRUW increased its power to 15,000 watts. WRUW now serves a large portion of the Northeast/Northern Ohio region, from the Ohio/Pennsylvania border (to the east) to Toledo and parts of Michigan (to the west) and portions of Canada (to the north).