By Abi Ingoglia, Matthew Brooks, Francisco “A.J.” Camacho, & Carolina Carmo
It’s Alumni Weekend!
This weekend, Feb. 17 to 19, WRGW is hosting an Alumni Weekend Celebration to honor the incredible alumni that continue to support our station members and broadcasting.
WRGW’s last alumni-centered event was our 90th Anniversary celebration in 2020. This weekend we are continuing event traditions as well as adding some exciting new features! We want this to be an opportunity for all of WRGW station members, alumni and the GW community at large to come and support one of GW’s oldest media organizations.
We are starting off the weekend strong with our Alumni Talk with WRGW Alumni Mark Kates. Mark is a music manager historically synonymous with alternative music. He spent over 10 years at Geffen/DGC Records, including A&R for Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Hole, White Zombie, Elastica, XTC, Jawbreaker and countless others. He ran Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal Records and worked at Big Time and Ace of Hearts. Fenway’s client roster includes MGMT, The Cribs, Mission of Burma, Doves, Josh Klinghoffer/Pluralone, and Curious Creatures. This event is a really exciting opportunity to learn more about the music industry and the skills you gain through student media. The talk is being hosted by Lauren Onkey (Director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and former senior director at NPR Music), and Gayle Wald (Professor American Studies with special interest in African American culture and popular music studies as well as former DJ at WPRB) and will be hosted in the Corcoran Flagg Building from 12:30-2:00 p.m on Friday.
Then, on Saturday, 8 a.m. marks the start of our 24-hour broadcast where station members and alumni will be broadcasting live! We have a lot of great interactive shows for people to come into the station and participate or just listen to live music. To highlight some of our shows, WRGW is collaborating with two GW orgs DLP and Tiny Dorm who have hours blocked to highlight the DLP Drag Show as well as live in-studio performances. We also have several alumni hosting shows and many of them reviving the show they had from their time as undergrads. Check out the schedule here!
Lastly, we will be finishing our weekend with a small brunch with our E-board and attending Alumni. This is an opportunity for current board members to talk to and network with the alumni who have been on board. While this is a closed event to WRGW station members and the GW student body, there are a lot of other opportunities for station members and students to meet our alumni and learn about their experiences at WRGW and post-grad.
This weekend is a unique and special way to celebrate the amazing things our station has done throughout the years and is still doing now! We’d love to see you at these events throughout the weekend and beyond. Our station has had some really amazing people come through it, many of whom have helped it to become the awesome place it is today. Now is your chance to hear from them and see how WRGW has impacted their lives through and beyond GW.
-Abi Ingoglia, WRGW General Manager
Become a Part of a GW Musical Mosaic
The GW Musical Mosaic, 8-9 a.m.
The GW community is fascinating to me. GW has students and alumni from all 50 states and many different parts of the world. We come from different backgrounds, cultures and upbringings. But for whatever reason, we all end up here, at The George Washington University.
GW is a mosaic of America and the world, and music is one way we capture that. Music connects us to events in our lives, to particular situations and specific times. Think of all the places we experience music in the world. From your local coffee shop barista playing Hozier to brides walking down the aisle to Mozart’s Canon in D. At each and every point in our lives, there is music to tie us to that place and time.
With this in mind, I am interested in exploring this phenomenon at GW. What is the music that ties us to our time here? What do we listen to when we are in the coffee shop? When we’re trying to get through a late night study session?
What is the music that resonates with us and encapsulates our moments spent at GW?
But…this show isn’t a story about me. This is a story about all of us here at GW. I can’t build this mosaic without receiving the pieces that make it up, which is your music and your stories.
If you are a GW student or alumnus and would like to submit a song and a story to add to the mosaic, please use this form! Be creative and open–there is no criteria other than to submit a song that resonates in some way with your time at GW. I will try to include as many songs and stories as possible, and we will get to spend an hour together listening to so much music and so many of the experiences that ultimately tie our community together.
-Matthew Brooks
Work your Wits and Test your Trivia!
A.J.’s Grand Gameshow, 11pm-12am.
Do you think you’re pretty clever? Well, I know four folks who think they are too. I’ve gathered them in groups of two to have their knowledge and skills tested on my grand gameshow at 11 pm during the 24-hour broadcast!
Now if you’re reading this, you may not have the chance to be a contestant, but you should still drop by the studio to ‘observe’ or listen in with a phone nearby. That’s because the audience defines the show! The big catch, no matter which specific mini-game we’re playing, is that the teams each get two audience cards!
What are audience cards? Well, there are two kinds. The green card is basically a phone-a-friend where the team chooses someone from the audience to answer the question for them. The red card is played before a question to the opposing team is read, forcing a random audience member to answer the question for the other team.
Oh, and in addition to all of this, there is an audience-only round. So, make sure to drop by the station at 11 pm Saturday Feb. 18 to get the most out of the show!
-A.J. Camacho
Tiny Dorm. Live and in-studio. Only on WRGW.
Tiny Dorm x WRGW, 6-8 p.m.
Tiny Dorm Concerts GW is an outlet for student musicians to perform for their community on campus. On Saturday, Feb. 18, Tiny Dorm is partnering with WRGW to bring music to a larger audience live on-air. Tune in to the radio to hear current student bands Corduroy Conjunction, Cause of Death and Home Remedies, as well as solo artists Nica Albertson and WRGW alumni Village Green from 6-8 p.m. If you’re on campus come down to the station to listen and watch these performances!
Musician cheat sheet for Saturday:
Corduroy Conjunction: A five-piece of current GW students and often found wearing corduroy pants (that’s a joke). Corduroy mixes two guitars, keys, bass and drums to create a very full sound, and they might debut some original songs on air!
Nica Albertson: a current senior at GW, Nica put out her debut album last year. She often performs solo with just her acoustic and her voice – matching her songwriting and her tender music perfectly.
Home Remedies: chances are you know ‘em. And you love ‘em. These guys are Tiny Dorm veterans and we’re always excited to bring them back to our tiny stage. Their bassist is a geology major, fun fact.
Village Green: a recent GW graduate who used to co-host “The Window Seat” on WRGW. He recently released his first album, a self-titled LP that debuted live on his radio show last spring!
Cause of Death: a metal four-piece made up of current students on campus, get ready for a lot of noise. Funkadelic, rock on.
Listen live for the first-ever Tiny Dorm x WRGW in-studios for music, chats with our performers and some great terrible dad jokes along the way.
-Carolina Carmo
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