Monthly Archives: July, 2015


Foldup a lawn chair and head to the 43nd annual Bluegrass Ramble Picnic Aug. 2

Published - July 20, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 20, 2015 Foldup a lawn chair and head to the 43nd annual Bluegrass Ramble Picnic Aug. 2 Each summer, regional Bluegrass Ramble music fans mark their calendars for an event that attracts hundreds of people across Central New York: Bill Knowlton’s annual Bluegrass Ramble Picnic, the longest running bluegrass and acoustic old time country music event in New York. The 43nd annual Picnic takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 2 at Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York. The community-friendly event started in 1973 after the launch of Bill Knowlton’s Bluegrass Ramble radio show

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New bilingual radio program available on WCNY’s Classic FM

Published - July 14, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 14, 2015 New bilingual radio program available on WCNY’s Classic FM WCNY, Central New York’s public media organization, presents a new radio programs on its Classic FM radio station. “Concierto,” hosted by Frank Dominguez, is a weekly classical music program presented in Spanish and English. It airs at 11 a.m. Saturdays on Classic FM. “Concierto” is the only nationally-distributed classical music program that calls special attention the contributions to the art form by Latin-American and Spanish composers and performers. Enjoy a wide variety of classical music from Spanish-speaking countries, from the past and present. Classic FM

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PBS summer brings slate of new science programming, watch on WCNY

Published - July 13, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 13, 2015 PBS summer brings slate of new science programming, watch on WCNY PBS is giving summer television a boost with a robust slate of new primetime science programming, and your public media organization is bringing them to you. For viewing information, visit wcny.org/wheretowatch. “Nova: Chasing Pluto”  |  July 15 at 9 p.m. Nova captures New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft’s nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to reveal the first-ever detailed images of this strange, icy world at the very edge of our solar system. “Life on the Reef” |  July 22 at

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