Roundtable Re-Broadcasts Pete Seeger’s Performance With Students From Rondout Valley Middle School

ALBANY, NY (11/21/2007)(readMedia)-- "WAMC/Northeast Public Radio’s live broadcast of The RoundTable from Dia Beacon, in Beacon, NY, on Friday, November 16th was a very big success for the station and for Beacon," stated Alan Chartock, President of WAMC . It was so popular that the portion of the broadcast including, folk music legend Pete Seeger and students from Rondout Valley Middle School will re-broadcast on Friday, November 23rd at 11am. You can tune into WAMC's new Beacon station, 103.9 FM, or any of WAMC's other frequencies, which can be found on their website, www.wamc.org. You can also listen online at wamc.org.

Pictures from last Friday's live broadcast can be found at http://www.wamc.org/roundtableatbeacon.html. They include a glimpse of the WAMC RoundTable personalities who have become so popular over the years, Alan Chartock, Joe Donahue, Morning Edition host, David Guistina and the newest member of The RoundTable, Julia Tayor. The site also includes many pictures of Pete Seeger and the rest of the guests from the live "RoundTable On The Road" broadcast.

Joe Donahue, host of the The RoundTable on WAMC Northeast Public Radio, said, “Being at Dia Beacon and with Pete Seeger during our live remote was one of the most thrilling and exciting broadcast experiences of my life.” Steven Evans, Executive Director of Dia Beacon added “The museum was really happy to host the broadcast. It’s fantastic to have WAMC’s signal in Beacon.”

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is a non-commercial, listener supported public radio network broadcasting 24 hours a day to portions of seven New England and Middle Atlantic states. All broadcasts can also be heard online at www.wamc.org or podcast from our website.

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