Red River Radio Highlights
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  • Our Next Cyber May Drawing is For a McKay House Get-A-Way

    May is CYBER Month and on Friday, May 18 at midnight we'll hold our next drawing for a two night stay at the McKay House Bed & Breakfast in historic Jefferson Texas. Make your pledge before midnight, Friday May 18 and you'll be entered to win. You'll also be entered to win in our final drawing which takes place at midnight, Friday May 25. For our final drawing, we'll give-a-way an ASUS 10.1" Netbook Computer. Click on the Link below for all the details. Make Your Pledge now and support all the programs you love and help us shorten our end of the year drive at the same time. For each $15,000 we raise we'll shorten the end of the year drive by one day. Click the DONATE Now link and Pledge!

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    The Alley-McKay House is a romantic Bed and Breakfast in the "Quality Hill" section of the National & State Historic District of Jefferson, Texas. They’ll welcome you like family, but treat you like special guests. They don’t want you to just relax, but to come enjoy yourselves and have fun. For a romantic getaway, the popular 1851 Alley-McKay House Bed & Breakfast Inn provides guests with luxury lodging and is within a short stroll of fine dining, antiques, shopping, carriage and riverboat rides in Jefferson's historic downtown area.

    Take A Tour Of The House Here.

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  • Cultural, Community, Information
  • Red River Radio presents “A Prairie Home Companion”

    Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion” will present a live broadcast on Saturday, June 9, at 4:45 p.m., in historic Shreveport Municipal Auditorium. Tickets are going fast so call now to reserve your seats.

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  • Cultural, Community, Information
  • The Songbird: Lee Morse

    Airs Thursday, May 17 at 9:00 p.m.  In 1917, and the age of 20, Lee Morse began her career as a singer who became her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range.

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  • Cultural, Community, Information
  • Savannah Music Festival: Piano Showdown Part Two

    Airs Thursday, May 17 at 8:00 p.m.  A summit of keyboard virtuosos including Eddie Palmieri, Henry Butler, Bob Seeley and Aaron Goldberg. In the international music world, there are literally dozens of piano competitions across the globe. However, in jazz and blues music, the spirit of friendly competition has always been a part of the tradition. In this second episode, we'll hear more solos and duets by four distinct, versatile and unique players from different generations. Octogenarian and boogie woogie specialist Bob Seeley shares the stage with Aaron Goldberg, who is not even half his age. New Orleans-based Henry Butler and Latin jazz great Eddie Palmieri round out this one-time-only production recorded at the 2009 Savannah Music Festival. 

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  • Local
  • LeTourneau University recruits home-schooled students

    LeTourneau University in Longview seeks home-schooled students and their families to attend a four-day symposium to learn about college life and what the school offers. Admissions counselor Barnabas Bridgeman says one in five students at LeTourneau has a home schooling background.

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  • Commentary
  • What Was I Thinking for May 17, 2012

    Commentator Brian O'Nuanain takes on the subject of illegal’s swooping in on our community.

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  • Local
  • Fuller Center for Housing spreads to Bossier City

    The Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana is taking its home building ministry to Bossier City. Two homes will go up there over the summer. Executive director Lee Jeter says he wants home ownership to be possible in every neighborhood where people live in poverty.

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  • Arts
  • Nacogdoches historical group celebrates poet Karle Wilson Baker

    Friends of Historic Nacogdoches will put on a one-woman play bringing to life the writings of Karle Wilson Baker. She was a prolific poet of the 1920s and 1930s who lived in Nacogdoches. A bronze statue of Baker will be erected in downtown Nacogdoches this fall. The fund raiser titled "Karle Wilson Baker: A Writer's Life" will be held May 18 and 19 at Cole Art Center.

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