KVMR's Next General Meeting Tuesday, September 7th

Miner's Foundry, Nevada City, CA
6:30 PM Potluck, 7:00 PM Meeting

Agenda includes volunteer-elected Board of Directors election, streaming playlist collection, upcoming volunteer opportunities and more. If you cannot attend, please let Edy volunteer @ kvmr.org or Steve Baker program @ kvmr.org know.

Mark Your Calendars For

KVMR's 14th Annual Celtic Festival

Come for the Music

...Stay for the Magic

It's music, magic, and so much more at KVMR's 14th annual Celtic Festival.

Get your tickets now and take advantage of advance ticket pricing. You'll enjoy world-class headliners, great food, one-of-a-kind shopping, and so much more. It's a weekend of fun for the whole family.

Click here for more about KVMR's 14th Annual Celtic Festival

Think Local First!

Grass Valley Thursday Night Market

6:00 PM to 9:30 PM, Thursdays, July 1st thru September 2nd
Downtown Grass Valley

It's a Farmer's Market, it's a free concert series, it's a shopping spree, it's a place to see and be seen. The Grass Valley Thursday Night Market is all of this and more. It's one of the great charms of our community where everyone comes together for food, fun, and merriment.

Stop by the KVMR booth during your visit to the market and pick up the latest Listener's Guide or information about the Celtic Festival. We'd love to see you!

Click here for more about Grass Valley's Thursday Night Markets

An Encore Performance

Johnny Cash Tribute Show featuring

James Garner and his Cash Band

Saturday, September 4th
at the Grass Valley Veteran's Hall
255 South Auburn Blvd., Grass Valley
Doors open at 6:15 PM
Show starts at 7:00 PM

After a sell-out performance in the Spring, The Nevada County Conference & Visitors Bureau is bringing back the Johnny Cash Tribute Show for an encore. Featuring James Garner and The Tennessee Three, this show is one to see if you're a fan of Johnny Cash or just enjoy the great "boom-chicka-boom" sound that Cash pioneered.

Click here for for more about the Johnny Cash Tribute Show

Friends of Hospice present

"Side by Side" with Jane Rivar

September 11, 2010
River Highlands Ranch

Join Friends of Hospice and honorary chairperson LaVonne Amaral, present a premier benefit concert event, "Side by Side". KVMR joins Friends of Hospice in standing together to celebrate 29 years of support for the mission, programs, and patient services of Hospice of the Foothills and now the new Compassionate Care Home.

Click for more about this Friends of Hospice benefit & presentation of "Side by Side" with Jane Rivar

The Center for the Arts presents

Chubby Checker and The Wildcats

September 11, 2010
Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Hall

Celebrate 50 years of twisting the night away with KVMR and The Center for the Arts and rock and roll pioneer, Chubby Checker.

Click here for more about Chubby Checker and The Wildcats at Grass Valley Veteran's Memorial Hall September 11, 2010

New LIVE! Festival Broadcast from KVMR

4th American River Music Festival

Henningsen-Lotus Park, Lotus, CA

On the South Fork of the American River in the Coloma-Lotus Valley
September, Friday 17th - Sunday 19th, 2010

LIVE! Broadcast September, Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th

KVMR adds another amazing festival to our live broadcast calendar. It's the 4th Annual American River Music Festival with over 32 Folk, Americana and Acoustic Blues performances at 11 stages throughout the friendly river community of Coloma.

Click here for the American River Music Festival LIVE! Broadcast

KVMR Awards Pair of National Programming Grants

A weekly series of essays on a poet's everyday life and a national documentary on the growing importance of mushrooms have been chosen as the 2010 recipients of funding from Nevada City noncommercial community radio station KVMR's National Radio Program Production Grants.

The awards, totaling some $10,000 and entirely funded from the station's Corporation for Public Broadcasting budget, went to:

--Molly Fisk of Nevada City, to market her essays (currently heard Thursday nights and Friday mornings on KVMR 89.5 FM) to national and regional public radio stations.

--Anna McHugh of Wimberly, Texas, and formerly of Nevada City, to produce a national special called "Mushroominations: Conversations With Fungus Fanatics."

Click here for the full story

Attention KVMR Members, be part of our

Now being a KVMR Member has become even more valuable. Present your KVMR Membership card at any business member of KVMR's Community Connection program for special discount offers.

Your KVMR Membership not only makes you eligible for great discount offers, but you will also be supporting our local business community. Click here for a list of KVMR's Community Connections businesses and their offers.

General Meetings - New Date in September!
Potluck at 6:30 PM, Meeting at 7:00 PM
In the Stone Hall, Miners Foundry
325 Spring Street, Nevada City
Tuesday, September 7th & December 8th

KVMR Board of Directors Meetings in 2010
are bi-monthly on Mondays at 6:30 pm
(There will be no board minutes for non-meeting months.)
August 30th, September 27, October 25 & November 29

KVMR's Board Development Committee (BDC) meets quarterly.
If you would like notice of these meetings please contact;
Phil Hart, BDC Chair, boardelections @ kvmr.org or 530-272-6870

KVMR's Community Advisory Board
Click here for August 3rd 2010's Agenda
FREED Center for Independent Living,
117 New Mohawk Road, Nevada City, CA

Program Committee Meetings
Alternate Wednesdays at 6:30 PM
KVMR News Dept. Suite 200
401 Spring St., Nevada City
Call for days & dates: 265-9073 ext. 211

Women's Collective
Contact Susan Schreiber, womenscollective @ kvmr.org

Give the gift of membership, a unique gift that lasts all year. Consider the benefits:

You support your community radio station

Your membership is a tax deductible donation

Your friend(s) receive:

• KVMR Membership card
• KVMR's bi-monthly Listeners' Guide
• Discounts to KVMR events
• A unique gift available no where else . . . on Earth!

Most important of all, you don't have to drive anywhere to make this happen!