For your "listening pleasure" (as they say) .....

Tune in to WOI AM-FM/Iowa Public Radio the weekend of December 8 and 9, to hear famed folk-&-gospel artist and Civil Rights pioneer ODETTA on NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion" with Garrison Keillor.

Just in case you weren't aware yet, FYI, Odetta will be coming to Des Moines next February 22-24 to appear at the 2008 Thresholds Arts Festival here @ First Christian Church. She will be headlining the Saturday-evening concert, as well as participating in Sunday's Worship, leading a discussion during the 11:00 Learning Hour, & singing with the Mass Choir during the Sunday Multimedia Gala.

IMPORTANT: When you're listening to the broadcast this weekend, please take note of the underwriting "spots" promoting Thresholds during the breaks.

AIR TIMES:
5:00-7:00 pm Saturday, 12/8, on WOI-FM 90.1;
12:00 noon-2:00 pm Sunday, 12/9, on WOI-AM 640.
(You can also catch the "Prairie Home" broadcast on KUNI-FM 101.7 or 90.9, simulcast at the same times as on WOI, but you won't hear the Thresholds underwriting spots.)

an excerpt from the "Prairie Home" website (www.prairiehome.publicradio.org) with related weblinks highlighted .....
December 8, 2007
This week on "A Prairie Home Companion" we're delighted to be back at the Town Hall in New York City with a staggering lineup of special guests, including masterful jazz singer Ann Hampton Callaway, legendary "Blues Boy" Geoff Muldaur, renowned interpreter of the jazz harmonica Howard Levy, and the Queen of American folk music Odetta. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

Join us this week for a big show that will surely make it as a footnote in broadcasting history.

OTHER LINKS: www.woi.org / www.kuniradio.org / www.npr.org /