First Sunday — April: Spring!

April 5, 2026   Programming

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial. That’s why we invite you to join us on the First Sun­day (usu­al­ly) after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing — new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

April’s first Sun­day has arrived, along with a new sea­son. Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er wel­comes spring with lyri­cal orches­tral music and just a bit of poet­ry on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio.

Note that this pro­gramme will go out at 3pm SLT/Pacific on Sun­day, not the usu­al 2pm.

If you are in Sec­ond Life, why not enjoy the show in  scenic Ceil­i­u­radh Glen with our spon­sor, Sean­chai Library — www.seanchailibrary.com, Nowhere­ville (194, 131, 22)

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First Sunday — March: Beatles By Arrangement

March 1, 2026   Programming

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial. That’s why we invite you to join us at 2pm SLT on the First Sun­day (usu­al­ly) after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing — new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

Bea­t­les by Arrange­ment is our theme for March, curat­ed this month by Elrik Mer­lin. This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

The songs of Lennon and McCart­ney have inspired count­less artists over the decades, and many of those rein­ter­pre­ta­tions have tak­en on a life of their own. In this pro­gramme, we explore an hour of some of the finest — and most intrigu­ing — cov­ers, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on instru­men­tal and orches­tral renditions.

Expect imag­i­na­tive con­tri­bu­tions rang­ing from George Mar­tin (of course!) and San­tana to Per­cy Faith — and even Sean Connery.

Join us on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio on Sun­day, March 1st at 2pm SLT (Pacif­ic) for a rich and var­ied jour­ney through Bea­t­les clas­sics — by arrange­ment.

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First Sunday: Feb 1st — A Celebration of Music on our 5th Anniversary

February 1, 2026   Programming

Feb­ru­ary 1st, 2026 is not only a First Sun­day, when Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio tra­di­tion­al­ly presents themed pro­gram­ming — this year it also marks the fifth anniver­sary of the launch of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio.

To cel­e­brate, we’re delight­ed to bring you a spe­cial live broad­cast: two hours of back-to-back music, stream­ing live from The Glen at our spon­sor Sean­chai Library in Sec­ond Life — first with Elrik Mer­lin, fol­lowed by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er.

Elrik kicks off pro­ceed­ings at 2:00 PM SLT/Pacific with a pro­gramme of approx­i­mate­ly one hour of coun­try music — a genre we almost nev­er play on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio. Liv­ing in the Nashville area dur­ing the 1990s, Elrik dis­cov­ered a wealth of excep­tion­al­ly tal­ent­ed and high­ly pro­fes­sion­al musi­cians and song­writ­ers pre­vi­ous­ly unknown to him. This set draws large­ly from that peri­od, when coun­try music often  car­ried a par­tic­u­lar­ly strong rock influ­ence. This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

At around 3:00 PM SLT/Pacific, Elrik hands over to Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er for the sec­ond hour. In the 1940’s, jazz lumi­nar­ies such as Char­lie Park­er and Dizzy Gille­spie devel­oped a rev­o­lu­tion­ary style of jazz that moved beyond struc­tured swing to fast tem­pos, com­plex melodies, and high­ly impro­vi­sa­tion­al artistry. They called it Bebop, or just “Bop.” Today Cale­do­nia will fea­ture Bop in the sec­ond hour of VCRa­dio’s Cel­e­bra­tion of Music, as its ener­gy sweeps us for­ward to a new sea­son of VCRa­dio pro­gram­ming. This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

Don’t miss this spe­cial anniver­sary broad­cast, pre­sent­ed live from The Glen at Sean­chai Library. You’re warm­ly invit­ed to join us to lis­ten, dance, or sim­ply be present — either in-world or on the air at main.vcradio.org — as we cel­e­brate five years of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio.

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Music of Scotland and A Burns Supper

January 25, 2026   Programming

Today, 25th Jan­u­ary, is the anniver­sary of the birth of Robert Burns, and today we’re bring­ing you a pro­gramme of tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern music from Scot­land (with plen­ty of bag­pipes of course), and then, at 2pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT (10pm GMT) we are pre­sent­ing a com­plete Burns Sup­per, cour­tesy of the Scots Inde­pen­dent News­pa­per.

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First Sunday January 2026 — Piano Jazz Classics

January 20, 2026   Programming

This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud

After the hus­tle and stress of the Decem­ber hol­i­days, it was time to take a deep, cleans­ing breath and relax. Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio trav­elled to The Dick­ens Project Skat­ing Pond for Jan­u­ary 2026’s First Sun­day, as Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er offered tunes for the soul — Clas­sics of Piano Jazz.

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial. That’s why we invite you to join us at 2pm SLT on the First Sun­day (usu­al­ly) after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing from new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

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Tune In for “A Christmas Carol” — Dec 24th

January 20, 2026   Programming

On Decem­ber 24, Christ­mas Eve, tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio at 2pm Pacif­ic Time – 10pm in the UK – for a spe­cial pre­sen­ta­tion of Charles Dick­ens’ sea­son­al clas­sic, “A Christ­mas Car­ol”, adapt­ed for radio by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er, with Shan­don Lor­ing, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Merlin.

And what bet­ter place to lis­ten than at The Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life, where Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio pro­vides the audio track? Here are the details!

Dur­ing the day, we’ll be play­ing a col­lec­tion of sea­son­al music and Victoriana.

To tune in, use the play­er on the right hand side of the brows­er win­dow. If this does­n’t work for you, open a net­work play­er such as Winamp or VLC and play this URL: or it may open in your brows­er. http://main.vcradio.org 

May we take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to wish all our lis­ten­ers, friends and spon­sors a very hap­py Hol­i­day Sea­son and a hap­py and healthy year ahead. Thank you very much for your sup­port and encour­age­ment which has made it pos­si­ble to bring you our unique pro­gram­ming for the past years — and hope­ful­ly many more!

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A Viennese New Year On Skates!

January 20, 2026   Programming

Join DJ Elrik Mer­lin on Fri­day, January2nd at 2pm SLT at theDick­ens Project Skat­ing Pond to wel­come in the New Year with a Skat­ing Par­ty set to the walzes and polkas of a Vien­nese New Year.

Come to the Dick­ens Project Wel­come Cen­tre and fol­low the path to the Skat­ing Pond. And if you can’t be there in per­son, tune in to Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio for the live stream.

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Where Have You Been? S05E09 – FlygearZ: A Winter Waltz

December 13, 2025   Programming

Whether des­ti­na­tions specif­i­cal­ly reflect any of the Decem­ber hol­i­days, or just the breath­tak­ing glo­ries of the snowy sea­son, there’s no doubt there are many, many beau­ti­ful regions to be dis­cov­ered and explored at this time of year — it made it real­ly dif­fi­cult to pick one to feature.

So, as we often sug­gest, when look­ing for places to explore across the Sec­ond Life grid, first lis­ten to us….  (laughs) Then, check out the Sec­ond Life Des­ti­na­tion Guide.

Fly­GearZ pro­duces, among oth­er things, curat­ed dance events. They are more than your aver­age dance par­ty —  what Jen­na Dirval puts togeth­er is some­thing more. She applies her First World knowl­edge of dance and her love of explor­ing musi­cal gen­res to con­struct shows that are mem­o­rable events. Fly­GearZ have been wild­ly pop­u­lar at Calas Gal­ad­hon, among oth­er places.

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First Sunday, December 7, 2025: Classic Electronica

December 6, 2025   Programming

Now avail­able on Mixcloud!

In this pro­gramme, we take a broad­ly chrono­log­i­cal look at the devel­op­ment of elec­tron­ic music, from the days of musique con­crete to the mod­ern ubiq­ui­ty of the syn­the­sis­er. We’ll be focus­ing on the melod­ic and even whim­si­cal use of elec­tron­ic instru­ments rather than abstract pieces, so this fea­ture-length pro­gramme should  be great fun. Enjoy!

At Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, we believe Sun­day after­noons are the per­fect time to treat your­self to some­thing spe­cial.  That’s why we invite you to join us at 2pm SLT on the First Sun­day (usu­al­ly) after­noon of each month as we present a dif­fer­ent musi­cal treat: one hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing from new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

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TMoTM S04E06: Pirates!

November 22, 2025   Programming

This show is now avail­able on Mixcloud

Gilbert & Sul­li­van’s The Pirates of Pen­zance; or, The Slave of Duty pre­miered on Decem­ber 31, 1879, where it was well received by both audi­ences and crit­ics. Yet even as far back as that open­ing, the show has been a har­bin­ger of change — blur­ring the lines between light com­ic operetta and musi­cal com­e­dy. The recent Broad­way re-imag­in­ing Pirates! The Pen­zance Musi­cal pushed those bound­aries even further.

In this episode of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal, Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores this Gilbert & Sul­li­van classic’s remark­able his­to­ry and its role in mak­ing the once vaunt­ed exclu­sive realm of the “savo­yard” acces­si­ble over 140 years after its premiere.

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