Where Have You Been? S06E01 – Mulafell

June 10, 2026   Programming

Wel­come to Where Have You Been Sea­son Six! This episode will be broad­cast  at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days from June 10th.

We won’t spend a lot of pre­cious time mar­veling at the won­der of the sixth year of us doing this togeth­er, for our Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio lis­ten­ers. Even after all this time, there’s still so much to explore on the Sec­ond Life Grid. That’s the best part of it. So let’s dig in!

We’re begin­ning this new sea­son with a des­ti­na­tion that com­bines a lot of dif­fer­ent appeal­ing ele­ments: explo­ration, cosy nich­es to linger in, and sub­tle nods to var­i­ous ele­ments of fan­ta­sy and fic­tion. We are vis­it­ing Mulafell, the cap­i­tal of the four-region Mulashire. The McGre­gor-Mid­night Fam­i­ly gen­er­ous­ly make their lands avail­able to res­i­dents, includ­ing the regions Mulaness, Mula­hope, and Mularune.

There are many love­ly cel­e­bra­tions of Mid­dle Earth in Sec­ond Life. Lovers of the lore of J.R.R. Tolkien can cer­tain­ly find plen­ty of places to appeal to their inner Elf or Hob­bit. But Mulafell has a great deal more than just that, includ­ing a train and boat rides. The cre­ators have done a ter­rif­ic job of cre­at­ing visu­al car­rots to fol­low, always lead­ing you to more. It is a delight­ful des­ti­na­tion to explore either on your own or with a friend.

Region: Mulafell, Cap­i­tal of Mulashire (Mod­er­ate)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Mulafell/185/199/22
Own­er: The McGre­gor-Mid­night Family

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First Sunday — June: The Flute

June 6, 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: around an hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing — new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

This month: Every civ­i­liza­tion has its flutes — rang­ing from small whis­tle-like flutes, to the com­plex con­cert flutes of the clas­si­cal sym­pho­ny orches­tra. Some flutes have wan­dered into folk music and even rock and roll. In this mon­th’s First Sun­day, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the music of flutes from around the globe and across time.

This pro­gramme will go out live at 2pm SLT/Pacific on Sun­day, June 7th.

If you are in Sec­ond Life, why not enjoy the show in  scenic Ceil­i­u­radh Glen, cour­tesy of our spon­sor, Sean­chai Library —  Nowhere­ville (194, 131, 22)

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TMoTM: S05E02 — We Dance!

May 16, 2026   Programming

Now avail­able on Mixcloud

Orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast Sat­ur­day May 16th at 2pm SLT/Pacific -

Wel­come to The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal – on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio – where we explore the blend­ing of music and dra­ma fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry and lore of the musi­cal the­ater with host Cale­do­nia Skytower.

Last sea­son we explored fairy tales on the musi­cal the­atre stage. In that episode we passed over one notable pro­duc­tion: “Once on this Island.”  Inspired in part by Hans Chris­t­ian Andersen’s “The Lit­tle Mer­maid” and based on Rosa Guy’s nov­el “My Love, My Love,” this unique one-act musi­cal by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Fla­her­ty is a Calyp­so-fla­vored fairy tale explor­ing themes of love, prej­u­dice, and hope. Be ready to dance!

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First Sunday — May: Music for Beltane

May 3, 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: around an hour of music on a theme. It could be any­thing — new age music, orches­tral clas­sics, sound­tracks, or music cel­e­brat­ing a par­tic­u­lar culture.

It’s May Day week­end and the Celtic Fire Fes­ti­val of Beltane has just passed. Elrik Mer­lin presents an hour or so of music for Beltane — includ­ing, but not lim­it­ed to, Celtic-inspired pieces.

This pro­gramme will go out live at 2pm SLT/Pacific on Sun­day, May 3rd.

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

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TMoTM: S05E01 — Musical Questions

April 18, 2026   Programming

This show is now avail­able on Mixcloud

SATURDAY April 18th at 2pm SLT/Pacific - Wel­come to Sea­son 5 of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal - where host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and lore of the musi­cal theatre.

What kind of fool am I? Why would a fel­la want a girl like her? What do the sim­ple folk do?

These are all exam­ples of songs in the inter­rog­a­tive case al la musi­cal the­ater. Join Cale­do­nia as she kicks off the newest sea­son of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series, The Mag­ic of the Musi­cal with “Musi­cal Questions.”

Tune in here!

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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.

This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

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.

Orig­i­nal stat­ue image by https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Niamfrifruli This file is licensed under the Cre­ative Com­mons Attri­bu­tion-Share Alike 4.0 Inter­na­tion­al license

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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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