Category Archives: Programming
Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 27: Cartomancy
Today, March 3rd, it’s time for a new edition of our original series, “Tarot @ Teatime”. In Episode 27, Honey and Willow discuss a few other methods of cartomancy — divination by cards — such as Oracle and Lenormand cards, and in addition to using them on their own, give some guidance for using these other types of cards alongside your Tarot cards in a reading.
12 noon and 4pm Pacific, 8pm and midnight in the UK.
The Early Music Show
EARLY MUSIC — AND “DATE NIGHT AT THE DECKS”
Tune in to Virtual Community Radio today, Wednesday March 2nd, for a programme of Early Music – featuring music of the High Renaissance, with contributions from France, Spain, England and Germany. There are also some modern interpretations thrown in for good measure.
And don’t miss Engines of Our Ingenuity every 4 hours from midday UK time / 4am Pacific.
PLUS, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT — 8pm and midnight in the UK — it’s time for a new episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our series on things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid.
Come On, Take Me To The Mardi Gras…
It’s Mardi Gras weekend here on Virtual Community Radio, and our celebrations continue, centered around the Creole Queen, our traditional riverboat, docked at Chestnut Hills in Second Life.
Sunday, February 27th from 2–4pm SLT — Join us for a Dance Party on the Creole Queen, live in Second Life. DJ Caledonia Skytower will be playing jazz, Cajun, and Zydeco music on our elegant river boat, appropriately decked out for the occasion. No need to bring your beads — we’ve got them! Join us at The Queen, or on-the-air, as we Laissez les bons temps rouler !
And tune in for a final chance to hear the latest episode of our original series, Tarot @ Teatime, 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT — 8pm and midnight in the UK.
SLURL http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/155/51/2823
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! — Mardi Gras on VCR
It’s Mardi Gras weekend here on Virtual Community Radio, and our celebrations on February 26 and 27th centre around the Creole Queen, our traditional riverboat, docked at Chestnut Hills in Second Life.
TODAY Saturday, February 26th — Our Featured Genre will be the music of Carnival and Mardi Gras from New Orleans to Latin America and beyond, plus some old-time R&B and Trad Jazz.
Then at 1–2pm Pacific/SLT — Come along to the Creole Queen for a Live Tarot Reading with VCRadio’s Tarot @ Teatime co-host Honey Heart. Stroll on the banks of the river and request a personal reading of the cards. All readings are free, conducted privately in Voice, and are strictly confidential and for entertainment purposes only.
And at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT (8pm or midnight in the UK) tune in for a special Mardi Gras edition of Where Have You Been? which covers some of the history and background to Mardi Gras and Carnival and suggests an additional venue you might like to visit between now and “Fat Tuesday” itself, March 1.
TOMORROW, Sunday, February 27th from 2–4pm — Dance Party on the Creole Queen, live in Second Life. DJ Caledonia Skytower will be playing jazz, Cajun, and Zydeco music on the elegant river boat environment, appropriately decked out for the occasion. No need to bring your beads — we’ve got them! Join us at The Queen, or on-the-air, as we Laissez les bons temps rouler !
SLURL (available for posted events only):
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/155/51/2823
All times SLT/Pacific.
Moon Over Morocco: Episode 8
TODAY on Virtual Community Radio — Friday, February 25th, noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm and midnight in the UK, the EIGHTH installment of…
MOON OVER MOROCCO
Once in a far away land there existed a knowledge of natural magic that has been lost to modern man. Jack Flanders treks to Morocco, believing that in this primitive country, where magic remains an integral part of daily life, he may find this knowledge. Jack discovers far more than he expected when he steps through the Gate of Peacocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of modern day Morocco and into the realm where the knowledge of magic is a requisite survival skill. Here’s a couple of tastes of this week’s episode…
Where Have You Been? Mardi Gras Special
We’re running a special edition of our original series, “Where Have You Been?” (where we detail things to do and places to see around the Second Life Grid) that will be broadcast on two days only — Wednesday 23rd and Saturday 26th of February, 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT; 8pm and midnight UK time. It’s a special about Mardi Gras — “Fat Tuesday”, which falls this year on March 1st. In the episode we provide plenty of background to the Mardi Gras and Carnival celebrations, focusing on New Orleans in particular, plus we make a suggestion of a place you might want to visit to enjoy your own Mardi Gras celebration.
Piano-issimo
Join us today for a programme of piano music — mainly classical but not entirely.
In addition to some amazing piano concertos and other classical works, we’ll also be playing pieces like the “Denham Concertos” — pieces written to capitalise on the success of Richard Addinsell’s Warsaw Concerto from the film Dangerous Moonlight (the film-makers asked Rachmaninov to write a piece but he declined). These include Clive Richardson’s London Fantasia, originally to be titled Coventry Fantasia after the Midland city severely damaged in the Blitz of November 1940, but his publishers told him that London would sell better. This tremendous work musically traces a day in the life of a city at war.
There are other piano pieces from the movies too, but in addition there’s light music, solo and orchestral works, music-hall pieces arranged for piano, and much more. Do tune in!
Image: “piano keys” by mararie licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Virtual Community Radio Celebrates Mardi Gras: February 26 & 27
February 26 and 27th, Virtual Community Radio will be celebrating Mardi Gras with a weekend of tarot, music, and dancing. Join us at the Creole Queen which has docked at Chestnut Hills exclusively for Virtual Community Radio for this weekend event.
Saturday, February 26th — Our Featured Genre will be the music of Carnival and Mardi Gras from New Orleans to Latin America and beyond, plus some old-time R&B and Trad Jazz.
Saturday, February 26th at 1pm — Live Tarot Readings with VCRadio’s Tarot @ Teatime co-host Honey Heart. Stroll on the banks of the river and request a personal reading of the cards. All readings are free, conducted privately in Voice, and are strictly confidential.
Sunday, February 27th from 2–4pm — Dance Party on the Creole Queen, live in Second Life. DJ Caledonia Skytower will be playing jazz, Cajun, and Zydeco music on the elegant river boat environment, appropriately decked out for the occasion. No need to bring your beads — we’ve got them! Join us at The Queen, or on-the-air, as we Laissez les bons temps rouler !
SLURL (available for posted events only):
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/155/51/2823
All times SLT/Pacific.
Light Classical Music …and more
Saturday, February 19th: today on Virtual Community Radio, we’re pleased to present a programme of light classical music, one of our core genres.
The programme features a wide range of both artists and composers, some well-known and some, perhaps, who are seldom heard. Listen out for the likes of Tomlinson, Ketelbey, Alwyn, Gunning and Addinsell, for example, to name but a few, and enjoy a day of tuneful, often relaxing orchestral music.
Moon Over Morocco: Episode 7
TODAY on Virtual Community Radio — Friday, February 18th, noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm and midnight in the UK, the SEVENTH installment of…
MOON OVER MOROCCO
Once in a far away land there existed a knowledge of natural magic that has been lost to modern man. Jack Flanders treks to Morocco, believing that in this primitive country, where magic remains an integral part of daily life, he may find this knowledge. Jack discovers far more than he expected when he steps through the Gate of Peacocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of modern day Morocco and into the realm where the knowledge of magic is a requisite survival skill. Here’s a couple of tastes of this week’s episode…
