Category Archives: Programming
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…
Tarot @ Teatime Episode 26: Cards of Gateway & Transition
Beginning February 17th, we’re pleased to re-broadcast the second of our live presentations from October 2021 by the hosts of our original series: “Tarot @ Teatime”, airing Thursdays and Sundays at noon and 4pm Pacific Time/SLT, 8pm and midnight in the UK. This programme was originally presented live and on-the-air in October as part of the 2021 Haunted Hollow. This episode will also air on February 20th, 24th, and 27th.
Episode 26: Cards of Gateway & Transition
In this episode, we talk about several cards in the Tarot that offer us a gateway from where we are to somewhere else… perhaps a place we’d like to be. Other cards imply a transition from one way of perceiving our world and our experiences to another; a change in consciousness; a realization.
Would live tarot readings add a something unique to your in-world event or venue? Inquire to H0neyHeart Resident by notecard in-world, or email tarot@vcradio.org.
Missed any episodes? Catch them on our MixCloud feed!
British Composers
Today’s programme features music from British composers old and new, primarily focusing on classical styles. The playlist includes Edward German, Richard Harvey, Gerald Finzi, Sir Arthur Bliss, Jon Lord, Christopher Gunning, Vaughan Williams, Havergal Brian and many more.
Then tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific Time / 8pm or midnight in the UK, for another chance to hear the latest episode of “Where Have You Been?”. In this episode, #3 of our second season, we discuss two very different museums. You can find more information, including SLURLs, here.
And don’t miss the latest episode of “Engines of Our Ingenuity” from the University of Houston, every four hours from 4am Pacific.
Image, “balloon — british countryside” by Mikee Showbiz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Virtual Community Radio Supports One Billion Rising
One Billion Rising in Second Life is an enormous celebration of life through music and the arts, and Virtual Community Radio’s Elrik Merlin will be participating with a one hour DJ set of classic rock from the Live Music stage on OBR Unite in Second Life at 2pm slt/pacific. — one of four regions full of art, music and dance.
Make time to and visit the powerful art works, see the brilliant dance groups and enjoy live musicians and DJs throughout the day, raising consciousness and joining this global movement. OBR Second Life is not around for long, and there is much to see and absorb. You can make a difference!
Music of the Baroque
Today, Saturday February 12th, we explore the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be including the work of a wide range of composers. Many will be familiar; other perhaps less so; or they may have written pieces that we know well but have no idea of who composed them — for example English composer Thomas Arne, who wrote Rule Britannia but also a range of other pieces which deserve more interest than is usually paid to them.
Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight UK time, there’s another chance to hear the latest episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our twice-monthly show on places to visit and things to do around the Second Life Grid. Series 2 Episode 3 features two museums that offer similar, and contrasting content for residents to enjoy. The show airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and midnight in the UK. It’ll run on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the same times. Details are here.
And every four hours from 4am Pacific/noon in the UK, tune in for “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”, from the University of Houston, about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Moon Over Morocco: Episode 6
TODAY on Virtual Community Radio — Friday, February 11th, noon or 4pm Pacific / 8pm and midnight in the UK, the SIXTH 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?”: Duelling Museums!
The latest edition of VCRadio’s original series on things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid, visits two museums that offer similar, and contrasting content for residents to enjoy. The show premieres on February 9th and airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and midnight in the UK. It’ll run on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the same times for the next two weeks.
In this episode, #3 of our second season, we discuss two very different museums .
New Shows on Mixcloud
We’ve uploaded three more programmes to our “Listen Again” facility on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 24, completing a review of the Major Arcana; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 2: The Janus Galleries; and Episode 4 of The MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track.
