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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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