Great Acoustic Icons on this Week's Highway

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published February 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM EST

This week's Acoustic Highway features some of the great icons of the genre with tracks from Jim Croce, John Denver, Judy Collins, and Carole King (who just celebrated her 83rd birthday!). Also, we'll feature local and regional artists Roberta Lea (who just won a Veer Magazine Music Award), Bill Gurley, and Ron Fetner, who was the very first local artist who was featured Live on the Highway over twenty years ago. And, with inspiration from our recent winter weather- a set dedicated to snow with music from Nanci Griffith and Karen Casey. It's a real jammed packed Highway. Tune in Sunday night at 9 on WHRV.

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Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.

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