All Instrumentals on the Highway

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published April 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM EDT

Tune in to this week's Acoustic Highway for an all-instrumental hour with both national and regional artists. We'll hear from locals Dustin Furlow, Matt Thomas, Skip Friel, Bill Gurley, Robin Bullock, and Doug Alan Wilcox along with national performers like Will Ackerman and Pete Huttlinger. Huttlinger was the guitarist for John Denver and also toured with Hall and Oates and country star Leann Rimes. He paid a visit in 2002 to WHRO and performed live on WHRV. Ackerman founded the famed Windham Hill Label and still produces music in a Vermont based studio. Sit back and relax with an hour of instrumentals on the Highway. Sunday night at 9 on WHRV.

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Barry Graham

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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