Fastball is on a long list of bands that had meteoric success in the mid-90s, but unlike most, this Texas trio is still going strong with their seventh album “The Help Machine.”

One in five children under the age of 18 live in poverty--even in the United States. This week on Educationally Speaking, we hear from a local representative of Communities in Schools, a national program that is working to help students succeed. 

This Sunday local artist Jerry Sowers pays an in-studio visit to the Acoustic Highway to share music from his latest project. Join us at 9 p.m. on WHRV FM.

Writer's Block returns on Sunday. This edition features members of Rotary International joining with other local artists to share original literary work.

One of most talented bluegrass musicians to ever emerge from Eastern Virginia died this summer. On Sunday night, WHRV's program Pickin' will remember him and his influence on music.

Mal Vincent previews former Miss North Carolina, and current comic sensation, Jeanne Robertson’s performance at the Ferguson Center for the Arts.

Big Thief is a band with a lot to share, “Two Hands” is their second album of 2019 and including vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Adrienne Lenker’s solo album from last October that’s three albums in one year.

It’s not every band that releases a mission statement about their latest album but on The Avett Brothers new one “Closer Than Together” they must have felt the songs needed some explanation. According to them, “The Avett Brothers will probably never make a sociopolitical record. But if we did it might sound something like this.”