WKAR-TV Membership Drive
June 6-21
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WKAR-TV wraps up the fiscal year with its annual June membership campaign. Your pledge of support will help us reach our $120,000 goal.
Below are highlights of some of the new programs airing this month. Also on tap are many encore broadcasts. For schedules, visit the listings section at WKAR.org.
America’s Home Cooking: Easy Recipes for Thrifty Cooking
Saturday, June 6, at 9 a.m.; Saturday, June 13, at 8 a.m.
Family budgets are stretched these days and cooks have to be thrifty gourmets. Using simple ingredients to make nourishing and filling family meals is a must. Chris Fennimore offers recipes used for years by thrifty gourmets in America’s Home Cooking: Easy Recipes for Thrifty Cooking.
Included are more than 100 tips, tricks and recipes to save time and money while still creating delicious and nutritious meals. Subjects include “A Chicken in Every Pot,” “Using Legumes,” “Comforting Casseroles,” “Hearty Soups” and “Grandma’s Wisdom.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer: Excuses Begone!
Sunday, June 7, at 8 a.m.; Wednesday, June 10, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 20, at 2 p.m.
Dr. Wayne Dyer returns with a new special, Dr. Wayne Dyer: Excuses Begone! His goal is simple, though not easy: to help viewers learn how to overcome lifetime thinking habits that keep them from maximizing their human potential. Excuses Begone! addresses the powerfully transformative process of changing habituated ways of thinking that limit beliefs in who we can be and what we can achieve.
Through Dyer’s process of identifying the most common self-defeating excuses, he teaches that we have the ability to choose our way of thinking. “This is a program about choosing, not excusing,” he explains. He informs viewers that just because something has “always seemed to be the way it is,” there is a wealth of research that now points to a human being’s ability to change these habits — excuses — and move into new realms of behavior that are no longer self-limiting.
Great Performances
Sunday, June 7, at 9 p.m.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Motown Records, Great Performances presents Stevie Wonder: Live at Lastcaptures Grammy Award-winning artist Stevie Wonder in his first concert performance recorded for television. The special telecast features the Motown master performing such chart-topping hits as “Isn’t She Lovely,” “My Cherie Amour” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours).”
Wonder rocketed to stardom at age 12 when he was signed to Motown Records as “Little Stevie Wonder.” Over nearly four decades, Wonder has reinvigorated the music scene with his unique sound, produced nine #1 records and won a total of 22 Grammy Awards — and there’s no end in sight for the successful superstar.
Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement
Monday, June 8, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 13, at 4 p.m.; Sunday, June 14, at 7 p.m.; Sunday, June 21, at 5 p.m.
Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement explores how music was inspired by and helped sustain the struggle for equality and human rights. The program includes exclusive interviews with music icon Chuck D and actor Louis Gossett Jr.
From Billie Holiday to Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin, from Curtis Mayfield and Sly Stone to Gil Scott-Heron, Freedom Songs documents how a few daring musical innovators stood at the vortex of two revolutions — one cultural, the other musical — and forever changed America and the world. From the early civil rights era to Watergate, they brought music, medium and message together as never before, composing a soundtrack perfectly tuned to the tempo and pulse of those turbulent times.
Freedom Songs includes interviews with musicians and activists including Ruby Dee; Pete Seeger, Gladys Knight, Jimmy Carter and the Blind Boys of Alabama,Ruth Brown, Jerry Butler and Isaac Hayes and many others.
American Masters: Neil Young: Don’t Be Denied
Monday, June 8, at 9:30 p.m.
A resolutely private artist who seldom looks back, Neil Young has never before unfolded his career on camera. With unprecedented access to one of the world’s music legends, American Masters explores how Young’s unbending dedication to the muse has generated an awe-inspiring body of work — and bruised a few egos along the way.
Told in Young’s own words, the film weaves hours of exclusive interviews shot in New York and California with previously unseen performance footage from the star’s own extensive collection. The documentary also features longtime collaborators Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Nils Lofgren and James Taylor.
From his suburban Canadian childhood to his Hollywood superstardom, the camera captures the critical benchmarks and personal pitfalls of the godfather of grunge.
Fillmore: The Last Days
Friday, June 12 at 8 p.m.
When legendary rock impresario Bill Graham closed the Fillmore West in 1971, the San Francisco venue had become an institution, an integral part of the West Coast music scene in the 60s. Graham made sure the Fillmore West was sent off in a blaze of glory, scheduling five nights of concerts featuring bands like the Grateful Dead and Santana, groups that got their start at the storied concert hall. The madness leading up to the shows and the concerts were filmed for Fillmore: The Last Days, a documentary originally released in 1972 and long out-of-print.
Fillmore: The Last Days stands as a vivid time capsule that captures an era in rock history when music had become a major industry and — for some — a huge headache. It delivers a gritty, behind-the-scenes look at the music business at a time when many artists were growing jaded by their success, demanding more and more.
In the end, the frantic preparations paid off with a host of marvelous shows by a range of artists who made up what was called “The San Francisco Sound.” Fillmore: The Last Days features performances from all five nights, including songs by the Grateful Dead (“Casey Jones,” “Johnny B. Goode”); Santana (“Incident at Neshabur,” “In a Silent Way”); Quicksilver Messenger Service (“Fresh Air”); Jefferson Airplane (“We Can Be Together”); and performances by Cold Blood, Hot Tuna and Lamb.
The Big Band Years
Saturday, June 13 at 7 p.m.
The era of the legendary orchestras, great singers and song standards is featured in The Big Band Years, drawing upon the most beloved melodies that kept the home fires burning and soldiers’ hearts alive during World War II.
The program turns back the clock to a time when swing musicians ruled the radio and night clubs, bringing a joyful escape to Americans during one of the most turbulent eras in the nation’s history.
The special recalls the music of Glenn Miller, Harry James, and Benny Goodman, along with the wonderful “boy” and “girl” singers who performed with the bands, such as Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly. Also included are memories of The Andrews Sister and Guy Lombardo.
Great Performances: Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood: In Concert From Madison Square Garden
Monday, June 15, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, June 20, at 9 p.m.
Longtime friends and former band mates Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood team up for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion concert in Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden. The Great Performances special telecast captures Clapton and Winwood at New York’s Madison Square Garden performing songs from their short-lived Blind Faith collaboration along with hits from their respective solo careers.
“I was 15 or 16 and he was 18 or 19, and he definitely looked after me,” Winwood recounts of his friendship with Clapton. As that friendship solidified, Clapton and Winwood — with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Ric Grech — formed Blind Faith, disbanding in 1969 after releasing only one chart-topping, self-titled album to pursue solo careers.
The two take viewers back to rock’s glory days as they perform songs by Jimi Hendrix, Clapton’s catalogue, and tracks from Winwood’s band Traffic, along with hits from their Blind Faith album.
Josh Groban, An Evening In New York City
Monday, June 15, at 10 p.m.
Josh Groban performs favorites from his best-selling albums in an intimate theatre setting in this Soundstage special event. Taped at Rose Hall at “Jazz at Lincoln Center” in New York City, this stunning performance features special guest appearances by acclaimed jazz pianist Herbie Hancock and trumpeter Chris Botti.
Songs include “You Are Loved” (Don’t Give Up), “Alla Luce Del Sole,” “Broken Vow” (with Botti), “Machine” (with Hancock), “Awake,” “Weeping,” and several others.
published: June 3, 2009
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