AARON HENKIN

It’s the premiere of OUT OF THE BLOCKS, an original coproduction of radio producer Aaron Henkin and electronic musician Wendel Patrick.  The concept is simple: one hour of radio - one city block - everybody’s story.

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September 23rd & 24th, 2011, on The Signal…

“In the past, personal and political liberty depended to a considerable extent on government inefficiency.  The spirit of tyranny was always willing, but its organization and equipment were generally weak.  Progressive science and technology have changed all that completely.”  

-Aldous Huxley, 1948

For many Charm City locals, there’s a seedy stretch of Baltimore Street that might as well not exist, but this week guest producer Baynard Woods gives us a look at what life really is like for the people who make their living in the city’s red-light district, The Block.

Dan Isaacson, Mathew Olwell, and Kelly Smits join us for a live in-studio performance of traditional Irish music

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This week (June 10th & 11th, 2011) on The Signal…

A special collection of documentary recordings with some of Maryland’s finest traditional musicians, from the archives of Signal producer Aaron Henkin and Maryland Traditions folklorist Cliff Murphy...  

We drop in at a barbershop in Riverdale, where Warner Williams, Phil Wiggins, and other Piedmont Blues musicians turn out on the weekends to play their favorite songs.  

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This week (June 3 & 4, 2011) on The Signal, a special road-trip rebroadcast…

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This week (April 29 & 30, 2011) on The Signal…

• US Navy veteran Jeremy Johnson made the tough decision to come out to his commanding officer after a ten-year military career under the ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ policy.

• Three local art-makers are each 25 thousand dollars richer, thanks to the 2011 Baker Artist Awards, and we catch up with the newly announced winners – vocal percussionist Shodekeh, experimental musician Audrey Chen, and visual artist Gary Kachadourian.
• The Baltimore-based poetry journal, Smartish Pace, has an uncanny knack for publishing Pulitzer-Prize winning poets, and we talk with Editor Stephen Reichert about how he manages to calculate poetic genius.
• Plus:  A late great Maryland statesman is remembered lovingly by the political cartoonist who made him lo

• We pay a visit to the Maryland Historical Society for a preview of “Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War.” The show is the largest exhibition of Civil War artifacts in the society’s 167 year history.
• We visit with the young musicians of “OrchKids,” a group of West Baltimore elementary school students who are learning from the pros at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
• Plus:  From the Stoop storytelling series, documentary filmmaker Richard Chisolm tells what he witnessed when he got assigned to film a family confronting a loved one’s death, and he remembe

• New Logic for Old Saxophones is the title of a new CD from experimental musician John Berndt.  We give it a test spin and talk with John about the reasoning behind his abstract sounds.
• We talk with Madison Smartt Bell about his new novel, The Color of Night.