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KXCI Tucson: Summer Auction Set For June 1-7

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:34:00 +0000

KXCI’s Start Your Summer online auction starts June 1st at KXCI.org.

We’re currently looking for donations of products and services to include in the auction, with proceeds supporting our non-profit community radio station. If you are a business owner or operator, an author, artist or musician, we’d love to hear from you!

The sooner you donate the more we can do to promote your generosity!

Download the donation form here: SummerAuctionForm.doc

For more information download our auction letter: SummerAuctionletter.doc

Questions about donating? Contact Amanda at 623-1000 x17.

KXCI Earth Day & Solar Panel Commissioning

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:34:00 +0000

Join your friends at KXCI for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on Thursday. We'll be marking this milestone with a full day of special programming and a commissioning ceremony for our new solar panels (shown above) that were installed by Technicians for Sustainability (http://tfssolar.com/).

From 8am to midnight, we'll have special interviews and segments with local and national environmental leaders, special guest deejays, and of course, a ton of Earth-friendly music.

From 5pm to 7pm, you are invited to join us at the station (220 South Fourth Avenue) for a commissioning ceremony for our new solar panels. We've have speakers, station tours, free gifts for the first 100 visitors, solar-powered pizza from Brooklyn Pizza, and snacks from our friends at Sunflower Farmers Market. You'll even be able to stick your head through the roof hatch for an up-close and personal look at the new solar panels.

2nd Saturdays Downtown, May 8th

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:28:00 +0000

Bring your friends and family downtown on Saturday, May 8th for the inaugural 2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN, sponsored in part by KXCI Community Radio.

In the tradition of Tucson's historic downtown Saturday nights, this new event (to be held on the 2nd Saturday of every month!) will feature street vendors and performers, food, musicians, visual arts, “pop-up” retailers including a KXCI local music store, indoor and outdoor concerts, and discounts from downtown merchants, restaurants and clubs stretching the length of Congress and including many downtown side streets.

More performers and events are being added every daily. To stay up-to-date on this incredible event, visit http://www.2ndsaturdaysdowntown.com/.

To read the complete press release about this fun downtown event and the people making it happen, click here:

2ndSaturdaysPR.doc

Save The Gloo Factory benefit this Sunday

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:26:00 +0000

The Gloo Factory will hold a benefit for its building fund this Sunday at Raices Taller 222 Studio and Gallery (218 E. 6th in downtown). For complete details, visit http://www.savethegloofactory.org/

KXCI Community Radio: Board Election Information

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:18:00 +0000

The KXCI Board of Directors annual election will be held in June 2010, at which time station members will elect three of their fellow members to serve 3-year terms, and one member to serve the one year remaining on a previously elected term.

To be eligible to run, a person needs to have been a KXCI member on or before March 31, 2010 and they must complete a nomination form and return it by 5pm, April 30th. The form is available in the KXCI membership office at 220 South Fourth Avenue in Tucson, or it can be downloaded here: 2010NominatingForm.doc

View the election schedule here:

To run, you must be a member by: 3/31/10
Nomination forms due: 4/30/10, 5pm
Deadline to be a member for voting purposes: 5/12/10
Ballots mailed/electronically distributed: 5/13/10
Candidate forum: 5/20/10 during BOD monthly meeting
Deadline to vote: 6/11/10 (postmarked, or 5pm for electronic ballots)
Ballot counting, announcement of winners: 6/15/10
Board Annual Meeting (new members first meeting): 6/17/10

KXCI Proud To Sponsor 2010 Arizona International Film Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:00 +0000

KXCI Community Radio is one of the many proud sponsors of the Arizona International Film Festival, set for April 15th to 25th in venues throughout our community.

Festival organizers, directors and performers will be joining us on-air for interviews on The Home Stretch beginning April 12th. For a list of screenings, and complete details on the festival, visit http://www.filmfestivalarizona.com/.

And stay tuned to 91.3FM for complete details on the return of "KXCI Day" at this year's festival!

KXCI Thanks All Who Made Festival en el Barrio Viejo an Amazing Event!

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:52:00 +0000

On behalf of all of the staff, volunteers, members, board of directors and listeners we would like to thank everyone who made Festival en el Barrio Viejo a success. Special thanks to Calexico and friends; all of the musicians, The Rialto Theatre and their amazing staff, Charlie Levy of Stateside productions, all of the volunteers, the setter uppers and the tear downers, the servers and attendees. We posted some pictures of the festival on our KXCI Community Radio facebook page. Onward.

$25 Festival en el BarrioTickets Now Only Available @ Entrance at Cushing & Meyer Sat. April 3 beginning @ 11:30

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:09:00 +0000

$25 tickets for KXCI's annual Calexico and Friends Festival en el Barrio Viejo are available at the festival entrance on the corner of Cushing and Meyer just south of the Tucson Convention Center. Ticket sales at the Festival venue begin at 11:30am.

We look forward to seeing you at this concert to benefit KXCI. You'll enjoy two stages of live music, beer, food, vendors and more. Stop by and see us at our KXCI table to learn more about upcoming events.

**No outside food or beverage. Blankets, chairs, pets and weapons are not permitted. Children under 10 admitted free with paid adult. No re-entry. Please bring ID to redeem your tickets at festival box office. All sales are final. No refunds.**

Parking is at TCC (please no street parking).

BAND SCHEDULE:
Main Stage:
1:15p - Fourkiller Flats
2:10p - Tom Walbank
3:05p - Crawdaddy-O
4:00p - Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta feat. Salvador Duran
5:00p - Calexico & Friends

Side Stage:
1:50p - Courtney Robbins
2:45p - Silver Thread Trio
3:40p - Naim Amor
4:35p - Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School

Organized by the Rialto Theatre and Stateside with support from Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant.

Last Week for Advance Tickets!

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:33:00 +0000

Tickets are now on sale for KXCI's annual Calexico and Friends benefit concert, set for Saturday, April 3rd with an all day FESTIVAL EN EL BARRIO VIEJO, featuring an outdoor concert in the neighborhood south of the Tucson Convention Center. You'll enjoy twwo stages of live music, beer, food, vendors and more.

Tickets are on sale now at the Rialto Theatre: http://rialtotheatre.com/event_pop.php?id=745

and (520) 740-1000, as well as at the KXCI offices at 220 South Fourth Avenue. We're open weekdays 10am to 4pm.

Confirmed "friends of Calexico" for this event include Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, Fourkiller Flats, Crawdaddy-O, Tom Walbank, Naim Amor, Silver Thread Trio, Courtney Robbins, Salvador Duran and Mariachi Aztlan de Pueblo High School.

It's going to be a great day of great music and great friends, April 3rd in Barrio Viejo. Get your tickets today!!

Organized by the Rialto Theatre and Stateside with support from Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant.

Leila Lopez Studio 2A on-air, podcast and CD release

noreply@blogger.com (Duncan KXCI Music Director) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:53:00 +0000

Tune in for a Studio 2A performance from Leila Lopez this Friday, March 26th, at 5:30pm on The Home Stretch or click here for a podcast of her entire Locals Only interview and performance.
Leila Lopez will celebrate the release of her new album “Fault Lines” at Solar Culture on Saturday, March 27th at 7pm, all ages and no cover. She'll also be performing Saturday at the Solar Rock festival in Himmel Park.

Mambo! Sergio Mendoza y Salvador Duran today on Live @ 5:30

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:57:00 +0000

To help everyone get in the spirit of the upcoming Festival en el Barrio Viejo, Cathy Rivers will be featuring some of the performing artists during The Home Stretch Live at 5:30 p.m. Today, we have the good fortune of hearing Sergio Mendoza y Salvador Duran. Stay tuned throughout this week and next for more of the artists who will be playing at this KXCI benefit. Learn more about Festival en el Barrio on the KXCI Information Blog.

Photo Credit: Tucson Weekly.

Calexico & Friends Community Radio Benefit Info

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:55:00 +0000

KXCI Board Meeting & Agenda

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:14:00 +0000

The KXCI board of directors meets Thursday, March 18th at 5:30 at the offices of Child and Family Resources, 2800 East Broadway in Tucson. The meeting is open to the public and you are encouraged to attend.

Agenda:

I. Call to Order
II. Attendance, Set Next Meeting Date and Time
III. Review and Adopt February 2010 minutes
IV. Presentation of Financial Audit by Regier Carr Monroe
V. Committee Reports
a) Bylaws
b) Finance
c) Board Development
d) Personnel
e) Election
f) Development
g) Strategic Plan Implementation
h) CAB Development
i) Technology
VI. Volunteer Representative Report
VII. GM Report
IIX. New Business
IX. Call to Audience
X. Executive Session
XI. Adjournment

KXCI: The Membership Drive Is Over!

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:10:00 +0000

Thank you to everyone who made a call of support in KXCI Tucson's spring membership drive (more than 1,000 of you!). We wrapped up the campaign on Monday, March 15th at 6pm with just more than $100,000 in support.

Thank you to everyone who made this successful drive possible, including our pledgers, our great deejays, phone volunteers, business matching sponsors and the KXCI staff.

We're in The Home Stretch (of the pledge drive)

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:50:00 +0000

3pm update: Less than $4,000 to go in the entire campaign! Let's finish strong with your support right now at 520-623-1000 or by clicking "Pledge Now" at KXCI.org.

We'd like to finish on Monday and you'd like us to finish on Monday. Let's both get what we want - call today with your new, renewing and additional gifts of support. The number again: 520-623-1000. It takes just a few minutes to make a difference!

We Are Almost There Yet! One Call Does it All- 520-623-1000

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:12:00 +0000

KXCI's Spring Membership Drive is poised to end in a dramatic finish today! We are over 94% of the way to our goal. Please call 520-623-1000 to pledge your support or click here to pledge. It will give you a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside. In fact, Van Man will kick in $50 bucks to KXCI for each of the first 10 callers on his Music Mix this morning!

As of 10:30am Monday (March 15th) we have raised $94,000 of our $100,000 goal. Thank you to everyone who has already called and pledged online!

Things are about to get extremely exciting around here once all of your calls start to pour in. Together we can do this!

KXCI Back on the Air at 91.3

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:17:00 +0000

Thanks for your patience. As of 2:15pm, KXCI resumed broadcasting terrestrially. As you may know, recent storms knocked out the power on our Mt. Bigelow transmitter tower. Thanks for listening on line and thanks for pledging in our spring membership drive at 520-623-1000 or on line at www.kxci.org.

You never miss your water till your well runs dry. It's good to be back.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming, already in progress.

KXCI Off The Air; Webstreaming Unaffected at KXCI.org

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:49:00 +0000

For the third or fourth time in this too long winter, snow has taken done the electrical service to our transmitter on Mount Bigelow, forcing us off the air at 91.3FM. Live and free webstreaming at KXCI.org (and through applications such as iTunes) is unaffected.

Trico Electric has a crew on-site working on the situation.

We will continue to update the situation as we know more. Thank you for your patience. This latest power outage comes during our membership drive; we now need your support more than ever: (520) 623-1000 or "Pledge Now" here at KXCI.org. Thank you!

KXCI Music Memorial for Rich Morgan - Sunday 2-3:30pm

noreply@blogger.com (Duncan KXCI Music Director) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:19:00 +0000

Tune in for special programming from 2 to 3:30pm Sunday, Feb. 28th, in memory of Rich Morgan. Rich loved music and was a long time KXCI supporter. His wide encompassing tastes are reflected in some of his favorite songs that we'll be playing Sunday, which range from the blues of Lightnin' Hopkins to Tuvan throat singing, from the African voice of Baaba Maal to the classic country of Hank Williams and includes jazz greats like Thelonius Monk along side The Rolling Stones.

There will be a memorial for Rich Morgan this Monday March 1st, 5:30pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 4831 E. 22nd St.

Online Pledging Restored; Click Here!

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:26:00 +0000

While we continue to rebuild the official KXCI webstore, we have moved the online pledging for our membership program into the KXCI auction site: http://www.biddingforgood.com/kxci

Instead of bidding to win a cool item (as in our regular auction) you can go to the site, select your pledge level (from $10 to $1,000) and "Buy Now" to show your support to Community Radio with a tax-deductible membership gift.

It's harder to explain than it is to do, so head over to the KXCI auction site right now to check it out and hopefully, make your show of support to KXCI 91.3FM: http://www.biddingforgood.com/kxci

Homelessness Marathon Tonight; 6pm to 7am; Local Homeless Resources

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:00 +0000

6:00PM Tuesday, February 23 to
7:00AM Wednesday, February 24
91.3 KXCI Tucson
www.kxci.org

Community Radio 91.3 KXCI will broadcast the 13th Annual Homelessness Marathon live from Tuesday February 23 at 6:00PM through 7:00AM Wednesday, February 24. The Homelessness Marathon is an annual 14-hour radio broadcast featuring the voices and stories of homeless people from around the United States. The Homelessness Marathon features live call-ins all night long via a national toll-free number. This year, the nationally syndicated broadcast originates from Detroit where the economy is in shambles.

More information about services for homeless people and the working poor are available here: NeedHelpOnePageResourceDecember2009.pdf

There will be two call-in numbers for the broadcast.

ANYONE may call 877-NOBODY-8 (877-662-6398)
People who are homeless, formerly homeless or afraid they're about to be
homeless may also call 866-LEFT-OUT (866-533-8688)

Additional information available about the national broadcast is available at: www.homelessnessmarathon.org.

Calexico & Friends FESTIVAL EN EL BARRIO VIEJO

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:08:00 +0000

Tickets are now on sale for KXCI's annual Calexico and Friends benefit concert, set for Saturday, April 3rd with an all day FESTIVAL EN EL BARRIO VIEJO, featuring an outdoor concert in the neighborhood south of the Tucson Convention Center. Two stages of live music, beer, food, vendors and more.

Tickets are on sale now at the Rialto Theatre: http://www.rialtotheatre.com/ and 740-1000, as well as at the KXCI offices at 220 South Fourth Avenue. We're open weekdays 10am to 4pm.

Confirmed "friends of Calexico" for this event include Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta, Fourkiller Flats, Crawdaddy-O, Tom Walbank, Naim Amor, Silver Thread Trio, and Courtney Robbins.

It's going to be a great day of great music and great friends, April 3rd in Barrio Viejo. Get your tickets today!!

Organized by the Rialto Theatre and Stateside with support from Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant.

You Love Us, You Really Love Us!

noreply@blogger.com (Randy Peterson) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:56:00 +0000

The KXCI pre-Valentine's Day auction has ended, with bidders placing $3,627 in winning bids, with all proceeds supporting KXCI Community Radio.

Thank you to everyone who placed a bid, whether ultimately the winning bid or not. We appreciate your support!

The KXCI offices (220 S. 4th Ave.) will be open Friday from 9am to 4pm and again on Saturday from 9am to noon for winning bidders to pick up their items.

Thank you!!!

Valentine's Auction Ends Thursday, February 4th at 4pm!

noreply@blogger.com (Amanda Shauger) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:24:00 +0000

There's still time for you to bid in KXCI's Valentine's Day online auction- but you need to act soon. You can bid on more nearly 150 items - some perfect for you, and some perfect for giving to that special someone in your life.

We have restaurant gift certificates, concert and theatre tickets, gourmet food and gift baskets, yoga and massage certificates, travel packages and a whole lot more. To see all of the items and to place your bids, click the Online Auction button at KXCI.org, or just click this link: http://www.kxci.cmarket.com/.

Bidding ends today (February 4) at 4pm, so don't wait to place your winning bids. And remember - all proceeds from this auction support Your Community Radio!