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July 9th, 2016 Full WaterFire Lighting

WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show – underwritten by National Grid and supported by Lifetime Medical and Emery’s Catering. Hosted this week by Bronwyn Dannenfelser and Barnaby Evans.

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Bronwyn and Barnaby Evans, Artistic Director of WaterFire, will give us a inside look into some of the special events at the upcoming fire on July 9th! Clear Currents will light up the river with illuminated koi fish mounted to canoes and kayaks, and the Légion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor), France’s highest civil and military decoration, will be conferred upon Rhode Island WWII Veteran, Mr. Ernest Frank Corvese. Bronwyn and Barnaby will be joined on the air by special guest Rose Weaver, who will be singing at the event on Saturday after returning from a tour in Paris. Our next guest, Bob Burke, will give us some insight into the fascinating tradition of champagne sabering. Finally, we’ll hear from Willa van Nostrand of Little Bitte Cocktails, whose creations you can enjoy at WaterFire’s beer garden!

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RI Defeats Hep C | Rose Weaver | Festival Ballet Providence

WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show –
underwritten by National Grid
supported by Lifetime Medical
Hosted by Bronwyn Dannenfelser and guest co-host Betsy Jones

Today on the show Bronwyn will be joined by co-host Betsy Jones. Betsy is the management assistant at WaterFire Providence and has been instrumental in helping to coordinate all of the special events coming up at this weekend’s C is for Cure WaterFire Lighting for RI Defeats Hep C.

Our first guest on today’s show are Dr. Lynn Taylor the director of RI Defeats Hep C. In May 2013, Lynn E. Taylor was awarded a Rhode Island Innovation Fellowship entitled, “Rhode Island Defeats Hep C.” She is a viral hepatitis, HIV/AIDS and primary care physician focusing on prevention and treatment of HCV and hepatitis B viruses in vulnerable populations and on the primary care of people living with HIV.

The second guest is singer and actress Rose Weaver. Rose is a sassy jazz singer and narrator, she has been a featured vocalist with the Marian Anderson String Quartet, The Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra, The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and Conrad Janis and the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band, she is currently the artist-in-residence at Brown University’s Rites and Reason Theatre, will be playing two sets at WaterFire with her band New Orleans Jazz.

Our final guest today is Dylan Giles the marketing director at Festival Ballet Providence. As part of the events of the C is For Cure: A WaterFire Lighting for RI Defeats Hep C, Festival Ballet Providence senior program students will dance in a free and open performance. The performance will begin around 7:30pm at the Waterplace Park stage.

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Volunteering with WaterFire | Rose Weaver at Rites and Reason Theater | Gendo Taiko

WaterFire Ignites Rhode Island Radio Show –
underwritten by National Grid
Hosted by Bronwyn Dannenfelser and guest co-host Barnaby Evans

On this weeks episode:

The first guests on today’s show are Chantal Roche and Gary St. Laurent from WaterFire Providence’s volunteer team. They will be talking about volunteer opportunities at WaterFire Providence and what it takes to produce a full WaterFire event with hundreds of volunteers. They will also discussing some of the other opportunities that occur during the week that make for wonderful team building events for corporations and individuals alike.

Our second guest will be actress and Jazz stylist Rose Weaver, who received the Pell Award for excellence in the Arts in 2000. Currently, Rose is an Artist-In-Residence at Brown University’s Rites and Reason Theatre. She is working with Professor Elmo Terry-Morgan, Artistic Director of Rites & Reason Theatre, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, and Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, to further develop Rose’s Brown U 2000 thesis play, called Skips in the Record, about a family coping with Alzheimer’s disease and memory loss.

Our final guest is Kota Mizutani, from the Japanese drumming group Gendo Taiko, they will be performing on the stage in Waterplace Park during Saturday’s WaterFire lighting.

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