BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Community Radio, WVEW-LP, is hosting an all-ages party, a “conscious party,” on Saturday, Aug. 29, on the Common in downtown Brattleboro. from noon to 5 p.m., to benefit the station.
Admission is free, but the station will be asking for donations. Proceeds from the show will help keep WVEW on the air.
Heirloom Seeds, a Vermont-based reggae band, will headline the show with DJ Thomas and DJ Ray. There will be vendors, community groups, and face painting. A raffle will be drawn at 3:30 p.m. from products and services donated by local businesses and individuals.
According to a press release on the event, the spirit that is “reggae” or “regal” music is an education of agricultural and nutritional self-sustainability, rural independence, multicultural unity, art, and mysticism. “Heirloom Seeds is a band that lives for the tradition and culture from the organic heirloom food that they grow to the music they've learned straight from the elders in Brooklyn, Jamaica, and West Africa,” the news release noted.
WVEW has been providing local, non-commercial, all-access radio to the community for nearly a decade. With more than 60 DJs, the all-volunteer station plays a variety of music, talk, opinion,news, and comedy. For more information, visit www.wvew.org.