Katy Anderson

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  • Username: AndersonK4
  • Programming Director
  • Role: Station Program Director

Recent Pieces from Katy Anderson

Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Solstice Season, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of the Solstice Season (59:59)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

This folktale celebrates the dark stretch of the year with musical customs meant to brighten winter's darkest hours.
Caption: Folktale of Toyland, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of Toyland (59:59)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

This edition of Folktales, it's 'game on' as it tracks treasured toys, play songs and play time traditions around the musical globe!
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Folktale of Snowfall (59:59)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

As they say in many a folk world, winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. In this episode of Folktales, Julia Meek tracks this wild beast around the ...
Caption: WBOI'S Folktale of Golden Slumbers, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of Golden Slumbers (59:58)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

According to Elizabethan poet, Thomas Dekker, "Sleep is the golden chain that ties our health and our bodies together"...we're following the sandman around the very musical ...
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Animal Instinct, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of Animal Instinct (59:59)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

As Dr. Doolittle notes: "If we could talk to the animals, just imagine it..."--that's the conversation this folktale proposes--and to be sure, they WILL "Squeak and squawk, ...
Caption: WBOI's Folkale of Aeolus the Wind, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of Aeolus the Wind (01:00:00)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

"Always be in readiness for favorable winds"--that's an ancient Chinese proverb, and it fills the sails of this week's folktale w/ 'musical air currents' harvested around the ...
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of New Beginnings, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of New Beginnings (01:00:00)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

The Folktale of New Beginnings: Get ready to 'ring it--sing it--burn it--or break it in: 2013 is on its way, and as Oprah likes to say: "Cheers to a new year--and another ...
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Folktale of Blessings (01:00:00)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

It's graces & goodwill we gather this week, with a joyous assortment of musical expressions to share in celebration of the season around us.
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Closure, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of Closure (01:00:11)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

"Where is the good in goodbye?" Meredith Wilson's "Music Man" pondered this question, which we're revisiting with a tour of departures, leave taking, and fond (or otherwise) ...
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of the Market Place, Credit: Julia Meek

Folktale of the Market Place (59:59)
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio

This week's edition of Folktales finds us "Shopping 'til we drop", in a wide variety of musical fashions-- and as J.C. Penney would say: It's all inside!