Arts on Fire

Students of the Infinity Visual and Performing Arts joined us as the July 2023 performers of Arts on Fire LIVE ABOUT AOF LIVE: Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County's local artists via a live, in-studio performance! The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. All 2023 Arts on Fir...

Holly Weston of the Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown spoke with WRFAs Anthony Merchant about Monty Python's Spamalot making it's return to the Little Theatre stage https://www.lbltj.com/ https://www.instagram.com/lblittletheatre/ https://www.facebook.com/lblittletheatre

National Comedy Center Executive Director Journey Gunderson spoke with WRFAs Anthony Merchant about the 2023 Lucille Ball Comedy Fest, Joan Rivers career archive making its home at the Comedy Center and much more https://comedycenter.org/ https://linktr.ee/NationalComedyCenter

Miki Girts returned to the WRFA studios to discuss the 2023 Whirlybird Music & Arts Festival with Arts on Fire host Anthony Merchant https://whirlybirdfest.com/ https://www.instagram.com/whirlybirdfest/ https://www.facebook.com/whirlybirdfest

Vixen drummer Roxy Petrucci talked with WRFAs Anthony Merchant all about the early days of touring, 35 years of Vixen's self titled debut, the bands upcoming Jamestown show, recording new music and much more https://vixenofficial.com/ https://www.instagram.com/vixen_band/ https://www.instagram.com/roxypetrucciroxy/ https://www.facebook.com/Vixen/ https://www.facebook.com/roxypetrucciofficial/ http...

Mike Brunacini returns to Arts on Fire to discuss new music and his new project Aftergloom with host Anthony Merchant https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikebrunacini/dont-wake-the-dreamer-part-limited-cassette-release?ref=discovery&term=mike%20brunacini https://mikebrunacini.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mikebrunacini https://www.instagram.com/mikebrunacini/ https://linktr.ee/MikeBruna...

Becca Darling and Mike Baum of Charleston band Olive Dares the Darkness talked with WRFAs Anthony Merchant about the bands roots in Chautauqua, working on new music and the bands upcoming tour including a stop in Jamestown July 15th https://darethedarkness.com/ https://www.instagram.com/olivedaresthedarkness/ https://www.facebook.com/olivedaresthedarkness/ https://twitter.com/olivedaresthed1

Julie Rockcastle of the Great Blue Heron Music Festival joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to talk 30 years of Blue Heron and what to expect at this years festival https://linktr.ee/blueheronfest https://greatblueheron.com https://theheron.org https://www.instagram.com/blueheronfest https://www.facebook.com/theheron

RTPI Curator Maria Ferguson joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss the two new exhibit openings at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, Art that Matters to the Planet 2023: Interconnectivity and Joseph Grice: Taking Flight https://rtpi.org https://www.instagram.com/rtpinstitute https://www.facebook.com/rtpinstitute https://twitter.com/rtpinstitute

Miki Girts of the Whirlybird Music and Arts Festival joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant in the studio to discuss the next installment of Earlybird events leading up to the 2023 Whirlybird festival https://whirlybirdfest.com https://www.instagram.com/whirlybirdfest https://www.facebook.com/whirlybirdfest

Arts on Fire LIVE continues in June 2023 with a performance from Charity Nuse and Friends! ABOUT AOF LIVE: Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County's local artists via a live, in-studio performance! The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. All 2023 Arts on Fire LIVE performances...

Gorg Mor (STCLVR) stopped by WRFA to talk to Anthony Merchant about an upcoming show at Jamestown Skate Products, writing new music, performing in Brooklyn and Ithaca, releasing music on vinyl and much more https://stclvr.bandcamp.com https://linktr.ee/STCLVR

Local musician KDYN joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss his songwriting, musical influences, what you bring to music from playing sports and much more KDYN also performs a 3 song in-studio performance! https://kdyn07.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085259146472

Len Barry of the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss upcoming summer events at the Reg Lenna as well as the 2023 WRFA Great American Picnic and much more https://reglenna.com

Arts on Fire LIVE continues in May 2023 with a performance from the Fredonia Guitar Quintet! ABOUT AOF LIVE: Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County's local artists via a live, in-studio performance! The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. All 2023 Arts on Fire LIVE performance...

The cast of the Lucille Ball Little Theatre production of Jersey Boys joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss the upcoming performances, how rehearsals are going, the casts acting history and much more https://www.lbltj.com https://www.facebook.com/lblittletheatre

Writer and musician Neil Flory joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss his new collection of poems called Mudtrombones Knotted in the Spill, the roles that music and poetry have played in Neil's life, working with Arteidolia Press, if all of Neil's creativity stems from the same place and much more https://www.arteidolia.com/mudtrombones-knotted-in-the-spill-by-neil-flory/

Plein Air artist Thomas Annear joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss the 2023 North Shore Arts Alliance Hub Crawl, the incredible hikes found around Chautauqua County, the local art scene in Chautauqua and much more https://www.thomasannear.com https://www.instagram.com/thomasannearart https://www.facebook.com/ThomasAnnearArt https://nsaachautauqua.org https://www.facebook.com/northshorearts

Niagara Falls punk band Virus X joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss their upcoming show in Jamestown, being a band for 40 years, favorite Jamestown spots to visit, Western New York music scenes in the 80's and much more https://virusx1.bandcamp.com https://twitter.com/virusxband https://www.facebook.com/virusxband

Local artist Joseph Grice stopped by the WRFA studios to talk with Anthony Merchant about an upcoming open house at his art studio, preparing work for a new exhibit at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute, what the organization (or chaos) of an artists workspace says about them, the amount of time Joe tends to put in his paintings and much more linktr.ee/josephgriceart josephgrice.art instagram.com/J...

One of New Jersey's finest Mikey Erg talked with WRFAs Anthony Merchant about his upcoming show in Fredonia with Mikey Erg Band and Doc Hopper, the coolness of Scott Reynolds of ALL being from Chautauqua County, working with Steve Albini last year, having Robert Pollard do your album art and much more linktr.ee/Mikeyerg instagram.com/mikeyerg twitter.com/Mikeyerg facebook.com/mikeyergmusic wrfalp....

Arts on Fire LIVE continues in April 2023 with a performance from Derek Davis! ABOUT AOF LIVE: Arts On Fire LIVE brings you the very best of Chautauqua County's local artists via a live, in-studio performance! The show is produced and broadcast by WRFA-LP 107.9 FM, Kranky Plate Productions, and the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts in Jamestown, NY. All 2023 Arts on Fire LIVE performances are made pos...

Author TJ Buck joined WRFA's Anthony Merchant to discuss his new book "Are You Ready to Die?", common misconceptions about writing a novel, how his writing process changes (and stays the same) over the years, books and music that TJ recommends and much more wrfalp.com

Len Barry of the Reg Lenna Center for the Arts joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant to discuss April and May events happening at the Reg Lenna reglenna.com wrfalp.com

JCCs Neil Flory joined WRFAs Anthony Merchant in studio to discuss upcoming spring events at SUNY Jamestown Community College including a residency from artist A.I the Anomaly and the 2023 Jazz Fest featuring Buffalo Music Hall of Fame inductee Wendell Rivera. https://www.sunyjcc.edu https://www.wrfalp.com