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New York Pawpaw Festival Brings Music, Farming and Community to Magic Forest Farm
19Oct By Andy GladdingNo Comments
Events, Features

New York Pawpaw Festival Brings Music, Farming and Community to Magic Forest Farm

The New York Pawpaw Festival was held September 26 and 27 at Magic Forest Farm in Coeymans Hollow. #981KZE spent the weekend there with the KZE Kamper, recording performances and covering a festival that brought together live music, agriculture, permaculture, food, workshops and the pawpaw itself. More Than a Music Festival George Adler put a tremendous amount of work into the festival, and his idea for the event went well beyond simply putting bands on a stage for a weekend. George has talked about wanting his events to be places where people can meet, learn and grow, and the Pawpaw Festival reflected that throughout the property. The music existed alongside growers, vendors, workshops and discussions about agriculture and permaculture. Some people were there because they were in...
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The KZE Kamper: Taking Local Radio Back to Where the Music Happens
19Oct By Andy GladdingNo Comments
Events, Features

The KZE Kamper: Taking Local Radio Back to Where the Music Happens

There is something wonderfully backwards about the KZE Kamper. At a time when much of the radio industry is looking for ways to move farther away from the physical world—more automation, more centralized programming, more content delivered from studios hundreds or thousands of miles away—98.1 KZE has been investing in a vehicle designed to do exactly the opposite. We built something that allows the radio station to go where the music is. The KZE Kamper is a mobile live-music production and broadcast vehicle capable of recording, mixing, transmitting and producing concerts from virtually anywhere we can park it. Inside is much of the same technology that would traditionally be found in a professional broadcast facility or live recording studio: digital audio production, multit...
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