Thursday Schedule

Good morning, Vibe Tribe! Here's today's schedule on 89.5 FM, subject to change. All music is subject to artist approval.

9:00 am - Radio Vibes
12 noon - Organic Farm Stand
1 pm - Peter Bochan, "All Mixed Up" - Tribute to Woody Guthrie
3 pm - Radio Vibes pre game show
4 pm - Quincy Mumford
5:35 pm - Zach Deputy Band
7:05 pm - Yonder Mountain String Band
9:00 pm - Dark Star Orchestra

Streaming on wpkn.org:
Due to licensing agreements, we are not allowed to stream the Main Stage artists. We will broadcast music from the Green Vibes stage and other recorded live music while Main Stage music is playing on the radio. We'll update the schedule later today.

UPDATE: Streaming on wpkn.org

5:35 p.m. - Leroy Justice from the 2010 Vibes

Quiet time in the park

There are a lot of staff here but it's still mostly empty. Generators are humming, and there are bursts of white noise from the main stage PA as they tune the system.

In less than eight hours I'll be on the air. For now, I'm enjoying the quiet time in a chair by the water.

Vibe Tribe Traffic Reporting with Waze

Radio Vibes always has spotters in the line on Thursday morning. This year we’re trying something new. There’s a moble app called Waze that combines GPS crowd-sourcing with traffic reporting. You can participate by installing it on your mobile phone. We’ll be watching Waze—maybe we’ll see you!

One of the neat features of Waze is groups. Look for a group called "Vibe Tribe." Any alerts you posted by a member will be seen by everyone in the group. Why not download it today and test it out on your way to the Phish & Furthur shows? Let us know what you think.

The night before the night before

The first part is done: mixers, microphones and CD players. Tomorrow we move the computers in and do some more testing.








It's still looking a little sparse without the rest of the equipment, and the other decorative enhancements.






The Ferris wheel is looking good, but it's kind of eerie in an almost empty park.

Our coverage area

If you're curious about our coverage area, here's a nice map.

Crunch time!

In less than 48 hours, Radio Vibes will be live on WPKN 89.5 FM. Today is a busy day for the crew. As I write, we're waiting for a phone company tech to make a quick repair to our broadcast circuit. Once he's done, we'll run some music over the line from the park back to the studio.

Tonight I'm hauling gear from the station over to our trailer—what Mickey Hart called "the Taj Mahal of trailers." We'll set up a good part of our remote studio this evening, and we should be able to send programming back to WPKN.

It's all coming together, and we're looking forward to bringing you another year of Radio Vibes on WPKN.

The end of the beginning

Link to the mother ship

The planning phase is over, and the building phase has begun. The broadcast circuit connecting Seaside Park to WPKN has been installed. The day the phone company installer shows up is the day it all becomes real.

Home for the festival weekend

Once we successfully send audio from the bandshell back to the studio – to be sure everything is "just exactly perfect" – we start packing everything we need to set up our remote studio. There's nothing glamorous about our backstage studio. It's an 8' x 10' room in a trailer, but it's where we spend most of the weekend during Vibes.

Freshly unboxed

Meanwhile, on the home front, Dave G. has a brand new Mac Mini that will have its shakedown cruise at Vibes. This is where all the interviews are edited.