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….from the slopes of Mad River Glen ski area emerged a swirling sound, coalescing into an endless array of upbeat musical selections designed to keep the public swingin’, swayin’, pickin’ & singin’ & rockin’. Out of the deeps of winter came the WoodWarbler’s JazzGrass Show, first on 160-watt WMRW—LP-Warren, Vermont, our local community radio station at 95.1 FM on the dial back in July 2005. Two hours of jazzgrass eventually became 4 and then middling out to 3, still not much compared to filling 7 hrs a day, 5 days a week up on the hill for the skiing public. The WMRW show now airs Sundays 4-7pm. Eventually, the sounds of bluegrass, jazz & the space between down the David Grisman > Django Reinhardt and way beyond continuum wafted into the ears of radio folks from elsewhere, resulting in the April 30, 2007 debut of a fully developed 2-hr version of the JazzGrass show on 930-watt WGDR-Plainfield, serving Vermont’s capital district at 91.1FM and the world at wgdr.org. Who could imagine a highly specialized chairlift operator’s job to bring about such a high level of radio broadcast sophistication! More about my humble history: After growing up in the suburban wasteland just Northeast of NYC, I escaped to Vermont by way of a tiny liberal arts college in a place called Marlboro. Post-graduation z�gunr�he sent me on a decade of pursuing academic and occupational bliss chasing songbirds around various eastern U.S. forests (Downeast Maine, south Appalachian North Carolina & Tennessee, Michigan’s Upper Peninsular Hiawatha N.F, New Hampshire’s White Mts and the surviving remnants of Illinois’ broadleaf forests). Following a heartbreaking last summer of ornithological pursuits in 2000, I started down the slippery slope of sharing the intricacies of nature with others. I've environmentally educated thousands of visitors “seeking solace in nature” in the mountains of Vermont (2000-2004, 2007-2008) and New Hampshire (2006). When I’m not trying to save the planet as we naturalist folk perceive it, I manage the only fully functional ski lift MidStation capable of uploading as well as unloading (sometimes simultaneously!) along Mad River Glen’s Single Chair. A wildlife biologist by training and an research ornithology expatriate most recently become an experiential outdoor educator without many salaried options to choose from, I was about to start a teaching licensure program when Vermont's Dept. of Forests, Parks & Recreation made me an offer to be an interpretive naturalist that I couldn't refuse.
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Musicians and bands! If you've got a recording you'd like to get on the air, please send a CD to: WGDR-Plainfield ATTN: Brian Aust/P.O. Box 336/Plainfield, VT 05667. While my show stays in the realms of bluegrass, jazz and the blender jazzgrass between, all material is welcome and will be added to the WGDR New Releases rack for all programmers to play. Otherwise? I'm always up for meeting open-minded, all natural, musically inclined REAL PEOPLE! Intelligent life everywhere including freaks, pragmatic antiquarians, empaths, artists, Deadheads, naturalists, ecologists, and optimistic iconoclasts are invited. Localvores? People intrigued by deep forests, Long Trails, snowy mountains, Manhattan adventures and strolls down Bleeker Street after dark. Folks who THINK DIFFERENTLY, embrace diversity and critically question societally constructed "reality."
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Brian
Birthday: Libra
Birthplace: Queens, NY
Current Location: Mad River Valley
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Chestnut
Height: six feet
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: German/Hungarian/Jewish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Garmont Nubuk hiking boots, Asics sneakers, Chaco sandals & Keens
Your Weakness: daydreams
Your Fears: losing health care, what is in corporate foods, where corporate meat comes from, the human-induced unraveling of nature's biorhythms causing the most intense extinction spasm since the dinosaurs vanished....and insanity
Your Perfect Pizza: NY Style with roasted reds, eggplant, mushrooms & localvore meat....and garlic
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: if I can't have a gal I love, I won't have none 't'all
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: :o)
Thoughts First Waking Up: ugh....no....make it stop
Your Best Physical Feature: stamina
Your Bedtime: whenever
Your Most Missed Memory: being swept away
Pepsi or Coke: Moxie!
McDonalds or Burger King: McSHIT & Booger Fling :o(
Single or Group Dates: single until we're comfy in our datingness, then group dates can be fun
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Yerba Mate
Chocolate or Vanilla: Maple
Cappuccino or Coffee: organic fair trade dark roast
Do you Smoke: Quit 8/1/02
Do you Swear: not in the wrong company
Do you Sing: you don't want to hear
Do you Shower Daily: only if I'm truly filthy enough
Have you Been in Love: the greatest thing I ever learned is just to love and be loved in return
Do you want to get Married:
Do you belive in yourself: most of the time
Do you get Motion Sickness: only if I also try to read
Do you think you are Attractive: whenever a cutie insists that I am
Are you a Health Freak: yes
Do you get along with your Parents: best friends
Do you like Thunderstorms: HOORAY! Just not for 10 solid weeks, please
Do you play an Instrument: not anymore....trumpet & baritone horn in grade school
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: havin' a beer right now at the end of a very long day and even longer week
In the past month have you Smoked: No.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Legal Rx Only
In the past month have you gone on a Date: HOORAY!
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: on a work mission, yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Peanut butter Newman-O's
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes, at work and on the radio
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: too cold again
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: not since I was 20 ;o)
Ever been called a Tease: only once
Ever been Beaten up: not fairly
Ever Shoplifted: no way
How do you want to Die: feeling accomplished
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Self-sustaining recreation ecologist, backcountry rec manager & interpretive naturalist
What country would you most like to Visit: Costa Rica, Austria, Australia
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: green
Favourite Hair Color: scarlet fire
Short or Long Hair: please see for me that her hair hangs long
Height: proportionate
Weight: proportionate
Best Clothing Style: hip
Number of Drugs I have taken: my share
Number of CDs I own: 190 Gigs
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 1

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My Blog

JazzGrass 3/9/09: The Hot Club of the Single Chair

March 9, 2009 - The Hot Club of the Single Chair JazzGrass: This show is based on two essential components: The music pioneered by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli known as gypsy swing jazz a...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:25:00 GMT

Moonlight In Vermont JazzGrass 2/9/09

I dont do Valentines Day shows, but this show proved a suitableoffering instead and has become an immediate personal favorite. Thesong selection and flow is flawless. My vocal delivery is almostspot...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:59:00 GMT

JazzGrass 12/29/08

JazzGrass Year-end Special Part 3: This is a fun one to maybe grab and check into the non-holiday tunes as well as save for next December. An A for execution & playlist. Happy New Year JazzGrass fa...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:16:00 GMT

JazzGrass 12/15/09

JazzGrass Year-end Special Part 1: Best of 2008Aside from a few very tastefully ingenious reworkings of seasonal tunes that I promise won't make you green with nausea, presented on this show were some...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:25:00 GMT

JazzGrass 12/22/09

The 4th Annual WoodWarbler's JazzGrass SolstiChanuChristmas Show (Nor'Easter Edition)I got a bit carried away with the intro having to do with the breaking down of a certain newly rebuilt Single Chair...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:20:00 GMT

12/1/08 JazzGrass Bela Bash!

This one's been a long time in the waiting. Slammed busy back in July, I decided to put off the Bela Birthday Bash until his next appearance in Vermont. When I found out it was to be December 8, 200...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:50:00 GMT

JazzGrass 11/24/08: Hunting the Dizzy JellyRoll

Even a seasoned broadcaster (HA!) is not completely immune to anxiety attacks. I don't know what came over me, though I have my guesses and they're not appropriate for this blog! I had a bit of sta...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:24:00 GMT

Dogs, Cats & Responsible Owners Thereof

I currently do not have a pet mainly because I have enough trouble making financial ends meet each week, let alone month and year. I do believe in fuzz therapy, meaning that dogs and cats often are h...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:27:00 GMT

JazzGrass 11/17/04: Del McCoury & Rubblebucket

This week's show was a preview promotional for performances in Burlington, VT by internationally acclaimed bluegrass band The Del McCOury Band and Vermont-Boston based 9-piece afro-funk-jazz mini-big ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:48:00 GMT

JazzGrass 11/10/08 - Del McCoury, Hot Buttered Rum & New Jazz

This show's aim was to preview Hot Buttered Rum & Del McCoury in an effort to help fill up the rather cavernous concert halls around here as of late. Economy is a bitch, eh? This should whet anyone'...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:34:00 GMT