The Tallahassee area is a vastly underrated hotbed for music of all kinds. A college town will always have a good rock scene with a lot of bars and clubs featuring bands that play ORIGINAL music. Top rated music schools fill the area with formally trained classical and jazz musicians. And of course, this is the South, which means true-blue American roots music- country, bluegrass, blues, and even zydeco. Oh yeah, and we even have R&B, rap, Chinese, Indian, Irish, electronica, experimental, etc.
outloud is a program produced by WFSU-TV that highlights all of this music. All genres, or as many as we have the resources to make shows for. All of the acts are from North Florida and South Georgia. In this upcoming season, you can see some traditional bluegrass and old country as well an acoustic group that that mixes the traditional music with bluegrass Velvet Underground (and Stooges, and samba Patsy Cline) covers. There will be a 17 year old blues guitar prodigy and dose of ancient Chinese music. Oh yeah, and there will be a good amount of rock music too!
Not everyone out in TV land will like every act on the show. We try to have something for everyone. One episode might have an old favorite for one person, something new and exciting for someone else, and possibly something totally atrocious for a third person. That's the price you pay for having variety. All we ask is that you listen with an open mind, and if for some reason there is nothing at all that you like- let us know! outloud is, after all, your show.
Check this page or our official site (wfsu.org/outloud) for a schedule and additional information about each group.
Check out youtube.com/wfsuoutloud to see more videos!
