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From historic downtown Plymouth, Indiana, where the Lincoln Highway and Michigan Road cross the banks of the beautiful Yellow River, it's The Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour. It airs the first Monday of the month at 7 PM on 88.1 WVPE.

Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour With Bill Staines And Emma Hamel

Wild Rose Moon

Monday, May 6, 2019 at 9 PM

On this episode of the Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour, folk music veteran Bill Staines performs his favorites, including "A Place in the Choir."  We also hear from 16-year-old Emma Hamel of Berrien Springs, winner of the 2018 Acorn Singer-Songwriter competition.

Supported by a generous grant from the Marshall County Community Foundation and Judith Robert and Tom Kapacinskas, The Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour is recorded before a live studio audience at the Wild Rose Moon Performing Arts Center in Historic Downtown Plymouth, Indiana. Go to wildrosemoon.com and select get tickets to find out about upcoming recordings.

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Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour Segment 2 with Emma Hamel and an episode of the game show, "Shoot the Moon," featuring questions related to Bill Staines life.
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Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour Segment 3 with Bill Staines, featuring "A Place in the Choir."

Tony became WVPE's program director in 2022, after working as operations manager since 2014. He also produces Michiana Chronicles and works on other special programming and digital projects. He joined the station as All Things Considered host in 1997, hosted Morning Edition in 2000 and 2001, then returned to the ATC host chair from 2007 to 2016. One of his Morning Edition newscasts earned WVPE a Best Radio Newscast Award from the Associated Press in 2002. An Iowa native, Tony got his start in radio as a student at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), Harrisonburg, Va., and managed the radio station there for three years after graduating. He also worked in commercial and Christian radio prior to his time at WVPE. Tony lives in Goshen.