Category: Live TV in the Community
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Basketball, Bagoong and Bayanihan in Albany, Georgia
In Albany the Filipino community is holding a basketball tournament with teams from the local Filipino league competing. The tournament is a fundraiser for children in the Philippines, children in need of school supplies. This is one of several basketball tournaments of the Filipino basketball league in the Southern part of the US that has…
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John Coltrane Sunday Morning
Tony Robles recites poem, John Coltrane Sunday Morning in Hamlet, North Carolina, Birthplace of John Coltrane On The Day After His Birthday
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Pilgrimage to Hamlet, North Carolina, Birthplace of John Coltrane on His Birthday
Peggy Harris shows Listen & Be Heard Contributor Tony Robles the John Coltrane Mural in Hamlet, North Carolina. Peggy was born and raised in Hamlet and graciously guided Tony to the mural while telling stories of her birthplace and what John Coltrane means to the community.
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Porch Music all Day in Morganton, NC
Tony Robles roams Morganton on International Porch Music Day, where it is an all-day event spread out to make it possible to hear almost everyone.
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Jose Case
Tony Robles talks with Jose Case, Main Street celebrity in Hendersonville, NC. In the video they talk about his bikes. In the audio file, Tony reads Jose a poem that he wrote about him, and interviews him WPVM Radio in Asheville, NC.
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Hendersonville Rally Against GOP abortion ban proposal
Listen & Be Heard speaks to attendees at abortion rights rally
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Home of Dr. Nina Simone
Tony Robles visits Tryon, NC, birthplace of Nina Simone, and reads a poem…
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Good Morning Truck
Tony Robles speaks to Stanley, owner of a new food truck ahead of The Acoustic Trail Trolley in Hendersonville, which raises money for the PTSD Fund.
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A Juneteenth Freedom Fest Hendersonville Reflection
We were in a car headed in the direction of the Carl Sandburg Home Historical Site in Flat Rock where the event was scheduled to take place. Crystal receives a call. I hear her conversing with someone about the event. She hangs up. “The event has been canceled” she says.
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Flute Busking
Tony Robles talks with Diana Flores, who plays flute on Main Street in Hendersonville. She describes the freedom that it affords her in her choices of music, including themes to her favorite video games. She also plays in a community band, The Blue Ridge Ringers, which is a handbell choir, and a flute choir called…
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From Bamboo Comes Life:
Edwin Lozada, Executive Director of Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA), who explains the Philippine creation story of the first man and woman. Malakas is the first man who was created, and Maganda, the first woman.
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Las Flores
In Hendersonville a community comes out early Sunday morning to honor the earth, the soil; a place to plant songs and poetry and a vision of sharing and depending on one another. Our sustenence is the dream that is shared, a dream that is not owned by one person but collectively conceived.
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Student Art on Display
The Arts Council of Henderson County showcased student artists grades 3 through 12 in its yearly contest on April 14th. The art showcase and contest was held at the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville, North Carolina
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Healing Love is What it’s About
Tony Robles speaks with Robert Zachary of the Healing Love Institute who shares life experience and poetry too.
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Virtuous Spells Love
The Hendersonville Main library celebrated National Reading month on March 4th with an event that included great songs by the performer Virtuous, whose rhymes, rhythms and energetic personality got the crowd of kids and parents moving to the music and taking in her message that children should read, read, and read!