Homegrown Music is WVIA-FM's exclusive series which each week showcases the talents of regional contemporary music artists in recordings produced in the WVIA-FM studios by series host George Graham and is broadcast Tuesdays at 9:00 PM. Homegrown Music will be preempted on December 31. The Annual year-end review will be heard on January 7. Further information on Homegrown Music may be obtained via the World Wide Web at http://homegrownmusic.info and http://www.wvia.org/radio/wvia-fm-programs/homegrown-music

Dec. 3 Pavlov's Dawgs. From the Homegrown Music archive comes this 1998 reunion session by the highly eclectic Lehigh Valley bluegrass group Pavlov's Dawgs. Formed around 1990, the quartet was known for their bluegrass interpretations of songs by Talking Heads, the Rolling Stones and other rockers, as well as their own original music. They went their separate ways by the mid 1990s, but did a special reunion in 1998, making an appearance on Homegrown Music. This encore features the band in all its virtuostic eclecticism.

Dec. 10 Jon Fuller. A classically-trained pianist and composer, Jon Fuller released his debut full CD Skipping Away from Dissonance earlier this year. it was selected for one of the Mixed Bag weekly album reviews, and spotlighted his creative, sophisticated and appealing original music. He makes his Homegrown Music debut in a session that includes some new songs performed in a solo piano/vocal setting.

Jon Fuller at the WVIA Steinway

The MiZ Band at WVIA

Dec. 17 MiZ band. Mike Mizwinsky and his band MiZ have become quite popular on the regional scene and have been touring reionally and nationally. Mike has made a previous appearances in a solo acoustic setting, and on a live Homegrown Music concert. This segment features his electric band MiZ in a 2012 session with his fine original material.

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