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AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Sophia Corinne / Owen Walsh / Frances Eliza

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Sophia Corinne / Owen Walsh / Frances Eliza

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Asheville FM Live Music Sessions –Thursday, May 29th, 2025

Musical Guest – Sophia Corinne, Frances Eliza, and Owen Walsh –   Recorded live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio.

 

AshevilleFM 103.3  with support from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

just hit play on the audio track below…  and turn it up!!!

Special thanks to our volunteers and their efforts to make this happen! – Joaquin (J) and Smittymon (set up team / audio) and Bruce Swan – host. Band coordination by China Langford and Andrea Gonzalez,  pictures by Rachel Goldstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mo on Knowing Your Rights and Risks With Police

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This week we spoke with Moira Meltzer-Cohen, an anarchist and lawyer with the National Lawyers Guild who practices mostly in New York City. For the hour, Mo talks about knowing ones rights and risks during interactions with law enforcement in the US during Trump 2.0, why even scofflaws should know some basic Bill of Rights trivia, info on warrants and house visits, airports and borders, and the importance of face-to-face practice with local lawyers who know the legal precedents on the ground in your jurisdiction.

As often, you can check out the podcast version of this interview for more content that didn’t make it into the limited time of the radio show and where you can easily pause, rewind, etc. There’ll soon be a transcript of this available on our website alongside a downloadable zine version. You can also check the post for this June 1st 2025 episode to find some useful links for further research.

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June 11th, 2025

Asheville

Image by @turned_worm_studios (on Instagram )of a burning prison with dancing ground hogs carrying various implements and tools and a black flag + We’re a week and a half out from the annual June 11th Day of Solidarity with Long Term Anarchist Prisoners. If you’re in the Asheville area, Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at The Odd (1045 Haywood Rd near Firestorm in West AVL) . $10 door, opens at 7pm, music at 8pm

Featuring XOR, Lo Wolf, Run Over By A Horse and Blake Hornsby with lots of free lit and prizes available including books, stickers, clothing, jewelry and more.

 

Elsewhere

If you’re elsewhere, you can check out announced local events in your area by checking out the social media accounts for June11.Noblogs.Org, particularly their mastodon account on @[email protected]

Fire Ant Movement call to action

Finally, the Fire Ant Movement released the following statement concerning June 11, 2025:

“Fire ant movement defense, an organization that works to gather mass opposition to the political prosecutions of the stop cop city movement in atlanta, is calling for a “movement defense day of action” on June 11 to support stop cop city defendants and long term anarchist political prisoners. Their statement reads: This year, June 11th arrives amid growing repression: Pro-palestine protesters are facing indefinite detention in ice facilities, and in Georgia, the state continues its aggressive persecution of the stop cop city movement, with 61 activists currently facing RICO charges.

In response, we call for a united front, to link the defense of the stop cop city struggle with the june 11th tradition of solidarity with long-term anarchist political prisoners.
We invite people to learn about Marius Mason and other long-term anarchist prisoners, host public events, drop banners, throw fundraisers, and take action to defend our movements for total liberation.”

Fire ant movement defense says that this will be the first of many movement defense days of action, drawing connections and lines of solidarity between movements fighting for liberation. You can find more information at fireantmovement.org and follow them on instagram, twitter or bluesky.”

They also wanted to point people to learn more at supportmariusmason.org and weelauneethefree.org

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Featured Track:

  • Know Your Rights by The Clash from Combat Rock

 


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Closer to the Edge 2.0

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After ten years, AFM’s premiere Prog show begins a new era on June 5th, when Professor JD welcomes Professor Ted, who hosted a progressive rock show on KOOP community radio in Austin, Texas for 15 years. Ted brings an abundance of experience and knowledge, along with a impressive private collection of CD’s, Vinyl and digital files, to join the world-famous Closer to the Edge. As co-hosts, they will alternate the weekly schedule! Teds’ inclination toward the more obscure and avant-garde sub-genres of progressive rock, will augment JDs’ penchant for modern bands and heavier metal sub-genres. Both will spin the 70’s classics as well! Experience even more beautiful, complex and intelligent music, every Thursday, from 1-3 PM, and tell your friends!!!


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103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – featuring Frances Eliza / Sophie Corinne / Owen Walsh – now in Archives

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103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

This weeks show includes three individual musical guests – Frances Eliza / Sophie Corinne / Owen Walsh –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio  – Join our host Bruce Swan – show starts at 8pm and will be broadcast live on 103.3FM..

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us! / Tune in!  Thursday, May 29th, 2025

 

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

MUSICAL GUEST:   Frances Eliza

Frances Eliza is an Asheville-based singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music seamlessly weaves the storytelling of folk with distinctive, unforgettable melodies. Over the past decade, Frances has captured the hearts of audiences across the Southern East Coast, delivering captivating performances both as a solo artist in intimate venues and alongside her band on larger stages. With a voice that radiates warmth, Frances draws inspiration from artists like Joni Mitchell, The Cranberries, and Taylor Swift. She has released two original EPs, with her latest single, “Nowhere” debuting this past January. With new music on the way, Frances Eliza will be performing across NC throughout the Summer and Fall, continuing to share her original music and reimagined covers with live audiences.

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MUSICAL GUEST:   Sophia Corinne

Sophia Corinne harvests poetry for the lines of each song from her life, one lived paying attention. Her songs offer the companionship of something beautiful for us to hold close in any season. Since 2021 she has been tending a garden of folk songs and diy shows, releasing multiple EPs and touring extensively across North America. She is currently based in Asheville NC, where she lives in a tiny home.                                                                                                                                                                        insta

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MUSICAL GUEST:   Owen Walsh  

Owen Walsh has been telling stories and performing music his entire life. Born and raised on the banks of the Lackawaxen River in Honesdale, Pennsylvania—a small, historic coal-mining town that spawned the American railroad—Owen grew up surrounded by relics of 19th Century American life and imagery ripe for musical exploitation. More than his hometown’s history, however, Owen fell in love with the natural beauty of Northeast Pennsylvania. Kayaking the Delaware River, spying on raptors through binoculars, clambering up and down the native magnolia and oak trees, and spending endless hours out in the woods with his yellow lab mix, Allie.

Owen began playing violin at the age of three, studying formal repertoire like Mozart concertos and Bach sonatas. At 12 years old, he found his dad’s dusty, old Epiphone guitar tucked away in a closet and taught himself how to play. Soon after he learned his first few chords, Owen began writing songs. He’s followed in the long tradition of Americana folk music, in which lyrics are equal in importance to the melodies that bind them.

His years of formal training combined with his zest for informal improvisation create a unique blend of musical expression that incorporates the many styles Owen loves.

Owen spent years hiding his passion for singing from the world—only singing quietly to himself when (he thought) none of his family members could hear him. He didn’t publicly showcase his voice until junior year of high school, when he performed The Beatles song “Come Together” in the yearly talent show. The overwhelmingly positive response he got from that performance was life changing, and helped Owen realize that he wanted to pursue musical performance as a career. (Needless to say, his class won the talent show that year).

Owen then convinced his parents to let him make a go of it performing music around town. He got his first professional gig at 16 years old, and he hasn’t stopped since. He’s performed all over, including Nashville, New York City, Los Angeles and Ireland. It doesn’t matter if he’s playing a small open mic or a sold-out show, Owen performs with the same bluesy, earnest passion, no matter who’s listening.

Owen attended Ithaca College, studying journalism and music. He received instruction from classical guitar master Pablo Cohen, who helped broaden Owen’s own musical vocabulary and abilities. Owen performed frequently around campus, winning competitions and contributing electric guitar to the band South Hill Revival, whose music is available on streaming services.

Owen has just completed writing and recording his debut album, On My Way, an eclectic mix of 12 songs, including the rye-whiskey-infused fantasy “Kings & Pharaohs,” whose lyrics were inspired by Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks; “Bad Dream,” a song that explores Owen’s childhood fears of an eternal afterlife; and “Time To Go,” a country ballad Owen wrote from the point of view of an old-timer who was born in a small town and never left.

In his daylight hours, Owen also works as a freelance journalist, so whether it’s in print or on stage, he’s always telling a story to somebody.

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AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

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“Anarchy In The Big Easy” with Max Cafard and Vulpes

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This week, we spoke with author Max Cafard and illustrator Vulpes about their new book, Anarchy in The Big Easy: A History of Revolt, Rebellion, and Resurgence. Among other topics, they discuss Cafard’s Surregionalism Manifesto, the origins and production of the book, and what the media gets right and wrong about New Orleans. The book came out from PM Press on April 15, 2025.

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Featured Track:

  • Four Corners (part 2) by Lee Dorsey from Four Corners EP

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