Meltdown Facts To Learn And Share

Did you know?

• The Meltdown will be the first ever full-band family show by The Nields.

• Red Gate Farm will, weather permitting, bring baby lambs. Baby lambs, people! They will not, so far as I know, be selling or, um, processing the lambs during the event.

• I've put a ton of stuff up on the Meltdown page at WRSI.com, including links to all of the performers, some videos, some tracks you can listen to, etc. It also has a full list of vendors, and folks, it's a great list. Check it out. Please? 'Cause it kinda took a long time.

• Monte will have most (maybe all) of the authors who are appearing at the Meltdown on his show the week leading up to the Meltdown. Be sure to listen. He'll also include some or all of them on the Best of Monte that airs just before our show on the River (i.e., 7-8 am on Saturdays).

• The Deedle Deedle Dees recently spent a weekend recording their next record. Rumor has it that "Nobody Told Me to Be Susan B. Anthony" (backstory here, involving me wearing a dress to elementary school) made the cut. Will they play it at the Meltdown? Maybe! Will I wear a dress? Probably not! But you can't know for sure without coming.

• Cup & Top Cafe will be one of the food vendors. They will probably bring some of their wicked good macaroni and cheese. Kids like macaroni and cheese. This event is kid-focused. COINCIDENCE? No, probably not.

• Our sponsor, The Toy Box from Amherst, will be there too. Stop by, get a cool toy, tell them "thanks" for sponsoring us on the radio machine.

• Mariana Iranzi will be on the show this Saturday, with jazz pianist Leo Genovese on melodica and Andes. She's also playing next Tuesday in a free after-school show at the aforementioned Cup & Top in the center of Florence.

• Dennis Caraher will be on the show on the next Saturday, March 21, with collaborator Charlie Braun and his sweet new 12-string.

• DJs from the River will do storytelling in the morning. Anyone who's been to Paintbox Theater will be especially psyched to see Kelsey.

• There is so much more to share, but I've probably avoided my real to-do list for long enough...

Remember: The River's Meltdown will take place on Saturday, March 28, from 10 am to 4 pm at JFK Middle School on Bridge Road in Florence. It's free, and presented by the nice folks at Yankee Candle Village and 93.9 The River.