First Episode: Alex Benepe, plus three a cappella stories

The semester's first episode of R!A!M! aired this past Wednesday. If you didn't get to hear the show live, you're in luck: all of the recorded segments from the show are now available for streaming in the nifty media player above and for download here.

The first piece is an interview with Alex Benepe. Although perhaps best known as the Middlebury Quidditch Commissioner, Benepe is also a painter. Radio Arts Middlebury talked to him about one of his more unusual projects: creating hand-painted posters to advertise events for Quidditch, VACA, and others.

The rest of this week's show was devoted to this past Saturday's Vermont A Cappella Summit, at which groups from around Vermont showcased their vocal stylings in workshops hosted by Duwende, Cadence, and Philip Hamilton.

If you liked the background music from the Summit reports, feel free to track down the a cappella groups who sang it:

• Calloway Taxi (local)
  
• Route 7 (local, including Joe Antonioli of Middlebury College LIS)
  
• Sweet Transition (MMU High School)
• The Golden Knotes (Cllarkson Unversity)
• Stuck in the Middle (Middlebury College)
  
• Maple Jam (local)