Excursions

The Miami Valley Music Men features 4 quartets and over 35 local men who gather regularly to sing together in traditional barbershop harmonies.  Two of the quartets, Treblemakers and The Daytones, visited the WYSO studios to share some tunes and talk about their upcoming performance: Movie Night, which will feature music performed by the quartets and the larger choral-style group.

The Miami Valley Music Men will perform their annual concert on Saturday, October 13th at the Randy Chisholm Memorial Auditorium on Smithville Road in Dayton.

Hailing from Montana, songwriter David Boone's project Dawns began with a batch of songs sent to a UK producer Danton Supple.  This resulted in Boone traveling to the UK to work with Supple and a host of musicians including a string arranger.  Boone travels with a six-piece band but also performs acoustic.  He visited the WYSO studios for an acoustic performance and spoke about the experience of working on the various incarnations of the Dawns project.

Boone will perform at Ghostlight Coffee on October 9th.

On October 5th, 2012, Ben Rivet aka. BJSR stopped by Excursions to chat with Niki Dakota about his yoga / music project called Go W/ The Flow, and perform a few songs. While at the station, he demonstrated his looping station which allows him to create one person songs using mathematical phrasing.

Ben performed this past weekend, on October 6th,  at the Midwest Outdoor Experience. He hit the stage once at 3pm where he performed his own music, and again at 7pm for an hour of Go W/ The Flow yoga.

The Midwest Outdoor experience kicks off today, Oct. 5th, at 6:00pm, and will last until tomorrow night, Oct. 6th, at Eastwood Metropark.  Teamed with Dayton Music Festival and vendors from around the country, this year's event is expected to draw a larger crowd than in recent years.

This year's event will provide activities for the whole family icluding: camping, fly fishing, climbing, slacklining, IMBA bike village, geocaching, and disc golf. There will also be a 5k run taking place this evening. More experienced athletes can compete in any of the competitions.

Ashley Martin, from Springboro, OH, attended school at Belmont University in Nashville, TN where she studied Music Business. She has recorded with such music talents as Frankie Ballard.

On Monday October 1st, 2012, Ashley made her radio debut on Excursions with Niki Dakota. During the show, she performed "Hello Lonely" and "Heartbreak Medicine" from her album Torn.

She kicks off the Midwest Outdoor Experience on Friday at 6:30pm. The event will take place on October 5-6. For more information visit www.Outdoorx.org or www.metroparks.org