Red Slate: News

Starting in March of 2006, a variety of Red Slate songs have received daily airplay on Aries' Era internet radio. As of June 2008, Aries Era continues to include Red Slate's music on the playlist and can be heard at: www.live365.com/stations/dv4012 . New Age and relaxing ambient music are played on Aries' Era. Take a listen!
Friends- this station is a favorite of ours.

Listen to some samples from our new 2008 album, "Greenland" in the music section of the website! Cd's are available for purchase, e-mail us in the contact section for details.
Selected radio stations (see our stations list below) will also be featuring songs from the "Greenland" and our other CD's.

Jacob Arnold, Red Slate's percussionist, took 1st place out of a field of 20 entrants in his school talent show. Jacob played his self-composed drum solo (which can be heard in our music section) for the show and won a cool 125 dollars. The money was promptly used for some new drum hardware...........congratulations, Jacob!

During a June trip to Greenland, Greg did a one half hour radio interview/show on Red Slate with Virna Fencker on 99.0 Ilulissat Radio, Greenlandic National Radio, (KNR) in Ilulissat, Greenland. Along with the interview, 4 songs were aired- "Keeping it Real", "Over the Mountain",
"Hidden Bannana Jam", and "Medieval Times". Special thanks go to Virna Fencker for doing a great job interviewing and translating into Greenlandic for the broadcast! Check the photo section of the website for pictures taken during this broadcast in the studio.

Red Slate has 4 CD's for sale as of now:
"Best of Four" (2004) and
"Dragonfly" (2005), "Free"(2006) and "Greenland" (2008).
Contact us (see "contact" section of website) if you would like to purchase one. 7.00
each plus 3.00 S/H. Buy all four for 25.00 S/H included!

100% of all online CD sales money is donated to The Nature Conservancy, a charity dedicated to protecting wild places around the globe. See our links section for more info about The Conservancy and thanks for your support. We will mail a letter to you for deduction purposes upon purchase of our Cd's. So far, we've raised 300.00 dollars for The Nature Conservancy! Thanks for your support...how cool is it to make your music conserve the wonderful places on the Earth. Thanks. Thanks!

Downloadable songs from each of these CD's are available from the "Music" section here on the website. Sample and enjoy.......

Mystic Soundscapes Radio has added "Storm on Trinidad", from our Dragonfly CD to their playlist this July! Mystic Soundscapes plays new age and ambient music, and can be listened to at www.mysticsoundscapes.com.

Red Slate made a debut on internet radio in February, 2006 and have continued daily airplay through July, 2007 on "Circle of Souls" Pagan Radio. Songs from all three of our Cd's- "Best of Four", "Dragonfly", and "Free" have aired on the Pagan Radio Network. Check out Circle of Souls Pagan Radio at www.paganradio.net, or check our "links" section. We would like to thank Circle of Souls for the continuing support they have given Red Slate. This is listener supported radio and they play some great music on this station, take a listen and enjoy................and make a donation if you can.

Greg joined Springhill recording artist and Native American Music Award Nominee Golana (Scott Cunningham) for some improvisation at the Wrightwood Music Festival on September 3rd, 2006. Mellow guitar mixed with Native American Flute! See the photo on the photos section of the website and be sure to check out the Golana website at : www.oginali.com

Spirit Within New Age Radio, (www.live365/stations/spiritwithin), played "Autumn Chill" and "Over the Mountain" from the Dragonfly CD from March until December! Spirit Within plays New Age, Easy Listening, and Classical music. Give them a listen live on the internet......good stuff!

Red Slate performed at the "Music in the Pines" concert series on July 13, in Wrightwood, CA. Songs from all three Cd's were played, and special guest Tanner Duman joined Red Slate on accordion for "Shaboink". Special thanks to all fans and friends who came out to see Red Slate! Check the website "photos" section for concert photos and our "links" section for more info on "Music in the Pines" and the Wrightwood music scene.

"Dragonfly" has been accepted for airplay on KASU Arkansas State University Radio 91.7! The station has 3 acoustic music shows- "Americana Crossroads", "Down Home Harmonies", and "Tradition". Check the "links" section of the website for a link to KASU 91.7.

A special thanks goes out to all our friends and family who came to see us August 11th and September 13th at "Music in the Pines". It was great to see everybody and we really appreciate your support. Also thanks to the Wrightwood Musicians Guild and Dan Campbell for putting "Music in the Pines" on!

Look for pictures in the photo section of this website of the show......also be sure to check the "links" section of this website for more information "Music in the Pines".

Good news! Red Slate got played on the radio on January 25, 2004, on "The Dark Room" on KPFK 90.7 (Southern California)
Host Delphine Simonis chose to play Greg's "The Flicker" from the CD "Best of Four". Check out "The Flicker" on the "music" section of website!