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KVMR plans national broadcast of Spearhead at New Folsom Prison

 By: Steve Baker
 Published: November 8, 2005 at 07:49

 Nearly forty years ago, Johnny Cash entertained inmates in a concert 
later made famous in his legendary "Live at Folsom Prison" album. Now an 
enterprising smalltown California radio station and an acclaimed 
worldbeat band are combining resources for a national radio broadcast of 
a live concert at "New Folsom" (California State Prison-Sacramento) for 
the holiday season.

 In a 21st century cultural twist on the Cash legacy, eclectic public 
radio station KVMR-FM - located in this rural foothills community with a 
listener base that extends well beyond Sacramento - will broadcast a 
Wednesday, November 23rd Folsom concert featuring poet/activist Michael 
Franti and the band Spearhead, before a portion of the facility's prison 
population.

 KVMR volunteers have been active in the prison's creative arts program 
and have brought a variety of musicians, poets and performers to the 
correctional facility, plus the station has aired two original musical 
concerts by inmates there themselves...