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A Wacky Nutcracker in SF ~ California Revels in Oakland ~ Benefit concert for Meals on Wheels

This week on Open Air, host David Latulippe talks with Bay Area singer/songwriter Michelle Schmitt, about her annual benefit concert for Meals on Wheels at SF Jazz; Meals’ Communications Manager and Chief Storyteller Vivien Kim Thorp also joins us; Also, Doug Litwin of the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band shares information about the wackiest Nutcracker on earth: the 2013 Dance-Along Nutcracker, together with actor/dancer Kelly Collins; and we have David Parr, Artistic Director of the California Revels, together with actor Robert Sicular, who plays John Manners, the 9th Earl of Rutland in The Christmas Revels: The Spirits of Haddon Hall, at the Scottish Rite Theater in Oakland. Open Air, originally broadcast on December 12, 2013 at 1pm. Listen Now or anytime. 

David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, and has produced and hosted KALW's Explorations in Music, From the Conservatory, Music from Menlo, Music from Mills, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. www.radio-latulippe.com