Celebrate your Memorial Day Weekend on The Highway

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published May 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM EDT

Tune in Sunday Night for music to celebrate Memorial Day. We'll hear from Greg Greenway, The Bluegrass Group- Blue Highway, Jason Isbell, Richard Shindell and plenty of others. Shindell is a masterful storyteller, and his songs often are from a first-person point of view. He covers Bruce Springsteen's " Born in the USA" - a message filled song that was the title track from the 1985 lp. Also, we'll have the haunting track " Arlington" from country star Trace Adkins, as well as classic music from Simon and Garfunkel and Hawkshaw Hawkins. Why sit in traffic over the holiday weekend? A much better roadway to get stuck on is The Acoustic Highway- Sunday night at 9 on WHRV.

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Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.

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