Everyone knows how important listeners are to Public Radio
stations, especially during the perennial fund drives. Stations
like WXPN devote a fair amount of time asking you to help out by
calling in with a donation. Over the years we've come up with
some extremely good arguments to communicate our worthy
cause. We need your help to keep us connected to a vibrant
music community, and remain happily independent and devoted
to the music in the face of an increasingly corporate radio
landscape.

In the case of STAR'S END, it would be difficult to find a show of
this nature, scope and duration elsewhere on the radio dial - or
in the history of broadcasting. Surely this program, and the
others like it on WXPN, deserves your support! But this Spring
2008 Fundraiser, let's go beyond the impressive facts and
figures of Public Radio. Before you consider your relationship
with STAR'S END, please think about your relationship with the
music. Every week you hear works by an international cast of
musicians drawn from a library spanning several decades of
worthwhile releases. The offerings are of exceptional creative
realizations in music, and the connection people feel is very
strong.

You listen to STAR'S END because you are seeking music with
substance - expressions of the human spirit. STAR'S END
seeks to facilitate the broadcast of these unique artistic
expressions. Please help us continue to have a pivotal role in
Philadelphia's radio and cultural landscape as a presenter of
original contemporary works.

We're not asking just a few people to do alot, we're asking alot of
people to do a little. Please call in this weekend on the 05.18.08
broadcast of STAR'S END and make a pledge at:
1-800-565-WXPN, or pledge on-line at www.xpn.org

Thanks for your support!

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STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD

To mark 30 years of continuous broadcast of STAR'S END,
WXPN has released the STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology
CD. This double CD contains over 120 minutes of live music
from 12 renowned artists. The unique performances were culled
from on-air in-studio radio concerts by some of our community's
greatest talents. Included on the disc are previously unreleased
live selections donated by: The Ministry of Inside Things, Orbital
Decay, Ian Boddy, AirSculpture, Radio Massacre International,
Robert Rich, Rudy Adrian, Jonn Serrie, Jeff Pearce, Saul Stokes
and Steve Roach.

The STAR'S END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD is available for
a $60 donation to WXPN, which includes membership and all of
its benefits (current WXPN members can receive the STAR'S
END 30th Anniversary Anthology CD for a $25 donation). Call
1-800-565-WXPN for details.

Thanks very much for your support!

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Spacemusic Concert - First Night Out on 17 May 2008

STAR'S END Host Chuck van Zyl, along with The Tangent
Project, Roycee Martin and David Rose will perform live
Spacemusic at "First Night Out" on Saturday 17 May 2008 at
8:00pm. This concert wil benefit The Gatherings Concert Series
and takes place in the church sanctuary of St. Mary's Hamilton
Village, 3916 Locust Walk on the Penn campus in West
Philadelphia.

Details at: http://www.thegatherings.org

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STAR'S END broadcasts every Saturday night/Sunday morning
from 1am-6am (EDST) on:

88.5fm WXPN Philadelphia, PA
88.7fm WXPH Middletown, York and Lancaster, PA
90.5fm Worton/Baltimore, MD
99.7fm Harrisburg, PA
W285DH Whitehall, PA

and live on the web at http://xpn.org

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Chuck van Zyl
Host of STAR'S END Ambient Radio
http://www.starsend.org