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Former Press-Enterprise Columnist and longtime KVCR news contributor, Cassie MacDuff joins KVCR to review a few of the Inland Empire’s major news stories of the past week.

Oliver Villalobos, Assistant Director of the Riverside National Cemetery, talks about the services they provide for the men and women who have served in the military and shares the story of long-time employee Ed Holmes, who earned the title of NCA’s Outstanding Team Member of the Year.

David Fleming speaks with guitarist Andy Timmons, continuing their conversation about his new disc, Electric Truth - out April 1st. This mostly instrumental album is guitar focused of course, but we'll hear about times when it's best to not play, with the voice (guitar) having more of an impact when he does hit that note, chord, or speedy run up and down the fretboard. We'll hear about the only two songs on the disc, and hear a bit of one of them. It's a not so subtle nod to The Isley Brothers, "It's Your Thang." We'll hear about a tune which feels like Stevie Ray, and indeed it IS inspired by Jimi Hendrix, but with a BIT more swing - as Stevie Ray would do.

We'll also hear about The Sgt. Pepper's release from The Andy Timmons Band, OH so nice! The approach, the songs included...

Another nice note (as it were) we'll hear about when Andy was in the audience in Dallas watching Steve Vai play. Near the end, Steve wanders the audience, sees Andy, and hits a note which sustains long enough for him to hand the guitar off to Andy, who continued the solo in the same style, speed, and overall manner of attack. (Vai tried to hand Andy a pick, but when when Andy saw Steve approaching, he pulled a pick out of his pocket on the ready).

David Fleming speaks with guitarist Andy Timmons. He started off playing in a band called "Taylor Bay" in the Evansville, Indiana area through a chunk of the 80's, and really got noticed in the late 80’s through the early 2000’s with the glam-metal band, Danger Danger, opening for and touring with the likes of KISS, Alice Cooper and more. Andy also has quite a few INCREDIBLE instrumental rock guitar leaning releases under his own name, and tonight we’ll be talking about the latest, out April 1^st 2022.

This month on Musically Speaking, host Margaret Worsley speaks with Lesley Leighton, a noted conductor, music educator and singer. Leighton was named Principal Guest Conductor of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra in February.

Yosemite has started taking reservations from people hoping to visit the park between May 20 and Sep. 30 during peak hours.

Highland state assemblymember James Ramos has introduced legislation that would ban the term ‘squaw’ from state location names.

KVCR’s Jonathan Linden spoke with republican state assemblymember Thurston 'Smitty' Smith about his bill, AB-2728, which looks to change the penalty structure for individuals who break cannabis growing and distribution laws.

Former Press-Enterprise Columnist and longtime KVCR news contributor, Cassie MacDuff joins KVCR to review a few of the Inland Empire’s major news stories of the past week.

Maureen Reidy, President and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, talks about the Paley Center’s history and mission, and the line-up for the upcoming PaleyFest.