Ronna: All Night Long
from The Volume Knob Hosted by Conseil Keith Serry Inc.
Ronna lives in Brooklyn but is a lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. She is a Moth Slam winner, has been featured on the PBS-WGBH Stories from the Stage series, and is a National Storytelling Network (US) slam finalist. You can learn more about her by visiting her web site or following her on Instagram or Twitter. If you're interested in getting tickets to see Keith (and five very talented storytellers) at the PHI Centre in Montreal, just follow this link! Hope to see you there. As for Lionel Richie's All Night Long (All Night) (YES! That's the full title) it's pretty easy to underestimate as a cultural phenomenon in the early 80s. First of all, those of us of (um) a certain age will remember that Richie performed it at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. The single itself went to number one in six different countries (including Canada) and the video (which, to be honest, is a hilarious throwback for me today) was actually produced by Mike Nesmith of the Monkees. Too much 80s pop culture!!! As always, the story might sound even a little bit more interesting to you if you listen to the whole song. (Or if you're interested in a little rabbit-hole, Jacob Collier's Grammy winning re-arrangement) As always, remember to follow the show on instagram, twitter and facebook and to get over to the website to sign up for the TVK mailing list.
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It's the winter of 1983 and Ronna is in New York, tired of being stuck and looking for a new family. When she finds it among her fast-living and glamorous co-workers in a New York restaurant, everything seems fine... until she's forced to confront how little she actually knows her new adoptive family.
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