This week on ART ON THE AIR our award winning encore show features Béla Fleck, Spotlight on Chesterton Art Center’s fall exhibit, and And a spotlight extra - 2026 RockaPelli

This week (8/14) on ART ON THE AIR our award winning encore show features Béla Fleck, whose four-decade career has boldly gone where no banjo player has gone before with a musical journey that earning him 18 Grammy awards in nine different fields, including Country, Pop, Jazz, Instrumental, Classical and World Music. His newest project pays homage to George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” plus he will be sharing a preview of his next album with the late Chick Corea coming in May.Our Spotlight is on Chesterton Art Center’s fall exhibit Midwestern Vernacular featuring Jesus Salome Arriaga, Jonathan Borton, and Kay Westhues running August 6th through September 30th with Executive Director Hannah Hammond-Hagman, And a spotlight extra - 2026 RockaPelli will be at Crown Point’s Bulldog Park August 22nd starting at 3:30pm.Tune in on Sunday at 7pm on Lakeshore Public Media for our hour long conversation with our special guests or listen at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/AOTA, and can also be heard Fridays at 11am and Mondays at 5pm on WVLP 103.1FM (WVLP.org) or listen live at Tune In. Listen to past ART ON THE AIR shows at lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/AOTA or brech.com/aota. Please have your friends send show feedback to Lakeshore at: [email protected] your questions about our show to [email protected] us on Facebook.com/artonthairwvlp to keep up to date about art issues in the Region. New and encore episodes also heard as podcasts on: NPR, Spotify Tune IN, Amazon Music, Apple and Google Podcasts, plus many other podcast platforms. Larry A Brechner & Ester Golden hosts of ART ON THE AIR. https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/show/art-on-the-air/2026-08-04/art-on-the-air-august-14-2026