David Brower Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

I lead a vibrant nonprofit that builds community with bluegrass, old time and other forms of traditional music. We produce ticketed concerts, facilitated jam sessions, workshops, school programs and the annual IBMA Bluegrass Live! powered by PNC Festival in downtown Raleigh. The festival is Raleigh's signature cultural event drawing more than 200,000 people each year and generating more than $16-million a year in direct economic impact. It's a great job, plus there's banjos!

Chapel Hill Nc

I was a member of the Senior Management Team leading one of the most successful NPR News stations in the country. The station serves an estimated audience of nearly 400,000 listeners every week -- and those listeners are remarkable. They're dedicated, passionate, fully engaged and consistently help make WUNC number one in the Raleigh market.I oversaw content creation, acquisition and distribution. During my tenure this included WUNC News, WUNC Music, The State of Things, The Story with Dick Gordon, The American Homefront National Reporting Initiative on Veterans and Military Issues, WUNC's After Innocence Series, The People's Pharmacy, WUNC's Summer Youth Reporting Institute, Back Porch Music and podcasts that include WUNC’s Songs We Love (and the Come Hear NC series), Dom Flemons’ American Songster Radio, Stories with a Heartbeat, Chris Stamey's Occasional Shivers, Fort Bragg Stories, The Civilist with Steven Petrow and Postcards from Madison County. I also coordinated The Back Porch Music on the Lawn Concert series booking 16+ roots music bands a year for the free outdoor series.As Program Director I participated in fundraising activities including on-air pledge drives, production of audio listener testimonials and grant writing. During my time as Program Director WUNC secured multiple large, program specific grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AJ Fletcher Foundation, Goodnight Educational Foundation, GlaxoSmithKline Foundation and others.I managed a department with 25+ creative, inspired journalists who taught me something every day. It's the best job in public radio.

Chapel Hill Nc

During this time I served WUNC listeners in a variety of roles. I was the Assignments Editor for News, Morning Edition Producer, fill-in news anchor and reporter. I also shared the interim News Director job for a year.

Chapel Hill Nc

I hosted Morning Edition for WUNC, one of the most listened to NPR News Stations in the country. I woke up early (very), drank lots of coffee and did the news. Mornings on WUNC rose to number one in the Raleigh Market during this time period.

I worked with NPR's Southwest Bureau Chief to report and file feature news stories from Southern New Mexico, West Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. During this time I produced enterprise and assigned stories on a broad range of topics for All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.

Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

I programmed and hosted Classical Music radio programs, supervised staff and taught a Radio Journalism class to undergraduates at New Mexico State University. I hosted a weekly folk music program and recorded local and touring musicians in studio each week. During this time I also worked as a freelance reporter for NPR covering border issues, folklife and news topics.

Taught journalism and audio production classes to undergraduates at New Mexico State University.

Las Cruces, New Mexico Area

I hosted Classical Music programs and managed the operations/traffic department for a small NPR station on the US-Mexico border.In 1992 I produced a 2-hour documentary about Woody Guthrie. It was distributed nationally and carried on more than 100 stations including WBEZ, KQED and (of course) KWGS in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Asheville, North Carolina Area

I served as a volunteer host for a variety of on-air shifts at this NPR station in the North Carolina Mountains.

Manteo, Nc

In the Summers of 1987 and 1988, I portrayed a character representing one of the 1585 English "settlers" on Roanoke Island. This meant wearing an historically accurate wool outfit in the summertime in Eastern North Carolina.

Chapel Hill Nc

I was told to chop, dice, mince and wash anything Chef Bill Neal put in front of me and I did it well.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And American Studies

While the degree says I double majored in American Studies and English my real major was College Radio. These were the hey-days.

High School