CREATE Community Radio Orchards

One of the many entrepreneurial projects of the Colorado Chapter Committee of the Leadon Family Foundation is to support objective journalism and media. One reason for the CREATE Daily on this platform is to practice and be an objective and editorial voice in the communities that we serve. The Sound Century Academy and RAB Studios are syndicating programs through our internet radio network feed with the goal to serve all 50 states. Our hope is to begin community radio stations in Fremont, Huerfano, Cripple Creek and Victor. And as we do build self-sustaining media outlets in Colorado and then surrounding areas through investing in Community building, Recreational interests, Education, Arts and Media, Travel and Transportation, and come alongside non-profit community groups by funding and starting ventures that will retain our greatest resources for generations to come.

Community Projects

At this point we are doing repairs to the Shore Arts Center in Lamar, getting funding for the Music Mountain Ampitheater on Main Street, continuing to digitize the vast broadcasting tape library in Arvada and syndicate CREATE Daily column and podcast which focusses on the communities we serve, recreation and FlingGolf and Wiffle Ball, education through Leadon Family Foundation University, Sound Century Academy of Recording Arts and Broadcasting, Arts and Media through Music Mountain, Walking the Same Ground, Celtic Mountain Strings and Highland Strings, Travel and Transportation through Mountain Valley Transit, and Entrepreneurship. Our goal is to build sustainability and come along side you all economically, environmentally, and through Mutual Endeavors that CREATE Community.

Our goal is to recruit 33 new members around the state each month with a $12 a month membership fee. The funds go into a project fund that helps with Colorado Community projects. I will be planning coffee house meetings around the state that will have concerts, discussions, gallery and quintessential presentations. I am also compiling Community assessments to see how our chapter can best serve Colorado Communities.

I am working with Harry Tuft, the Lombardo Family and The University of Colorado as well as The Fort Restaurant and Historical Foundation, as well as broadcasters, recording studios and Colorado Colleges and Universities to preserve, protect and syndicate recordings of concerts, full musicals, broadcasts and audio books that will feed community radio all over the state, and art centers with libraries that will continue to seed, feed, and create orchards that will spread to all 50 states.

In two or three storage units in Denver, stacked in cardboard boxes were reel to reel tapes of a treasury of Folk Heroes. Standing in the concrete archives at Broadway and Evans, not far away from where Barry Fey started The Family Dog, was a Smithsonian-like Library with founder and collector, Harry Tuft looking through with Richard Arnold Beattie, the singer-songwriter and founder of Sound Century an organization that digitizes and remixes these types of things, so future generations can get “Folke’d up” as much as Richard is! Beattie is a media host, publisher and has been writing, telling, singing and playing stories and songs since 1972. Your mission is to enjoy the time machine to back where Folk Heroes roamed the earth. To schedule a CREATE Coffeehouse email richardbeattie809@gmail.com

Listening and Looking Forward

Richard Arnold Beattie

President

Colorado Chapter Committee

Leadon Family Foundation

719-877-3476