Once again Radio Free Charleston, the local music, art and film webshow nextled in the heart of the PopCult blog, is turning their cameras toward FestivALL for an indeterminite amount of episodes.  The first show, seen above, features music from The Charleston Light Opera Guild production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” as well as perfomances from The Boatmen (Live On The Levee) and Todd Burge and Andy Park (The Songwriter Invitational at Capitol Roasters).  You’ll also see scenes from the Art Parade.  This is the first of many episodes of RFC that will mine the artistic riches of FestivAll 2011.

Above you see the final installment of Radio Free Charleston’s extensive coverage of FestivAll 2010.  Even though our coverage was extensive, we still barely scratched the surface of all the cool stuff that was going on during the time when our city becomes a work of art.

In RFC 107 you will see Option 22, Brian Diller, Bare Bones and The Velvet Gypsies. You’ll also get glimpses of Jude Binder, Kitty Killton and the Musical Easels project with Adrian DeQuiros.

With this episode of the show, which coincidentally goes online roughly on the fourth anniversary of Radio Free Charleston, we have managed to bring you over two hours of footage, shot entirely at FestivAll, in the span of seventeen days.  That’s just better than a new show every three days that we’ve posted.

One of the majordomos of FestivALL sent on word that the big FestivALL letters crafted by area artists (see this post and this slideshow) were now up for sale, letter for letter, on eBay. If  you have need of an artistic ‘F’ or if, say, you are really feeling that the ‘V’ has gone out of your life, then get over to eBay now and bid. For $200, a big ol’ letter of the alphabet is yours. Curiously, the letter ‘A’ is not for sale. Sold? Did the artist really, really like his letter? Inquiring blogs want to know.

UPDATE: Vasilia Scouras, who helped with the FestivALL Large Letter project, e-mailed in this update in response to our queries about the eBay auction:  “FestivALL is selling the letters. The artist will receive 70 percent of the sale with 30 percent going into a permanent art fund. FestivALL would like to commission a permanent art work for Charleston. Both the ‘A’ and the ‘I’, were sold during FestivALL. “

Phil Lawrence sent along this photo shot during FestivALL Charleston of  a relationship built on stilts. Below, Lawrence takes notice of a rather unusual mode of conveyance spotted at Capitol Market.

This is the next-to-last of our six-episode look at FestivAll 2010.  For those of you keeping score at home, this has been the equivalent of producing a two-hour documentary–filming, editing, and posting online–in the span of three weeks.

This episode of RFC includes music from The Velvet Gypsies, Actual Rhinocerous and Comparsa, plus a sample of Patrick Felton’s play, “Waiting For Jennifer” and more scenes from ArtWalk and the Capitol Street Art Fair, featuring Jude Binder and the Crystal Tooth Gallery this time. The final installment of RFC’s look at FestivAll 2010 should be posted here by the end of the week.

The fourth installment Radio Free Chaleston’s FestivAll 2010 coverage includes music from Comparsa, Evan Mack, Melanie Larch, T. J. King and Miss Behavin’. You’ll also see Scott Elkins’ entry in the FestivAll Silent Film competition and a montage of the FestivAll Catfish.

There will be at least two more episodes of Radio Free Charleston devoted to FestivAll 2010 with music from Craig D’Andrea, Option 22, The Velvet Gypsies, Barebones, Actual Rhinocerous, plus more music from Comparsa, Brian Diller and more theater, dance and art from FestivAll.  Look for RFC 106 on Monday.

Above you see the first installment of Radio Free Charleston’s FestivAll 2010 shows. These are departure episodes that present the sights and sounds of FestivAll as a cinema-verite stream-of-consciousness travelogue. In the first installment you will hear music by Smoke and Mirrors, The Spurgie Hankins Band, The Nanker Phelge, The Kanawha Kordsmen and The Bob Thompson Unit, and you’ll see and hear FestivAll events like the Buswater art exhibit, The Art Parade, The shows at LiveMix Studio, music from Haddad Riverfront Park and The East End Main Street Streetworks Art Auction.

Originally,  RFC’s Big Shot, Rudy Panucci, planned to produce three of these shows, but he quickly discovered that he would have enough material for at least five shows.

The second installment features music From Brian and Nathan Diller, Evan Mack, Captain Crash and The Beauty Queen, Comparsa, and Alasha Al-Qudwah blended with art and animation from Joe Bolyard, Diane Martens, Leisha Angel, Kerry Bingham, and Frank and Rudy Panucci. You can se it right here.

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Fresh out of the RFC oven is the third episode, with music from The VooDoo Katz, Miss Behavin’, Mark Scarpelli, The Sweet Adelines, and more, plus more footage from ArtWalk and the Capitol Street Art Fair.

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At least two additional FestivAll-themed episodes of Radio Free Charleston, with music from Comparsa, The Velvet Gypsies, Actual Rhinocerous, Option 22, T.J. King and more will be coming your way in the next week.

The Capital High Dance Company and alumni, and some other performers from the Charleston area, put on a flash dance Saturday, June 26, 2010, downtown in front of Taylor Books.

“Radio Free Charleston 102,” the first of three FestivALL-themed shows, is now online. This episode blends music from Smoke and Mirrors, the Spurgie Hankins Band, The Nanker Phelge, Kanawha Kordsmen and Bob Thompson with footage of Buswater on the Boulevard, the Art Parade, East End Main Street Art Auction, LiveMix Studio and Haddad Riverfront Park.

The running time is just over 21 minutes, and — mark this down for yet another first in West Virginia’s longest-running Web show — this is the first widescreen episode of “RFC.”

Part two, with music from Brian Diller, a preview of Joe Bolyard’s art show at The Purple Moon and tons of other stuff will go live Thursday or Friday. Part three, with music from Voodoo Katz and Comparsa will be available early next week.