It'll be up and running on northcoastjournal.com at 7:30 p.m. -- "Flying Fingers" night at the Humboldt Folklife Festival! This'll be the first of four consecutive nights of live music from the fest, streamed to your home. Then, on Saturday -- all-day folk bonanza!

If you read this before 7:30, go on and over now to check out a promotional video from John Henry of the top-secret Venue Project, of which the NCJ is a proud inaugural member. We've worked out the kinks with a couple of test broadcasts -- Tim Robbins at Dell'Arte, music from Muddy's Hot Cup -- and now we're ready to go full-bore with this thing.

John Henry lets slip the big secret. After Saturday's folk events, we are thrilled and honored to be broadcasting leeeeeeee-iiiiiiii-ve from the Roller Derby bout of the year -- The Bad Axes v. The Tree Sluggers! Live from Redwood Acres, 8 p.m. on a hot Saturday night!

If only their mothers could see them now! Thanks to The Venue Project, and the North Coast Journal, they can! And so can you!

Hosannas!