Rise Up Baking

Rise Up Baking’s first gig since we picked a name for ourselves was a piece of cake.

Alex and Nico brought wrapped, stickered, ribboned cookies down to the studio of WBAI, New York City’s Pacifica station, at 120 Wall Street to support the station’s fall fundraising pledge drive. Upon opening their cookies, volunteers found cheesy stickers that said things like “Great Job!” or “Awesome Work” (yes, just like your 3rd grade math teacher put on your homework). Nico gazed longingly at the Terminal Room, which looks like those computers from the 1960s; heard lots of “Good job, little man!”s from many a cookie-eating, pledge-taking volunteer, and was given a personal invitation to return to the station, sit in the studio and record a station ID by Ayo Harrington, the producer of Eddie Ellis’ show, “On The Count”.

Definitely worth walking through the financial district.