If 91.9 WITT, the proposed community station for parts of Indianapolis and Zionsville, draws upon performers as inspired and genuine as those that took the stage for their fundraiser Friday night at Radio Radio, then things bode well for the health of the local music scene, which could use a radio station committed to nurturing musicians with a strong sense of place. Here’s what you missed, although you’ll have ample chance to catch all these performers in the coming year.

The chamber folk of Kate Lamont and blueprintmusic opened the night, with their full Appalachian-style instrumentation of guitar, dobro, cello, string bass, mandolin, ukulele and percussion. They presented a brand-new video montage keyed to their tune “One Eye Open”: Video monitors at the back of the room played a slideshow that gave a specific interpretation to a tune that tells about a general voyage of discovery (from one eye to two eyes open), contrasting vibrant images of Barack Obama with the greatest failures of the Bush presidency. The video is posted on YouTube on the KateLamontBPM channel. Expect a live album, Act Live, from the ensemble this March, and they’ll play a March 12 Wine Wednesday loft concert before embarking on a West Coast tour later in the month.

Singer and guitarist Sarah Grain, accompanied by Chip Reardon on drums and Ryan Deasy on electrified stand-up bass, played a lovely set, the band in good communication and Grain in expressive voice. She contrasted the disempowerment of her first song, the gentle but melancholy waltz “Beautiful Mind” in which the narrator asks, repeatedly, just where her mind has gone, with WITT’s example of community activism. She later indulged her obsession with the phrase “God willing and the creek don’t rise,” using that homespun saying as the brief and catchy chorus to a song about conditional love.

Hip-hop trio The Philosophy — comprised of MCs Bambu, Spread and Toe Jam — entered the crowd stealthily to begin their set, snaking their way between suddenly complicit spectators while clapping and chanting the chorus to their first tune: “With the power of soul, anything is possible; with the power of you, anything you want to do.” After an informal circle formed around the MCs while they rapped their first verses (still unamplified), the band kicked in on stage, with bass, guitar, drums, keys, reeds and turntables. Taking into account a dance number later in the set, there’s no question that The Philosophy won best choreography for the night.

Funk rock band Blackberry Jam, led by the gruff and soulful Jumbo Shrimp, tore their way through a bunch of quasi-apocalyptic tunes, closing with a funny and angry song that imagines George W. Bush slamming the door in the face of a 4-year-old selling Girl Scout cookies. The rest of the doom and gloom was actually biblical, in “Lazarus,” “Destroyer” and “Babylon.” Around since 1996, Blackberry Jam have mastered a sound that’s on the heavy end of funk; bass, guitar, trumpet, trombone, drum set, bongos and a couple singers filled the stage on Friday night.

The Mudkids closed out the night with a relatively stripped-down stage presence of turntables and MC (not that there was much loss of energy, just a lack of live horns). They’ll be headlining 420 Fest at Spin Nightclub April 19 (for all those that won’t have the volition to leave their house on the actual 4/20).