This week on the Compass, local activists Doug Milholland and Julia Cochrane talk to Compass correspondent Charlie Bermant about the importance of staying involved and active in social issues, as if our lives depend on it. Which it often does. Civil disobedience has always been part of Port Townsend’s DNA, but has gained frequency and power in reaction to new government programs.
(First airdate: April 8, 2019) KPTZ interviewers Cris Wilson and Larry Stein talk with Aaron Kopp, co-director of Liyana, about children of Swaziland and their stories; and Janette Force, Executive Director of the Port Townsend Film Festival, about some Women & Film Festival highlights.
KPTZ announces a 4-week radio series on the history of Brazil’s Choro music. The show, A Joyful Cry: Brazil’s Choro Music was produced by WFMT Radio Network out of Chicago, and is hosted by Chicago flautist Julie Koidin and Brazilian musician Geraldo de Oliveira. It is presented in four one-hour segments documenting the history of this music – the first truly Brazilian music – that predates samba and Bossa Nova. Air dates are Saturdays from 11am to noon:
#1 – The History of Choro to the Present Day – 4/06
#2 – Choro and Classical Music – 4/13
#3 – The Brass and Woodwind Virtuosos of Choro – 4/20
#4- The String Players of Choro – 4/27
This show dovetails with the 10th annual Centrum Choro workshop.
On the April 5, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus interviewed Micaela Kingslight, who performed a selection of original songs.
On the April 5, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus interviewed director Genevieve Barlow, set designer Margie McDonald, and actresses Bry Kifolo and Bonnie Obremski of KCPT’s Men on Boats.
On the April 5, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus interviewed Liat Lis and Kyle McGonegle, who perform as The Gossamer Strings, a harmonious folk duo.
On the April 5, 2019 Tossed Salad show, Phil Andrus interviewed Mike Ferguson about the Sunrise Movement, a movement by young people to stop the climate crisis.
(Reprise airdate: April 2, 2019) Host Sheila Bender interviews local-area poet and writing teacher Holly J. Hughes in a repeat of a broadcast that first aired in November, 2014.
We survived April Fools Day, and are well into Spring. What better way to celebrate than with a little Tossed Salad? Phil Andrus brings us these tossings for this Friday:
1:00 – Micaela Kingslight, original songs
1:45 – Amanda Milholland, Port Townsend Farmers Market
2:00 – Meredith Parker (JCHS), President of the Makah Cultural Research Center
2:30 – Gossamer Strings, Oregon folk duo
3:30 – Cast members of KCPT’s “Men on Boats”
4:00 – Mike Ferguson on the Sunrise Project, The Lowest Pair, Olympia old-timey
4:30 – Don White reading “My Dead Brother Comes To America” by Alexander Godin
(First airdate: April 4, 2019) KPTZ interviewers Buzzy Donohue and Chris Bricker speak with Tai Chi master Doreen Hind, subject of The Great Balance; and Jim Brown, director of Singing for Our Lives, about Film Festival special guest Holly Near.
