Disco Geezer (aka Pete Lack) crafts a perfect union of 70s disco, 80s dance- and floor-shaking House. Disco Geezer is blazing down the boogie trail to thrill the many funk soul brothers and synth pop sisters who hunger for those days when it was cool to shake your booty and get down on it. Tune in to DJ Disco Geezer Thursdays 7-8pm. Email Disco Geezer.
(First airdate: March 21, 2018) Heather McRae-Woolf interviews Leslie Lewis and several members of the Port Townsend Youth Choir.
(First airdate: March 20, 2018) Missy Neilsen talks with Dianne Quinn and Jo Ferraro about vclunteering at the Port Townsend Pacific Marine Science Center and upcoming events.
There’s always a variety of topics and music to share with you.
Join host Phil Andrus and special guests this Friday from 1-5pm on 91.9FM ~ or stream live by clicking the Listen Live arrow at the top left of this window.
1:00 – Beth Wood, folksinger
1:45 – Bob Rosen, South County Report, with Bill Breakey and Kristi Adams who head up some very special programs at the Quilcene school.
2:15 – Leslie Lewis, Port Townsend Community Chorus
2:45 – Five Years of Public Power, with PUD Commissioner Jeff Randall, Bill Graham, PUD Resource Manager; and Bill Wise, co-author of the PUD initiative
3:30 – Simon deVoil and Ben Bochner
4:30 – Don White, reading “The Briefcase”, by Rebecca Makkai (25 minutes)
For many years Port Townsend has been the working port of choice for commercial fisher-folk from far and wide to spend their winters preparing their boats for the next summer’s fishing season. But this winter there has been a notable lack of commercial fishing vessels — or other kinds of boats, for that matter — hauled out to make repairs and improvements. This week, in a Compass episode we are titling Empty Boat Haven Blues, we talk with a couple of local commercial fisherwomen and others to find out why. (Interviews with Dave Thompson, JennTakaki, Becca Argo, and Pam Petranek.)
(first aired March 14, 2018). Kate Dwyer’s 2014 interview with Washington DFW wildlife biologist Paul DeBruyn is rebroadcast, with Debaran Kelso hosting the remainder of this show that discusses the snow geese and swans of the Skagit Delta. Closing music is “Swan,” performed by Right Said Fred.
We serve up a little musical Irish salad this week.
Join host Phil Andrus and special guests this Friday from 1-5pm on 91.9FM ~ or stream live by clicking the Listen Live arrow at the top left of this window.
1:00 – Happenstance, St Paddy’s favorite band
2:00 – Liz Hoenig Kanieski, Gwendolyn Trace and Ernie Baird, Marine Trades Association, and Jake Beattie, NW Maritime Center, with Scott Wilson, publisher emeritus of the Leader
2:45 – Sundae + Mr. Goessl, flirtatious vocals with melodica and fabulous jazz guitar
3:30 – Brett Navin brings members of the Blue Heron Middle School Band
4:00 – Rep. Mike Chapman and PTHS Students for Sustainability, interviewed by Mike Ferguson
4:30 – Catherine McNabb, reading a set of dark Irish tales.
(First airdate: March 13, 2018) SHIPWRIGHT MARTIN MILLS – A PASSION FOR BOAT BUILDING. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Martin Mills, who is one of the 12 partners in the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op. Not everyone realizes that there are as many – if not more – people employed down at the Boat Haven than at the Mill. The maritime trades are a key underpinning of the local economy. The Co-op’s business model means these skilled tradesmen share in things like rent, bookkeeping and even many tools. All receive an hourly wage and if there’s an annual profit, it’s shared.
This week on the Compass we meet Tessa Hulls, a recent Port Townsend transplant who writes biographies for the Atlas Obscura Kick-Ass Women Series and who is, in fact, herself a fairly kick-ass woman. And then we take a look at the roll-out of a world-class bicycle repair teaching institution right here in Port Townsend.
(first aired March 6, 2018). Kevin O’Brien, member of the Seattle 7 Writers group and author of 19 thrillers, joins host Sheila Bender to discuss his career and what it’s like penning books about murder and mayhem.
