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This Week’s Programs
April 13-19, 2025
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Daily on Weekdays
Democracy Now w/Amy Goodman
10:00-11:00 am Monday through Friday
6:00-7:00 pm Monday through Thursday; 7:00 -8:00 pm on Friday
Sunday
Classical Hour with Gary Alexander
2-3 pm
This Week: Today covers Part 2 (of 4) of “A Tale of Two Sergei’s” – both born in April – Russian Romantic Sergei Rachmaninoff (April 1, 1873) and Ukrainian-born Sergei Prokofiev (April 23, 1893). Today we continue with the pre-Bolshevik Rachmaninoff, honoring the 67th anniversary of Van Cliburn’s stunning contest victory in Moscow on April 11, 1958 playing Rachmaninoff’ Third Piano Concerto, age 22, sweeping the Tchaikovsky competition there, followed by a variety of Rachmaninoff’s works played by the Australian pianist David Helfgott, the subject of the 1990s movie, “Shine.”
New Dimensions
4:00 pm (repeats Tuesday at 7 pm)
New Dimensions Media: Changing the World One Broadcast at a Time. Explores subjects such as social, political, scientific, ecological, and spiritual frontiers through in-depth dialogues.
This Week: Radical Intimacy with the Imaginal World with Brooke Williams
After having a life-altering dream of a dragonfly, Williams contemplates the re-enchantment of our world to rediscover wonder, mystery, and meaning in our relationship with nature and the environment. He invites us to consider new perspectives on nature, consciousness, and the practice of re-enchantment in our modern world.
Spirit in Action – Lopez Edition
5:00 pm
These radio programs are prepared by Mark Judkins Helpsmeet under the care of Eau Claire Quakers and sponsored for KLOI by the Lopez Island Quaker Group. ‘Spirit In Action’ brings you stories of people living lives of fruitful service, peace, community, and compassion.
This Week: Pacifist Curmudgeon & War Tax Redirection
Across the country, the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) links energies of folks like Anne Barron of the Peace Resource Center of San Diego, the Truth & Poverty Tour in San Diego, and War Tax Redirection, and Larry Bassett, the curmudgeonly, conscientious, Gandalf-bearded subject of the documentary, The Pacifist (trailer and full video)
Monday
WINGS – Women’s International News Gathering Service
2:00 pm
A weekly radio news and current affairs program by and about women worldwide.
This Week: Women at Work, Part 1 of 2
Karen Messing is a professor emerita of biology at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Trained in ergonomics and genetics, she became an internationally-known expert on occupational health from a gender perspective. In this interview, she talks about what is overlooked about the skills women bring to many kinds of jobs that are gendered female, the punishing conditions they often face, the paucity of research on them, and the value of their knowledge.
Joy Spring with Gary Alexander
3:00-6:00 pm
This Week: We open with four songs dedicated to the men’s and women’s basketball champions of the NCAA (Connecticut and Florida) and NIT (Buffalo and Chattanooga) teams with classic jazz songs named after them, like Chattanooga Choo Choo, Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Connecticut (by Artie Shaw) and Earl Hines’ “Gator Rag” for Florida. Then we move into a 30-minute replication of recorded highlights of the 75-minute concert by The Westerlies on Sunday, April 6 at the Lopez Center. In the 4:00 hour we profile three tenor sax giants born a century ago, from March 26 to April 21, 1925 – James Moody, Harold Ashby and our friend Art Foxall, then shorter tributes to three birthday songbirds of lesser renown (Barbara Lea, Liz Callaway and Nellie McKay) before profiling 13 to 15 major leaguers born in the first month of spring on Friday’s show. At 4:30, we profile the major sections (and soloists) of the “Generation Gap” big band. At 5:00, we profile two vocalist CDs just received, by Tierney Sutton and her band, and then Lorraine Feather, recently of Orcas Island, with her new CD, “The Green World,” including two songs written with Jazz Crise pianist Shelly Berg. We close with six songs dedicated to the IRS deadline tomorrow, April 15, beginning with “Put a Tax on Love” (by Eddie Cantor).
Brittany to the Balkans and Beyond w/Stanley Greenthal
8:00 – 9:30 pm
Compelling Celtic and Balkan music from diverse regions of the world, mixed with occasional spoken word pieces to illuminate the traditions from which the music originates.
This Week: Selections from our show archives.
Tuesday
Backyard Conservation with Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy
1:00 pm
Local researchers Russel Barsh and Madrona Murphy talk about the things that each of us can do in our own lives and around our own homes to take better care of the plants and animals that make our island special.
This Month: Resolutions for 2025
Living Life — Music with John Garcia
3:00 pm
DJ John plays heartfelt global music emphasizing Spanish and Latino songs.
New Dimensions
7:00 pm (repeat from Sunday 4:00 pm)
Wednesday
The Grand Southern Vocal & Plectrophonic Review w/Lance Brittain
5:00 am
Lance presents a show covering early to contemporary folk, country, and bluegrass, plus some discussion of historical context, including news of current events in the bluegrass and folk community. From an acoustic perspective, Lance explores other early influences, including classic early jazz, blues, ragtime, border music, etc.
This Week: Selections from our show archives. Please note that any dates mentioned are from previous shows and are not current.
The FAT Music Show w/Felton Pruitt
2:00 pm (repeat Friday 6:00 pm)
The FAT Music Show is a friendly nod to the much-adored 1970’s radio station KFAT in Gilroy, California, which was one of the first national radio stations to feature the Americana musical genre prominently. Hosted by Felton Pruitt, a 30+year radio veteran with stints that include KFAT, XM Satellite, and KVMR; Pruitt includes classic and contemporary interviews (”Chewin’ The Fat”) and live, or in-studio performances from his personal recording archives.
Way Out of Zee Box with Zee Jacquelope
3:00-5:00 pm
Featuring selections from a massive and eclectic music collection of his own, spanning several entertaining forms of music from several genres.
The Grand Southern Vocal & Plectrophonic Review w/Lance Brittain
7:00 pm (Repeats next Wednesday at 5:00 am)
Lance presents a show covering early to contemporary folk, country, and bluegrass, plus some discussion of historical context, including news of current events in the bluegrass and folk community. From an acoustic perspective, Lance explores other influences, including classic early jazz, blues, ragtime, border music, etc.
This Week: Selections from our show archives. Please note that any dates mentioned are from previous shows and are not current.
Thursday
Song of the Soul – Lopez Edition
12:00 pm
These radio programs are prepared by Mark Judkins Helpmeet under the care of the Eau Claire Quakers and sponsored for KLOI by the Lopez Island Quaker Group. ‘Song of Soul’ invites you to a soul-level encounter. Music has the ability to proclaim the soul’s language beyond what mere words can speak. Some guests are musicians, perhaps sharing their own music, but most guests are simply sharing the music they’ve been impacted by, written, and performed by others.
This Week: Noel Paul Stookey Shines On – One Light, Many Candles
Noel Paul Stookey‘s first band was the Birds of Paradise, but he rose to prominence in the 1960s as part of Peter, Paul & Mary, and has produced around 19 solo albums. Noel’s music & work are deep in healing & connecting directions, including OneLightManyCandles.org and MusicToLife.org, both which he helped found. Follow Noel’s Substack posts for deep, funny, & profound posts on the state of the world.
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast, hosted by Paul Vogelzang,
This week: 99% Perspiration, A New Working History of the American Way of Life
40% of Americans say they’re failing to get ahead—even though they’re working hard.
Journalist and Smithsonian Associate Adam Chandler says it’s not a you problem. It’s a system problem.
His new book, 99% Perspiration, dismantles the American work myth.
Our latest conversation on The Not Old Better Show may just change how you think about jobs, hustle, and success.
Hint: It’s time to stop glorifying the grind.
Listen now on KLOI Community Radio.
Open to Debate
7:00 pm
Together we have an opportunity to reclaim and reshape debate – a crucial aspect of our democracy. Through balanced perspectives and the respectful open-minded exchange of ideas with global thought leaders, Open to Debate is empowering listeners to consider other points of view and make more informed decisions on the critical issues of our times.
This Week: Is Objectivity Essential to Journalism?
For decades, objectivity has been cited as journalism’s highest guiding principle and the gold standard. “Being objective” promised that journalists would stick only “to the facts” and deliver both sides of the story, keeping their personal views to themselves. This way, news consumers would have all they need to form their own opinions. As a mandate, it was enforced by editors and advertised as a virtue that built trust with readers. Now, however, the objectivity rule is being challenged. Some in todays more diverse newsrooms say it suppresses viewpoints that would add clarity to coverage of social issues and ask whether some issues and personalities do not merit the “both sides” treatment. Further, they argue it is impossible to be objective in the first place, which makes it an even more misguided professional aim.
eTown
8:00 pm
eTown is an exciting weekly radio broadcast heard from coast to coast on NPR and public and commercial stations. Every eTown show is taped in front of a live audience. It features performances from many of today’s top musical artists, as well as conversations and information about the world around us.
This Week: Join us this week as we share more conversations and artists’ performances
Friday
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn
8:00 am
An eclectic mix of music curated by the producer, composer, and recording artist Ben Vaughn.
Rock, blues, jazz, folk, soul, R & B, country, bossa nova, movie soundtracks, easy listening, and more, all peppered with Vaughn’s twisted musicological slant.
WINGS – Women’s International News Gathering Service
12:00 pm (repeat from Monday at 2:00 pm)m
A weekly radio news and current affairs program by and about women worldwide.
Classical Hour w/Gary Alexander
2-3 pm
This Week: Today delivers Part 3 (of 4) of a Tale of Two Sergei’s – both born in April – Sergei Rachmaninoff (April 1, 1873) and Ukrainian-born Sergei Prokofiev (April 23, 1893). Today we wrap up the pre-Bolshevik Revolution offerings Rachmaninoff on Good Friday with his Easter Vespers (1915) and Etudes Tableaux (1916), and then we will start to focus on early Prokofiev works, including his Sonata No. 4 (written 1908 to 1917), from age 15 to 24, his Piano Concerto No. 3 (1918-21) and other works written from safer shores in the 1920s, before he (at great risk) returned to the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Joy Spring w/Gary Alexander
3-6 pm
Classic Jazz and the Great American Songbook
This Week: As we wrap up the first month of spring, we’ll play a dozen Spring songs in the first hour and then profile the 13 to 15 songbirds born in the first month of spring. It’s a miraculous coincidence that most of the great songbirds of jazz were born in from March 25 to April 25. We know most of them by their first names alone: Aretha (March 25), Sarah (March 27), Pearl (March 29), Astrud and Norah (March 30), Doris (April 3), Billie (April 7), Carmen (April 8), Nellie (April 13), Bessie (April 15), then Barbra (April 24), Ella (April 25) and a later bloomer, Blossom Dearie (April 28). That pretty much covers the top four (Ella, Billie, Sarah and Carmen), plus three top blues belters (Bessie Smith, Aretha, and Alberta Hunter), and top pop singers (Doris Day & Streisand) and more, all born from March 25 to April 25. By the way, all four female singers in our Lopez Sound octet were also born in the first month of Spring. What are the odds? (Answer: 12 to the 4th power, or 20,736-to-one). Songbirds indeed emerge in Spring.
The FAT Music Show w/Felton Pruitt
6:00 pm (repeat of Wednesday 2:00 pm)
Democracy Now w/Amy Goodman
7:00 -8:00 pm
The Grateful Dead Hour
8:00 pm
Since 1985 David Gans has hosted a nationally syndicated weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of the Grateful Dead. The show features exclusive interviews, music from the roots and branches of the band’s musical family tree, and many unreleased live and studio recordings.
Saturday
West Coast Live
10:00 am -12:00 am
From the Archives… West Coast Live is no longer broadcasting its show. KLOI is airing selected shows from their archives.
From November 2011, when SEDGE welcomed:
Author GREGORY MAGUIRE The world of Oz comes full circle in Gregory Maguire’s fourth and final novel in the New York Timesbestselling series The Wicked Years.
Author CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG AKA HARRIS BURDICK author and illustrator of the best-selling children’s classics Polar Express, Jumanji, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick and many more.
Artist JUSTIN BUA whose well known “Distorted Urban Realism” style combines elements of graffiti with classical art training, here with his new book The Legends of Hip Hop.
Musicians GREENSKY BLUEGRASS the fine five piece string band from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who Rolling Stone assures is “representing the genre for a whole new generation.”
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast, hosted by Paul Vogelzang,
This week: 99% Perspiration, A New Working History of the American Way of Life
40% of Americans say they’re failing to get ahead—even though they’re working hard.
Journalist and Smithsonian Associate Adam Chandler says it’s not a you problem. It’s a system problem.
His new book, 99% Perspiration, dismantles the American work myth.
Our latest conversation on The Not Old Better Show may just change how you think about jobs, hustle, and success.
Hint: It’s time to stop glorifying the grind.
Listen now on KLOI Community Radio.
Open Mike (or Random playlist)
4:00-6:00 pm
Putumayo World Music Hour
7:00 pm
Hosted by Putumayo’s CEO and Founder Dan Storper and KFOG personality Rosalie Howarth, the Putumayo World Music Hour is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures, now heard internationally on more than 170 commercial stations around the world.
This Week: American Roots
The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn
8:00 pm
An eclectic mix of music curated by the producer, composer, and recording artist Ben Vaughn. Rock, blues, jazz, folk, soul, R & B, country, bossa nova, movie soundtracks, easy listening, and more.
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