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Hello, Friends and Neighbors!
Lopez Island Community Radio Station
KLOI-LP 102.9 FM
Many thanks to the Lopez Thrift Shop for their support of KLOI.
This Week’s Programs
December 15-21, 2024
Please note: Some of our regular programs are replaced this week with Random Play as we collect data for reporting our streamed play.
Regular programming will resume Sunday, December 22, 2024
Please note: Some of our regular programs are replaced this week with Random Play as we collect data for reporting our streamed play.
Regular programming will resume Sunday, December 22, 2024
You will now be able to listen on your car or home radio and can continue to listen via our streaming player
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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: In honor of Beethoven’s birthday (December 16, 1770), we’ll play one of his final and most profound string quartets (Opus 130), along with the Gross Fugue (Opus 133), which was the original final movement of that quartet – all as recorded by the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s favorite string quartet, the Miro Quartet, in 2016, as Beethoven asked his most serious life questions near his death
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: Walking for Health, Creativity, and Spiritual Well-Being with Michael Gelb
This dialogue highlights the benefits and dynamics of walking well, including comfort, vitality, and inspiration. He highlights the benefits of walking for creativity and problem-solving as well as connecting us with nature. In business, walking with others can enhance teambuilding. Gelb encourages us to feel a sense of sacredness with every step.
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: The Long Road to Women Doctors, Written in Poetry: Alice Rothchild
Alice Rothchild is many things: a woman, a Jew, a doctor, a feminist, a poet, and the author of 6 books, the latest being Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician. Rising in the medical ranks when women were almost universally barred from the role of physician, she became a obstetrics-gynecology doc, including co-founding the non-profit Urban Woman and Child Health Inc. Alice transcends barriers, limits, and conventions, including having written this wide-ranging memoir and commentary-on-the-times book in poetic format.
Pathways with Brenda Asterino
This show takes many roads to provide the diversity that makes for a healthy and functioning community.
For past shows, go to: https://kloi-lp.weebly.com/pathways-with-brenda-asterino.html
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: Play Like a Girl (or not)
Think computer games are just a boy’s world? Think again. Brenda Laurel deeply transformed the gaming and computer worlds from their early days – and she got her start in Theatre. She advocates for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, designed some games to appeal to girls’ strengths, and pioneered virtual reality.
Joy Spring with Gary Alexander
3:00-6:00 pm
This Week: The first hour is a summit meeting of Alpha Male baritones — plus one great female alto and another great female composer turning 95 – all born December 12, the double-dozen date: First, we profile the while and black alpha-males Frank Sinatra and Joe Williams, born 12-12 in 1915 and 1918, then the beta baritones born 12-12, Tim Hauser and Bob Dorough, then the alpha female pop singer of the 1950s Connie Francis and finally Toshiko Akiyoshi, who turned 95 last week. The 4:00 hour features a few other foreign-born composers to join Toshiko: Andy Razaf from Madagascar (born December 16, 1895), and Noel Coward (December 16, 1899) and Ray Noble (December 17, 1903), both born in England. In the final hour, we honor trumpeter Clark Terry (born December 14, 1920) and finish our tribute to saxophonist Stan Getz from the “G” box of our LP records with two of his albums, “Communications 1972” with French composer Michel Legrand, and “Poetry” with pianist Albert Dailey (1983).
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 Random Playlist. Regular shows will resume the week of December 22, 2024.
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: Living on Lopez – Backyard Conservation.
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 Random Playlist. Regular shows will resume the week of December 22, 2024.
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.
New Show! 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 Random Playlist. Regular shows will resume the week of December 22, 2024.
Thursday
Hear It Here
For past shows, go to: https://kloi-lp.weebly.com/hear-it-here-collected-by-brenda-asterino.html
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, peraps sharing their own music, but most guests are simply sharing the music they’ve been impacted by, written, and performed by others.
This Week: Singing Freedom, Joy, & Jesus in Drag: Flamy Grant
Flamy Grant and their music is amazing & fun & deep & did I mention wonderful? You see, Flamy is such an unexpected combination of usually adversarial things like a drag queen singing Christian songs. In fact, Flamy’s album Bible Belt Baby even made it to #1 on the iTunes Christian & Gospel chart. And in 2023 Flamy was a winner of the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Competition. Flamy has performed as Matthew Blake & Girlboy in the past, and please remember to check out the video of What Did You Drag Me Into!
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old – Better Show is a fascinating, high-energy radio program and is the exclusive content provider of The Smithsonian Associates Interview Series. Each week, award-winning journalist and host of the Not Old – Better Show, Paul Vogelzang, interviews health and nutrition experts, lifestyle and culture experts, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives, all delivering the message that it’s never too late to pursue your passions and create a life of purpose, adventure, and significance.
This Week: 
Joining us today on KLOI Radio is someone who has plowed through the darkest moments that joy can seem impossibly out of reach. Author, columnist, Smithsonian Associate Steven Petrow is a celebrated journalist, essayist, and author whose work has graced the pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times. Steven Petrow is known for his poignant reflections on aging, health, and civility. But Steven’s latest book, The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Linings—Even on Your Darkest Days, is perhaps his most personal and uplifting work yet.
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: Psychedelics for Mental Health: Help or Hype?
Some scientific studies have shown evidence that psychedelic drugs, when used in controlled therapeutic settings, may help patients with their mental health ” but should they be recommended by your doctor? Those advocating for psychedelic use argue that it could be a welcome relief for patients who dont respond to traditional medicine. Those against its use argue we dont yet understand their long-term effects. Now we debate: Psychedelics for Mental Health: Help or Hype?
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: This weekend brings the delights of our annual Christmas music program with mostly serious vocals, madrigals and choral music, along with some symphonic renditions of seasonal music, repeated at 2pm on Sunday, December 22.
Joy Spring w/Gary Alexander
3-6 pm
Classic Jazz and the Great American Songbook
This Week: We bring you 500 years of Christmas songs, mostly with a jazz touch, beginning in the 1520s and ending in the 2020s, in a program which debuted here during the first COVID Christmas in 2020 and has been repeated since then. We feature several beloved small a cappella vocal groups, including The Manhattan Transfer, the James Joyce Singers, Pentatonix, The BOBS, our own Lopez Sound, the Singers Unlimited, the Swingle Singers, the Fred Waring singers, an Octave Above, a Shirim Klezmer band, Quire, the Spike Jones City Slickers and more, plus individual singers and their small bands, with special guests, as we move from the serious spiritual songs of a century or more ago ahead to the wave of the commercial (Santa shopping) songs of the 1930s and 1940s, and then the light rock components from the 1950’s and 1960s. In short, there’s something for everyone, and fun for all in store.
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.
This Week: Sonoma County! Recorded live at the Healdsburg SHED, a market, cafe and community gathering space designed to bring us closer to the way we grow, prepare, and share our food. Sedge welcomed:
MICHAEL THIELE, founder of Gaia Bees, creating Honeybee sanctuaries as a means of protection and education, and researching beekeeping in a sociocultural, agricultural and spiritual context.
NICK PAPADOPOULOS, founder of CropMobster, helping reduce waste and build community by bringing surplus food to those in need.
KARL & CARL, the globe-trotting comedians stop by with their latest (most ridiculous) edition of Tips on Travel for the holiday season.
MADS TOLLING, two-time Grammy award winning voilinist and composer, and former member of the renowned Turtle Island Quartet.
THE EASY LEAVES, Sonoma County’s Country Music Ambassador’s stop in before their Western Winter Formal at the Great American Music Hall.
MIKE GREENSILL, composer and house pianist. And More!
The Not Old – Better Show with Paul Vogelzang
3:00-3:30 pm
The Not Old – Better Show is a fascinating, high-energy radio program and is the exclusive content provider of The Smithsonian Associates Interview Series. Each week, award-winning journalist and host of the Not Old – Better Show, Paul Vogelzang, interviews health and nutrition experts, lifestyle and culture experts, and ordinary people living extraordinary lives, all delivering the message that it’s never too late to pursue your passions and create a life of purpose, adventure, and significance.
This Week:
Joining us today on KLOI Radio is someone who has plowed through the darkest moments that joy can seem impossibly out of reach. Author, columnist, Smithsonian Associate Steven Petrow is a celebrated journalist, essayist, and author whose work has graced the pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times. Steven Petrow is known for his poignant reflections on aging, health, and civility. But Steven’s latest book, The Joy You Make: Find the Silver Linings—Even on Your Darkest Days, is perhaps his most personal and uplifting work yet.
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: Another World Music show
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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