February 6, 2023 - 10:47 am

The Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band is a hot “super group” of musicians: –Bryn Davies on upright bass & vocals (guy clark, tony rice, peter rowan, patty griffin) –Shad Cobb on fiddle & vocals (mark oconnor, robbie fulks, tim o’brien) –Matt Flinner on banjo & mandolin (leftover salmon, trey anastasio, matt flinner trio) –Darrell Scott on guitar & vocals (Sam Bush, Robert

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February 6, 2023 - 10:43 am

The band is composed of brothers Jack Torrey (guitar, vocals) and Page Burkum (guitar, vocals) with a touring act including their cousin Phillip Hicks (bass), Jake Hanson (guitar) and Jeremy Hanson (drums). The band’s musical styling of “the sounds and approaches of early country and rock n’ roll” was inspired by traditional American folk music and “hillbilly” music and is “reminiscent

Read More about Wintergrass Music Festival Presents: Westin Concerts – The Cactus Blossoms! Feb 24, 2023

February 6, 2023 - 10:24 am

With abounding gratitude for 50 years we say thank you.  Thank you to the Bellevue College Students who gathered, organized and rallied for a 10 watt community radio station that went on the air today in 1973.  Thank you to KING FM who donated the first equipment to make that happen.  Thank you to Bellevue

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February 3, 2023 - 11:35 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230203 KBCS Bday Raoul Van Hall   KBCS was started by Bellevue College students who wanted to broadcast music and their ideas.  After their initial request was declined by the college, they held a President’s office sit-in protest. They started with equipment donated by KING FM, and over time, morphed from

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January 23, 2023 - 4:53 pm

International Guitar Night is North America’s premier traveling guitar festival. Each tour, a new cast of guitar luminaries come together for a special evening highlighting the  virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. For International Guitar Night’s 23rd year, featured guitarists include Canadian jazz guitarist and vocalist, and recipient of the 2021 Juno (Canadian Grammy) for Jazz Album

Read More about International Guitar Night at Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center – February 3, 2023

January 23, 2023 - 4:47 pm

“Dogs in the Daylight is as close to a masterpiece as a folk album by an emerging singer-songwriter can get.” — No Depression Portland, Oregon’s Jeffrey Martin is a minister’s son who can build a house with his bare hands and holds a master’s degree in English. He worked his way through school as a carpenter,

Read More about Jeffrey Martin w/ Taylor Kingman at Tractor Tavern – February 2, 2023

January 23, 2023 - 4:43 pm

Melissa Carper’s lifelong, steadfast listening has come to fruition in the songs on Ramblin’ Soul. Her childhood love of the family record collection planted the seeds of what is her own bountiful orchard today.

January 23, 2023 - 4:36 pm

American music masters Mike Marshall (mandolin), Edgar Meyer(bass), & Bryan Sutton (guitar) join together with George Meyer(violin) for a special collaboration usually only heard on the summer bluegrass festival circuit!

January 20, 2023 - 9:44 am

Chinese New Year is January 22nd.  The season is marked with celebrations involving food,  feasts with loved ones, firecrackers and lion and dragon dances.  We bring you an interview with Dr. Connie So, a Teaching Professor at the American Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle and President of OCA Asian Pacific Advocates

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January 20, 2023 - 7:38 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230120 Intersectional Organizing Linda Sarsour is an activist most known for her work in organizing the 2017 Women’s March, involving an estimated four million participants nationwide. Today, she leads the organizations, MPower Change and Until Freedom.  Sarsour discusses what intersectional organizing looks like, as well as what she has experienced as

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