Win an Acoustic Guitar Package from KBCS
The KBCS Fall Fund Drive is in full swing. Donate now to be entered for a chance to win an acoustic guitar package. We’re giving two guitars. The first guitar away at 4pm and the second at 7pm, so the sooner you get entered, the better your chances are to win!
There’s no donation required to enter into the drawing (See Drawing Rules), however, your support today will help keep the KBCS Roots, Rock, and Soul music you count on going strong and get you automatically entered in the drawing.
Music is a vital part of our lives, especially over this past year. Your financial support keeps the music that you love on the air for everyone to hear. That’s why a gift to KBCS is also a gift of music to our community. But we want to do something else, too. We need musicians and songwriters; we need fingerpickers, fretboard tappers and strummers. That’s why we want to go a little bit further and give you the chance to win an Antonio Giuliani steel string acoustic guitar package. We want to inspire you to pick up a guitar and make your own music or put it in someone else’s hands and encourage them to make their own music. Who knows, maybe we’ll hear that song on the radio.
Tractor Tavern to Match 10k in Listener Donations to KBCS
Thanks to Tractor Tavern in Ballard, every donation made to KBCS between 12-7pm on Friday, September 17th, will be matched dollar for dollar, up to 10k! Help KBCS get a strong start to its Fall Fund Drive by joining us on the 17th with your contribution, or make your donation early (Donate Here)!
Bookmarks from Bellevue College Library
The Bellevue College Library partners up with KBCS for these regular book notes. (more…)
DJs’ Favorites for 2020: Jean Geiger
KBCS Folksounds DJ Jean Geiger Picks 10 Albums From 2020
Jean Geiger co-hosts one of the best traditions in the Pacific Northwest- Folksounds! Tune in Tuesday evenings at 7:00 PM on your radio or on the web for the best in acoustic music. Check out Jean’s favorite albums of 2020:
Laurie Lewis – And Laurie Lewis – Spruce & Maple
Dirk Powell – When I Wait For You – Vertical
John McCutcheon – Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine – Appalsongs
Pharis & Jason Romero – Bet On Love – Lula Records
Kristen Grainger & True North – Ghost Tattoo – Heart Music
Eliza Gilkyson – 2020 – Red House
Ken & Brad Kolodner – Stony Run – Fenchurch Music
Gillian Welch – Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1 – Acony
Byrd & Street – Love Circles ‘Round – Self
The Onlies – The Onlies – Independent
Books to read this November
KBCS Sustainability Campaign
The KBCS Sustainability Campaign is underway. The goal of this campaign is to add 1,000 new monthly sustaining donors to the KBCS family of supporters over the next year (July 2020 – June 2021) and make the station financially sustainable.
The funding KBCS receives from individual donor-listeners make up the largest and most important portion of KBCS’s operating budget. It’s how we remain non-commercial and independent.
Go to Quarantine Albums Pt.2
Our Music Director, Iaan Hughes, is back at it, collecting a second round of go-to quarantine albums from KBCS DJs, local artists, and friends. If you missed it, you can check out the first round here.
Browse the selections below, then share what album is getting you through the day. (Share your album pick here) (more…)
Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
The great American poet and jazz musician, Gil Scott-Heron, died today in 2011. He was 62 years old. As a boy, living with his grandmother – a civil rights activist, because these legacies can and should be passed down – he was introduced to the poetry of Langston Hughes and began to play piano. Best known for the peerless anthem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” his cleared-eyed lyrics continue to challenge and destabilize racial hierarchies in profound ways.
With today’s SpaceX launch, the first crewed rocket to take off from American soil since Scott-Heron’s death, I can’t help but think of “Whitey on the Moon.” It’s a blunt expression of the pervasive inequality and racist violence that cripples this country; it’s a cudgel of truth: “A rat done bit my sister Nell / With Whitey on the moon…/How come there ain’t no money here? / Hmm! Whitey’s on the moon.”
Go-to Quarantine Albums
Our Music Director, Iaan Hughes, reached out to KBCS DJs, local artists, and friends to find out their go-to music choices to get through these tough times.
Check out some of their selections then share what album is getting you through the day. (Share your album pick here)
KBCS Sunday’s Hornpipe DJ Kevin O’Connor Picks Ten Albums from 2019
2019; gone, but not forgotten – Longtime Sunday’s Hornpip host, Kevin O’Connor considers his favorite albums from last year!
Kevin Burke Sligo Made Loftus
Natalie MacMaster Sketches Linus Entertainment
Mozaik The Long and the Short of It Independent
Martin Hayes & Brooklyn Rider The Butterfly 251 Records
Dermot Byrne, Eamonn Coyne & John Doyle Liag Self
Dallahan Smallworld Westpark
Skipinnish Steer By the Stars Self
Coig Ashlar Self
Diane Ni Chanainn Idir Muir Agus Sliabh Moc
Flook Ancora Flatfish
Kevin’s comments: A great year, 2019 and here’s to 2020 and more inventive and traditional Celtic music! Cheers!