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October 26, 2023 - 11:20 am

Flotation Device host Michael Schell recently interviewed Melvin Gibbs of music collective Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman performs Friday, October 27 at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute during this years Earshot Jazz Festival!   “Founded in 1998, the New York-based power trio Harriet Tubman embraces freedom as its governing principle, as evinced by its name

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October 24, 2023 - 12:35 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230309 Linda Sarsour Speaks At Rainier Cultural Center Seattle Linda Sarsour, noted Palestinian-American civil rights leader and Executive Director of MPower Change spoke at Seattle’s Rainier Arts Center  on Islamophobia and White Supremacy in January, 2023. The event was hosted by Valley and Mountain Fellowship’s Center for Faith, Art, and Justice in

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October 20, 2023 - 11:14 am

91.3 KBCS · Sephardic Jewish Culture and Community in Seattle The new graphic novel, We Are Not Strangers, is a story about the relationship of a Japanese American family and a Sephardic Jewish family leading up to and after WWII.  The book’s author, Josh Tuininga, Densho Founder, Tom Ikeda and Dr. Devin Naar, University of

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October 17, 2023 - 8:16 am

Sometimes the business of making radio gets in the way of talking about radio. I’m reminded of the opening lines to the Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter song “The Wheel:”  “The wheel is turning and you can’t slow down,You can’t let go and you can’t hold on,You can’t go back and you can’t stand still,If

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October 16, 2023 - 5:30 pm

Ah, summertime. We’re remembering that fun in-studio we did with Sam Russell and the Harborrats on July 22! We chatted about boomboxes, recording favorite songs off the radio, evangelical fervor, and the healing power of music.

October 16, 2023 - 5:02 pm

A mighty fine in-studio with Cooper Stoulil. We chatted about creating memorable melodies, how our limitations can often be creative gifts, and a lovely thought that the aboutness of art can sometimes miss the whole point. Embrace the abstract, the feeling, the moment. 

October 9, 2023 - 10:03 am

Andrew Duhon stopped by the KBCS studio on Wednesday, October 4th and we had a terrific conversation about PNW logging roads, how walking in a circle may not take you back to where you started from and being inspired by nature in songwriting as both metaphor and our place within in it. That took us

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September 28, 2023 - 12:29 am

Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy At the outset of this traditional fall message, I want to say, thank you to all our friends and loyal listeners that supported KBCS with a contribution during our fall

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September 26, 2023 - 12:23 am

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230906 Full Recording S Kolhatkar And S Brydum At Seattle Town Hall Sonali Kolhatkar, host and producer of Yes! Presents, Rising Up and racial justice editor at Yes! Magazine spoke with Yes! Media’s Editorial Director, Sunnivie Brydum about her book, Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice at 

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September 15, 2023 - 2:32 pm

91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230914 Women Life Freedom 1 Yr Later For Local Iranian Americans Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish, 22 year old woman, was killed in custody of Iran’s morality police on September 16th last year, sparking an uprising led by Iranian women, and supported by ethnic and minority groups.  As the anniversary of

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