Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and host/executive producer of Democracy Now!
Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ for “developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media.” She is also one of the the first recipients, along with Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald, of the Park Center for Independent Media’s Izzy Award, named for the great muckraking journalist I.F. Stone. PULSE named her one of the 20 Top Global Media Figures of 2009. Goodman has received the American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award; the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award; and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
Auntmama (Mary Anne Moorman)
Auntmama tells stories that are topical and narrative linking her Appalachian roots to her northwest home.
President of Seattle’s Storytellers Guild, emcee storyteller for Bainbridge Bluegrass and board member for Village Speaks, she can be heard on Sunday Folks.
Catch a story anytime at www.maryannemoorman.com/ or Madison Park Starbuck’s the last Thursday of every month.
Oneda Harris
Oneda co-hosts Gospel Highway and Living the Blues.
Oneda is a proud Seattleite. She was born and raised in the city and attended Seattle University. Oneda is a Trauma Rehabilitation nurse with more than 20 years with Harborview Medical Center. She also performs stand up comedy and community theater. Oneda is also a member of the Pacific Northwest African American Quilters guild.
Chairman Moe
Moe credits the late 70s television show WKRP in Cincinnati for his interest in radio. Sadly, the hairstyles at KBCS failed to live up to expectations.
Chairman Moe spins ’80s classics Wednesdays at 9pm on Chairman Moe.
Rustin Thompson
John Pai
Host of Giant Steps.
The love affair began with a Westinghouse table top tube radio that emanated an orange glow in the dark. It spoke with a warmth that could sooth any aching soul and evoke an optimism for all that life can offer.
Music that could speak and voices that could sing, elevating any space with a palette infused with vibrancy and purpose. It was always a part of me, a part that took on a greater role in1981 at WSIU-FM. The journey has never wavered.
What we choose to share and how we speak to that is an artistry made up of all our separate yet collective elements. Photography, film production, media installations, love, loss, children, relocations, travel, political activism, they are all part of the journey.
By 1991 KBCS was the continuation point and so the music still speaks and the voices still sing.
Winona Hollins-Hauge
Winona is a native of Seattle and was a founding team member for the Gospel Highway. She loves Gospel Music and developed her appreciation through her mother who at times used to perform in a traveling gospel trio in her youth. Winona is very active as a community servant leader in the Greater Seattle community and nationally.
Winona, aka Lady Blue, hosts the Gospel Highway and Livin’ the Blues. Her early childhood memories listening to her parents collection of the blues on vinyl inspired her to bring the nostalgic sound back to the station. Winona’s 93 yr. old father often shares stories about growing up in the Jim Crow South and how he made his way to the Pacific Northwest. Winona says ” My dad and I, enjoy reminiscing about his travels from Louisiana to Chicago, how proud he is about living long enough to see a black man as President, and to be able to listen to one of his little girl’s on 91.3 as she captures the essence of acoustic, delta, and the full array of blues artists and their recordings”.
Tom Voorhees
One fine summer day in my garden with a radio, spinning the dial I came across a bluegrass song. Wow. Then they played another. WOW!! First time I had heard this on the radio since the 70’s, when John Morris, the founder of Old Homestead Records had a Sunday afternoon bluegrass show in my native Michigan. Saw Larry Sparks, Charlie Moore and others at his house. Later, I joined a friend in a tin-roofed cabin 18 miles up the mountains outside Hot Springs, NC (pop. 600). A loose, scattered community of farmers who spent much of their time making music, musical instruments, moonshine, log structures, singing, praying and generally enjoying life at a slow, slow pace. Electricity had been there only 15 years at the time. At first they thought this 20-something long-haired hippie was a federal agent here to bust them for bootlegging and moonshine. Soon. though, I was accepted in the community. Gained a first hand look at the love of music, family and faith of these mountain folk. I love bringing this to all of you and I treasure your stories that you’ve added to the mix through emails and phone calls.
Tom co-hosts Bluegrass Ramble with Tom Keeney Sundays 12-3pm.
Tom Keeney
KBCS drew me in 25 years ago as a supporter, and as a Bluegrass Ramble host starting in 2000. I played banjo in bluegrass bands in the 80s and still enjoy playing & sharing this music with old and new friends.
My connections to the roots of traditional bluegrass run very deep, and at the same time it’s exciting to see artists continuing to expand and redefine this genre into the 21st century.
It’s a joy to curate and present all shades of this art form we know as bluegrass on KBCS, hopefully in ways that honor it and celebrate its beauty and depth.
Larry Lewin
After spending his first 21 years in New Jersey, Larry began a westward migration, which led to Seattle, where he fell in love with mountaineering and made many close friends.
KBCS became part of his life over 20 years ago as a result of a decades-long interest in folk music. He started and named a show called Risin’ of the Sun and after 15 months evolved into one of KBCS’s longest running Folk shows: Our Saturday Tradition.
Larry retired from regularly hosting in May 2021 and still contributes to KBCS subbing for Our Saturday Tradition, and occasionally filling in with Sunday Folks, Bluegrass Ramble, Sunday’s Hornpipe, and Folksounds. “Who’da thunk it!”….More like ‘Who’da DONE it!”
Larry did and so have many of the DJ volunteers at KBCS. Thank you