Tune in Thursday night, Oct. 18, for a live in-studio concert by bassist/vocalist Jeff Denson‘s quartet with Paul Hanson, bassoon, Dahveed Behroozi, piano, and Dillon Vado, drums. It’s a preview of the CD release tour for Denson’s new album, Outside My Window. Derk Richardson hosts, and Tony Ferro engineers. In the second hour, bassist/composer Lisa … Continued
On a rare visit to the Bay Area from his home in Bergamo, Italy, guitarist (and guitar-maker) Buck Curran stops by KPFA to visit with host Derk Richardson and perform his original music live in the performance studio, with Tony Ferro engineering renowned for his participation in the production of highly praised works which were … Continued
Host Derk Richardson welcomes Avotcja and Michelle Jacques to “The Hear and Now” to talk about and share music from their respective groups — Avotcja & Modúpue and CHELLE! and Friends — to preview their upcoming double bill — “Tradition on the Fringe” — this Saturday night, September 8, at Ashkenaz in Berkeley. We’ll … Continued
Tune in for a live in-studio concert by Ratatet, led by jazz drummer Alan Hall. The Bay Area sextet released its second CD, Heroes, Saints and Clowns, this past June, and will be performing this Sunday in the California Jazz Conservatory’s Hardymon Hall @ The Jazz School. Hall built Ratatet out of the Electreo trio with … Continued
Over the past six years, since the release of the debut recording, Delta Grooves, HowellDevine has matured into one of the hardest working and most distinctive blues groups in Northern California. On the trio’s latest and fourth CD, Howl (released by Little Village Foundation), Joshua Howell (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Pete Devine (drums, washboard, jug), and Joe Kyle, Jr. … Continued
Join host Derk Richardson as he presents Bay Area singer-songwriter Joe Rut in the KPFA performance studio. Rut is celebrating the release of his seventh album, Nekkid, a solo acoustic set recorded live this March at Santo Recording in Oakland. While his previous album, Stolen Tools & Stereos, featured such special guests as mandolinist David Grisman, pedal … Continued
Tune in for another double-header of live music from the KPFA performance studio: First up, San Francisco-based Filipino-American singer-songwriter Megan Keely. Her new album, Bloom, “is Keely’s contribution to the national fight against abuses of power. Keely turns fear and uncertainty into unflinching beauty and empowerment with her new collection of original songs.” Watch the … Continued
Trumpeter and singer Darren Johnston, a musician of many projects, returns to the KPFA airwaves with a live in-studio performance with The Pipes, a trio that features two bass clarinets, played by Cory Wright and Steven Lugerner. Tony Ferro will engineer the sound.
Maurice Tani calls his original West Coast country sound “Supercalifornigraphic.” The native San Franciscan is a storytelling singer-songwriter who happens to tear up the stage with his guitar playing. Previewing his Friday, June 8, concert at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, Tani performs live in the KPFA performance studio with Henry Salvia on piano … Continued
Celebrating the release of a new double CD anthology, Hot Jazz, Cool Blues and Hard-Hitting Songs, a survey of 60 years of her music, singer and activist Barbara Dane returns to KPFA to share music from the new collection and talk with host Derk Richardson about her career, her music, her politics, and such new developments … Continued
