“Du Rags & Conversations: Homage To The Yay” is a segment for Black and Brown Creatives that want to showcase their art, their way. Produced by DATBOYMEDIA of the First Voice Apprenticeship program, tune in tonight to hear it on Full Circle.
The Kincade Fire in Sonoma County has displaced roughly 200,000 people since evacuation orders began on October 24. There are over a dozen shelter locations, serving over 2,000 people, with even more evacuees sleeping in cars and RVs in parking lots. KPFA producers Corinne Smith and Ariel Boone went to the shelter at the Santa … Continued
As the Kincade Fire sweeps through Sonoma County, prompting mass evacuations, California marks the one-year anniversary of the Butte Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in state history. Last year’s fire covered the Bay Area in smoke and pollution for nearly two weeks. Usually the first advice public officials give in those circumstances is to stay … Continued
Mitch Jeserich is a journalist and host of Pacifica’s Letters & Politics (M-Th at 10am PST) and currently on special assignment as Pacifica’s Capitol Hill correspondent in Washington D.C to cover the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Tune in for live reports on UpFront’s Impeachment Watch Live from Capitol Hill with Mitch Jeserich every … Continued
Laboring quite contently in obscurity for the past 50 years, guitarist Kinloch Nelson is riding a minor wave of recognition with the release of Partly on Time: Recordings 1968 – 1970 on the Tompkins Square Records label. Tune in at 10 p.m. when he joins host Derk Richardson in the KPFA Performance Studio to play … Continued
Guest: Andrej Grubacic, former teacher at the University of Rojava and is the founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Andrej talks with Mitch about Rojava the autonomous, mostly Kurdish region of Northeastern Syria. From Dissent magazine: “Turkey’s invasion of Rojava is not only a source of … Continued
Sing Out, Wednesday Oct. 2, 10 p.m. on KPFA 94.1 FM and kpfa.org Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar Before their Thursday Cal Performances concert at Zellerbach Hall, the acclaimed gospel choir Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar perform live on “Sing Out,” hosted by Larry Kelp Atlanta gospel sensation Trey McLaughlin and … Continued
Spring Fund Drive In May we had our Spring Fundraiser with the theme of The Next 70 Years, continuing the promotion KPFA’s 70th anniversary. It was a long 18-day drive that ended 100k short of the 550k goal but we kept our promise to our listeners and didn’t extend. Summer Fund Drive … Continued
Karl Evangelista (guitar, voice, percussion, electronics) and Rei Scampavia (keyboard, voice, percussion, electronics) are Grex. Their most recent album is Electric Ghost Parade, so you’ll probably hear some of that music as they play a live-broadcast in-studio concert, but they also promise to debut “some brand new slabs of explosive art rock and electronic sound.” … Continued
