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05/08/2024
This week on Folk & Beyond…
Folk, Folk-Rock, Singer-Songwriter, Americana and beyond music for
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Days
Inspired by the five-part Karma-Cola series about the book, "Last Train From Hiroshima"
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Live: Monday August 5, Noon-2 pm
Repeats: the following Friday, 9-11 PM, and Saturday, 7-9 AM
Broadcasting from atop Mount Konocti on KPFZ 88.1 FM, Lakeport, California, and streaming at KPFZ.ORG.
One of our Patreon supporters dropped us a line to ask if we’d take up the question of how to improve reception of low-powered stations. It’s a challenge most radio lovers have faced, not quite being able to tune in your favorite college or community station, especially inside a house or office,...
10/07/2024
Totally fab picture of why American music is great...
The acclaimed singer-songwriter on the new realities of touring and recording, songcraft, and how he balances politics and storytelling in a polarized culture.
27/06/2024
Purtty good there, Kinky...
Humorous Music Video featuring Ruth Buzzi with Kinky.
18/06/2024
Tuesday Night Jazz
KPFZ, 88.1 FM and KPFZ.ORG will now broadcast jazz from 7-9 PM on Tuesdays.
My new [old] radio show debuts tonight, June 18, from 7-8PM.
It will be early jazz, variety, novelty and popular music, mostly from the 1920s, 30s and 40s. Not sure what I’ll call it, but leaning toward “Flanny Doodle Swing”
My inspiration coms from two favorite shows of times gone by…
First, Barry Thorpe from his long-running “Classic Jazz Variety” on KHSU (when it was a community station.) I’ve even absconded his theme song, “Nuts About Screwy Music”. Barry is now a resident of Bali, Indonesia so he can’t hit me with his Big Red Bag.
The other is Douglas Hillyard, “Doug the Jitterbug” must be going on 50+ years of his “Audio Collage”, and can be heard Wednesday nights from 10 til midnight on KZCT 88.9 FM in Vallejo, and on OzCat Radio at JiveRadio.com.
It was these two fellows who inspired me to grow the collection of early silly music that I have, and will share every other Tuesday 7-9 PM on KPFZ. This show is dedicated to them.
Cheers.
My first show is pretty well built so here is the likely playlist…
I'm Nuts About Screwy Music Jimmie Lunceford & His Orchestra
Flany Doodle Swing Earl Hines & His Orchestra
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O Chubby Parker & His Old Time Banjo
Who Takes Care Of The Caretaker’s Daughter? Cliff Edwards
I Faw Down and Go Boom Dick Robertson
San Sue Strut Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra
Mississipi Mud Bing Crosby
Willie The Weeper Lu Watters
Blue Drag Allen Toussaint
Dangerous Nan McGrew Helen Kane with the Victor Orchestra directed by Leonard Joy
Oh! You Have No Idea Sophie Tucker & Ted Shapiro
Masculine Women! Feminine Men! Irving Kaufman
Tain't No Sin to Dance Around in Your Bones George Olsen and His Music & Dick Gardner
Etiquette Blues Mona Motor Oil Twins
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Ice Cream Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians
Makin' Whoopee Eddie Cantor
Button Up Your Overcoat Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra & Vaughn Deleath
Mush Mouth Claude Hopkins & His Orchestra
18/06/2024
It's the 50th anniversary of the founding of Bread & Roses.
Mimi Fariña lives.
Launched in Marin County in 1974 by folk music icon, the late Mimi Fariña, Bread & Roses is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the spirit o
30/05/2024
New Jazz album just hit the charts!
25/05/2024
Good words from the birthday boy and poet laureate of the universe...
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.”
20/05/2024
Dennis Purcell delivers his $3,000 cheque to KPFZ President Olga Martin Steele, with Paula Mune and Dwain Goforth attending.
Dennis won 1st place in Lakeport Rotary Club Talent Showcase Competition, with his rendition of "Beautiful Dreamer", and has donated his winnings to community radio!
Dennis is well know for his Western/Cowboy song repertoire and appears on KPFZ every 4th Saturday on the Buckaroo Man Show from 11am-1pm.
17/05/2024
Hello Listeners!
Let's keep KPFZ on-the-air, including Dennis "Pop" Booth, shown here jockeying disks during Lost Treasures.
Become a member, renew your membership, or donate during our SPRING silent fund drive.
Visit KPFZ.ORG and hit the donate button on the right side of the screen…
Or…Send a check to KPFZ-FM, PO box 4 4 6, Lakeport CA 95451…
Or…Call our office and leave a message at 263-3640
We recommend the sustaining level. $10 or more a month on your credit card. Automatically renewed every year. It’s easy and you'll hardly notice - but We will!
THANKS for keeping community radio alive in Lake County.
10/05/2024
There's a song!
How We Gonna Take Down The Iron Gate Dam?By: Petey BruckerTell Me…How we gonna take down the Iron GateTell me how we gonna take down the Iron Gate DamTell Me...
10/05/2024
Don't forget!
02/05/2024
Another great Marginalian.
Timely, to say the least...
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
29/04/2024
This week on Folk & Beyond…
Songs for Suzy's birthday...
Live: Monday April 29, Noon-2 pm
Repeats: Wednesday, 7-9 PM, Saturday, 7-9 AM
Broadcasting from atop Mount Konocti on KPFZ 88.1 FM, Lakeport, California, and streaming at KPFZ.ORG.
27/04/2024
I wonder if Humboldt Hot Air and KHSU are providing any content for the public in Humboldt.
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations roil campus, the station’s undergraduate reporters – working 18 hour days – have become an essential news source
23/04/2024
06/04/2024
On Monday, April 8, at 11:15 am I will be at the KPFZ radio station for my Folk & Beyond Sun/Moon/Eclipse show at 88.1 FM and kpfz.org
In Lakeport, the eclipse ends at 12:15pm and I may be a lunatic or its opposite ("solatic"?)
The last two nights of the radio show Karma Cola on KPFZ-FM were about the legacy of Dorothy Day.
This speech by Cornel West blew my mind...
Cornel West outlines the development of Dorothy Day becoming a leading visionary in America. Basic was the love by others and the influences of the neighbor...
25/03/2024
Good morning from KPFZ!
Our broadcast day now starts at SIX AM every day.
On weekdays catch Alternative Radio on Monday, Senior Moments on Tuesday, a new show, Jazz 100 on Wednesdays, New Dimensions on Thursday, and Voice of White Plume on Friday.
All on at 6 AM at radio K.P.F.Z., 88.1 FM Lakeport.
See our complete schedule at KPFZ.ORG
20/03/2024
The K-ville Chronicles...
This Saturday, March 23, from 9 to 10 AM, people are encouraged to call in to KPFZ's "Citizen Lake" with host John Moorhead. The topic will be the proposed name change from Kelseyville to Konocti. John Moorhead will air a more in-depth program on the issue, and people are invited also to email him at "[email protected]" with their remarks. Please include your contact information so that your remarks can be verified as authentic. Details will be given in the response.
The studio line is (707) 263-3435
What say you, "Wet" or "Dry"?
18/03/2024
Sweet sixteen.
Happy Birthday, KPFZ-FM full power license.
Andy Weiss with Paula Mune at original studio...
27/02/2024
On Wednesday, February 28, there will be two candidate interviews on KPFZ 88.1 FM and KPFZ.org.
At 9 to 10am on Dateline Lake County host Ariel Carmona will interview Lake County Judge Shanda Harry.
Then, from 11am to noon, 5th District Supervisor Jessica Pyska will be interviewed by Olga Martin-Steele. Democracy Now! will be preempted because Martin-Steele will be out of town for her regular broadcast day. Democracy Now! can be heard at 6pm that evening.
Tune in and hear the candidates!
25/02/2024
Happy 83rd birthday to Buffy St. Marie. Her contributions to music, Native American culture and social activism, as well as empowering young women and other native musicians add up to an immense life of work.
02/02/2024
This week on Folk & Beyond…
Celebrating Black [music] History Month
(Trivia question: What does blues legend Pink Anderson and the other side of the moon have to do with each other?)
Live: Monday February 5, Noon-2 pm
Repeats: Wednesday, February 7, 7-9 pm, and Saturday, February 10, 7-9 AM
Broadcasting from atop Mount Konocti on KPFZ 88.1 FM, Lakeport, California, and streaming at KPFZ.ORG.
27/12/2023
This year, 2023, on Folk & Beyond played over 1,000 songs .
Wishing you a timeless season of ZARDOZ — and may your holidays be as grand as the windswept plains of the Vortex.
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23/12/2023
This week on Folk & Beyond…
Monday EVENING, Christmas night, will be a very mellow Folk & Beyond.
I am switching places with Dave Sammel's Kitchen Sink, since he wants to do a Christmas Day show but has a previous engagement with some fruitcake, egg nog and peppermint bark
So F&B will be Live: Monday December 25, 7-9 PM with a
Repeat: Tuesday, December 26 7-9 AM
Tune in for for some quiet easy folk, folk rock and singer/songwriters. Turn down the lights, light a candle and put yourself a merry little brandy.
Broadcasting from atop Mount Konocti on KPFZ 88.1 FM, Lakeport, California, and streaming at KPFZ.ORG.
01/07/2023
This Wednesday on HARD CANDY RADIO ! Enver Koneya will be our guest from the band Disastroid ! Tune in! 88.1 fm Kpfz.org 7pm to 9pm
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April 12, 2018 Marked the 10-year Anniversary for KPFZ as a Full-Power Community Radio Station
By Andy Weiss
2018 marks the 10-year anniversary for KPFZ as a full-power community radio station. On April 12th of 2008, Lake County Community Radio (LCCR) launched volunteer radio at 88.1 fm when the transmitter on Mt. Konocti beamed out the sounds of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz into the Lake County airwaves around 8:50 that morning. Yet the journey that led to that moment took ten agonizing, roller-coaster years.
LCCR and KPFZ’s history is highlighted by a spirit of grassroots organizing, as well as a David vs. Goliath scenario. An initial small group huddled around a wood-stove in Clearlake Oaks in April of 1995 to begin the creation of alternative radio in Lake Country. As interest grew, the idea of independent local radio swelled and resulted in two early stations: an unlicensed protest-oriented micro-power station (1996-99), then later, the first Low Power FM station in California (2001-05).
However, the big move was the establishment of a California non-profit, and an application sent to the FCC in 1998 for a full-power license. But whereas most organizations wait months to actualize their new stations, LCCR had to wait a decade. Here’s why.
In 1996 Federal law changed due to the passage of a monumental rewriting of the Telecommunications Act of 1934. Despite strong warnings and opposition from media watchdog groups over the radical consolidation of media in America, radio frenzy took over the newly deregulated airwaves when President Clinton signed the act. This was shattering news to LCCR and its plans.
On the non-commercial end of the dial (88.1-91.9 fm), where LCCR had staked its claim, four national Christian radio networks challenged LCCR for the rights to the 88.1 frequency in Lake County (and the surrounding areas). These well-funded networks boasted abundant resources and targeted domination of the non-commercial fm dial. They pushed LCCR to drop-out of the competition, even attempting to buy-out LCCR’s interests in the airwaves. But since LCCR would not budge, the rights to broadcast at 88.1 remained in a stalemate for seven long years.
The break for KPFZ came when the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (a non-profit, and loose association of independent broadcasters) and its president, Carol Pierson, lobbied congress and the FCC arguing that local stations must be given the first opportunity to receive licenses - pre-empting national networks. Congress and the FFC agreed. And in 2005 LCCR was awarded the construction permit to build a community station, and given three years to accomplish the task. After the long wait, volunteers finally and eagerly went to work to make KPFZ happen.
Nearly two hundred thousand dollars was raised in the form a large Federal grant, a smaller grant from the people of Lake County (by way of the Board of Supervisors), other grants, and numerous founding memberships and donations from long-time supporters of community radio in the county. Negotiations with the owners of Mt. Konocti resulted in a contract for housing the transmission equipment. A beautiful historical building in downtown Lakeport was rented and re-designed as the broadcasting studios and offices for LCCR. Portland consultant Gray Haertig and local RF engineer Bill Rett led a team who constructed the over-the-air station. Even the floors were sanded and polished for opening day. And that’s when Stan Getz smoothly blew “Disafinado” for all the new listeners in Lake County. April 12th, 2008. Non-commercial, full-power, volunteer community radio had arrived - at last.
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