The KALW On-Air Folk Festival is this Saturday, November 23. The live in-studio music will include Northern California Bluegrass Society favorite Bean Creek (Santa Cruz) at 4:00pm and the old-time Plaid Strangers — Karen Heil (fiddle, guitar) and Maxine Gerber (banjo, guitar) at 4:45pm. Live music will run from 2:00 to 7:00pm with other folk and Celtic bands.
The festival will be hosted by JoAnn Mar, Peter Thompson, & Kevin Vance.
The San Francisco station is at 91.7FM in the North Bay and Central Bay Areas, or Online.
Two Peninsula-area radio broadcasters that feature bluegrass music were included in an article about local non-commercial radio stations in the Menlo Park Almanac newspaper. Both KKUP-Cupertino and KZSU-Stanford have significant bluegrass programming. The full article is here:
KKUP has several bluegrass radio shows, including Monday Night Bluegrass, 6:00-9:00pm every Monday since 1980. The show has different hosts each week, with the Northern California Bluegrass Society Board’s Mike Russell & Michael Hall hosting live bands on the second Monday each month. The article has photos of October 14’s musical guests, The Johnny Campbell Band, and of Russell at the microphone and Lars Bourne doing sound. Bourne is also the MNB show host on the third Mondays.
KZSU has the “That’s Not Bluegrass” show every Wednesday, Noon-2:00pm with Sarah Bellum, who is better known as NCBS Board Member Lois Kellerman. She has been hosting her program on the station since 1998.
Mike Russell at the KKUP mic (Photo: Anna Hoch-Kenney, Menlo Park Almanac).
Monday Night Bluegrass on October 14: KKUP Radio, at 91.5FM in the South Bay & Monterey Bay Areas and online at <www.kkupfm.org> will present live music with Sonia Shell & The Johnny Campbell Band, with host Mike Russell and live music emcee Michael Hall. Tune In & Turn On!
Sonia Shell, famed solo banjoist and singer, will perform live on Monday Night Bluegrass on KKUP Radio, 91.5FM in the South Bay and Monterey Bay Area and online at www.kkup.org. The program will also feature recordings from her new solo CD.
The program will run 6:00-9:00pm. Program Host Mike Russell is usually on the air on the second Monday night of each month but is doing his show on the third Monday due to last weekend’s Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival. NCBS President Michael Hall will interview the artist.
Join Matt Knoth and the folks who are supporting the late Cousin Al Knoth for an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award. For more information contact Matt Knoth <hazmatteo@earthlink.net>.
Join Matt Knoth and the folks who are supporting the late Cousin Al Knoth for an IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award. For more information contact Matt Knoth <hazmatteo@earthlink.net>.
The Stoney Mountain Ramblers (Menlo Park) will perform live in the studio on KKUP Monday Night Bluegrass on December 11, 6:00-9:00pm. Program host is Mike Russell (NCBS Vice President) and the live music emcee is Michael Hall (NCBS President). KKUP can be heard in the South Bay and Monterey Bay Areas at 91.5FM, and online at www.kkup.com. Tune in and turn on!
GOF festival favorites Trouble Town (San Francisco) and BanjerDan Mazer (Los Gatos) will perform live in the studio on Monday Night Bluegrass, October 9, 2023, 6:00-9:00pm on KKUP Radio, 91.5FM in the South Bay & Santa Cruz areas and online at <www.kkup.org>. BanjerDan will talk about his brand new CD.
The program host is NCBS vice-president Mike Russell with NCBS president Michael Hall emceeing the on-air concert.
Monday Night Bluegrass will feature both a tribute to the late bluegrass broadcaster “Cousin” Al Knoth and a live musical performance by the Monterey-based band Sunny Side Of The Mountain on September 11, 6:00-9:00pm. The program is on KKUP radio, 91.5FM in the South Bay & Monterey Bay areas and is online at <www.kkup.org>.
Program Host and NCBS Vice-President Mike Russell worked with Al on some of his shows during his long and distinguished career. Mike will be joined on this special program by Al’s friends during the first half of the broadcast. Then the band will perform live during the last half of the show.
Live in-studio music will return to KKUP Radio’s Monday Night Bluegrass on April 10, 2023. The program host is NCBS Vice-President Mike Russell and the live music emcee is NCBS Past President Michael Hall.
On this Monday’s show, some guys who know the Stoney Mountain Ramblers really well — The Parallel Universe Boys — will perform and NCBS President Eric Burman will be interviewed. Tune In & Turn On!
The bluegrass program is on every Monday night 6:00-9:00pm with a different host each week. Now that Covid is (sorta) behind us, live bands will play on the show on second Mondays for your dining and dancing pleasure!
The station is at 91.5FM in the South Bay & Monterey Bay Areas and online at <www.kkup.org>.
Official Band Photograph: The Parallel Universe Boys.
