Category: Radio

San Francisco Public Radio Station KALW, which has bluegrass and related music programming on Saturdays, is expanding into new studios on Market Street as the anchor tenant in an arts center building.

The station will occupy two floors at 988 Market Street in The Warfield Building, an historic century-old office tower that is part of the Warfield Theater complex. The nine-story building will be devoted to various arts and independent media organizations.

KALW has been broadcasting since 1941. Peter Thompson’s “Bluegrass Signal” bluegrass program runs 6:00-7:00pm every Saturday amidst other folk and Americana music shows. The station is at 91.7FM and online at KALW.org.

The move will take place this fall. The station will be a minority owner of the building as part of the real estate deal that closed on Friday February 7. The Community Arts Stabilization Trust is the majority owner. The most recent use of the structure was hosting tech companies, and the building was considered a candidate for office to housing conversion but will now be a safe haven for the City’s arts and media non-profits in a changing economy.

The building will be renamed The Warfield Commons.

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:

All ears: Tune in to these 8 noncommercial Peninsula radio stations – The Almanac

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.

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.

Tune In & Turn On!

 

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>.