Spoonful Thursday Evening: Bluegrass Favorites with a Alford-Twist

Tune in a 8PM this week for another musical culinary sampling from the pantry of Larry Alford. This week’s flavors: Bluegrass favorites!.

Special Guests in the Studio Tuesday Morning: The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force Interviewed

This morning Jim Healey had Brenda Hammond (3- time president) and former Sandpoint Mayor Gretchen Hellar (acting treasurer) in the Tiki Room for an informative interview about the nature and history of this grass-roots organization now established for 20 years in Bonner County.

Brenda Hammond, President (left), Jim Healey KRFY (center), Gretchen Hellar, Treasurer (right) of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force organization in the studio Tuesday morning to discuss the history and goals of this grass-roots group celebrating 20 years in Bonner County.

Between the Notes – this week’s Guest — Steve Sykes, December 18th

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Treasure Chest Features “The Sound Opinions” Holiday Spectacular: Santa Soul

KRFY Treasure Chest for this Sunday, December 15, at 6 PM, continues with our Holiday theme for the month of December — celebrating the original Jolly ol’ SOUL!

Holiday music maven Andy Cirzan visits Sound Opinions every December to share with Jim and Greg a new collection of unique tunes for the season. From the weird to the wonderful, these are not your standard Christmas carols. By day Andy runs Jam Productions in Chicago. By night he searches through record stores, dustbins and basements to find gems for Sound Opinions and his annual compilation. This edition is called Santa Soul. You’ll be treated to holiday soul comps of yesteryear. These are killer Xmas dusties from the ’60s and ’70s —tracks by well-known artists like James Brown, as well as groovy underground acts. So light up the yule log and let the soul party begin! Cheers from everyone at Sound Opinions!.

Tonight’s Between the Notes with Cheryl Branz Interviewed by Suzy Prez

Join us, November 13,  8:00 pm for another edition of Between the Notes. Tonight’s guest is singer/songwriter Cheryl Branz who lives in Spokane, Washington. Cheryl has been singing most of her life and has graced the Inland Northwest with her spot on vocals and honest lyric style.  Her songwriting has been honed through attendance at some of the finest songwriting workshops held around the country. Cheryl tells us about her songwriting adventures and hear her upbeat and enduring original songs.

More information about Cheryl and her music can be found at:  www.cherlybranz.com   Streaming on the web at krfy.org.

Treasure Chest this Sunday Evening, November 11, Features Poncho Sanchez

Sounds from the Global Village marks the birthday of Poncho Sanchez – Latin soul-jazz star and one of this year’s Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners; continues with music from October featured artists Orchestra Baobab from a classic album recorded in Paris in the ‘70s; highlights new releases from Afro Funk and Staff Benda Bilili; and serves up some surprise classics from Bill Withers and James Brown.

An eclectic, world music-based show, Sounds from the Global Village features the latest and best in world music new releases and classics along with a wide variety of artists and selections from other genres that have influences from around the world. Informative and entertaining, current yet set in a wider musical and historical context, the show draws on the knowledge, experience and congenial personality of host Chris Heim – and a library of over 40,000 albums, including many out-of-print titles – to pull these musical strands together into an intriguing and captivating whole

As Duke Ellington famously said, there are two kinds of music. Sounds from the Global Village plays the good kind…from all over the world. With a fresh, inventive musical mix and welcoming presentation, Sounds from the Global Village is like nothing else on radio, offering a special kind of “go-to” program that speaks to the joys of musical discovery.

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Thursday Evening’s Spoonful with Host Larry Alford

A program of music that Larry has discovered through attendance at various folk music festivals occurring every summer at a varieties of venues throughout western Canada..

Sunday Evening Treasure Chest Features Jesse Colin Young from the Fur Peace Ranch

The Jesse Colin Young Band is featured in performance at the Fur Peace Station concert hall at the ranch recorded August 25, 2012

Host Jorma Kaukonen introduces each program’s featured artist in a series of concerts recorded at the Fur Peace Ranch guitar camp. An eclectic blend of performances including blues, folk, Americana, rock, bluegrass, and jazz.

It was not much at the outset. The hills and trees were pretty and serene, but it took a lively imagination to envision what might be created there, what might be taught and learned, and how hearts could open along with guitar cases.

But in 1989, Jorma and Vanessa Kaukonen looked at a piece of land in Meigs and conceived what Jorma calls “a ranch that grows guitar players.” Not a fantasy camp, but this would be a place where both budding and seasoned musicians could immerse themselves for several days, and emerge with renewed inspiration and tangible progress in their music.

Fur Peace Ranch did not spring from the ground full-grown. It evolved gradually into an idyllic landscape of neatly arrayed cabins, workshop space, library, store, dining hall, plus a theater that hosts concerts performed by world-class musicians — many of whom also serve as instructors.

A guest arriving at Fur Peace Ranch travels on a private country road that opens onto a bright, rolling field. First catching the eye is the Beatrice Love Kitchen, masquerading as single structure but encompassing two log cabins, more than 150 years old, lovingly fashioned into a modern commercial kitchen and a pleasant, woodsy dining room, with a big covered porch for al fresco dining. Here, an experienced chef prepares lush meals that have evoked frequent comment that Fur Peace Ranch is actually a five-star restaurant where music is also served..

Los Reyes de Albuquerque y La Familia Martinez Documentary

 

Tonight at 6:00 on KRFY’s Treasure Chest ~ Los Reyes de Albuquerque y La Familia Martinez is a documentary project telling the story of one of the most long-lived and influential traditional New Mexican Hispanic musical groups in the state of New Mexico, Los Reyes de Albuquerque. The ensemble has been at the forefront of presenting, preserving and perpetuating traditional New Mexican and Mexican folk music since its formation in 1962 by Roberto Martinez and Ray Flores. For all those years, the group has performed public concerts in clubs, theaters and town squares; schools, senior centers and nursing homes. The Martinez family, the heart of the group, has experienced its share of highlights and heartaches over more than 45 years of performing. Two of the five performing children lost their hearing in their 20’s. Two also died of cancer in middle age. Still, the family has continued to present and preserve the music of the land, the music of the people.

Paul Ingles and photographer Genevieve Russell followed the group on several of its tour stops. Ingles, a veteran audio producer, recorded the music, interviewed the group’s members, and the concert-goers who have been touched and inspired by Los Reyes. Russell, a professional photographer and new media storyteller, photographed the musicians in performance as well as the Martinez family at home.

The project includes the broadcast of an hour-long documentary, development of a website (www.losreyesstory.org), the creation of a film for a public event and online, and the creation and distribution of CDs and DVDs to schools and libraries around the state of New Mexic.

Between The Notes: October 2nd guest is Julie Kerr

This week’s guest on “Between the Notes” is singer songwriter Julie Kerr. Julie who lives in Nelson, British Columbia and has been writing her beautiful songs and music for over 20 years. Well known in Canada and in the US Julie has toured and played on stage with musical partner and husband, Craig Corth in such places as Telluride, Nashville and Seattle.  Julie has two acclaimed CD’s:  Mornings Like These and Deeper Still. She currently is singing and playing music with the Canadian band Widow Maker.

More information about Julie and her music can be found at: www.widowmakerbluegrass.com On MySpace:  Julie Kerr

Tune in and listen to “Between the Notes” every Tuesday at 8 pm on 88.5 FM, KRFY, or stream the program live at www.krfy.org on your computer or device..