This Quarter
ere are our weekly listings for the summer months. Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other possible updates.
| 7/6 | San Francisco Folk Festival Preview: Festival volunteer coordinator Pete Kronowitt tells us what to expect at the next free folk festival on July 13th at the Golden Gate Park bandshell. |
| 7/13 | West Coast: Music from up and down the coast, Seattle to San Diego. |
| 7/20 | New and Recent Releases: The latest by Richard Thompson, Sierra Ferrell, Alex de Grassi & The Real Sarahs, Laurie Lewis, Special Consensus, Kaia Kater, Paul Kamm & Eleanore MacDonald, Ruth Moody, and The Cowboy Junkies, plus an interview with blues singer-guitarist Chris Smither. |
| 7/27 | Latin Mix: Highlighting the rich songwriting in Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous languages, from Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina. |
| 8/3 | Jerry Garcia’s Birthday Celebration: Jerry Garcia would have turned 82 on August 1st of this year. Musical highlights from his career with the Grateful Dead, Old and in the Way, and David Grisman. |
| 8/10 | Polyglots: Singers equally expressive in more languages than one. Sam Garrett, Shimshai, Julie Fowlis, Altan, Mari Boine, Tish Hinojosa, more. |
| 8/17 | Michele K-Tel Returns: Guest host Michele Flannery is back with her latest musical discoveries. |
| 8/24 | Continental: Music from all around the European mainland. Lotte Walda, Marta Topferova, Gabriel Yacoub, more. |
| 8/31 | Labor Day: Songs celebrating working people. |
| 9/7 | San Miguel Fraser: María San Miguel and Galen Fraser, fiddle and fiddle or fiddle and cittern plus vocals, appear live as they celebrate the combination of their Spanish and Scottish roots. We’ll fill out the program with more music from Spain, Colombia, Mexico, and China. |
| 9/14 | Bread & Roses 50th Anniversary: The non-profit was founded fifty years ago by the late Mimi Fariña to bring music to thousands of people in institutions and prisons every year. |
| 9/21 | Forests and Seas: Visions of the natural world and our place in it. |
| 9/28 | Things with Wings: Songs about taking flight by Patty Larkin, Guy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Weepies, Liz Story, Aoife O’Donovan (Phoenix), Rory Block (Silver Wings), Shawn Colvin. |
We use music to heal ourselves, to save ourselves. We have, since before we discovered the mathematics of harmony. We will, long after everything we know of civilization has crumbled into discord. Nothing refracts the light of being like music. Nothing reflects the health of a culture and nothing predicts its durability better than how well it treats its song-makers.