This Quarter

Here are our weekly listings for the fall months. Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other possible updates.

10/3	Music & Conversation with Judy Collins: An encore broadcast of our interview with Judy Collins in honor of her final farewell tour this year. This program provides an overview of Judy’s life in her words and music—the ups and downs, the triumphs and tragedies.
10/10	Michele K-Tel Returns: Guest host Michele Flannery presents more musical surprises.
10/17	The Year of the Fire Horse!: Celebrating my birthday, my zodiac sign, and KALW’s 85th anniversary with songs about horses.
10/24	Recent Releases and Fresh Discoveries: Rising Appalachia, Rhiannon Giddens, women’s vocal group Laboratorium Pieśni, Murray Kyle, more.
10/31	All Souls’ Night: A Celtic pagan tradition (Samhain) celebrating the first day of winter, a dark time when the living and the dead commune.
11/7	Fall Is Here: Music that conjures up the fall season and that special transitory time between summer and winter. Music by Sally Rogers, Claudia Schmidt, Cheryl Wheeler, Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior, John Martyn.
11/14	Songs of Rivers: Rivers of the world.
11/21	Windham Hill’s 50th: The label was started by Will Ackerman fifty years ago featuring mostly acoustic music that was quiet and contemplative and launched the careers of George Winston, Michael Hedges, Alex de Grassi, Liz Story, Barbara Higbie, and others.
11/28	Hymns, Chants, and Mantras: Reflective music for your Thanksgiving holiday.
12/5	Songs for Winter: Songs for short and chilly days.
12/12	Irish Memorial Tribute: We pay homage to some of the notable Irish musicians who passed away this year: Donal Lunny, Glen Hansard, Dolores Keane, Maire Brennan, Paddy Keenan. All of them are renowned in the world of Irish music, and many of them were at the forefront of the 70s folk revival in Ireland.
12/19	Songs for the Holidays: Celebrating the end of the year with seasonal songs to get us in the holiday spirit.
12/26	One Host’s Favorites: Some outstanding music from the past year or so.

Of the Empire

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

—Mary Oliver, Red Bird (2008)