KAFE

City of license	Bellingham, Washington
Broadcast area	Northwest Washington Southwestern British Columbia
Branding	KAFE 104.1
Slogan	"Today's Soft Rock"
Frequency	104.1 MHz
First air date	July 2, 1965 (as KERI-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary
ERP	60,000 watts
HAAT	701 meters (2,300 ft)
Class	C
Facility ID	58886
Transmitter coordinates	48°40′49.6″N 122°50′26.3″W / 48.680444°N 122.840639°W / 48.680444; -122.840639
Callsign meaning	"Café"
Former callsigns	KERI-FM (1965-1979) KNWR (1979-1989) KAFE-FM (9/1989-10/1989)[1]
Former frequencies	104.3 MHz (1965-2010)
Owner	Saga Communications (Saga Broadcasting, LLC)
Sister stations	KISM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	kafe.com

KAFE (104.1 FM, "KAFE 104.1", pronounced "café") is a 60 kW radio station located and licensed in Bellingham, Washington, USA, transmitting from Mount Constitution on Orcas Island. KAFE is run by the Cascade Radio Group, owned by Saga Communications with the broadcast license held by Saga Broadcasting, LLC.

KAFE serves Northwest Washington with a strong signal that reaches into Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and also reaches into Seattle's northern suburbs, and parts of the Olympic Peninsula. Since changing format and call letters on November 1, 1989, KAFE became an adult contemporary radio station.^[2]

The station was formerly known as KERI-FM in the 1960s and 1970s, broadcasting a country music format and as KNWR-FM with a rock music format from 1979 to 1989.^[1]

Morning hosts Dave Walker and Shari Matthews have been on-air together since November 2000.

Program Director Ken Richards and Scotty VanDryver round out the airstaff, with syndicated evening host Delilah on Sunday through Friday nights.

KAFE swapped frequencies with CHHR 104.1 on January 14, 2010 at 7:30 AM.^[3] This is following CHHR-FM and KAFE's approved requests with the CRTC and the FCC, respectively, to swap frequencies, in order to reduce interference between KAFE and KMCQ 104.5 Covington, Washington near Seattle. ^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• KAFE 104.1
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KAFE
• Radio-Locator information on KAFE
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KAFE

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Iztok Mlakar
Iztok Mlakar in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Iztok Mlakar
Born	(1961-06-21) June 21, 1961 (age 51) Postojna, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia (Now Slovenia)
Origin	Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Occupations	Theatre actor, Singer-songwriter

Iztok Mlakar (born 21 June 1961) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor. Known as the "bard of the Slovenian Littoral,"^[1] he is most famous for his ironic chansons in the local dialect. Together with Adi Smolar, Mlakar is among the best-known singer-songwriters in Slovenia after 1990.

He was born in Postojna in western Slovenia (then part of the former Yugoslavia), but spent his youth in the town of Nova Gorica on the border with Italy. His parents were from Cerkno, and Mlakar composed several songs in the distinctive dialect of his parents' native region.

Career[link]

After graduating from the Nova Gorica Grammar School, Mlakar studied acting at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, graduating from the drama program in 1986. He pursued a career as an actor in the Slovenian National Theatre of Nova Gorica, where he is currently working.^[2][3] He has written many songs for plays, but he is best known as the composer and singer of his own chanson-style songs. In 1993 he received the Ježek Award.

Chansons[link]

Iztok Mlakar is best known to Slovenian public as a singer of songs composed in his local Slovene dialect. His songs are frequently witty and unusual reflections on eternal subjects such as love, passing, and death, and also about the joys of life (particularly wine and good food). Always written from the perspective of the little man, they are often bitter comments on the struggle of daily life and the injustice of social and political settings.

His early songs contain many commentaries on daily life under Communism in the former Yugoslavia, presented in an ironic way. Mlakar mostly sings about unusual personal stories, which highlight the absurdities and anxieties of the lives of the common people.

Language of the songs[link]

Mlakar does not use standard Slovene in his songs, except in few cases, when he wants to mark the differences in the social status of the characters of his stories. The majority of his songs are sung in the Karst dialect, which is the most distinctive and widely spoken Slovene dialect in the Slovenian Littoral. It's also spoken in the suburban areas around the town Nova Gorica (especially Solkan and Šempeter pri Gorici). The language of most Mlakar's songs are based on the distinctive suburban speeches of these areas, which have been strongly influenced by Italian and Friulian, especially in the vocabulary and syntax.

Fewer of his songs are sung in the Inner Carniolan dialect, as it is spoken in the upper Vipava Valley (Bose noge), while others (such as Pubi, usidma se, Var se, čeča, and Očenaš) are sung in the Cerkno dialect of Cerkno, which differs considerably from the dialect employed in his other songs, as it belongs to different dialect group.

The vocabulary of most of Mlakar's songs is frequently difficult to understand for speakers from other Slovenian regions. The use of dialect and juicy expressions conveys a sense of familiarity to his songs.

Lyrics[link]

Survival tactics, idiosyncrasies and anxieties of simple people some of the constant themes of Mlakar's songs, as are their joy for life and seek of pleasure. The characters of Mlakar's songs present a typical Slovene character. He sings about the simple Slovene man and woman of the 20th and 21st century, who are frequently oppressed by big historical events such as the world wars, expansionistic policies of large nations, changing political regimes, unstable economic situations, and shifts in moral and social customs. The characters of Mlakar's songs cope with these circumstances in different ways: they either stubbornly defy them (Karlo Špacapan), frequently becoming silly and pathetic in the process (Pepi Žbaradorija), accept them with a sense of poetic fatalism (Bertolin in Štefana), or opportunistically try to accommodate to them (Politik Gvido). Many of his songs narrate about outbursts of anger directed against authority: some of them result in a temporary victory (Ivo Balila), some end in compromise (Pubi usidma se), while others remain a dream of a distant future egalitarian retaliation (Puntarska, Politik Gvido).

Many lyrics are an intelligent ironic comment on acute problems of contemporary Slovenian society, such as alcoholism (Beštija), drug abuse (Marjo Špinel), and suicide (Briškula). Some lyrics ridicule the provincial customs of an enriched post-Communist society (Fool cool, Truckin' rap, Bogatašev song). Many of them convey an unusual life philosophy or acquired wisdom (Credo, Počasno življenje, Pismo). Most of them, however, are about love, sex, and the often difficult relations between men and women. These include stories of love and passion bridging ethnic and social divides (Furlanka, Valentin, Var se čeča); many are ironic songs about romantic deception (Brika, Valentinčič Rudi in Pepa Žgabucin) and stories of unfulfilled romantic promises (Dešpet, Vandima). Only a few are classical ballads of failed love (En glaž vina mi dej).

Public performances[link]

Mlakar is known for avoiding the lights of publicity. He has never performed in a big concert or public event, preferring small and selected audiences. His public performances are rare, and usually there is a very high interest in them, making it hard to get tickets. Such a style of performance usually goes well with topics of his songs. With good food and wine, the audience gets in a good mood and participates in singing his songs.

Discography[link]

• Štorije in baldorije (1992)
  • 1. Pepi Žbaradorija
  • 2. Republika Palma de Cocco
  • 3. Puntarska
  • 4. Vandima
  • 5. Pubi, usidma se
  • 6. Karlo Špacapan
  • 7. Beštija
  • 8. Štefana in Bertolin
  • 9. En glaž vina mi dej

• Balade in štroncade (1994)
  • 1. Od Franca Frančeškina god
  • 2. Soča
  • 3. Full cool
  • 4. Božična
  • 5. Politik Gvido
  • 6. Valentin
  • 7. Počasno življenje
  • 8. Brika (ki b' rad)
  • 9. Betula

• Rimarije iz oštarije (2001)
  • 1. Blues
  • 2. Rudi Valentinčič in Pepa Žgabucin
  • 3. Credo
  • 4. Dešpet
  • 5. Čikorija in kafe
  • 6. Marjo Špinel
  • 7. Ivo Balila
  • 8. Var'se, čeča
  • 9. Briškula

• Romance brez krjance (2008)
  • 1. Oda
  • 2. Bose noge
  • 3. Pismo
  • 4. Furlanka
  • 5. Žena al flaša
  • 6. Pokora
  • 7. Truckin' rap (Recitativ za bariton, kamion in basso continuo)
  • 8. Bogatašev song
  • 9. Očenaš

External links[link]

• Texts and tabs of Iztok Mlakar.
• Biography and lyrics

References[link]

Aslan Tlebzu (Adyghe: Аслъан ЛIыбзэу, Russian: Аслан Тлебзу), born 24 February 1981, Teuchezhsk, Adygea, USSR; is a Russian Adyghe folk musician.^[1]

After graduation at the Art Institute of the Adyghe State University in Maykop, he performed as an accordionist with the Adygean State Folk Song Ensemble – Islamey.^[1] He is one of today's best-known Circassian folk musicians.^[1]

See also[link]

• Aidamir Mugu
• Music of Adygea

References[link]