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It's KBOO's Fall Membership Drive! Call 877-500-5266 (KBOO) or Join online

Membership drive progress as of 6:00 pm on 9/21/16:

$65,377 of $120,000
 
Thank you gifts

Guitarist Alfredo Muro guests

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Internationally renowned guitarist Alfredo Muro will be our guest today from 2 to 3 p.m. to showcase his music and preview his upcoming Portland concert this Saturday. A memorial tribute to the late vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson will follow from 3 to 4 p.m. This show is ... Read more

Free Culture Radio for September 21 2016

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Free Culture Radio
Seeing as it's now Oktoberfest, this month's edition of Free Culture Radio is all about beer culture -- which is a task that is at once both simple and difficult, because in many ways mainstream American culture is beer culture. It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to see, in ... Read more

Drinking From Puddles for 09/21/2016

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for Drinking from Puddles

The State of Hate!

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Host Jo Ann Hardesty leads a discussion of recent hate crimes in Oregon and around the nation. Read more

Ursula K. Le Guin on Steering the Craft

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between the Covers
  Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. Among her honors are a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, five Hugo and five Nebula Awar... Read more

EcoFilm and the Pillars of Portland

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Film Show
  In this special membership-drive episode of The Film Show, Jenn Chavez previews the Portland EcoFilm Festival with director Dawn Smallman and documentarians Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz, who have produced The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Queen of the Sun, and the new film Se... Read more

The Marta Zapparoli & Jackie Stewart Duo on Radio Lost and Found

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 10:00pm - Fri, 09/23/2016 at Fri, 09/23/2016
Produced for Radio Lost and Found
Tonight, we're honored to be joined by The Marta Zapparoli & Jackie Stewart Duo, who will perform live in KBOO Studios. Marta Zapparoli: Born in 1975, She is an Italian experimental sound artist, improviser, performer, and musician. She works and lives in Berlin since 2007.... Read more

News and Public Affairs Day

Airs at: Fri, 09/23/2016 at 8:00pm
An all-day special featuring talks and interviews with leading scholars and activists - help support KBOO public affairs during our fall membership drive - call 877-500-5266! Guests include Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, author of the n... Read more

KBOO presents a membership drive special: JOHN COLTRANE's 90th BIRTHDAY - our annual all-night marathon honoring the birth of JOHN COLTRANE

Airs at: Fri, 09/23/2016 at 9:00pm - Sat, 09/24/2016 at Sat, 09/24/2016
Produced for The Outside World
  JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE (September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967) led over 50 recording sessions in his career, leaving a body of work that reveals a relentless search for depth and personal passion through his tenor and soprano saxophone. As his career progressed, Coltrane and... Read more

Live Bands in Studio for the last day of the Membership Drive!

Airs at: Sat, 09/24/2016 at 9:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Music from the True Vine
This show ius devoted to live music in the studio. To show our appreciation for our loyal community of listeners, we will have 3 local bands bands playing live for you: Tenbrook at 9am; Stumptown Jugthumpers at 10am; and Cascade Crescendo at 11am. And be sure and call in if... Read more