This Quarter
ere are our weekly listings for the spring months. Watch this list for further details to be filled in and other possible updates.
| 4/5 | Songs for Early Spring: Music on a seasonal note from Murray Kyle, Spell Songs, Ellika Solo Rafael, and more. A brief remembrance of Jesse Colin Young. |
| 4/12 | Silk Road Ensemble: Music by The Silk Road Ensemble led by YoYo Ma and Rhiannon Giddens. Highlighted will be the new Silk Road Ensemble release, American Railroad, a project that illuminates the impact that African-American, Chinese, Irish, Native American, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad. |
| 4/19 | Earth My Body: Drawing inspiration from an old chant to offer songs by Ayla Schafer, Murray Kyle, Xavier Rudd, Starling Arrow, and others calling on us to honor and protect the earth and its waters in anticipation of Earth Day. |
| 4/26 | Darol Anger & Bruce Molsky Live in Concert: Two great fiddlers joined forces recently and performed selections from their latest release, Lockdown Breakdown. This concert was recorded on February 16, 2025 in Berkeley. |
| 5/3 | West Coast: A range of musicians from Washington, Oregon, and California. |
| 5/10 | Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy: An encore broadcast of past interviews with these two living legends of traditional British folk along with musical highlights. They will be making a rare Bay Area appearance at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, 8 p.m. on May 14th. |
| 5/17 | Songs of Healing: Songs of healers (Mary Isis, Rosi Lalor, Claudia Cuentas, Ana Ling, Drukmo Gyal), music from Andean and Amazonian traditions, and a brief look at the 432 Hz middle A, through the ears of a couple of its proponents, Zumusic and Tamara Hernández Shalá. |
| 5/24 | Memorial Day: Remembering the casualties of war. From Ireland, music by Daori Ferrell, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, and Lúnasa with Natalie Merchant. From England, Maddy Prior and June Tabor. From this country, Cherish the Ladies and Boiled In Lead. |
| 5/31 | On-Air Folk Festival: It’s our bi-annual folk festival—five hours of continuous live music showcasing the talents of Bay Area musicians. |
| 6/7 | Dynamic Duos: Great pairing of musicians from all over. |
| 6/14 | Continental—Points East: Music of Europe, with an emphasis on Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Greece. |
| 6/21 | Remembering Gabriel Yacoub: The great French singer-guitarist passed away earlier this year. He and his band Malicorne spearheaded the French folk revival of the 70s and 80s. We’ll hear an encore broadcast of a special program with Gabriel Yacoub reflecting back on his career. |
| 6/28 | Summer Solstice: Music in tune with the longest day. |
People who believe in fundamental and irreversible changes in human nature are themselves ahistorical and naive. If novelists know
anything it’s that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are
like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part,
on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of
this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind. Here in Germany you will remember these martial songs; they
are not a very distant memory. But there is no place on earth where they have not been played at one time or another. Those of us who
remember, too, a finer music must
try now to play it, and encourage others, if we can, to sing along.
—Zadie Smith