This Quarter

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

10/5	October Song: Old and new favorites to mark the change in the seasons, to include the classic song by that name by Robin Williamson.
10/12	New and Recent Releases: The latest by Gillian Welch, Richard Thompson, Laurie Anderson, Rhiannon Giddens & Yo Yo Ma, Buioch, Jane Rothfield & Allan Carr, Open the Door for Three, Clive Carroll, Vasen & Hawktail.
10/19	Indigenous People’s Day: Music by and about the world’s indigenous peoples: Siberian shaman Snow Raven, Sami singer Mari Boine, the late Joanne Shenandoah, Joy Harjo, Native American flute by R. Carlos Nakai and Mary Youngblood, more.
10/26	Taking Flight: Songs about things that fly—music by Patty Larkin, Guy Clark, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Weepies, Liz Story, Aoife O’Donovan (Phoenix), Rory Block (Silver Wings), Alison Kraus & Gillian Welch, Shawn Colvin, Linda Waterfall, Richard Thompson, Richard & Mimi Fariña.
11/2	Samhain, Dia de Muertos: Music to mark the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter from the old world and the new. The opening between the worlds. Hymns to Hekate.
11/9	Happy 75th, Bruce Springsteen!: The Boss turns 75 years old this year. We’ll explore the acoustic side of Bruce Springsteen, including his austere landmark album Nebraska, his tribute recording to Pete Seeger, and “The Ghost of Tom Joad.” We’ll also include a tribute to late blues singer Barbara Dane, including an encore broadcast of her live appearance in 2010.
11/16	Points North: Music from the earth’s higher latitudes: Scandinavia, Siberia, Canada.
11/23	KALW’s On-Air Folk Festival: Five hours of continuous live music performed by some of the Bay Area’s finest talent, including Wake the Dead!
11/30	Hymns, Chants, and Mantras: Meditative music for the Thanksgiving season from varied traditions.
12/7	Michele K-Tel Returns
12/14	Winter Solstice: Music for long nights.
12/21	Songs for the Holidays: Seasonal music celebrating the holidays, winter solstice, and the end of the year.
12/28	Recent Favorites: Some of one host’s favorites from the past year or so.

One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives.

We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in such times another reflex is the longing for an authority figure selling certainty, claiming the fist to be a helping hand. It is a touchingly human impulse, primal and pacifying—children turn to the parent to remove the overwhelm and uncertainty of a world they don’t yet understand and cannot carry. It is also a dangerous impulse, for it pulsates beneath every war and every reign of terror in the history of the world.

—Maria Popova