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Local Musician Joe Euro Performing Live

KPTZ is excited to welcome local musician Joe Euro to the Trinity United Methodist Church in Port Townsend on Thursday, March 27 at 7pm. Joe Euro is a Neo-Classical Fingerstyle Guitarist and his performance will include a few of his original compositions as well as classical guitar pieces. A local favorite, his distinctive music has been featured on broadcasts around the world. Brought to you by KPTZ, this will also be simulcast on 91.9 FM KPTZ.

Brewocracy Now ~ Thursday

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark and co-host Port Townsend City Manager John Mauro get together each week to discuss all things Port Townsend during “Brewocracy Now”. Tune and find out who their guest will be! Live from 12:30 to 1pm on KPTZ 91.9FM. Questions may be sent to dj@kptz.org during the show.

#716 Seabird Conservation, part 1

(Airdate: March 26, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we welcome our special guest Peter Harrison. Peter is a world renown seabird expert, artist, and conservationist, and this week we will be speaking about writing and illustrating his beautiful new book Seabirds: The New Identification Guide. We end with exploring the world of the albatrosses, in anticipation of his upcoming public lecture sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center on March 30, 2025. This is Part 1 of a two-part program.

#715 Birds and Their Feathers, part 1

(Airdate: March 19, 2025) Please join Nature Now host Debaran Kelso as we welcome our special guest Peter Harrison. Peter is a world renown seabird expert, artist, and conservationist, and this week we will be speaking about writing and illustrating his beautiful new book Seabirds: The New Identification Guide. We end with exploring the world of the albatrosses, in anticipation of his upcoming public lecture sponsored by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center on March 30, 2025. This is Part 1 of a two-part program.

Silk

(Airdate: March 25, 2025) We’re in Gansu Province, in the town of Zhangye. We’ve already visited the sights in town, so it’s time to hit the road and resume our journey through that narrow strip of land known as the Gansu Corridor. Camels are essential and quite fascinating as we come to learn.

Steamboat Races

(Airdate: March 24, 2025 – Steamboat Races) 2 steam boats race from Victoria to Port Townsend for big stakes.

Don White Tribute

(Airdate: March 24, 2025) This tribute to Don for his work on Radio, Theater and Spoken Word features excerpts of stories read by Don on Phil Andrus’ KPTZ programs Cats in Our Laps (and previously Tossed Salad).  It features Phil’s comments, and thoughts from Deborah Kate Hammond, a long-time friend of and colleague Don.  It also features thoughts and memories from Genevieve Barlow, Artistic Director of Saltfire Theater Company. Don White’s last stage performance was with Genevieve and her company at Fort Worden in August of 2024.

County Connections

(Airdate: March 21, 2025) This week on County Connections Jim Burke and co-host County Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcomed guests Mel Rose, PsyD, LICSW, Executive Director/Clinic Director and Mary Sepler, President of the Board, from Jumping Mouse Children’s Center, which provides mental health services for children in Jefferson County based on play therapy. Play therapy is used to help children address trauma of various kinds that make up their ACE score (Adverse Childhood Events). Go to jumpingmouse.org to find out more and to donate.

Brewocracy Now ~ 3/20/25

KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by City of Port Townsend’s Community Services Director Melody Sky Weaver and Christy Spencer from the Port Townsend Film Festival. We talked about the PT 20th annual community read which is Big In Sweden by Sally Franson (who will be on BrewNow next week). We also talked about a tie-in with PTFF, who will be presenting Mama Mia at the Rose on March 29. Our subtext keywords are happiness, humor, gladness and spring.