(Airdate: September 20, 2021) Mike Carroll, local pianist and music teacher, will be performing in the Candlelight Concert series on Thursday Sept 23, 2021 at 7pm. He will perform music by Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Scarlatti. Larry Stein spoke to Mike Carroll for Attention Please! about his career in music, and the concert he will be performing. It can be heard on KPTZ, or streamed from Trinity United Methodist Church’s website.
The following is a summary of the presentation during the Public Health briefings at this week’s Board of County Commissioners meeting made by Jefferson and Clallam County Public Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry. Also Willie Bence, Director, Director of Emergency Management, gave a report.
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Twice a month, co-hosts Chris Bricker and Siobhan Canty, President and CEO of Jefferson Community Foundation, get together to talk about new developments and new paradigms for our communities as we roll through the rest of 2021. In this edition of Community Tides, Siobhan and Chris speak with Richard Tucker, Executive Director of Jefferson Land Trust, about our local farm and agricultural community, the role they play in the economy and the vitality of our county, the challenges farmers face these days, and how Jefferson Land Trust supports our local farms. Finally, they explore the ways that each of us can give our local farming community our support.
In this special edition of the Compass, we with Shannon Kring, director of End of the LIne: The Women of Standing Rock, selected for screening at this year’s 22nd Annual Port Townsend Film festival. Shannon and her crew have woven together a significant chronicle of the grass roots movement that arose after it was announced that the Dakota Access Pipeline would be routed through the land of the indigenous people of South Dakota. The film tells the story of the five brave women who started it all, with four Mongolian yurts and four families camped on the grasslands overlooking the proposed pipeline route, as workers moved closer to the sacred sites of Lakota territory and the banks of the Missouri River.
KPTZ partners with Trinity United Methodist’s Candlelight online Concerts to present a special concert on the radio. Michael Carroll will perform a classical piano concert featuring music from such classical composers as Bach, Ravel, Mozart, Chopin and Scarlatti. Tune in to KPTZ on Thursday, September 23 from 7 to 8pm for this live event. More info and link to watch the live stream at Trinity United Methodist Church’s website.
Half of the donations received from listeners to Michael Carroll’s concert will be donated to Gatheringplace, which provides enrichment programs for the community with an emphasis on adults with developmental and other disabilities. Gatheringplace strives to encourage and nurture creativity, independence and self-expression.
Since moving to Seattle in 1990, Michael Carroll has performed a large number of works, both standard and new, in a variety of venues. Past performances include concerti by Mozart, Haydn, Bartok and Poulenc, and many of the standard chamber works as well as numerous solo recitals. An experienced soloist, chamber musician and vocal/choral accompanist, he also spent ten years as program annotator and staff pianist for Seattle’s Thalia Symphony Orchestra. Carroll now lives and teaches in Port Ludlow.
Today on Brewocracy Now KPTZ host Tim Quackenbush and City Manager John Mauro discussed the following topics: Potential tree removal on Sims Way; the City’s role in attracting new businesses to address vacancies; the status of the stop light at Taylor and Water Street; City Council Salary Commission; permits for public demonstrations, and a change to the email address for submitting questions – please submit questions to jmauro@cityofpt.us and include “Brew Now” in the subject line.
(Airdate: September 16, 2021) Sitting in for Missy Nielson while she is on sabbatical, Cliff Moore cover’s Missy’s program Everybody Can with a lively, informative, and important community conversation with Andy Stockton. Andy is a Volunteer Staff Member of the Jefferson County Department of Emergency Management where he leads planning efforts to prepare for a “mass casualty event”. He also is a community leader for the American Red Cross serving the South Puget Sound Area. Andy shares ideas about how your household can prepare for an emergency and links to volunteer opportunities for residents of Jefferson County.
(Airdate: September 13, 2021) Larry Stein speaks with Julio Elizalde, Artistic Director of the Olympic Music Festival. Their festival is all virtual this year, with 6 Chamber Music concerts. The concerts are available on their website, free of charge.
