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Tossed Salad for 3/23/18

There’s always a variety of topics and music to share with you.

Join host Phil Andrus and special guests this Friday from 1-5pm on 91.9FM ~ or stream live by clicking the Listen Live arrow at the top left of this window.

1:00 – Beth Wood, folksinger
1:45 – Bob Rosen, South County Report, with Bill Breakey and Kristi Adams who head up some very special programs at the Quilcene school.
2:15 – Leslie Lewis, Port Townsend Community Chorus
2:45 – Five Years of Public Power, with PUD Commissioner Jeff Randall, Bill Graham, PUD Resource Manager; and Bill Wise, co-author of the PUD initiative
3:30 – Simon deVoil and Ben Bochner
4:30 – Don White, reading “The Briefcase”, by Rebecca Makkai (25 minutes)

Compass for the Week of 3/19/18

For many years Port Townsend has been the working port of choice for commercial fisher-folk from far and wide to spend their winters preparing their boats for the next summer’s fishing season.  But this winter there has been a notable lack of commercial fishing vessels — or other kinds of boats, for that matter — hauled out to make repairs and improvements.  This week, in a Compass episode we are titling Empty Boat Haven Blues, we talk with a couple of local commercial fisherwomen and others to find out why.  (Interviews with Dave Thompson, JennTakaki, Becca Argo, and Pam Petranek.)

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Nature Now #353 Snow Geese and Swans of Skagit Valley (repeat)

(first aired March 14, 2018). Kate Dwyer’s 2014 interview with Washington DFW wildlife biologist Paul DeBruyn is rebroadcast, with Debaran Kelso hosting the remainder of this show that discusses the snow geese and swans of the Skagit Delta. Closing music is “Swan,” performed by Right Said Fred.

Tossed Salad for 3/16/18

We serve up a little musical Irish salad this week.

Join host Phil Andrus and special guests this Friday from 1-5pm on 91.9FM ~ or stream live by clicking the Listen Live arrow at the top left of this window.

1:00 – Happenstance, St Paddy’s favorite band
2:00 – Liz Hoenig Kanieski, Gwendolyn Trace and Ernie Baird, Marine Trades Association, and Jake Beattie, NW Maritime Center, with Scott Wilson, publisher emeritus of the Leader
2:45 – Sundae + Mr. Goessl, flirtatious vocals with melodica and fabulous jazz guitar
3:30 – Brett Navin brings members of the Blue Heron Middle School Band
4:00 – Rep. Mike Chapman and PTHS Students for Sustainability, interviewed by Mike Ferguson
4:30 – Catherine McNabb, reading a set of dark Irish tales.

#106 Martin Mills

(First airdate: March 13, 2018) SHIPWRIGHT MARTIN MILLS – A PASSION FOR BOAT BUILDING. Our Town Host Maryanne McNellis interviews Martin Mills, who is one of the 12 partners in the Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op. Not everyone realizes that there are as many – if not more – people employed down at the Boat Haven than at the Mill. The maritime trades are a key underpinning of the local economy. The Co-op’s business model means these skilled tradesmen share in things like rent, bookkeeping and even many tools. All receive an hourly wage and if there’s an annual profit, it’s shared.

Compass for the Week of 3/12/2018

This week on the Compass we meet Tessa Hulls, a recent Port Townsend transplant who writes biographies for the Atlas Obscura Kick-Ass Women Series and who is, in fact, herself a fairly kick-ass woman. And then we take a look at the roll-out of a world-class bicycle repair teaching institution right here in Port Townsend.

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Community Read 2018

(First airdate: March 8, 2018) Community Read 2018 features Leif Whittaker’s My Old Man and the Mountain: A Memoir. PT Library Director, Melody Sky Eisler speaks about this year’s Community Read with Larry Stein, followed by a replay of Cris Wilson’s 2017 interview with Leif Whittaker about his book and his life in his adventurous family.

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Out of Nowhere / Peter Robinson

Out of Nowhere / Peter Robinson

Out of Nowhere, airing on Tuesdays from 3-5pm, is Peter Robinson’s indulgence in the freedom KPTZ offers its volunteer DJs to air whatever they want (FCC regulations limiting). His many musical loves include, in no special order: Blues, Jazz (earliest to current), Country, Country-Western, Old-time, Roots Rock, Rockabilly, all the many genres resulting from the amazing African musical diaspora throughout the world, Singer-songwriter, Folk, Latin, Reggae, and more. It’s really about roots. To quote Tony Allen, great Afrobeat drummer, arranger, band leader, composer: “One Tree, Many Roots”. And to quote Earl Lindo, longtime colleague of Taj Mahal: “Music Keeps Me Together”. Email Peter.

Peter Robinson is a lifelong music lover and collector, and closet noodler on guitar, banjo, and drums. He started Out of Nowhere many years ago with the encouragement of Bill Kiely and Phil Andrus, and with tutelage from Mike Schleckser and Nora Petrich. A Port Townsend resident since 1979, he has had the benefit of countless musical pleasures at the Ace of Cups, the Town Tavern, the pubs of Port Townsend, and wonderful Centrum programs to fertilize his already highly addicted love of many genres of what he calls proof of intelligent life in the Universe – harmony and music!

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