(First aired September 6, 2016). Host Sheila Bender interviews Cincinnati author and editor Jack Heffron via phone and discusses his interests and career.
in-conversation-jack-heffron-final
Compass for the Week of September 12, 2016
This week on the Compass we try to estimate the effect of this year’s Port Townsend Film Festival being the first without a special guest. And we reprise a portion of KPTZ’s live two-hour broadcast last weekend from the 40th annual Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival.
Episode
Nature Now #276 Pacific Marten on the Olympic Peninsula
(First aired September 7, 2016). Host Debaran Kelso hosts U.S. Forest Service wildlife biologist Betsy Howell in this continuation of a look into marten and fisher on the Olympic Peninsula. Closing music is “Crazy,” performed by Marten Fisher.
Episode
#111 United Good Neighbors Day of Caring
(First airdate: September 10, 2016) Emily Henry talks with Nikki Russell and Travis Roland about United Good Neighbors’ Day of Caring and Disability Awareness Starts Here (DASH).
Episode
PT Film Festival #1 – Ward Serrill and Peter Scott
(First airdate: September 8, 2016) Host Marcia Perlstein speaks with documentary filmmaker Ward Serrill and Peter Scott about Serrill’s film “Catching Fire: Peter Scott’s Stove Army”, about a local Vashon community working together to solve a global issue.
Episode
Jim Lynch
(First airdate: September 7, 2016) Cris Wilson talks about sailing, swisher, R2K, and writing with Jim Lynch, author of Before the Wind, a book all about sailing.
Episode
Compass for the Week of September 5, 2016
This week on the Compass we pay a visit to the man who determines what your Jefferson County property is worth in a rapidly changing market. And Charlie Bermant considers the ways digital technology is transforming the transmission of musical traditions.
Episode
Nature Now #275 Shoreline Facts
(First aired August 31, 2016). Host Mary Robson with Part 2 of an interview with Cheryl Lowe of WSU Extension about what shorelines do and are. Closing music is “Shorelines,” performed by Cathy Winter.
Episode
Jazz Notes / Bill Mercier
Bill was originally an East Coast guy. He was born and grew up in New Jersey, and has lived in New York, Maryland and Indiana before moving to Port Townsend in 2014. He’s been on the air at KPTZ doing the Jazz Notes program since 2015. He’s been a fan of jazz since college, starting with players like John Coltrane, The Modern Jazz Quartet, and Chick Corea and expanding his interest from there. His attraction to jazz comes from its spontaneity, its originality, its history of always pushing the boundaries of conventional music a little further, and for its ability to make its performers really listen to each other when they play – almost like having a conversation.
On Jazz Notes Bill plays all the classics like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker to name a few, but he also plays people you might not be so familiar with, like Ike Quebec, Tomasz Stanko, or Michael White. In addition, you’ll hear from today’s stars like Christian McBride, Wadada Leo Smith, and Cecile McLorin Salvant.
So, whether your taste in jazz runs to the “Hot” music of the 1920s, Swing, Bop, Cool Jazz, Fusion or the Avant Garde, tune in to Bill on Jazz Notes Tuesdays from 8 to 10pm. It’s jazz you just won’t hear anywhere else. Email Bill.
Morning on the Salish / Chris Bricker
Morning on the Salish airs every Tuesday morning from 9:30 to 11am. An actor and performer for many years, Chris Bricker graduated from California State University, San Jose with a B.A. in Theater Arts. After travels around Europe for a year, he did a stint at KTAO FM radio in Los Gatos CA as a show host.
He is a graduate of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and worked with Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus for three years. Later, he traveled throughout Japan, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and the continental U.S. performing in other circuses as well. Along the way, his musical saw playing came in handy. Chris and both his young sons, Christopher & Noah, teamed with their Dad for domestic engagements with various circus producers. As shipboard performers, he and his son Noah also traveled to Finland, Estonia and Sweden. Chris is a member of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio & Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and has worked in film, television and commercials. He is also a saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 1000 (acoustic travelling musicians union).
His work experience over the years has also included union representation and organizing. He began his Labor Movement career representing hotel and restaurant workers, and later he was a field organizer for California state workers. He has been the opening act for the Western Workers Festival Concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as for the Great Labor Arts Exchange Concerts in Silver Spring MD. He has also toured with the New Old Time Chautauqua.
Keri French (aka Mermaid Keri) contributes regularly to Morning on the Salish with her sultry Tuesday Tide Report. Email Chris.
