(Airdate: November 18, 2024) This week on Attention Please! Charlie Bermant sat down with local mountain dulcimer musician Robert Force and discussed his new books American Minstrel: Prelude and American Minstrel Aria, which are described like this: “a wonderful, authentic, on-the-dirt-travels of a poet’s search for the meaning of life in the eccentric guise of a mountain dulcimer revolutionary who came of age in the tumultuous American 1960s.” They discuss the book and Robert plays dulcimer.
(Airdate: November 11, 2024) This week on Attention Please! the co-directors, Maude Eisele and Genevieve Barlow talk about Saltfire Theatre’s Production Of An Empty Plate at the Café Du Garnd Bœuf with cast members Scott Bahlmann (who plays Claude) and Kait Tapia (who Plays Antoine.) The Play is presented at Vintage, on Water Street In Port Townsend at 7:30pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and runs from November 8 though November 24, 2024. More info at saltfiretheatre.org.
(Airdate: November 9, 2024) Election Day Questions, Part 2. Four days after the November 5 election, former County Commissioner Kathleen Kler and former Clerk of the Superior Court Ruth Gordon joined host Phil Andrus for a conversation about the results of local, state and national elections.
(Airdate: November 4, 2024) Scott Wilson, former publisher of the Port Townsend Leader and retired County Commissioner Kathleen Kler join host Phil Andrus on this day before Election Day. Questions: When and why did Jefferson County, especially Port Townsend, come to so strongly support Democratic Party candidates. What might the retirement of Derek Kilmer mean to Jefferson County? What effect might come from the change in our district’s delegation to the State Legislature?
(Airdate: October 28, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark went along on a public sail aboard the Port Townsend based Schooner Adventuress during the Wooden Boat Festival. Listen in for an audio snapshot. (Stay to the end… there are cookies.) My thanks to Sound Experience, the non-profit that runs and maintains Adventuress and provides marine and maritime education around the Salish Sea. For more information go to soundexp.org.
(Airdate: October 21, 2024) Jim Burke gets a quick update from DJ Christine, AKA Christine Walsh-Rogers, treasurer of the board of KPTZ, about the fundraiser “Fall in Love” with KPTZ. Then Jim talks with Laura Newman, Producer and Publicity Manager for the Palindrome at Eaglemount Winery and Cidery. Laura is also a singer/songwriter and leader of the happening called ABRACADABRA TRIP a band and event that performs on top of a bus. She and some local musicians are performing at the Palindrome on October 31.
(Airdate: October 14, 2024) KPTZ Board President Jon Pinnow talks with KPTZ General Manager Taylor Clark about our wonderful community radio station and why it is worthy of your support. This is an NPR quality episode, so listen in to hear how good your local radio station can sound.
(Airdate: October 10, 2024) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark visits the 2024 Port Townsend Wooden Boat show and talks with Max Wiecek from the Washington State Department of Health about water quality and with Klaus Brauer about his cedar dugout proa.
(Airdate: September 30, 2024) On this week’s Attention Please! Jim Burke interviews Michael Bittman and John Lizwacko about the 40th Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Skulpture Race KOOK OFF, which takes place Oktober 5 and 6, 2024. Michael is the Kourse Kommissioner and John Is the Top Kop and President of the board! They discuss history, the course, and all the events leading up to the race events inkluding the Volunteers meeting at 7pm at the Legion Hall Thursday Night Oktober 3. Go to ptkineticrace.org for details.
(Airdate: September 23, 2024) Eden Blooms and Gabe Van Lelyveld talk about their projects presenting the human cost of being unhoused – Eden’s Photo Voice and Gabe’s feature documetary. Then, Tracy Grisman and Tracy Grisman on their shared projects including A.I.R.E. (Artist In Residence Educational program at the transfer station.)
