Past Programs 2010

BRASS MENAZERI, the hot Balkan Brass band -- you're ready to dance, we hope?

WILIAM GIBSON, the renowned novelist and forward thinker has a new novel, Zero History.  Come hear about  marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend and Hollis Henry from the coiner of cyberspace

JOHN BRANDON, with a rave from Daniel (Lemony Snicket) Handler on the front page of the NYTBR for Citrus Country, a book that merges crime and a bucolic setting and a youth's education.

ROB EPSTEIN and JEFFREY FRIEDMAN, their new film stars James Franco as Allen Ginsberg, with Mary-Louise Parker David Strathairn and others, and mixes poetry and Ginsberg's own illustrations to make the story of the Beats and the poem Howl, well, into Howl the Movie.  How did they do it? We'll meet them.

Mike Greensill, my on-air accompanist and renowned jazz composer.

RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB.

Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck, with the fine Revival, Gather, and Venus restaurants nearby.

TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET, the great Americana jazz rock folk fusion with the traditional string quartet instruments Beethoven would recognize.

ANGIE CHAU, author, of stories of Vietnamese immigrants to San Francisco.

LIBBY SKALA, with a show at The Marsh, about the way to dance in Vienna, based on her aunt's life. She also created a show on her actress grandmother's life.

SEAN HAYES, singer-songwriter whose songs and ethos carry you to astonishing places in the heart.

WES BROWN, surf filmmaker, about the life and times of a great surf championship.

MIKE GREENSILL, piano, today joined by EMIL MILAND the magical cellist for some of Mike's compositions.  Also, they'll be performing with Wesla Whitfield and others at Old First Church performances Sunday September 5th at 4pm.

NEW! Via KALW.org, our San Francisco station, you can stream West Coast Live anytime for a week after the broadcast!

YIYUN LI, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl and The Vagrants, recently name a MacArthur Fellow, a biologist-turned novelist.

OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR, they'll rock the Paramount Theater later this evening, but they'll thrill you at today's broadcast.

JOEL SELVIN, the bay area's self-described Smart Ass rock music reviewer known for his high opinions of himself and others.

PETER ROWAN BLUEGRASS BAND, with their soaring vocals and musical genius, coming together to give us a taste of their debut album Legacy.

WAVY GRAVY and director MICHELLE ESRICK on the new biodoc about Mr. Gravy, Saint Misbehavin', which gives new meaning to the phrase La Nouvelle Vague-y.

THE ELABORATE MIKE GREENSILL

NEW! Via KALW.org, our San Francisco station, you can stream West Coast Live anytime for a week after the broadcast!

ELIZABETH ROSNER conveys the engrossing story of an artist and a model who must both overcome the past in order to create a future in her new book Blue Nude

SARK, artist and author, with her brand-new book that glows with color and positivity Glad No Matter What

JUDY CHICAGO, artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose influential career now spans four decades, with Frida Kahlo: Face to Face

ARMISTEAD MAUPIN, with Mary Ann in Autumn, the eighth in the bestselling Tales of the City series.

COLEMAN BARKS, author of numerous Rumi translations and a student of Sufism since 1977, with his newest Rumi the Big Red Book: The Great Masterpiece Celebrating Mystical Love and Friendship

CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO with a career spanning 16 years and almost 20 albums, Hunter is widely considered the authority on the seven- and eight-string guitar. He will dazzle you with his melodic leads and swinging rhythms.

THE POETIC MIKE GREENSILL

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS SHOW:

Serious Holiday Fun at 2020 Addison Street, around the corner from the Downtown Berkeley BART stop

RUTHIE FOSTER, The Truth According to Ruthie Foster is her new powerful CD, with a great hear it on the mountain sound.

The COVERLETTES, out of the ghost of great girl groups past come the Christmas presents of the Coverlettes.

LEONARD PITT, the mime, chocolate guide, and Our Man In Paris with his new take on the City of Light here at Solstice Tide

HARRIET ELINOR SMITH, one of the editors of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, the new hit from the UC Press

SONOS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE, the magical sounds of bells, world-renowned and ringing in the seasons for us, led by Jim Meredith.

TIPS ON TRAVEL, holiday travel insights from CARL and KARL (or Geoff Bolt and Michael O'Brien), who begin each others thoughts and misread their own minds, but do know their Condé from their Nast.

MIKE GREENSILL, piano, with his 88 elves.

at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House , 2020 Addison Street near Shattuck, with breakfast snacks and drinks available.

Sedge welcomes a stellar line-up of guests for this last August weekend as we peer at September.

• NEAL POLLACK, humorist and author. whose latest book, STRETCH: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude , what If This is Tuesday it Must be Belgium did for European tourism, Stretch will do for the Yoga Journey.
• JOYCE MAYNARD, whose new novel The Good Daughters,, coursing through fifty years of family.
• MARGO HALL, appearing in Trouble in Mind, the play about a black actress trying to make a Broadway debut in the 1950s.
• MANDY PATINKIN, the Tony and Emmy award-winning actor is prepping for a new show at the Berkeley Rep based on the story of the publication of Anne Frank's story and featuring marionettes, Compulsion .
• EDEN BRENT, Mississippi jazz artist
• MIKE GREENSILL, piano, whose been known to play past midnight into the new month.

Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck, with the fine Revival, Gather, and Venus restaurants nearby.

• at the PORT TOWNSEND FILM FESTIVAL in the UPSTAGE CAFE , 923 Washington Street.

  Tix $10 advanced and for Film Festival Pass Holders, $12 at the door, with filmic marvels and the aroma of organic popcorn on the radio, and featuring

• BILLY COLLINS , poet.
• actor ELLIOTT GOULD
• CHARLES BURNETT, auteur filmmakers whose 1980s film Killer of Sheep is revered as the great Italian masters, though made in Watts for 10k.
• THE EDGE, auteur improv artists from the Pacific Northwest.
• DAN Big Hands COLVIN, a bit of blues, a bit of country, a bit of rain.
• MIKE MURRAY, singer-songwriter, with that northwest flair.
• ANDREW SHIELDS in for Mike Greensill.

• live from the Port Townsend, WA Film Festival , with film stars, and Pacific Northwest musicians live from one of the great festivals of cinema. What better place to find a radio show, we ask you. You'll be welcome in the audience.
• DEBRA WINGER, actress and ARLISS HOWARD, writer-director, whose film Big Bad Love is screening at Port Townsend, site of Ms. Winger's role in An Officer and a Gentleman. Her film work includes Shadowlands and The Sheltering Sky; his includes Jurassic Park, The Lost World and Full Metal Jacket.
• PEARL DJANGO, the stellar Pacific Northwest Gypsy Swing band whose latest CD title, Chasing Shadows, sounds like a description of the movies, while their music takes us to that little cafe and those beautiful eyes we remember so well....
• JIM WHITTAKER , first American to climb Chromolunga, aka, Mt. Everest
• JIM LYNCH, Olympia-based journalist and author of The Highest Tide, a novel about the wonder of a boy for the sea during the summer that will change his life
• THE EDGE , leading NorthWest improv troupe
• DAN GELLER and DAYNA GOLDFINE, filmmakers of a documentary about the Ballet Russe and 92 year-old Ballet Russe dancer MARC PLATT
• LINDA OKAZAKI ,artist, illustrator
• ANDREW SHIELDS, piano man
• West Coast Live goes on the Road to celebrate the artists of this great Pacific Northwest art center.

• live from the Port Townsend, WA Film Festival
• TOM ROBBINS, author "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," and "Another Roadside Attraction"
• DAVID GUTERSON, author, "Snow Falling on Cedars"
• JANE POWELL, actress, "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
• MAX GROVER, artist, illustrator of Children's Books
• GEORGE REZENDES and FRIENDS, (possibly as The Toolshed Trio)
• QUASIMODO and the BELL RINGERS, featuring a guy who likes to cook and eat bugs and slugs
• MISTY RIVER BAND, women's acoustic vocal quartet
• SAM BARRY, piano man
• West Coast Live goes on the Road to celebrate the artists of this great Pacific Northwest art center and our new carriage on KUOW2 Seattle

at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House , 2020 Addison Street near Shattuck, with breakfast snacks and drinks available. RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB. Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck, with the fine Revival, Gather, and Venus restaurants nearby..  

• Sedge welcomes Stellar line-up of guests for this last July weekend as we peer at August.
• ROBERT HASS, poet and author of Song of Myself and other Poems , with the poetry of Walt Whitman.
• MARY ROACH, the science writer whose engaging books include the three monosyllabic explorations Stiff, Spook and Bonk offers now Packing for Mars about the curious science of life in the void. Mary fills us in.
• VENDELA VIDA, whose third novel, The Lovers , is set in Turkey. She co-edits The Believer magazine.
• The DEVINE JUG BAND, Pete Devine's assembled multitude jugs along with verve.
• and Sedge is accompanied by his great horse Silver and his faithful English companion, MIKE GREENSILL, piano, whose been known to play past midnight into the new month.