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KALX Fans: Who are you? Where are you? How are you? A Listener Survey
Help us get to know you! What do you most appreciate about KALX? How can we improve our offerings? Opt in for a chance to win a KALX swag pack if you make it all through our new Listener Survey. Thanks!
2023 RIP EXTRAVAGANZA
2023 RIP EXTRAVAGANZA – Tuesday, January 2, 2024 – 9 AM to 3 PM
DJ Sparkle Motion pays tribute to the scores of musicians we lost in 2023 in this six hour special, from 9AM to 3 PM on Tuesday January 2.
You’ll hear artists from all genres — Tom Verlaine to Tina Turner, Jeff Beck to Jean Knight, Rita Lee to Ryuichi Sakamoto, Harry Belafonte to Tony Bennett, Carla Bley to Burt Bacharach, Kaija Saariaho to Erkin Koray, Dwight Twilley to Tina Turner, Wayne Shorter to Mark Stewart, Peter Brotzmann to Sinead O’Connor, Scott Kempner to Shane MacGowan, Gordon Lightfoot to George Winston, and all points in between!
Bruce Cockburn Interview
Join Sex 14s on Monday, November 27th @ 10am when he speaks with acclaimed songwriter, guitarist, performer, author and activist, Bruce Cockburn, before his shows at the Freight & Salvage on December 1st and 2nd.
Having sold more than nine million albums worldwide, Bruce Cockburn is a member of both the Canadian Songwriter and Canadian Music Hall of Fame, a winner of Folk Alliance’s People’s Voice Award, as well as 13 Juno Awards from more than 30 nominations. Bruce is continuing the celebration of the release of his 35th album, O Sun O Moon on True North Records.
Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist. He remains deeply respected for his activism and humanist song lyrics that thread throughout his career. On all his albums Cockburn has deftly captured the joy, pain, fear, and faith of human experience in song.
Photo Credit: Daniel Keebler
Javanese Artists Midiyanto and Heni Savitri: In-Studio Performance and Interview
On Wednesday, November 22 @ 10:30am, join Sparkle Motion as she hosts world-renowned Javanese Puppetmaster (dhalang) and orchestra director, Midiyanto, and Javanese vocalist, Heni Savitri, for an in-studio acoustic performance and interview ahead of their performance with UC Berkeley’s Javanese Gamelan Orchestra Sari Raras on Saturday, December 2 @ 8pm at Hertz Concert Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus.
The ensemble plays on an exquisite set of instruments named Gamelan Kyahi Udan Mas, donated to the Department of Music by Sam and Louise Scripps, who also donated an equally beautiful set of shadow puppets which are used in Sari Raras’s shadow play performances.
Under the leadership of Midiyanto and Ben Brinner, Gamelan Sari Raras includes students and former students at Berkeley as well as musicians from surrounding communities, including ethnomusicologists who specialize in various types of Indonesian music, as well as others who have trained in Indonesia. Midiyanto has introduced thousands of students to the musical traditions of Central Java and Gamelan Sari Raras presents noon and evening concerts every semester in Hertz Hall.
KALX Wins Two 2023 Student Production Awards
KALX is best known for our music programming, but our public affairs shows win awards on a regular basis. This year we took both first and second place in the Best Audio Documentary category at the College Broadcasters’ Student Production Awards. Please support the work with a donation of any size to kalx.berkeley.edu/donate.
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