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James Fallows, National Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, wrote about West Coast Live.
Sedge is the Indiana Jones of public radio, taking us on radio adventures from Alaska Tlingit longhouses to Edinburgh yurts and the Ashland Shakespeare Festival, says Craig Chaquico, renowned guitarist and humanitarian, about West Coast Live.
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LIVE SATURDAY JULY 24th Broadcast from the New Freight and Salvage theatre in Downtown Berkeley 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 July weekend.
HANI NASER, Jordanian-born singer, oud player and percussionist, regular collaborator with David Lindley, Jackson Brown, Violent Femmes, and Los Lobos.
GREIL MARCUS, the Wittgenstein of rock 'n' roll and pop culture His latest exploration: When That Rough God Goes Riding, of the music of Van Morrison.
MALENA WATROUS, author of If You Follow Me , about Marina, a recent college graduate, who goes to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, a love story and comedy of manners based in those ineffable cultural differences.
LAURA GLEN LOUIS, author whose new chapbook Some, like elephants makes music with language and tickles us with outstretched images.
RICHARD WATERS, musician and player of his Waterphone, as distinct from our Aquaphone. He's in with side Watermen to play for us his ambient sounds. We learn that he taught Elvis to water-ski.
MIKE GREENSILL, piano, whose been known to pop his fingers when grooving to the oud.
LIVE SATURDAY JULY 31st Broadcast from the New Freight and Salvage theatre in Downtown Berkeley 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.
AUGUST 07, 2010 -- from September 25th, 2004, Upstage Cafe, 923 Washington, Port Townsend WA live from the Port Townsend, WA Film FestivalTom 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 BooksGeorge 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 quartetSam 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
AUGUST 14, 2010 from Saturday morning September 24th, 2005, LIVE broadcast from the Upstage Theater and Cafe, 923 Washington, Port Townsend WA 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 lifeTHE EDGE , leading NorthWest improv troupe DAN GELLER and DAYNA GOLDFINE and 92 year-old Ballet Russe dancer MARC PLATT , filmmakers of a documentary about the Ballet RusseLINDA OKAZAKI ,artist, illustratorANDREW SHIELDS, piano man West Coast Live goes on the Road to celebrate the artists of this great Pacific Northwest art center.
AUGUST 21, 2010 from Saturday September 29th, 2007 in PORT TOWNSEND, Washington 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 SATURDAY AUGUST 28th Broadcast from the New Freight and Salvage theatre in Downtown Berkeley 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.
Guests TBA.
and more great shows through the summer and into the fall. Watch this page dates and venues, or best, subscribe to the weekly mail list.
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This links FOR MORE DETAILS about the 2010 shows. Please sign-up for the mailing list. We feature occassional web specials. THANKS!
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Artisan-made Radio....RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB Tickets for MOST shows are $15 when purchased in advance via phone or ticketweb. The walk-up price at the door the day of the show is $18. Children up to 18 $5. Occasionally, special broadcasts have different ticket prices which will be noted, SUCH AS OUR WONDERFUL ROAD SHOWS (Ooh the expenses!) SUCH AS REDDING AND ASHLAND where tickets are still a modest $25.00.
Doors usually open at 9:30AM, the show finishes its set-up as you arrive, then we broadcast live 10am - 11:59am coast-to-coast.. You can hear us, too, on-line via many of the public radio stations that carry West Coast Live both on-the-air and streamed across the globe by Jefferson Public Radio, twice, on their Rhythm and News and their News and Information channels, KALW , KUMD,, KCLU, 7pm - 9pm Saturday evenings, and many other places, if you're outside one of our broadcast areas. Please see our affiliate page.
Some answers to ticket questions you might have if you order tickets at 415-664-9500: Please, we need the date of the show you wish to attend, your name and billing address, the number in your party, credit card number and expiration date, your phone number, and, if you'd like confirmation, an email address. Confirmations are sent after 6 PM on Fridays, but once you've left the necessary information, your tickets are purchased and will be at the door for you on the Saturday morning for which you've booked. Your credit card charge will appear as from "Don't Quit Your Day Job." (Bringing you a smile each month in your statement....) Any other questions, of course, write or call. Whew. lot of stuff, but clear, we hope. So TicketWeb might be just as easy.
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FOR MORE DETAILS about the 2010 shows, please see SCHEDULE PAGE, or, sign-up for the mailing list. We feature occassional web specials. THANKS!
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West Coast Live Entertains and Enlightens
West Coast Live is a weekly two-hour radio variety show produced live-to-satellite Saturday mornings in front of San Francisco theater audiences and broadcast around the world. The show entertains and enlightens its audience with music, ideas and humor from a rich mix of writers, thinkers, comedians, and musicians, drawn mostly from the Pacific Rim and the Western United States, but also from further afield as feels right to do. Think Bill Moyers meets David Letterman, according to one reviewer. Our uniquely Western sensibility is conveyed not only by our guests, but also by remote broadcasts from Yosemite to Alaska, and by the sound of Bay water lapping against the piers that begins each show.
Imagine the pleasure of watching a radio show come-to-life before your eyes, with the chance to be with world-renowned authors and musicians in an intimate setting of live performance and spontaneous interview.
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Welcome to West Coast Live's web site - the first and longest running web site in public radio history! The WCL web site launched in 1994. The WCL site is undergoing a major transformation this season, so please look in again from time to time for more information on the show, related events and new features.
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