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LIVE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6th 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. Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck.
AMY BLOOM, author of Where The God of Love Hangs Out and Away and Come With Me. TANGO Number 9, life played well.NANCY IVERSON, with RICHARD IRON CLOUD and LISA WATERS, featured in the documentary From the Badlands to
Alcatraz featured at the San Francisco Oceans Film Festival. Life swum well.
Other great guests TBA
FRANK FERREL, fiddler of renown, out from the down east coast for a west coast weekend.
J. RAOUL BRODY, peregrinating pianist in for the wandering minstrel Mike Greensill (he's at Carnegie Hall, we think).
FEBRUARY 13th 2010 from the WCL archives. TBA
LIVE SATURDAY February 20, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
T.C. BOYLE, novelist and chronicler of American foibles and curiosities and twisted genius. His new book is a collection of stories, Wild Child.
MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL, the Irish fiddler and the American guitarist make bridges, ferry tunes, and transport us with their music.PASCAL TOUSSAINT, male soprano from Paris.Others TBA .
The presidential MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
LIVE SATURDAY February 27, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF, whose new book Snitches, investigates the moral, political and practical dilemmas of people who squeal.Others TBA .
The genial MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
LIVE SATURDAY March 6th, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of books with a certain fascination for the neck and blood supply, but always with an eye on the laugh-o-meter.
WINFRED E. EYE, Aaron Calvert's band, which backs up his voice which has been up all night.Others TBA .
The toothsome MIKE GREENSILL.
LIVE SATURDAY March 13th, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
GINA OCHSNER, novelist from Keizer, Oregon, and Seattle. Her new novel: The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight.
LIVE SATURDAY March 20th, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
CHANG-RAE LEE , author of A Gesture Life and The Surendered
The outstanding offerings know as TBA, or check back often!.
The nimble MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
LIVE SATURDAY March 27th, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
The outstanding offerings know as TBA, or check back often!.
The genial MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
LIVE SATURDAY April 3rd, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
ANCHEE MIN, novelist.
WALTER MOSLEY, whose new book Known to Evil, brings Leonid McGill back to his noir pages.Others TBA .
The mysterious MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
Other Dates, Venues to be announced:
April 17 Ð TBA.
April 24 Ð Mark Kurlansky, Anne Lamott.
May 8 Ð Anna Quindlen, Roddy Doyle.
May 15 Ð Norris Church Mailer.
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Recent West Coast Live Shows
LIVE SATURDAY May 23, 10 AM to Noon. our 800th Show! - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
MARIEL HEMINGWAY , who is advocating holistic living and simple lifestyles, including with her book, Mariel's Kitchen. because It is clean and it is good.
LISA M. HAMLITON, whose book Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness, depicts growers as stewards of the land and their pace of life.SLAID CLEAVES , the singer-songwriter of uncommon grace, wit and heft.
MATTHEW AMSTER-BURTON,, the Seattle food-writer's account Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater, confesses to encouraging his five-year old to try new foods.
KARL and CARL (Michael O'Brien and Geoff Bolt, or is it Geoff Bolt and Michael O'Brien?) mark our 800th show with indelible ink on our linen shirt, with travel insights for the summer.
The genial MIKE GREENSILL, at his piano today. Please subscribe to the mailing list for full details. We look forward to seeing you at the show.
LIVE SATURDAY May 30, 10 AM- Noon - "Living Journalism"at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
JON CARROLL, veteran magazine editor and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, the original blogger before the name was known,
ELLEN ULLMAN, whose books include The Bug, has written on the world we are becoming through computers.BRUCE BRUGMAN , founder and publisher of The San Francisco Bay Guardian.PEGGY ORENSTEIN , author of Waiting for Daisy and contributor to the New York Times Magazine.
MERLE KESSLER and J. RAOUL BRODY, with some newspaper songs.
WESLA WHITFIELD with some newspapering songs. She's at the Rrazz room with our house pianist, her devoted roommate
The genial MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill Trio today.
SATURDAYS JUNE 6 & 13, 2009 - We broadcast on June 6th and 13th from The NAPA RIVER INN at Silo's Jazz Club), 530 Main Street, Napa, CA 94581, 707-251-5833, Coffee, tea, refreshments available in the lovely 'hood.
Sedge's June 6th Guests include: - DEBORAH MADISON and PATRICK McFARLIN, a founding chef of Greens with the illustrator of What We Eat When We Eat Alone. We'll ask you, too!
- SHAWNA YANG RYAN, author of the novel Water Ghosts,the tale of real-life immigrants' enclave in early 2oth century California,
- JEFFREY ROTTER, author of The Unknown Knowns, a tale of international terrorism and water parks.
- JOHN NÉMETH , harmonica virtuoso and his blues band.
- COYOTE GRACE , the singer-songwriter duo
- MIKE GREENSILL, Napa/St. Helena up-valley lad at his own piano.
SATURDAY JUNE 13, 2009 - We broadcast on June 13th from The NAPA RIVER INN at Silo's Jazz Club), 530 Main Street, Napa, CA 94581, 707-251-5833, Coffee, tea, refreshments available in the lovely 'hood.
Sedge's June 13th guests include: - ANNIE BARROWS, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. and the Ivy and Bean books.
- LUIS ALBERTO URREA, author of Into the Beautiful North, and The Devil's Highway,
- The RHYTHM ANGELS, Celeste Krenz and Rebecca Folsom, in their American folk and roots duet.
- The JULIANE BAND , the Napa-based eclectic acoustic band.
- CLAIRE PEASLEE, naturalist, from PRBO Conservation Science.
- MIKE GREENSILL, Napa/St. Helena up-valley lad at his own piano.
SATURDAY JUNE 20 -- a Classic from the 16 years of West Coast Live archives - Today from MAY 26, 2007. Next Live Broadcast, the 4th of July! Aware of the fate of the oceans, JULIA WHITTY, author of a collection of short stories and a new book about the fate of coral reefs.. She also wrote the cover story of the current Mother Jones magazine about loss of species by 2100.
MAL SHARPE, man-on- the-street meets man-about-town, from the surreal to the jazz-honed, Mal knows from zeitgeist.
HELEN SIMPSON, author of the set-in-England In the Driver's Seat and Four Bare Legs in A Bed and other books, from London, with brilliant and droll insights and writing about love and relationships and children and, well, life.
MIKE LIPSKIN, a man who just doesn't take the piano out for a walk, he takes it out for large-gaited strides.
TERESE GENECCO, where BETTE MIDLER collides with MELISSA ETHERIDGE, and KAYE BALLARD dances with ROSEMARY CLOONEY, and other high concepts lead to TERESE GENECCO!
Music from the refreshed pianist MIKE GREENSILL.
SATURDAY JUNE 27 -- a Classic from the 16 years of West Coast Live archives - Today from June 23, 2007. Next Live Broadcast, the 4th of July! DANIEL HANDLER, Adverbs, a lemonly non-snickettly collection of storiesMIN JIN LEE, author, Free Food for Millionaires her new novel just out WAILIN' JENNYS, 3-part harmonies CRYSTAL ZEVON, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the memorist talks about her rocking rolling lifeMIKE GREENSILL, the man who knows the white keys from the black keys
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LIVE SATURDAY JULY 4th, 10 AM- Noon - "Independence Day"at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
the Declaration of Independence, in Annual Reading by members of the theater audience.
ROY ZIMMERMAN, singing political satirist.SOPHIA RADAY, author of Love in Condition Yellow, the memoir of an unlikely marriage, when a Berkeley liberal marries an Oakland police officer and soldier.other sparkling guests to be announced.STEVEN OKAZAKI, Emmy and Academy Award winning film maker, whose latest, The Conscience of Nhem En, takes us into Cambodia through the eyes of a Cambodian photographer who documented innocents. An HBO film.VERONICA CHATER, author of Waiting for the Apocalypse, the memoir of a Catholic family which seeks a purer Catholicism in Portugal than in an Jose -- but are there ever surprises in this moving and funny account.KATE CHRISTENSEN, author of The Great Man, and her new novel Trouble
The citizen MIKE GREENSILL at his piano which once slept in the Lincoln bedroom.
LIVE SATURDAY JULY 11, 10 AM- Noon - "Art in Plein Sites" featuring the new roof garden at the at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- . As for ways to get to the show, at 151 Third Street, here's a map.. You will be let in to the theater before the official opening, and may stay to enjoy the rest of the museum after the broadcast. Sedge welcomes: LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO, the phenomenal South African acapella choir come in from their Yoshi's appearances to make some modern art.
GLEN DAVID GOLD, author of Sunnyside and Carter Beats the Devil, both comic novels.
KAREN JOY FOWLER, whose books include Wit's End and The Jane Austen Book Club.JOHN ZAROBELL, , painter and curator, collections, exhibitions, and commissions, SFMOMA on the outdoor spaces..SANDRA PHILLIPS, senior curator of photography, of one of the stellar collections of photography in the world, at SFMOMA.
The sound sculptor MIKE GREENSILL, at his surreal piano.
Saturday JULY 18th - Sedge selects a classic from the 16 year archive. Today a superb show, #672 from December 9th, 2006
Great guests at the Empire Plush Room. Today show feature HARRY SHEARER (Le Show), RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT (Le Cowboy), the KITCHEN SISTERS (Le Audio Sculptresses), JAMES CROMWELL , (actor, Babe, LA Confidential, The Queen) with author ADAM HOCHSCHILD . At the piano: MIKE GREENSILL
LIVE SATURDAY JULY 25th, 10 AM- Noon - "Summer Fruits" from the BAY WOLF Restaurant in a special broadcast. Limited seating today. As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
MORT SAHL, humorist and current events satirist.
BRASS MENAZERI, the Balkan powerhouse Romani brass band.WAYNE MONIZ, author of Under Maui Skies,
KASPER HAUSER, sketch comedy troupe, whose publications include Skymaul and Obama's Blackberry.Other guests To Be Announced
The gourmet MIKE GREENSILL, in his toque.
SATURDAY AUGUST 1st (a classic rebroadcast from the live show of Saturday MAY 20th, 2006 LIVE at at the RANCHO NICASIO in Nicasio, Marin County in downtown Nicasio...big breakfasts available
MARSHALL CHAPMAN, musician
ANNE LAMOTT, writer
SHAZIA MIRZA, comic
TIPS ON TRAVEL with KARL & CARL, the boys who ace Survivor
MIKE DUKE, musician
The Phenomenal MIKE GREENSILL
SATURDAY AUGUST 8th (From the live broadcast of June 10, 2006) presented at the soon-to-be old Freight and Salvage Coffee House , Join us for the grand opening broadcast at the new Freight, 2020 Addison near Shattuck, on Aug. 29
DOUGLAS COUPLAND, artist and author of JPod, Microserfs, Eleanor Rigby, many other books, sculptures, plays, and blog forms
SLAID CLEAVES, his new record, Unsung
TRAILER PARK RANGERS, road music for the mind
SEAN WILSEY, author of his book about growing up, Oh The Glory of It All, and a new book on SOCCER
BEN FONG-TORRES , author of Almost Famous
MIKE GREENSILL and his eighty-eight tips on using the sustain pedal....
Saturday AUGUST 15th, (from the live show of July 15, 2006)originally presented at the soon-to-be old Freight and Salvage In two weeks we help open their new home at 2020 Addison near Shattuck
THE BILLS , the rollicking acoustic marvels whose blend sound symphonic and rhythyms deep and woven from sea spume Author GAUTAM MALKANI , whose new novel Londonstani, gives a 2006 view of modern Britain. How tongue-in-cheeky is it?.
Author LEONARD PITT , author of Walking Through Lost Paris, mime, and founder of the Berkeley Chocolate Club Music by VIENNA TENG, the acclaimed pianist and songwriter in the pop-folk style.
T.C. BOYLE, author, with his new book, Talk Talk, a adventure in identiy theft with a deaf woman as his protagonist and a CGI creator as her ally.
SATURDAY AUGUST 22nd (From the live broadcast of September 23, 2006) Great writers, LIVE in The York Hotel 940 Sutter Street (between Leavenworth and Hyde), San Francisco. Today, featuring: ANNA QUINDLEN, columnist and author of One True Thing and Loud and Clear and Blessings;
LUIS URREA, author of The Devil's Highway and The Hummingbird's Daughter;
ROBERT HARRIS, author of Pompeii, Imperium, Enigma, and Fatherland; TANGO No. 9, who exhilarate every Tango LARRY GALLAGHER , whose new CD is Can I Go Now and the cover photo is worth the price alone. and keeping up with his reading, MIKE GREENSILL, who turns his own pages.
LIVE SATURDAY AUGUST 29th GRAND OPENING Wow Whatta place whatta show 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
Sedge welcomes Stellar line-up of guests for this festive weekend.
LAURIE LEWIS, one of the great musical artists, and long-time devotee of the Freight helps us open the day with a celebration of traditional American music.
MOSTLY DYLAN , whose new perspectives on the songs of Bob Dylan make them crazy sought-out. With Tim Hockenberry, Tom Corwin, Tal Morris, Gawain Matthews, and David Tucker.
ALISON GOPNIK , author of The Philosophical Baby and The Scientist in the Crib and other accounts of what we can learn from children's minds about the meaning of life.
DAVID CORBETT, the author is leading a course for writers on The Outer Limits of Inner Life, and how to develop characters who may or may not care about the meaning of life....
MICHAEL GOLDIN, of Berkeley-based SWERVE, designer of the new hip, eco chairs we'll be sitting on in the new Freight, and STEVE BAKER, executive director of the Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, which runs and guides the performance venue, the Freight and Salvage, and who oversaw the decade-long planning and move to their new space.
MIKE GREENSILL at the newly moved and tuned piano
LIVE Saturday September 5, 10 AM- Noon: Sedge's guests:
DAVID MAS MASUMOTO, peach farmer and author of Wisdom of the Last Farmer:, Harvesting Legacies from the Land
XIANG HUANG , revered Chinese poet, often imprisoned for his poetry in China, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1997 He wants to write on the sky so everyone can see is work. Radio is a way of doing that.
JAY JIE XU, Director of the Asian Art Museum about their Samurai exhibition,
SAM BARRY, author of How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons.
DAVID T. CARTER and Co.. (formerly the Trailer Park Rangers):
Harvesting Legacies from the musical landscape and growing their own tunes.
MIKE GREENSILL, whose enjoys peach juice and champagne, especially to celebrate his 39th birthday Today!
LIVE Saturday September 12, 10 AM- Noon: Sedge's guests:
FRANK BRUNI, food writer and author of Born Round, his account of growing up to be food critic for the New York Times.
BRIAN GORE and SUSAN Z., guitar and voice.
KATHRYN MA, author of All That Work and Still No Boys
NOVELLA CARPENTER, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer..
BLAME SALLY. as well you should! They're back by popular acclaim.
MIKE GREENSILL, whose jazz and conversation series at the Rrazz room starts this month.
LIVE SATURDAYS September 5, 12, 19, 10 AM to Noon. - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. on SEPTEMBER 5, during the BAY BRIDGE CLOSURE, East Bay travellers can join West Coast Live east bay crew to take the 8AM ferry from Jack London Square or the 8:10AM from Alameda and arrive at the Ferry Building at 8:30am. Note: The 9AM Ferry goes to Pier 41 without stopping at the Ferry Building, but you could walk, tram, or cab back in time for the show. Sedge welcomes:
LIVE Saturday September 19, 10 AM- Noon: Sedge's guests:
QUARTET SAN FRANCISCO , celebrating QSF
Brubeck, their breathtaking take on the 4th B- Brubeck.
JOEL
SCHRIMER , from Dirty Girl Produce farm where good bottom land
makes for great fruit and veg.
SARAH LEE GUTHRIE and JOHNNIE IRION, the roaming duo is back with their gorgeous blending voices and songs.
GENNIFER CHOLDENKO , author of Al Capone Shines My Shoes and Al Capone Does My Shirts.
SUE MONK KIDD and ANN KIDD TAYLOR, authors of Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story.
MIKE GREENSILL, whose enjoys peach juice and champagne.
LIVE SATURDAY September 26th 10 AM to Noon. A SPECTACULAR SHOW - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. East Bay travellers can join West Coast Live east bay crew to take the 8AM ferry from Jack London Square or the 8:10AM from Alameda and arrive at the Ferry Building at 8:30am. Note: The 9AM Ferry goes to Pier 41 without stopping at the Ferry Building, but you could walk, tram, or cab back in time for the show. Sedge welcomes:
RUTH REICHL
, the author of Comfort Me With Apples and editor of Gourmet magazine reveals how best to spill ingredients on their immense new cookbook, Gourmet Today.
ROWAN
JACOBSEN, reveals the secrets of Pacific Northwest oysters in
his account of the bivalvular life in Geography of Oysters and about our ancient connection with estuaries in The Living Shore (San Francisco Bay is in fact an estuary.)
ELLIS PAUL, Boston guitarist who says the World Ain't Slowin' Down for him
and ANTJE DUVEKOT, the German singer-songwriter whose new CD is The Near Demise of the High Wire Dancer.
EVAN
ZIPORYN with his A House in Bali, a new opera by Evan Ziporyn with libretto by Paul Schick based on a memoir by Colin McPhee. A House in Bali traces the roots of the west's century-long infatuation with Bali, through the true story of three westerners - composer Colin McPhee, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and artist Walter Spies - during their 1930s sojourn in Bali. At Zellerbach, Sept 26-27.
JOHN GORKA
, the guitarist and contemporary American folk musician, who incidently makes a great pierogi whose CDs include The Gypsy Life and Writing in the Margins.
MIKE GREENSILL, who favors Sunday Suppers at the Ferry Building.
LIVE Saturday OCTOBER 3rd, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge's guests:
JUST ADDED: RUPA and the APRIL FISHES, where India meets Brazil and the San Francisco World Sound you can also hear on their CD extraordinary rendition.
JOYCE MAYNARD, author of Labor Day.
JOE QUIRK, the author of the new existential thriller Exult about hang gliding, has also written It's Not You It's Biology and Ultimate Rush.
JOHN
GALLAGHER, Jr. Tony award winning actor and lead in the Green
Day American Idiot at Berkeley Rep.
JOHN FELSTINER, author of Can Poetry Save the Earth?
BOOTS HUGHSTON, promoter of WoodStock West Fest 40th anniversary concert in Golden Gate Park.
MIKE GREENSILL, whose autumnal spirits are ineffably cheery.
LIVE Saturday October 10, 10 AM- Noon, at the new Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison St. near Shattuck, in Berkeley. Sedge's guests:
RICHARD RUSSO, author of That Old Cape Magic and Nobody's Fool, a master of novels set in small towns.
JOANA CARNEIRO, the new Music Director and Conductor of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra whose season opens October 15th at Zellerbach Hall early 7pm .
DOUG DORST, author of ALive in Necropolis, set in the small, sedentary town of Colma.
AMY TAN, author of Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and recipient of a Litquake honor.
PASCAL HORN, , Parisian heart-throb making his
U. S. Debut on West Coast Live.
STEVEN WILLIS, blues pianist and sideman for Elvin Bishop.
MIKE GREENSILL, the man with the musical midas touch whose black and white keys turn all goldy.
LIVE Saturday October 17, 10 AM- Noon, at the new Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison St. near Shattuck, in Berkeley. Sedge's guests:
THAD CARHART, author of Across the Endless River and The Piano Shop on the Left Bank visits our WCL arrondisement.
ALLISON HOOVER BARTLETT,,author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Book Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession.
TANYA EGAN GIBSON,, author of How to Buy a
Love of Reading an amzaing novel about words, those who love them and those who don't and finding love in the spaces between them.
ALAN
CHEUSE, , author of A Trance After Breakfast travel writings for those who love spaces between bases.
THE BEAUTIFUL LOSERS who are a winning combination of alternative rock and acoustic, influences from Marin and Tokyo.
PEPPINO D'AGOSTINO renowned guitarist with a bit of Bach.KARL and CARL (CARL & KARL) two travelers who know their Condé from their Nast, and own the most valuable website on the internet.
MIKE GREENSILL, a bon vivant and composer, too.
LIVE Saturday October 24, 10 AM- Noon. From MRS. DALLOWAY's Literary and Garden Arts Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue in Berkeley, one block north of Ashby. Sedge's guests:
A.S. BYATT, author of Posession and her splendid new The Children's Book.
TIMOTHY EGAN , the author of The Big Burn, the story of Teddy Roosevelt and the huge 1910 forest fire that saved america.
THOMAS L. TURMAN , the author of Teacher!
MAVIS McCOVEY and JOHN SALTER, authors of Medicine Trails, a
California native's story.
and watch this space!
MIKE GREENSILL, our resident gastropublican.
LIVE OCTOBER 31 - Hallowe'en Show - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
DAVE BARRY and RIDLEY PEARSON, whose collaborations include Peter and the Star Catchers.
PETER HURNEY whose limited-edition hand-crafted Berkeley-made Pohaku Ukuleles are in the hands of the finest rock, country and blues muscians world-wide.
FRANK
PORTMAN, author of King Dork and Andromeda Klein.
WAKE THE DEAD, the World's First Celtic All-Star Grateful Dead Jam Band.LEONARD PITT , whose books reveal much about Paris.
MIKE GREENSILL, whose masques are treats to hear.
LIVE NOVEMBER 07 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
Charlie HaasJonathan Safran FoerJohn Irving
The Great Bill KirchenGlobal Accordion Evangelists
Joshua Raoul Brody in for Mike and much more (if that's even possible!)
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We just produced two wonderful West Coast Live shows in association with the State of Jefferson's radio network, Jefferson Public Radio to air in January 2010 - the 16th and 23rd -in Redding, California at the Cascade Theater with
Tony D’Souza Robert Girardi Poets for Peace Gentle Thunder
One Horse Shy and the Enterprise High School Marching Hornet Band
and at the Angus Bowmer Theater, in Ashland, Oregon. with
Greg Craven Ken Goddard Craig Chaquico Charanga and
The Hamazons Great welcomes, audiences and hospitality in this beautiful part of the world that listens avidly each week. We thank you!
LIVE NOVEMBER 14 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND, novelist, author of Generation A, Microserfs, many othersAMY GOODMAN, radio host, Democracy Now and author of Breaking the Sound BarrierDOGS and FISHES, bandTHE DRY SPELLS, band
Mike Greensill
LIVE NOVEMBER 21 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
ANDRE AGASSI, author of Open: An
Autobiography about his tennis life, his father, and intensity.
PO’ GIRL, Allison Russell, Awna Teixeira, Benny Sidelinger, and JJ Jones are truly something to behold. They are distinct voices with incredible harmonies; multiple instrumentalists who bring the perfect sound to each song and songwriters who pen poetic hum-humming tunes. Po’Girl showcases a wide array of instruments-from gutbucket bass, accordion, clarinet, banjo, dobro, guitar, to electric bass, glockenspiel, piano...
THE REAL VOCAL STRING QUARTET, violinist/composer Irene Sazer, violinist-violist Dina Maccabee, cellist Jessica Ivry and violinist Alisa Rose, with fearless inspired improvisation....with American string band, Brazillian and West African influences. Hot.
ROMNEY STEELE, author of My
Nepenthe
JAY KINNEY, author of The Masonic
Myth
The Elaborate Mike Greensill
LIVE NOVEMBER 28 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
DAN HICKS and HIS HOTTEST SIDEPEOPLE, the great, the memorable, the high-styling master of the wry and witty lyric.
JOSH BAZELL, author of The Best Reaper
STEWART BRAND, author of Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
LORI OSTLUND
The Elaborate Mike Greensill
LIVE DECEMBER 05 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
The HOT CLUB's COOL YULE,
SHELTON JOHNSON, author of
Gloryland, his novel of Elijah Yancy,
a buffalo soldier stationed in the new
Yosemite National Park.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER, author of
Music I - LXXIV, the acclaimed poet's
"deceptively insouciant" [says Jonathan
Lethem] thoughts on music.
Tips on Travel with KARL and CARL,
with ever-so-distinguished insights on
essential holiday movement - to family, away
from family, laden with gifts and gilt and
guilt. (As portrayed by MICHAEL O'BRIEN and
GEOFF BOLT (or GEOFF BOLT and MICHAEL O'BRIEN).
GERALD NACHMAN, author of
Right Here on Our Stage Tonight - Ed
Sullivan's America, a history not so much
of the show (though it is) but how a
long-running variety show changed television
and ourselves.
and did we say: THE HOT CLUB's Cool Yule, le
jazz hot does festive.
The Rollicking MIKE GREENSILL
LIVE DECEMBER 12 - 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. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley bart station on the Richmond Line. V. easy especially for the Bay Bridge deprived. Worth the Journey.
LUCIE ARNAZ, the actor and daughter of
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, in town to
perform and celebrate her new recording,
Lucie: Latin Roots.
DAVID THOMSON, author of The
Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught
America to Love Murder, and other Noirish
insights for the season.
Music by TOM RUSSELL,
singer-songwriter of Blood and Candle
Smoke.
GEOFF MULDAUR and the TEXAS
SHEIKS, the musical forces stop in
for a tornado of sound.
RICHARD SCHWARTZ, historian, author of Berkeley 1900.
The Frolicking MIKE GREENSILL
LIVE SATURDAY December 19th, 10 AM- Noon - at the San Francisco Ferry Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. Sedge welcomes:
TRUE FICTION MAGAZINE, the improv troupe who takes what comes down the chimney as fuel for their imagination
Music by POLLO DEL MAR, what better way to mark the arrival of winter and its storm-driven surf than the elegant "Chicken of the Sea" surf band, with from Mission District to Tokyo influences on their collection of holiday classics.
The Christmas Jug Band: Stalwart purveyors of the jugabilly mystique. The kings of folksy holiday highjinks! All-acoustic skiffle-swing holiday combo.
LORETTA LYNCH, "this Americana and country folk band from Oakland formed in 2002 when singer Val Esway decided she wanted to do something different from her loud Ramona the Pest rock band." And as she says, the rest is musical history. Hear for yourself.
The COVERLETTES, the sounds of the sixties run into the Christmas wall of sound today and at the Aurora Theater.
DECEMBER 26, 2009 GREAT Boxing Day Classic from July 17, 2004. Hilarity from summer to warm the winter day.
- JACK GERMOND, political commentator, author "Fat Man Fed Up"
- LARRY GALLAGHER, brilliant singer-songwriter and his band.
- CARL HIASSEN, satirical novelist and columnist from Miami who knows the dirt about the way Florida really operates. His latest novel, "Skinny Dip," once again romps through the politics and hearts of the citizens of that most dubious of swing states.
- and MIKE DAISEY, the remarkable monologist, whose piece, "21 Dog Years," let's us see what the Amazon-ing life style is/was behind the scenes. His provocative current show (2009) in NYC focuses on money and value His comments on his blog from that day: I was on West Coast Live this morning with Carl Hiaasen and Jack Germond, which was a delightful experience--it's a very fun show, done with a live audience for NPR, and feels like a garage band version of Garrison Keillor with better rapport and less dead weight sketches. "Think Bill Moyers meets David Letterman" claims a reviewer, and I think that's not too far from the mark.
- IAN SHOALES, British Isles a capella, druids to Rolling Stones
- OAK ASH & THORN, British Isles a capella, druids to Rolling Stones
- The MIKE GREENSILL
JANUARY 2nd, 2010 LIVE at SF FERRY Building, site of CUESA's San Francisco Farmers' Market -- . As for ways to get to the show, here's a map. What a fine way to commence 2010 this Saturday morning with Sedge's guests:
JOEL PAUL , author of Unlikely Allies, the untold, well, now told, true story of the secret diplomacy that won the American Revolution. How a Connecticut Merchant, a French Playwright, and a Cross-Dressing Spy saved the American Revolution. How they trusted no one, yet with skills that Mel Brooks might admire, leveraged intrigue to shift power. Not just another powdered-wig tale.
TIN CUP SERENADE , the classy elegant nouveau vogue trio that bridges the hip of San Francisco to New York and London. Their lyrics and music really should lead them to rename themselves as Silver Cup or Sapphire Bowl, but Tin Cup suggests the gathered from here-and-thereness of sounds. Truly post-buskerist.
LISA BENNETT, contributor to the Center for Ecoliteracy book Smart By Nature, showcasing stories for K-12 innovation, and how the greening of the schools, and education of the next generation may be the saving grace for our planet.
WILL DURST, the Commander adds a burst, spritz and lift to our 2010 launch. The comedian and political satirist makes his living with pungent prognostication and pert pearls and downright hilarious conversation. Be with us and gasp for air whilst chortling in the aisles.
BART DAVENPORT, Oakland-based pop-folk-rock artist and sensation. What is it about such brilliant musicians that they can transcend any venue and play upon our own inner stage of our heart and imagination.
MIKE GREENSILL, piano, who's keeping his diary and checking it twice, making sure he's here for today's show!
JANUARY 9th, 2010 LIVE at SF MOMA (includes museum admission) as they mark their 75th anniversary, West Coast Live its 16th and Sedge his 26th running his live eclectic radio shows. Never been to a West Coast Live broadcast? Today is a great introduction to our rare and pleasurable art form. SFMOMA has rehung much of the art. Pieces long stored are now visible to all.
AURÉLIA THEIRRÉE, performer in Aurélia's Oratorio, at Berkeley Rep through January 26th, at least, Her theatrical family DNA includes Charlie Chaplin and Eugene O'Neill. Her and her mother's theatre piece might suggest the reveries of Man Ray, the evocativeness of Marcel Marceau and the lithe wit of Charlie Chaplin, all transcendent through the athletic grace of this young woman who creates her own visible magic.
Naturalist CLAIRE PEASLEE, PRBO Conservation Science naturalist and natural wonder, expounds on the reproductive or feasting or game-playing lives of other species, She might well be the intellectual love-child of Kate Clinton and Charles Darwin.
RAJ PATEL , author of The Value of
Nothing, who reflects on the market economy and democracy. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. Writer, activist, and academic, he is currently a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Centre for African Studies.
Acoustic World Folk Music by the PALM WINE BOYS, ties all the challengers and triumphs, and the simple pleasures of the world together with their mellow ribbons of highlife, soukous and township jive. What a day!
JASPER FFORDE camcelled Saturday morning because pf ill health. We wish him good health.
MIKE GREENSILL, piano, who sculpts with notes, colours with sound.
JANUARY 16th, 2010 from the Sunday November 8, 2009 on-the-road show in Redding, California at the gorgeous art nouveau Cascade Theater, thanks to Jefferson Public Radio. Sedge welcomes:
ROBERT GIRARDI, and "American Graham Greene," author of the new Gorgeous East, set in Africa with the Foreign Legion, Madeleine's Ghost, Vaporetto 13, The Wrong Doyle and other adventure novels. He talks about his parents’ secret life in the Cold War CIA, too. TONY D’SOUZA, author of Konkans and Whiteman, who sought solace in Redding and Dunsmuir after Peace Corps time in war-fraught Africa, where he write of life with humor and compassion, and a forthcoming book setting in northern California
ONE HORSE SHY, the Ashland-based band with the wryly insightful lyrics of Manda Brinn and her sidemen. They call themselves Indie Americana but you could also call them Leonard Cohen with a sassay sashay.
ENTERPRISE HIGH SCHOOL HORNET MARCHING BAND , who stir the blood of everyone the pass, with spirit and brio and verve. If you get the idea their lively, you are correct.
GENTLE THUNDER, she may ride a Kawasaki 750, but when she brings her hammer dulcimer and Native American flutes to our presence, there's a quiet peace and centeredness that connects with our ancestors.KATHRYN GESSNER and PAMELA SPOTO, Poets For Peace, with a couple of poems linking the landscape and names with an urge for peacefulness toward those of good will.
MIKE GREENSILL, who enjoyed his bath with a view down the lovely Great Valley.
JANUARY 23rd 2010 from the Monday evening November 9, 2009 on-the-road show in Ashland, Oregon, at the elegant 600 seat Angus Bowmer Theatre, discerning Jefferson Public listeners filled for our show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Sedge welcomes:
CRAIG CHAQUICO, the renowned guitarist and songwriter for Jerfferson Starship and other bands and community citizen who looks after his music and community with equal fervor. What a player. KEN GODDARD, mystery novelist and forensic scientist at the National Wildlife Center. What is that strange hide on that woman's handbag? And what are those items hidden in the crate from Asia? Mysteries and detection in the wild.
CHARANGA, the spicy Ashland-based all-star Galacian big band, with pipes, sax, accordion and rhythm.
VILMA SILVA, leading and supporting actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, whose Shakespeare is both brushed up and polished iambs.
GREG CRAVEN, Oregon teacher and educational leader whose books and YouTube talks on Climate Destablization might well change the way you think about the problem. Scientist and jester both, his insights are profound.
The HAMAZONS, the Warrior Princesses of Comedy, who take improv to the level of blood-sport Christopher Marlowe would enjoy, even Queen Elizabeth I might well find herself guffawing..
MIKE GREENSILL, an Englishman who brushed up his Shakespeare for this special show.
LIVE SATURDAY JANUARY 30th 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. Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck.
Sedge welcomes Stellar line-up of guests for this January weekend.
SHARON GLESS, and STEPHEN MACHT in A Round Heeled Woman, at Z Space at Theater Artaud, based on the book by Berkeley writer Jane Juska, her chronicle of her search for sexual fulfilment at age 66 - what some might call geriantics.
HERMAN PARISH, author of Amelia Bedelia misadventures, inspired by his Aunt, Peggy Parish, to keep the beloved series thriving and as literal as ever.
GREIL MARCUS, the biographer of our rock'n'roll era.
CYPRESS STRING QUARTET, passionate interpreters and reinventors of the form.
Acoustic World Folk Music by the Americanidades: JOSE ROBERTO u Sus Amigos . They tour Norte y Sud Americas with traditional and original songs and instruments.
ZOE SMITH, baker, of Zoe's Cookies of Richmond.
MIKE GREENSILL, piano, whose been known to serve salsa with his jazz.
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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.
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