2000

January 8,2000

Sixth Anniversary show from The Plush Room in San Francisco. We awarded our annual "Order of the Smoked Salmon" awards during this show. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Ramblin' Jack Elliot, legendary troubadour and cowboy poet.
• Irene Farerra, Venezuelan singer and guitarist featuring her latest recording "Soy de Ti".
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• A view from the studio of artist Meredith Tromble.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

January 15th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts in Berkeley. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer Paula West and her band.
• Gail Tsukiyama, author of "The Language of Threads".
• Classical pianist Gwendolyn Mok playing the music of Ravel.
• Singer-songwriter and etch-a-sketch artist Michael McNevin.
• Gray Brechin, author of "Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

January 22nd

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. The kitchen gadget featured on this show was provided by Sur la Table. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes and her new band Gene Pool.
• Austin Lounge Lizards.
• Peter Nichols author of "Voyage to the North Star" and "Sea Change".
• Singer-songwriter and Etch-a-Sketch artist Michael McNevin.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, as he picks up his smoked salmon that's been sitting in Sedge's freezer since last summer's Alaska tour.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.
• Other surprise guests, audience true stories, and guess the gadget.

March 11th

Live show from The Asian Art Museum. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Performance by Culture Clash.
• Korean poet Myung Mi Kim, author of "Dura", "The Bounty", and "Under Flag" .
• Irish singer-songwriter Luka Bloom.
• Poet vincent tripi, author of "Tribe: Meditations of a Haiku Poet".
• The San Francisco Bach Choir, performing selections from Handel's Messiah.
• Museum curator Linda Choy.
• Steven Baily, as the house organist.

March 18th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Blues guitarist Del Rey, featuring her latest recording "X-Rey Guitar".
• Patrick McCabe, author of "Mondo Desperado: A Serial Novel".
• Mr. Whitekeys, author of "Elvis Presley's Pharmacist Was My Sunday School Teacher" and "Mr. Whitekeys' Alaska Bizarre". Mr. Whitekeys hosted our 1997 show in Anchorage, as his Fly-By-Night Club.
• Donald Antrim, author of "The Verificationist" and "The Hundred Brothers".
• The Westwind International Folk Ensemble, performing traditional music from the United States, Bulgaria, and Georgia.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

March 25th

Live show from The Julia Morgan Center for the Arts. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Pianist Omar Sosa.
• David Knowles, author of "The Third Eye" and "Secrets of the Camera Obscura".
• Singer Kevin Merritt.
• Oakley Hall, author of "Ambrose Bierce And The Queen Of Spades", a mystery set in 1880's San Francisco.
• Hyperventilation by Josh Kornbluth, plus a scene from his monologue "Mathematics of Change".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

April 01st

Live show from The Exploratorium. This show (audio and video  is available as a Show Archive thanks to The Exploratorium.

• BettyAnn Kevles, author of "Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century".
• Singer-songwriter Gunnar Madsen.
• Sculptor and performance artist Scott Serrano, as Wilson Quain is a character he plays who is a resurrected 19th century anatomist who practices the art of self-dissection.
• +4db, a cappella jazz.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

April 08th

Live show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Michael McClure, poet from the beat generation, continuing his long-time collaboration with legendary Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek on piano.
• Jane Smiley, author of "Horse Heaven", "The Sagas of Icelanders" and "The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton.
• Monologist, Charlie Varon, featuring his solo show "The People's Violin".
• Cabaret singer Faith Winthrop.
• Eric Hansen, author of "Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

April 15th

Live show from The Asian Art Museum. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• The Holy Modal Rounders.
• Rhiannon Paine, author of "Too Late For The Festival: An American Salary-Woman in Japan".
• The Wyrd Sisters, a Canadian female folk trio.
• Victoria Cass, author of "Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming".
• Persis M. Karim, editor of "A World Between: Poems, Short Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans".
• Doryun Chong, Asian Art Museum curator on the current Japanese Basket exhibition.

April 22

Live Earth Day show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Julia Butterfly Hill, tree-sitter and author of "The Legacy of Luna".
• The Turtle Island String Quartet.
• Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
• Singer-songwriter and funnyman Roy Zimmerman.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill

April 29

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Folk trio Rebecca Riots.
• Edna O'Brien, author of "Wild Decembers".
• Actor Tanya Shaffer, performing an excerpt from her show "Let My Enemy Live Long".
• Diane Johnson, author of "Le Mariage".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

May 06

Live show in conjunction with "Stomp!" at the Marines Memorial Theater in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Performers from "Stomp", including original cast member Fraser Morrison and Luke Cresswell, co-creator of "Stomp".
• Singer-songwriter Karen Savõca with Pete Heitzman.
• Walker Rebecca Solnit, author of "Wanderlust: A History of Walking".
• Brian Malow, comedian and on-line talk-show host.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

May 13

Live show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• A cappella wonders of the universe, The Bobs.
• Whitbread award winning author Rose Tremain, author of ("Music & Silence" and "Restoration".
• Cabaret singer Bobbe Norris, with pianist Larry Dunlap.
• Whitbread award winning author Jim Crace, author of "Being Dead".
• Vikram Seth, author of "An Equal Music" and "Suitable Boy".
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

June 03

Live show from the Plush Room, in conjunction with the West Coast Cabaret Convention. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Rita Moreno, the only person who has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy.
• Rhys Bowen, author of the Constable Evans mystery series "Evan and Elle" and "Evan Help Us".
• Singer Karen Akers, whose recording include "Under Paris Skies" and "In A Very Unusual Way", accompanied by pianist Don Rebic.
• Singer Ruth Hastings, with pianist Barry Lloyd.
• Singer Jeff Harnar.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 10

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• British comedian Eddie Izzard.
• Edmund White, author of "The Married Man".
• Percussionist John Santos with Machete Ensemble.
• Singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves.
• SFMOMA Director David Ross.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 17

Live show from The Way Things Work Theater, on the second floor of Metreon in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Author and commentator David Sedaris.
• Surf music from a beach band called Jumbo Shrimp, featuring Klaus Flouride and East Bay Ray.
• Thomas Sanchez, author of "The Day Of The Bees" and "Zoot-Suit Murders".
• Singer-songwriter and humorist Roy Zimmerman.
• Bob Carillo, curator of the surf art show at Yerba Buena Center.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

June 24

Live show from The Dance Palace at Point Reyes Station. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Blues singer Angela Strehli (CDs: Deja Blue; Blonde and Blue), who will perform with Mark Naftalin (of the "Blues Power Hour" radio show).
• Jazz drummer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Mary Watkins, and Cindy Browne, featuring music from "Song For My Mother".
• Hart Rouge, Canadian musical traditionalists.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson, as the house pianist.

July 08

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . This show was featured on Bay Area Backroads' video  segment Bay Area radio history . You may wish to read the transcript.

• Duck's Breath Mystery Theater.
• Vagabond Lovers (a.k.a. The Naked Barbies), featuring music from their recording "When I Was You".
• Erik Tarloff, author of "Face Time and "The Man Who Wrote The Book".
• Silent film expert, Frank Buxton.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 15

Live show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, withMike Greensill on piano.
• Singer-songwriter destined for fame and fortune, Deborah Pardes and founder of The SIBL Project.
• Julia Butterfly Hill, tree-sitter and author of "The Legacy of Luna".
• Actor Ethan Sandler, appearing in the show "Fully Committed" about a restaurant reservationist.
• Virtual journalist Orville Schell (as portrayed by Sedge Thomson), author of "Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood".
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 22

Live show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Actress Shirley MacLaine, author of "The Camino: A Journey of the Spirit", "My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir", and "Out On A Limb.
• The a cappella group m-pact, featuring recordings "It's All About Harmony" and "2".
• Singer Jacqui Naylor.
• Members of the San Francisco Sinfonietta Chamber Chorus.
• Author Sylvia Brownrigg.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

July 29

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• The band Box Set in their acoustic duo configuration, featuring music from their recordings "Lemonade", "Thread", and "Live Duo".
• Former geisha Liza Dalby, author of "geisha" and "The Tale of Murasaki".
• Journalist Benedict le Vay, author of "Eccentric Britain".
• Comedy from Killing My Lobster.
• Senagalese musicians Touré Touré.

August 05

Live show from the Curry Village Amphitheater in Yosemite Valley. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! . This show was underwritten in part by Gorp.com.

• Jesse Colin Young and Sons.
• Cartoonist Phil Frank, creator of "Farley".
• Ross Hanna and Liz Hanna, descendants of John Muir.
• Ranger Kate McCurdy, National Park Service bear expert.
• Tom Bopp, master of Yosemite songs.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

August 12

Live show from Metreon. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

This was Bear Bait's (a.k.a., Ian Gerrard) last show as our Producer. He and Suzanne are getting married over Labor Day. They are registered at Sur la Table.

• Folk legend Rosalie Sorrels, featuring her recording "No Closing Chord: The Songs of Malvina Reynolds".
• Singer Ann Wilson from the bands Heart and The Lovemongers.
• Members of Woman's Will, a Shakespeare troupe presenting scenes from "Measure For Measure".
• Kelly Joe Phelps, featuring music from "Shine Eyed Mr. Zen" and "Roll Away The Stone".
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 23

Live show from the freshly re-modeled Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer Paula West.
• Blues man Alvin Youngblood Hart and his band.
• Colleen McCullough, author of "Morgan's Run", "The Thornbirds", and "Tim".
• Ken Waldman, Alaska's fiddling poet, with fiddler Ray Bierl.
• Eric Comstock, jazz singer and roconteur.
• Klaus Schöning, curator of the Studio of Acoustic Art and WDR radio producer.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

September 30

Live show from the Plush Room. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Cintra Wilson, columnist, playwright, and author of "A Massive Swelling".
• Didgeridu master Stephen Kent.
• Ursula LeGuin, author of "The Telling" and "The Left Hand of Darkness".
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

October 07

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, author of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel" and "Wonder Boys".
• Classic folk quartet, The Limeliters.
• Kazuo Ishiguro, author of "When We Were Orphans" and "The Remains Of The Day".
• Jazz with Will Bernard and Motherbug.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

October 14

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater at in San Francisco. This show is available as a .

• Cartoonist Lynda Barry, author of "The Greatest of Marlys".
• Animated short features with live musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps and The Sprocket Ensemble.
• Raconteur Don Bachardy, author of "Stars in my Eyes".
• Music from Swing Fever.
• Travel tips from Karl and Carl.
• Gini Wilson as the house pianist.

October 21

Live show from The Eureka Theatre, featuring the awarding of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon".
• Musical duets by Bob Brozman & Takashi Hirayasu, featuring music from their recording "Jin Jin / Firefly".
• Translator Howard Goldblatt.
• Gamelan ensemble Pusaka Sunda.
• Author Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gödel Escher Bach".
• Chirgilchin, a Tuvan throat singing quartet.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine, back from their triumphant European tour..
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

October 21

Live show from the Eureka Theatre, featuring the awarding of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Adam Gopnik, author of "From Paris to the Moon".
• Musical duets by Bob Brozman & Takashi Hirayasu, featuring music from their recording "Jin Jin / Firefly".
• Translator Howard Goldblatt.
• Gamelan ensemble Pusaka Sunda.
• Author Douglas Hofstadter, author of "Gödel Escher Bach".
• Chirgilchin, a Tuvan throat singing quartet.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine, back from their triumphant European tour..
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

October 28 

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Singer/songwriter Lucy Kaplansky.
• Brad Newsham, author of "Take Me With You: A Round the World Journey to Invite a Stranger Home".
• The Austin Lounge Lizards, featuring music from "Never An Adult Moment".
• Christopher Shaw, author of "Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip With the Gods".
• Tango No. 9 - Quartet.
• Sedge draws out the taciturn Anne Lamott.
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.

November 04

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater at in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office!.

• Jane Hamilton, author of "Disobedience: A Novel" and "The Book of Ruth".
• Blues musician Eric Bibb.
• Film critic Mick LaSalle, author of "Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood".
• Cabaret Singer, Karen Mason, with pianist James Followell.
• Mona Simpson, author of "Off Keck Road", "Anywhere but Here", and "A Regular Guy".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Gini "The Duchess" Wilson as the house pianist.

November 11

Live show from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Jeanette Winterson, author of "The Powerbook" and "Sexing the Cherry".
• Music from Big Lou, featuring music from "Big Lou's Polka Casserole".
• Playwright Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues".
• The Acoustic Guitar Summit.
• Barry Paris, author of "Louise Brooks: A Biography".
• SFMOMA Curator Rachel Teagle.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 18

Live show from The Legion of Honor Museum. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Chanteuse Wesla Whitfield, withMike Greensill on piano.
• David Bodanis, author of "E=MC2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation".
• Habit Koité will play with his band Bamada.
• Actor Ron Campbell, from the one man show "R. Buckminster Fuller; The History (and Mystery) of the Universe".
• Singer-songwriter Jane Voss, accompanied by Hoyle Osborne on piano, Jim Rothermel on woodwinds and the great Steven Strauss on string bass .
• Legion curator Karen Brewer.
• The naturalist perspective from Claire Peaslee.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

November 25

Live show from the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• The magical horror of Penn and Teller.
• The Bobs, a cappella wonders of the western world, featuring their new recording "Coaster".
• Roy Parvis, author of "In The Snow Forest".
• Blues man Rusty Zinn, featuring his recording "The Chill".
• Cast members of 42nd Street Moon, with songs from "I Married an Angel".
• The San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Freedom Band Flute Trio.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 02

Live show from the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Caleb Carr, author of "Killing Time" and "The Alienist".
• Blues man Roy Gaines featuring work from his recording "I've Got The T-Bone Walker Blues".
• Barry Lopez, author of "Arctic Dreams" and "Light Action in the Caribbean".
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 09

Live show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• The Magnolia Sisters, a Cajun quartet, featuring their recordings "Chers Amis" and "Prends Courage".
• Tata Monk, featuring Alex De Grassi and Quique Cruz.
• John Turner, author of "Leeteg of Tahiti".
• Audience member Elliot Franklin.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 16

Live show from the Eureka Theatre in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Maria Muldaur, currently appearing at Teatro Zinzanni.
• Sonos Handbell Ensemble.
• Peter Booth Wiley, author of "National Trust Guide to San Francisco".
• Singer-songwriter Maia Sharp, featuring tunes from "The Santa Sessions" recording.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 23

Live show from the multi-media The Way Things Work theater in San Francisco. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• San Francisco Klezmer Experience.
• Matthew Gollub, author of the childrens book "The Jazz Fly".
• Jane Harper-Haines, author of "Cold River Spirits: A Story of an Athabascan-Irish Family in Twentieth Century Atlas".
• Blues singer E.C. Scott, featuring her latest recording "Masterpiece".
• Hyperventilation by Santa Josh Kornbluth, whose film "Haiku Tunnel" was just accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, which takes place January 18-28.
• Music from piano player Mike Greensill.

December 30

Live show from The Asian Art Museum in Golden Gate Park, including a bell ringing ceremony with the 16th century Japanese bell. Improved audio archives on-line soon. Meanwhile, Custom interview CDs are available. Write to our producer e-mail or call the office! .

• Cabaret and Broadway singer Barbara Cook, accompanied by Wally Harper.
• Susan Rabin and the Sinners, featuring music from their recording "Stairway to Paradise".
• Celtic band Broceliande.
• Art collector, the Reverend Richard Fabian, of the Thunder and Rain exhibit.
• Radio improvisation from True Fiction Magazine.
• J. Raoul Brody as the house pianist.