Past Programs 2010

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.

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).

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13th, ready for drinking, laid down JANUARY 12, 2002

A CLASSIC from the Freight and Salvage Coffee House.

• LILY TOMLIN, prolific and outrageous comedienne, talks about her one-woman show, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
• MICHAEL FRANTI and Spearhead present their powerful blend of social activism and soul music. Their CD: Stay Human.
• REBECCA WALKER, author of Black, White and Jewish, a memoir in which this daughter of a famous black mother and Jewish father attempts to define herself as an individual, not as a symbol.
• Masterful multi-instrumentalist and jazz pianist URI CAINE.
• Music from piano marvel MIKE GREENSILL.

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.

ANGELIQUE KIJDO Grammy Award-winning Benin singer, whose new recording OYO, transports us to her West African landscape.

MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL, the Irish fiddler and the American guitarist make bridges, ferry tunes, and transport us with their music.

MO WILLEMS, the children's book author who includes Knuffle Bunny in his oeuvre.

PASCAL TOUSSAINT, male soprano from Paris.

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:

TERRY CASTLE, whose brave, beraved new book The Professor, hilariously and movingly recounts her life devoted to mind and body in the academic ecosystem.

ALEXANDRA NATAPOFF, whose new book Snitches, investigates the moral, political and practical dilemmas of people who squeal.

Others TBA .

CYPRESS STRING QUARTET, with composer ELENA RUEHR and her new work inspired by Ann Patchett's Bel Canto

The DANGER BABES, the group whose name says it all - perhaps the theme for today's show? The hip new duo with their takes on life and love.

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 eyue on the laugh-o-meter.

The splendid ZACHARY MASON, author of The Lost Books of Odysseus; Alison Anderson, translator of The Elegance of the Hedgehog .

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.

MARY GAITSKILL, novelist and short story writer.

RED HOT CHACHKAS, send those March chills a'packin'.

DAVID WILCOX, guitarist and songwriter.

MOON ZAPPA, ED CRASNICK, GEOFF BOLT, comedians and thought-bubble boffo-guffaw splendors on The Legends of Self-Help Comedy Tour, the first self-help variety show.

RENEÉ DE LA PRADE, rose-haired accordian heroine.

The vivacious MIKE GREENSILL, with his Mike Greensill dashingness.

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 author of A Gesture Life and The Surendered

ETHAN WATTERS , author of Going Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche.

MARCUS GARDLEY , playwright of And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi.

The MAGIC BULLETS , as they say, short hair and short songs.

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 non-generic MIKE GREENSILL, with the Mike Greensill One today.

STEPHEN J. CANNELL, renowned screenwriter, producer and novelist with a new Shane Scully Novel, The Pallbearers.

RANDALL GRAHM, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard and author of Been Doon So Long

RAMANA VIEIRA brings us Fado, a significant form of traditional Portuguese folk music that Ramana bridges into the 21st century with her haunting melodies and sultry tonality.

SAINTS and TZADIKS, world music voices, with the Jewish - Irish influences bending elbos together.

The chiaroscuric MIKE GREENSILL, with the B&W Mike Greensill 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, author of Red Azalea and The Last Empress, with a new novel Pearl of China.

OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, actress currently appearing in Vigil.

MEKLIT HADERO, singer of extraordinary heritage and style.

WALTER MOSLEY, whose new book Known to Evil, brings Leonid McGill back to his noir pages.

The kind MIKE GREENSILL, with the one-of-a-kind Mike Greensill today.

LIVE SATURDAY April 10th, 10 AM- Noon - a SPECIAL BROADCAST

From Skywalker Ranch Sound Scoring Stage in Marin County. All seats taken, so best place to hear is by your radio.

PAMELA ROSE, jazz singer, whose new recording features the history of women jazz composers.

RANDY THOM, Academy Award winning sound designer

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, author of Woman Warrior, and in the indie film I Know a Woman Like That.

DANIEL HANDLER, film maker, Lemony Snickett, accordian virtuoso. TIPS ON TRAVEL, with Karl and Carl, two experts who know their Condé from their Nast. Michael O'Brien and Geoff Bolt.

The Gloucestershire Lad himself, MIKE GREENSILL

APRIL 17, from April 22nd, 2000

Originally aired Earth Day 2000 show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley.

• 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.
• The Gloucestershire Lad himself, MIKE GREENSILL

APRIL 24

LIVE show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, 2020 Addison Street, in their posh new digs, just off Shattuck and a few footsteps from Dowtown Berkeley BART.

MARK KURLANSKY, author of Salt and Cod has a profile of a Dominican Republic town whose baseball-loving citizens fill the Major Leagues. .

ANNE LAMOTT, her brilliant story of Rosie coninues in Imperfect Birds.

PETER KARP and SUE FOLEY, two greats together.

DAVE ISAY, with stories from his Mom project.

The best English-born jazzman this side of the Icelandic volcanoes, MIKE GREENSILL

MAY 01

LIVE show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, 2020 Addison Street, in their splendiferous new space, just off Shattuck and a few footsteps from Downtown Berkeley BART.

ELIZABETH GEORGE, author of This Body of Death, the 16th Thomas Lynley mystery novel.

Dirt Diva ANNIE SPIEGELMAN, renowned organic gardener and author of Talking Dirt

GENEEN ROTH, author of Women, Food, and God.

Music by GIRLYMAN, they say if Paul Simon and the Indigo Girls meet and make Peter Paul and Mary, only sexier editions, you'll get Girlyman. Hear for yourself.

Members of the cast of GIRLFRIEND, Todd Almond's setting of Matthew Sweet's album music playing at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Members of the MARU A PULA MARIMBA band, visiting from Botswana.

The pianist de la maison, MIKE GREENSILL

MAY 08

LIVE from the COLLEGE PREP school theater, Oakland

ANNA QUINDLEN,

RODDY DOYLE,

SCOTT TUROW,

LAURIE ANDERSON.

MAY 15, 2010 Show Number 901

LIVE show 10a-Noon from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, 2020 Addison Street, in their splendiferous new space, just off Shattuck and a few footsteps from Downtown Berkeley BART.

NORRIS CHURCH MAILER, author of A Ticket to the Circus, and several novels. Her memoir of her life with Normal Mailer.

ERIC PUCHNER, his new novel, Model Home, explores the Ziller family's search for the charmed life in California.

ABRAHAM VERGHESE, author of Cutting for Stone, his first novel now in paperback, and two non-fiction books, My Own Country and The Tennis Partner.

THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS, author of Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture

Salsa music by EDGARDO and CANDELA, whose ¡arriba! sound takes us dancing

The pianist de la maison, MIKE GREENSILL

MAY 22, 2010 Show Number 902

LIVE 10a-Noon show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, 2020 Addison Street, in their splendiferous new space, just off Shattuck and a few footsteps from Downtown Berkeley BART.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN, author of The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prince of Mist.

MICHAEL CHABON and AYELET WALDMAN, the married writers who each have a book out detailing their parental visions: his, Manhood for Amateurs, and hers, Bad Mother.

PHIL COUSINEAU, author of Word Catcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, a trippy jaunt through Lexiconandia.

Electronica music by SUTRO, the fluid quaret of trip hop pop.

The bejeweled pianist, MIKE GREENSILL

MAY 29, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 903

LIVE 10a-Noon show from The Freight and Salvage Coffee House in Berkeley, 2020 Addison Street, in their splendiferous new space, just off Shattuck and a few footsteps from Downtown Berkeley BART.

KATE MOSES , author of Cakewalk: A Memoir with Recipes.

JUNIUS COURTNEY BIG BAND, style and chops and groove, They Know Dance..

LAURA FRASER with her book, All Over the Map a gazeteer of her heart.

MADELEINE EASTMAN , the magnificent singer celebrates words and music through ineffable jazz.

MIKE GREENSILL , will he try out the keyboard program on Sedge's ipad today?

JUNE 05, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 904 LIVE from 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:

ALAN BLACK and DAVID HENRY STERRY on the World Cup, co-authors of The Glorious World Cup: A Fanatic's Guide, which brings everything World Cup to cupophiles and cupophobes alike, with solid claps of humor.

LISA BROWN and ADELE GRIFFIN, illustrator and author of with a new macabrely book, Picture the Dead, a Civil War era mystery.

MARCIA GAGLIARDI, and her Tablehopper's Guide to San Francisco.

CLAIRE PEASLEE, naturalist, on the Black Swift, a marvelous bird with mysterious ways (it nests behind great waterfalls in the mountains) that she's seen first-hand while getting soaked.

ROWAN CUNNINGHAM BAND, the outstanding band with Rowan brothers Chris and Lorin and Sue Cunningham with sourced and organic Americana.

AESTHETIC EVIDENCE, performing selections from Ocean Voices. The sound artist HALSEY BURGUND and marine biologist WALLACE J. NICHOLS collaborate on audio collages.

Joshua RAOUL BRODY, bouncing in for Mike Greensill.

JUNE 12, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 905 LIVE from 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:

JANE SMILEY Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres with a new novel depicting the intra-privacies of a marriage in Private Life, set in part in the Bay Area.

HEATHER LENDE, author of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-town Alaska. We first introduced her to the national radio audience during our tours of Alaska and Haines over a decade ago.

NEIL LANDAU, scriptwriter, who has distilled his knowledge into 101 Things I learned in Film School. We might get to seven or thirty-three of them.

BARBARA HIGBIE, what a treat to welcome the multi-talented musician to West Coast Live.

Robert Hass, as of 6/10 has had to reschedule. Subscribers to our mail list will get first word of his new visit to West Coast Live.

MIKE GREENSILL, prodigal house pianist.

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JUNE 19th, 2010. - Selected Highlights from our June 21, 1997 Summer Solstice Show in Anchorage, AK, at the Fly-by Nightclub in Spenard-Anchorage, and from our June 28, 1997 show in Sitka, AK, in the Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi Community House.

• MR. WHITEKEYS and the Whale Fat Follies.
• LIBBY RIDDLES, author and first female winner of Alaska's Iditarod race.
• ELLEN PANEOK, the first native female bush pilot in Alaska.
Joanne and Monte, musicians.

• Lituya Bay wave survivor HOWARD ULRICH.
• Author RICHARD NELSON.
• Story teller Bob Sam and Naa Kahidi.
• Sitka's Tlingit Dance Group.
• The Sitka Blues Band.

JUNE 26, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 907 LIVE from 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:

AIMEE BENDER, short story writer and author of a new novel The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

VIOLINJAZZ, with masters Jeremy Cohen, Larry Dunlap, Bruce Dix and Jim Kerwin. Appearing June 28, also, at Yoshi's - Oakland.

DANIEL ALARCÓN, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, as we celebrate the act of writing on today's show. (Which we do almost every week...).

SAM BARRY and KATHI KAMEN GOLDMARK, authors of Write That Book Already!: the Tough Love You Need to Get Published Now drawn from some of their Author Enablers column at Bookpage.

MIKE GREENSILL, our prodigious house pianist.

JULY 03, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 908 LIVE from 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. RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB. Sedge welcomes:

The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE our annual reading, with the voices of members of the Ferry Building audience. Prepare to be stirred.

THOMAS STEINBECK , author of In the Shadow of the Cypress, among other works.

MEGAN PRELINGER , author of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957 - 1962 that surveys our American sense of self in a significant half-decade.

The BETH CUSTER ENSEMBLE , the imaginative and ever-astonishing troupe whose work accompanies films and life.

The CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS tour the American land with blues, gospel, R&B.

MIKE GREENSILL, our farmers' market mystery shopper and house pianist.

JULY 10, 2010 10a-Noon Show Number 909 LIVE from 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. RESERVATIONS: for your 2 hours of slow-food organic radio with only the freshest conversation, music and play: 415-664-9500, or TICKETWEB. Sedge welcomes:

ABRAHAM VERGHESE back by popular demand, author of Cutting for Stone and My Own Country

JULIA WHITTY oceanographer, author of her new Deep Blue Home and The Fragile Edge

KEVIN STARR the renowned exuberant historian of the West, author of his new Golden Gate history of the bridge.

JOHN ZAROBELL the curator and painter renowned exuberant historian of the West, author of his new raves about the Calder to Wahol with stops at Richter and Diebenkorn at the SFMOMA.

The KURT RIBAK QUARTET the bassist, who pronounces his last name like the shoe, leads his phenomenal foursome.

SATURDAY JULY 17

our June 2005 benefit show for KRCB-Santa Rosa from our broadcast five years ago in the Jackson Theater in Sonoma County. Like a good wine, it's only improved with age!

JUDY COLLINS, her new book called Morning Noon and Night, new CD, Portrait of an American Girl

KARL and CARL pitch their tent for Tips on Travel

CLAIRE PEASLEE, our naturalist explains the curious eating practices of the moon snail

FRED EUPHRAT, KRCB's forester and commentator on the ecosystem of the wine country

HOUSTON JONES BAND, high-octane Americana

Rev. SAM BARRY, at the piano, with Peter Tucker, drums and Christopher Kee, bass

LIVE SATURDAY JULY 24th Show 911 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. Show 912

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 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

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 life

THE 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 Russe

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.

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. Show 916

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.

From the Port Commission Room on the second floor, Sedge welcomes:

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IAN MORRIS teaches classics, history, and archaeology at Stanford University.  He is the author of Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal About the Future.

BO CALDWELL, author of the national bestseller The Distant Land Of My Father, and most recently City of Tranquil Light.

HAROLD McGEE, Curious Cook, author of Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes.

L. JOHN HARRIS, with Foodoodles: From the Museum of Culinary History, Cartoons and Commentary.

STEPHEN PRUTSMAN, renowned pianist, composer, arranger. Big Bach and Forth show at the Herbst tonight.

ARANN HARRIS AND THE FARM BAND, born in a 1900s school house on their Sonoma farm.  The play original and traditional songs with the grand plan to make people happy.  This is ruff, radio ready for a very old radio.  Old Time New School Folk. Songs about skunks, corn, sad clowns and mean people to be sung out loud together.  They cook.

 

The Bountiful Mike Greensill

From the Port Commission Room on the second floor, Sedge welcomes:

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BILL BARICH author of Laughing in the Hills and Long Way Home, his new cross-country journey a la John Steinbeck's classic of 50 years ago, Travels With Charley, at the time Barack Obama's election.

ADAIR LARA author, writing coach and teacher with her new book on writing personal essays. Naked, Drunk, and Writing

CLAIRE PEASLEE naturalist, auctioneer, writer, editor, theater artist and radio programmer

MARK O'CONNOR violinist and composer, performing with the New Century Chamber Orchestra through November 21

CULANN'S HOUNDS Irish-American roots music with their new album One For The Road

THE INVINCIBLE MIKE GREENSILL

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From the SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, Sedge welcomes:

 

 

 

 

 

DANIEL HANDLER AKA LEMONY SNICKET, author of 13 Words

TERRY McMILLAN, author of Waiting to Exhale and the new sequel, Getting to Happy

KEVIN KELLY, founder of well.com, founding executive editor of Wired Magazine and former editor/publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog with his new book What Technology Wants

COREY KELLER, associate curator of photography, SF MOMA

CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA, known for their equally dramatic and complex scores for classic silent movies

3-LEG TORSO, a band worth listening to

The Essential Mike Greensill

From the Head-Royce School auditorium, Oakland, Sedge welcomes:

KELLY CORRIGAN, author of The Middle Place and Lift.

ANNIE BARROWS, author, of Ivy and Bean series and co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society.

GENNIFER CHOLDENKO, author of Al Capone Does Clean Shirts, Al Capone Shines My Shoes and others.

GEOFFREY WOLFF, the older of the Wolff boys.  His books include a new biography of adventurer Joshua Slocum, The Hard Way Around,  and the renowned father-son story. Duke of Deception.

WILL DURST, the comedian with some assesment of this past week's elections.

MARC BLACK with a new CD, Pictures of the Highway

Award-winning HRS JAZZ BAND, with

The Astounding Mike Greensill

HALLOWE'EN EXTRAVAGANZA, Costumes encouraged

ALICE WALKER, author of The Color Purple, with her new poetry book Hard Times Require Furious Dancing

LISA BROWN, author and illustrator of Vampire Boy's Good Night

WE PLAYERS do Hamlet on Alcatraz

DAVID CALE performing an excerpt from Palomino

TANGO #9 Masters of the Tango

ALBINO! Afrobeat for furious dancers

Mike Greensill dresses as a rap star with his own jazz bling?

ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH, author of much beloved detective series.

DEBORAH TANNEN

TERRY THEISE

JESSE DE NATALE

MUSICA PACIFICA

Mike Greensill

 

ALEX ROSS, Listen to This; The Rest is Noise. The ears of The New Yorker Also appearing Friday night at Zellerbach Cal Performances.

ERIC ALAN, author, whose Grace and Tranquility continues a creative journey across genres, with GYPSY SOUL, Eric Alan's musical accompaniment to Grace and Tranquility, among many musical accomplishments.

KIM DOWER with her new book of poems, Air Kissing on Mars.

The PICKPOCKET ENSEMBLE, San Francisco-based and inspired by European café and folk music.

JONAH LEHRER, the contributing editor to Wired who studies the way we decide ... to come to the show, for instance, or listen at home.

REVEREND BILLY with a brief economic homily.

The Irresistible Mike Greensill

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

UZMA ASLAM KHAN, author of The Geometry of God, her latest novel. Set in her native Pakistan unfolding against General Zia's landscapes and politics.

CLIFFORD NASS, author of The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, what machines tell us about human relationships.

MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, is back with his Moscow detective Arkady Renko in Three Stations, back tp Moscow, the land of the firstbook, Gorky Park.

BIG TREE, the Bay Area based band will thrill you.

JACK BOWEN, If you Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumperstickers.  “In the sense of being pregnant with meaning, this book has a baby on board." -Christopher Hitchens

Mike Greensill, the man who knows his sharps from his flats, 99.9% of the time!

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

ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING, with a poet's invocation for Watershed

DEBORAH FALLOWS, author of Dreaming in Chinese, about her experiences in China and the need for us all to learn some Chinese.

P.J. O'ROURKE, and yet he's afraid voting will encourage the bastards, though whether he means the politicians or the voters remains to be seen.

DOUG DORST, author of Surf Guru, a collection of marvels by this fine novelist.

PETER HELLER, author of Kook, what Surfing Taught me about love, life, and catching the perfect wave, by an adventurer who writes to learn new skills, whether becoming a pilot or a surfer.  As long as he keeps moving!

FRANKIE and the POOL BOYS, you'll never hear surf music the same way after you hear this international surf band of excellence.

MIKE GREENSILL, whose pianism trumps any other ism or ideology

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

From the great street party on Puget Sound we bring you another live broadcast from the Upstage Theater in Port Townsend, Washington.  Doors open at 9:30am.

Sedge and Mike Greensill welcome:

DYAN CANNON, the filmstar honoree at this year's festival

CHRIS BYRNE, producer, casting director, and actor in Obselidia

STEPHANIE ARGY, director of The Red Machine

JOEY PIPIA, delusionist

WAITING FOR LIZZIE, the Seattle and Bainbridge Island-based trio with incredible harmonies, and lyrics as insightful as you'll hear anywhere.

HOT CLUB OF DETROIT, on the road to Yoshi's Oakland, and Applegate River Lodge and Los Angeles with their inimitable Le Jazz Hot sounds

and other fascinating participants from the Port Townsend Film Festival

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

A WEST COAST LIVE HOLIDAY SPECIAL and keeping up with his stocking, MIKE GREENSILL, who fills his own and ours today, along with John Wesley Harding, Eileen Weiss, Buckwheat Donohue and the people of Skagway, Alaska, Pollo de Mar, the Sonos Handbell Ensemble, and The New Century Chamber Orchestra. From Christmases 1999-2005.

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.

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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

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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:

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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.