After 5 days of asking, The Great 88 is racing towards the end of our Fall On-Air Fundraiser. We’re within $5,000 of our final goal and a big “High Five” to everyone who’s called or pledged here on our website. You can help KZSC race to the finish line with a donation in any amount…all…
Hank Williams: The Lost Notebooks
By Michael Bryant | Published October 27th, 2011Hank Williams wrote a lot of songs that he never got to record. He always kept notebooks around and filled them with lyrics and song ideas. But when Hank died in 1953, they were locked away. Those notebooks have now been reopened, and from those treasures comes a new album featuring 13 singer/songwriters (Merle Haggard,…
TONIGHT: College Night @ The Catalyst, feat. The Best Friends
By Program Review Committee | Published October 27th, 2011What’s better than seeing a local band play The Catalyst Club? Seeing a local band with a KZSC alum DJ Benny-Goodman O.G. Einstein (Remember the “Sad Bastard Music” program anyone?) as their keyboard player. The Best Friends have been rocking local venues and tonight’s show will be another fun, frenzied performance of silly costumes and even…
Beatles For Sale
By Michael Bryant | Published October 27th, 2011Once upon a time Paul McCartney wrote a song called “You Never Give Me Your Money”. If Sir Paul only knew how generous KZSC listeners have been, it may have never shown up on Abbey Road. Over the 10+ years our Beatles specialty program has been on the air. Fab Four fans have always offered…
Give Us Bucks!
By Michael Bryant | Published October 25th, 2011At KZSC, the buck stops here. Literally. This was taken just outside our redwood shack. But during our Fall On-Air Fundraiser when we talk bucks, we mean smackers, moolah, cash, lucre, scratch…also known as money. It takes dough to do what we do 24/7 and we hope you think it’s worth it. So if you…
Poetry for Protection Nov. 5th
By PSA Director | Published October 24th, 2011“Poetry for Protection” is a poetry slam event created by a Mar Vista Elementary 5th grader in hopes of raising money for the River Street Shelter. The “Poetry for Protection” event will be held at the Ugly Mug in Soquel on Saturday, November 5th from 2 to 4 pm. Donations from this event go directly…
KZSC Can Be Your Bag…
By Michael Bryant | Published October 24th, 2011The City and County of Santa Cruz, the City of Capitola and dozens of other California cities and counties are moving forward to enact Single-Use Bag Reduction ordinances. The basic idea seems to be to encourage consumers to re-use bags vs. the paper-or-plastic dilemma. Here’s one to consider: the KZSC “Dino Tote”. It can handle…
Bluegrass Music Awards Show on Backroads, Sun Oct 23rd
By Folk Department | Published October 22nd, 2011The 22nd Annual International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Awards show was held a few weeks ago, and KZSC will feature highlights from this show on Backroads, between 12-2pm on Sunday, October 23, 2011. Recorded live at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, Sam Bush hosts the show that includes performances by Steve Martin &…
Frank Wakefield Band Thurs Oct 20th
By Folk Department | Published October 19th, 2011The Frank Wakefield Band will be performing at an intimate house concert on the Westside of Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 7:30pm. Frank has been playing bluegrass mandolin for decades, and has performed with many of the top-notch bands, including Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Jimmy Martin & The…
Big Tree @ The Crepe Place Nov. 6th
By Program Review Committee | Published October 19th, 2011During my year DJing the KZSC program “Girls With Guitars”, one of my favorite artists to spin was Big Tree. I discovered the Bay Area band through a friend who told me how I just had to play them on my show. I was convinced after playing the first minute of song one. A couple…