Tune in to KRNN on Wednesday as KRNN brings you a series of Alaskan singer/songwriters, recorded live in the @360 Studios, and feature some of the best home-grown music in Juneau and beyond.
December 17 – Alaska String Band/Will Putman
December 24 – Sarah Hanson/Tony Tengs
December 31 – Amy Lou/Josh Lockhart
January 7 – Harrison B
The special hour-long programs can be heard on upcoming Wednesdays at 6 p.m. on KRNM (102.7 FM, and on line via www.ltoo.org.
Tune in to KRNN (102.7 FM or on line via ktoo.org) this Wednesday evening at 7 for two hours of highlights from this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, produced by Shelley Owens! Featured performers will include:
The Gitterounders
Miguel Rohrbacher
MC2
Bear Mountain Bluegrass Band
Hopkins Family Band
Carrie & Kim
Bonsoir Catin
Shelby Cook & Lynzey Culver
Destiny Hawley
Must Wear Pants
Gallus Brothers
Bear Paw Pickers
Soft Old Day
Carina Wilson & Friends
Intermission
Last Chance Jazz Band
And Friends
Quaintrelles
John Anderson
Bridget Claire Galvin
MacKenzie Merrill
James Pothier Burger
Todd Grebe & Cold Country
The Coldstring Drifters
Keith Heller & Crew
Sean Tracy
Sea of Heartbreak
Ed Schoenfeld & the Empty Oil Barrel Band
Two ‘Billies
KTOO-FM and 360-North will be providing coverage of the Swearing-In Ceremony of Governor-Elect Bill Walker on Monday, December 1st., beginning at 11:30 a.m., live from Centennial Hall.
KTOO-News will be carrying Turkey Confidential Thursday from 10-Noon. We’re carrying it time-delayed to better serve our listeners. If you would like to take part in the live call-in program earlier in the morning, the phone number is 800-242-2828.
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were the “first couple” of American radio. From the 1920s through FDR’s fourth term, the president and first lady used this extraordinarily powerful new medium to win elections, combat the Great Depression and rally the nation to fight fascism. Eleanor Roosevelt’s radio work is almost entirely forgotten. But she was a radio star in her own right — with commercial sponsors paying top dollar for her talents as a news commentator.
A very significant date for the Roosevelts, and our nation, was Sunday, December 7, 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor — “a date which will live in infamy.” It is also the day that Eleanor Roosevelt, not FDR, spoke to the nation. (His speech to Congress was the following day, Monday, December 8.) But on that Sunday evening, during her regularly scheduled national news/talk show, “Over Our Coffee Cups” on NBC, Eleanor Roosevelt told her audience:
“We know what we have to face and we know that we are ready to face it … Whatever is asked of us, I am sure we can accomplish it. We are the free and unconquerable people of the United States of America.”
It was an exceptional moment. As the nation plunged into war, Americans heard from the first lady, not the president. It speaks to the unprecedented public role Eleanor Roosevelt created for herself, and the remarkable political partnership she had forged with FDR. The documentary includes an excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt’s radio broadcast.
The Roosevelts forever changed the way Americans relate to their chief executive and his family. Their legacy — both FDR’s and Eleanor Roosevelt’s — helped shape our political media today.
This hour-long American RadioWorks documentary features rarely heard archival audio of the broadcasts, as well as oral histories and contemporary interviews to explore how the Roosevelts revolutionized political communication in America.
This Wednesday night at 7 on KRNN, sit back and enjoy the music of Irene Muller & John Elliott in a KRNN Songwriters’ Showcase concert, recorded September 4th at the Gold Town Theatre. Tune in and savor the original music of the two artists and conversation with host Katie Bausler.
