ROOTS MUSIC & BEYOND

ROOTS MUSIC AND BEYOND

Saturdays, 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time
90.7 FM Los Angeles – 98.7 FM Santa Barbara – 93.7 FM North San Diego – 99.5 FM Ridgecrest/China Lake

Americana to world music sounds, folk to funk, bluegrass to blues and beyond

First Saturday of every month: Tom Nixon
Second Saturday: Mary Katherine Aldin
Third Saturday: Art Podell
Fourth Saturday: Mark Humphrey
Fifth Saturday (when there is one): The hosts will rotate

First Saturday of the month: Tom Nixon tomenixon10@gmail.com Tom Nixon of The Nixon Tapes takes listeners on a dithyrambic musical romp through all eras and areas making the familiar sound unfamiliar and vice versa.

Second Saturday: Mary Katherine Aldin mkaldin@aol.com, a KPFK music programmer since 1977, usually chooses roots-driven bluegrass, folk, Cajun and Americana sounds to get your day off to a tuneful start.

Third Saturday host: Art Podell art@artpodell.com, a bona fide Greenwich Village folkie, one-half of the legendary duo Art and Paul and an original member of The New Christy Minstrels, and Professor

Fourth Saturday host: Mark Humphrey mxxkor@gmail.com, may play a classic recording made on a show date or offer other timely tie-ins to the vital variety of our musical roots.

Fifth Saturday (when there is one): The hosts will rotate.