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SPOTLIGHT ON
JIM MARSH
Whiskey Jim is a pedantic romantic, a melodious malcontent, and the discordant DJ of the Whiskey Hour Radio Program celebrating its 300th episode this week.
Jim's passion for music and live radio comes from the underground radio stations of his youth playing weird stuff that went against the norm and found joy creating the new.
Originally from Chicago his misspent youth involved running DIY art punk festivals, playing music and growing organic sprouts. His band The Broken Kockamamies celebrated a pyrrhic victory over the corporate music machine by never achieving any artistic or financial success, a pattern he repeats with his little radio show every Friday night.
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A Vashon Minute
Monday, Noon
Saturday at the 4-way
You see them every Saturday at the 4-way stop in Vashon Town, faithfully holding signs for peace in Gaza from noon to 1:30. They are Vashon for Palestine, and their work goes beyond reminding us all what's happening in the Middle East. Founder and inspiration for the protests, John Dancey and activist Su Kraus enlighten host Susan McCabe about what's going on in Gaza, how it started, maybe where it's going. Plus, the group is hosting a series of films in cooperation with Vashon Film Institute about Gaza, Israel and the people's dreams for their lives there. Tune in Monday at noon and Wednesday at 5 on KVSH 101.9FM, or at your convenience on the VoV App and at voiceofvashon.org
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Alternative Vashon
Monday, 3-4 PM
From Bill's garage on Vashon Island
Tune in this week as Nirvana plays live in the Alt Vashon Garage, and Kurt Cobain hangs out. The Long Lost Song is from 1988, and you will hear lotsa tracks from Nirvana as we near the 32nd anniversary of Kurt's death. Plus, you’ll hear tunes from Depeche Mode, REM, Pixies and Meat Puppets.
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Boys Soccer
Monday, 3:30 PM at Bellevue Christian
Tune in to hear Oscar Lopez and Tony Crudo call the game.
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Kitchen Counterpoints
Monday, 4-5 PM
New Show!
We are a mom and son radio team, talking about - and sometimes arguing about - the things that interest us. We talk about everything from Road Trips to Time Travel and listen to some music that transcends generations.
This week, Sean and Sean's mom Tuesday, are on Road Trips We are going to listen to some music that came up a lot on our road trips in the early 2000s and talk about the memories that they invoke, comparing our experiences.
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VoV Special
The Brudi Brothers with Jeff Hoyt
Monday, 6pm
Ahead of their April 18 show at Vashon Theatre, the brothers talk with Jeff about the differences between busking in Europe and the USA, what it was like to meet local travel icon Rick Steves, and they tell a couple of stories that they heard from total strangers while hitchhiking through Europe. Songs include their mega-hit "Me More Cowboy Than You," along with tracks from their upcoming EP "Dark and Stormy.”
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Hoytus Interruptus
Tuesday, 8-8:15 AM
Death Takes a Pie in the Face
Happy Death Week! That is the moniker that Jeff Hoyt and his sisters have forever bestowed upon the first week of April. This was the week in which their parents passed just two years apart back in the 90’s. They always make the most out of the family gatherings that follow these departures. Laughter and a slightly twisted cloak of black humor continues to be a huge part of it. So, here on the doorstep of their 30th Death Week, Jeff revisits a funnier-than-you’d-expect account of his parents’ final days and the memorials which followed. This was originally recorded at Open Space for Arts & Community in 2013.
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Brown Briefly
Tuesday, 11-Noon
John Whelan
Amy, Bruce, Craig, Kevin, and Truman talk with islander and seven-time All-Ireland button accordion champion John Whelan. John has twice received the “Musician of the Year” award from the Irish Music Association. He has recorded more than 15 CDs and spent several weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard World Music Charts. He has also appeared on more than 30 albums with other artists, and he lives here on Vashon.
John will talk with the Brieflies about his musical career, his move to Vashon, and the growth of the Irish musical tradition in the US and on Vashon
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Vashon 250
Tuesday, Noon – 12:30 PM
Tyranny of Taxes and Resistance
The Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party - May 10 & December 16, 1773
The Tea Act of 1773 which imposed a new tax on tea, that even though it was lower, by-passed colonial merchants and was a tax implemented without colonial representation. The resulting Boast Tea Party that destroyed imported British East India Company tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor led Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts which became one of the sparks that started the American Revolution.
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Embracing the Muse
Tuesday, 6-7 PM
Cathe Gill, Plein Air Artist and Educator
Join Sally for a conversation with Cathe Gill, an accomplished plein air painter, offering a free one-day painting event at Mukai Farm and Garden on Sunday, April 12. We explore her decades of teaching and creating art in the open air—and her deep belief that art belongs to everyone.
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Rolling Wave
Wednesday, Noon - 2 PM
Sunday, 10 AM - Noon
No Fools
There are not fools in our April show. We start off with a set of tunes from the Galway banjo player, Enda Scahill, followed by Olympia’s Alex Sturbaum, and Donegal’s Paul Harrigan. Paying homage to friends and heroes who have passed, the next set features Dennis Cahill, Ian Hardie and Dolores Keane. Then we kick off the next set with Chicago’s Liz Carroll, followed by our own Pint and Dale, and Paddy Keenan. And we bring the hour to a close with the classic, “Fisherman’s Blues” from the Waterboys. Thanks to the supporters of VoV, and to our producer, Jeff Hoyt.
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Boogie Back to Texas
Wednesday, 6-7 PM
War
War is on our minds for obvious reasons, so Boogie Back host Geoff Fletcher dove into his archives and found a show about war from 2017 that reflected upon Ken Burns’ series on the Vietnam war. It seems these songs, sadly, still apply. Tune in for songs about individual soldiers (The Chicks, Patty Griffin, Kristy Lee Cook, Todd Snider, Steve Earle), no war scenarios (Phil Ochs, The Monkees, Merle Haggard), individual battles (Tanya Tucker and Johnny Horton), protest (Sheryl Crow, CSNY, and Buffalo Springfield), and a story about Miami University two weeks before Kent State. Get your marching shoes on again.
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Morning Scramble
Thursday, 9-Noon
1966
On this First Thursday Morning Scramble, "Granny" Mike Nichols and "Clutch" Craig Beles will venture into the Way-Back Machine to visit the transformative year of 1966. Music was changing 60 years ago to more diverse, artistic and complex compositions but still retained much of the innocence and simplicity of the late 50s and early 60s.
For example, the top three songs in 1966 were:
1. California Dreamin' by The Mamas & the Papas,
2. 96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians, and
3. What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Jimmy Ruffin
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Boys Soccer
Thursday, 6 PM
Pirates vs Overlake
Tune in to hear Oscar Lopez and Tony Crudo call the game.
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The Whiskey Hour Radio Program
Friday 9pm-11pm
Crash Course in EGG PUNK!
If you weren’t swapping memes in the 20-Teens or sweating through basement shows somewhere in the Midwest, there’s a good chance you're missing out on Egg Punk! Don’t worry—Whiskey Jim and DJ Moo are here to help.
This Friday on The Whiskey Hour Radio Program, we’re cracking open a Crash Course in Egg Punk—the lo-fi, synth-squawking mutation of punk that refuses to take itself too seriously. Think Devo-Ramones chaos—fast, scrappy lo-fi songs that sound like they were recorded in a garage because they probably were. It’s 21st century subversion, DIY to the bone, with hand-drawn artwork, off-kilter humor, and an air kiss to punk’s tougher-than-thou attitude.
Oh yeah, and it’s our 300th show!
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Sunday Silence
Sunday, 11 – midnight
After the Hills Divide
What turns a land into a landscape — for who — from who — how come? As artist Rodney McMillian has said: “There are always addendums, footnotes, asterisks, italics. That's what the landscape is.” This episode is a coming-to-terms with the feeling that there is less and less distinction between spectacle and non-event in our contradictory age — and as a consequence, any clear distinction between the thresholds of dance-oriented and ambient electronic music. What sonic landscapes are even possible (or improbable) where the eventful and the ordinary have lost any traction on the real? In this episode, through the music of Crespi Drum Syndicate, Verraco, and Eisebelle, we find that the dancefloor always unfolds upon a landscape, its celebrated peaks flattened into plateaus of continuous intensity, while ambient music absorbs the charge of catastrophe without ever announcing it. So, join the party — trip on its fissures — crash on its contradictions — and we will see where we are in the end.
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During the past two and half decades, VoV has brought you thousands of alerts, many parades, sports broadcasts, lip sync battles, and town hall meetings.
We are proud to have given Islanders a platform to create untold hours of unique radio programming on KVSH.
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