Voltaire’s Vault

Monday, 1-3 PM

Station WIL

Prince Voltaire, The Motor City Hipster is host of the show Voltaire’s Vault where marvelous music from the 1950’s and 60’s is heard on the second Monday of each month. For part of next week’s show, you’ll be taken back to St. Louis, Missouri. The year is 1958; the radio station is WIL; and the disc jockey is Jack Carney. You’ll even hear commercials for products still around today. So come join the prince for a trip back in time on your island connection The Voice of Vashon.

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Alternative Vashon

Monday, 3-4PM

Special show - Early MTV and the 2nd British Invasion!

When MTV signed on the air in 1981, it was a game changer for the music world that inadvertently triggered a 2nd British Invasion. In this special edition of Alt Vashon, you will hear some amazing facts about the fledgling video music channel and hear KILLER TRACKS by the bands that took America by storm including Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Police, Human League and Eurythmics.

Plus - the on-air David Bowie interview that called out MTV for racism and helped turn the audience on to the artist who changed the world!

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Adventures in Recovery

Tuesday 2:30-3:30

Teen Jam Special

Get ready to rock the berries off your Summer!

Tiffany Schira—aka the Fundraising & Communications Wizard at Vashon Youth & Family Services—is rolling into the studio with some totally rad youth performers from this year's Strawberry Fest Teen Jam! Catch them live with host, Tom Walsten as they spill the tea about their musical vibes, their band’s origin story, and why you absolutely can’t miss their show.

Then mark your calendars:

Friday, July 18 from 6–9pm, it’s all going down at the *Pandora’s Box* stage! Music, energy, and teens bringing the FIRE. Bring your crew, bring your ears, and let’s jam the night away. It’s gonna be straight-up electric. ️

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Embracing the Muse

Tuesday, 6-7 PM

Elaine Summers: Musician, Artist, Activist

Elaine Summers is a musician, mosaic artist, and animal welfare activist. We discuss her multifaceted creative life and her successful collaboration with her husband, singer-songwriter Pete Droge.

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Rolling Wave

Wednesday, Noon – 2 PM

Weird and Wonderful

In July Kat and John play the weird and wonderful, starting off with three tracks from Northumberland/Scottish Borders region. The first is from one of our favorite CDs, the band Lowp, followed by new music from Iain Gelston, and finishing off the set with a classic recording from the late, great Ray Fisher. The rest of the line-up includes Skippinish, Runrig, Elias Alexander, Kieran Hanrahan, Piaras O Lorcain, Daoiri Farrell, Chris Ormston, Kathleen MacInnes and the Trailer Park Boys take on “The Wellerman.” Thanks for listening and supporting VoV.

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Boogie Back to Texas

Wednesday, 6-7 PM

Body Parts – Hands and Rings

Boogie Back host Geoff Fletcher tees up the last in the body parts series with the reprise of the Hands and Rings show. We come full circle in a few ways – exploring another specific body part – the hands –  and songs about rings and more broadly, the ring or wheel of life. Asleep at the Wheel and Jerry Jeff address the wheels of their band and life, respectively. We have songs about wedding rings from George Joes, the Derailers, Buddy Miller and Roy Orbison. Jeffrey Martin, Slaid Cleaves and Steve Earle have protest songs, and both Jerry Lee Lewis and Ruthie Foster have a take on Ring of Fire. We also have a wide variety of interpretations of hands from Junior Brown, Townes Van Zandt and Alejandro Escovedo. 

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Beyond Category

Thursday, 3-4 PM

A Unique Musical Stew

On Beyond Category this week, Ethiopians playing with musicians from other places, intriguing sounds from Europe, India, the Middle East, and Africa, and more. Tune in for a taste of a unique musical stew. 

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T.G.I.F.

Friday, 11-midnight

1979 Funk Tunes

The movie Saturday Night Fever was released in 1977. Disco was, as you know, the craze in the late 70’s. Everyone was going to their local discos and shaking their booty, just like the opening song of this show by The Gap Band tells us. So, was this the end of Funk Music as we know it? Was it to become homogenized into a bland, empty music genre best known as Disco Funk? 

So, Funksters, you’re probably wondering if this audio adventure, reviewing the funk music that was released in 1979, is a show about the demise of Funk? Absolutely not. As you will find out, we will be checking out what the funk music movers and shakers were producing at this critical time and what they were doing to keep that good ol’ funk music alive and well. Yes, let’s keep that good ol’ funk alive!!!

Check out this show and treat yourself to some funky grooves from Sly & the Family Stone, George Duke, War, Cameo and Funkadelic, to name a few. And, yes, it will make your body move and put a smile on your face. Hey, it’s the best fun you’ll have with your clothes on!

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Sunday Silence

Sunday, 11 – midnight

Sync Error (0°)

In 1851, an English astronomer established the Greenwich Meridian—a geographical reference that passes through the Royal Observatory in London. In 1884, the International Meridian Conference asserted the Greenwich Meridian as the universal standard prime meridian for zero degrees longitude. In 1894, an anarchist carried a bomb through Greenwich Park, intending to destroy the public clock of the Royal Observatory, with which time clocks throughout Britain were synchronized; the bomb exploded prematurely, but the thunder repeats like an irregular heart… 

Time is not just measure, but a shadow-play, a median drawn in silence, a subtle line slicing through the skin of the world. This month—in the place where desire, dominion, and memory meet—we are exploring music that does not merely decorate a time signature, but that consecrates historical wounds and devotes itself to reckoning. This is a music that refuses the sterility of perfection in favor of texture, vulnerability, and dissonance.

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