Alternative Vashon

Monday, 3-4 PM

Classic Alternative Rock live from Bill's garage on beautiful Vashon Island! 

Tune in this week as Smashing Pumpkins play live in the Alt Vashon Garage, and Thurston of Sonic Youth hangs out. The Long Lost Song is from 1983, and you will hear Killer Tracks by Presidents, Violent Femmes, Moby, Police and Chemical Brothers.

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Rock of Ages

Monday 4-6 PM

Farewell DJ Mary and Sammy V!

On July 7th DJ Mary Marin & Sammy V celebrate their final broadcast on Voice of Vashon. For their farewell show, DJ Mary & Sammy V will play favorites from their own personal song collections. From classic cuts to little known gems to today's hits, it's all right here on Rock of Ages!

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Stirring the Pot

Tuesday, 3-4 PM

Italy

This week's episode will feature stories about Italy's allure, local wine favorites, food for thought, and quips from our clever guest, Liz Ophoven, proprietor of the island's very own Wine Shop Vashon. You will want to tune in to hear Liz's ideas and stories! Cohosts, Linda Nygaard and Selin Demir will come with some of their own stories about summer food, travels, family stories, and the joie de vivre of a Vashon summer. Farmer's market is in full swing, Strawberry Festival is just about here, and July's bounty brings its own stories. So, pull up a chair and pour yourself something cold and crisp while you enjoy table talk from these 3 women whose lives are centered around food, family, and hospitality. 

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Embracing the Muse

Tuesday, 6-7 PM

Sara Van Fleet:  Passion and Presence after 60

Sara Van Fleet has been a devoted steward of Vashon for nearly 30 years, nurturing the land and its creatures, and loving our vibrant community. A former Chair of the Vashon Land Trust Board, Sara brings passion and presence to what she does, from environmental work to dancing and making music. We talk about how to live creatively and meaningfully after 60, and how Sara finds joy in nature, movement, and a bass guitar.

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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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Paradise Valley Music Hour

Wednesday, 3-4 PM

Show 100 – All Local

The Paradise Valley Music Hour celebrates the vibrant and ever-evolving music scene of the Pacific Northwest. Each week, I dive into the sounds of the region, playing some of the most talented and exciting artists out there. Vashon has so many great musicians and this week, as I celebrate my 100th show, it’s all about Vashon artists. This could easily be a three hour show without repeating artists, but I only have an hour! I'm playing Gregg Curry, Michael Whitmore, Patrons of Husbandry, Fendershine, Andre Sapp and a bunch more Vashon artists. 

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Boogie Back to Texas

Wednesday, 6-7 PM

Body Parts - Heart

The Body Parts series continues as Boogie Back host Geoff Fletcher recaps the heart – the metaphorical seat of emotions – and most of those emotions in songs about the heart are broken, sad, a bummer. We have various kinds of hearts – Norah Jones’s Cold one, The Chick’s tortured and tangled, and Steve Earl’s fearless. Willie and Leon live at heartbreak hotel, Leeann Womack’s notes someone else’s heartache and Ruthie Foster’s advice is to aim for the heart. Slaid Cleaves wonders if he had a heart and Janis Joplin loses a piece of her heart. Rodney Crowell and Emmylou have open season on the heart and Don Henley gets down to the Heart of the Matter. Boz has high blood pressure and Johnny Mathis is just Crazy in the heart. And, Guy Clark tells us it all has to come from the heart. 

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T.G.I.F.

Friday, 11-midnight

1978 Funk Tunes

Yes, Funksters, 1978 was a good year for…Andy Gibb and the Bee Gees. So were you listening to them or Steely Dan, Joe Walsh, Donna Summer or…the funky tunes that were being released by a lot of the purveyors of get-down-funk done by musicians like Brides of Frankenstein, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, George Duke, Larry Graham, Foxxy, Rose Royce, The Bar-Kays, The Brothers Johnson, Chaka Khan, or, of course, The Godfather of Funk, Mr. Brown, who started this whole thing off?

Well, there’s several ways you can answer that question. Either tune in to the show or go to the TGIF show page and listen to this show anytime during the next two weeks. It’ll be the best fun you’ll ever had with your clothes on!!

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Atmospheric Rivers

Saturday 9-11 PM

Sunshine Pop: Volume 7 

Step once more into the golden halo of harmony for our Seventh annual Sunshine Pop Celebration. We're opening the iridescent gates to that fleeting, fabulous era where The Association, The Free Design, The Millennium, The Beach Boys, Sagittarius, and their radiant kin turned transistor radios into magic lanterns. Expect angelic harmonies, effervescent orchestration, and melodies so luminous they practically levitate. It’s a road trip to a kaleidoscopic summer dreamland—no sunscreen required.

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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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