Programs A-Z
With about 85 volunteer hosts, our programming reflects the wide variety of interests these programmers bring, and reflects the character and nature of the people and places of West Marin. All hosts, whether of music or talk shows, regularly bring on guests, principally from our West Marin villages, and also from around the Bay Area and the world.
While Americana/bluegrass music is a big part of our schedule, KWMR airs music of almost all genres: Celtic, Reggae, Latin, Jazz & Swing, Blues, Alt Rock, World, Happy Hour music. We even have a show highlighting just the new releases in our music library. Bringing live performances on-air is part of the fun for music hosts and listeners!
Between roughly 8 am and midnight, KWMR airs about two hours of music to every one hour of talk. Our interview hosts cover culture, politics, environment and ecology, agriculture, literature, spirituality and psychology, health and science, the performing arts, parenting issues... with about 6 hours a week of Spanish-language and bi-lingual music and talk shows.
KWMR has a process for training new programmers in the technical skills and interview/host skills needed for the live shows. Programmers who become competent in these areas can then go on to learn audio recording and editing in the production studio, field recording, news production, and remote broadcasts using phone lines and RPU gear. If you are interested in volunteering as a programmer click here to find out more.
Amanda and Mike bring you the sounds of Honky Tonk, West Coast Country and beyond every other week.
With your host: Katie Eberle
The Barbarian Beach Party is:
top down
arms up
hot pants smokin'
dance temple
night moves
strange lamps
internationale
boogaloo
surfboard legs
Radio Music Timetrap
Every - Other - Monday - Night
10 - 11 PM
With your host: Solange Echeverria
Solange Echeverria now hosts the Friday morning bilingual show: News, interviews, information and music!
Gus Conde is now a school teacher! And stills hosts his music show "El Barrio" every other Monday night at 8:30 pm.
With your host:
Earlier start: 10 pm, as of Nov 7, 2013
Hosted by Matt Graveling and produced by Talia...... Best of British Unsigned is a weekly radio show that gives the best, British unsigned musicians the recognition and the airplay that they deserve.
Check out BoB here.
With your host: Grey Shepard
Grey alternates with Paul Flowerman, "Ears Akimbo's Elbowroom"
With your hosts: Susanna Henderson, Norman Masonson
1st Fridays = "Opera in the Afternoon" with Susanna Henderson
2nd & 4th Fridays = Norman Masonson
On 3rd Fridays, "At the Concert Hall" with Janet Robbins.
Norman Masonson hosts KWMR's "Classical Friday" on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. He concentrates on early music, and twentieth and twenty-first century music. Norman studied music at the Julliard School, Columbia University, Mannes College and in Hamburg, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar in Conducting. He is an Emeritus Professor at the College of Marin.
With your hosts: Susan Santiago, Jeffry Wikinson
...from our local hosts...
With your host: Susan Deixler
Classical specials on the first, second, fourth and fifth Wednesday of each month.
Susan Deixler on the third Wednesday of each month.