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What A Week! April 19, 2025 "COLOSSAL SQUID" Edition!

What A Week! April 19, 2025 “COLOSSAL SQUID” Edition!

You can’t be well informed unless you are informed well! Join hosts Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno along with guest ...
Veleny landscape

Let’s Talk Mushrooms

Mushrooms Rebroadcast featuring Veleny Pierce on KSQD's In The Garden with Steven E. Popp and me. Learn about this incredibly ...
Runs on Grassoline: Saturdays 2-4pm

Runs on Grassoline: Saturdays 2-4pm

Catch it live or listen on demand via our two-week archive. Available in the app and at KSQD.org ...
KSQD Origin Stories

KSQD Origin Stories

In this show, engineer Sandy Stone and board chair Rachel Anne Goodman reminisce about the circuitous route that KSQD's founders ...
Music of the Masters: Saturdays 6-9am

Music of the Masters: Saturdays 6-9am

Saturdays 6-9am explore classical music from the world’s greatest composers, performed at the highest level possible with programs curated on ...
The Tower of Song Presents “The Troubadours & The Beloved, Part 10”

The Tower of Song Presents “The Troubadours & The Beloved, Part 10”

Update: The extended version of the Gypsy Scholar’s 10th and final installment of the Orphic Essay-with-Soundtrack series, “The Troubadours & The ...
On Mental Health in Challenging Times

On Mental Health in Challenging Times

In this special, more personal program, Ami Chen Mills interviews her colleague, author and psychologist Dr. George Pranksy--who, with her ...
Downbeat Shuffle: Fridays 6-8pm with JT and Charlie Lange

Downbeat Shuffle: Fridays 6-8pm with JT and Charlie Lange

Every Friday from 6-8pm catch the Downbeat Shuffle with Hosts Charlie Lange and JT, featuring vintage recordings from the golden ...
FirstPersonSingular: Alan Ritch - Good Friday

FirstPersonSingular: Alan Ritch – Good Friday

Alan Ritch enjoyed two processions on Good Friday when he was in Italy ...
Bread and Buddha: Thursdays 11-1

Bread and Buddha: Thursdays 11-1

Bread and Buddha Thursdays 11AM-1PM. Music to feed the belly and the heart.  Acoustic finger style, Singer-Songwriters...many forms of folk ...
FirstPersonSingular: Laurie Corn - Grandma

FirstPersonSingular: Laurie Corn – Grandma

Laurie Corn asks, "When is a grandma not a grandma?" ...
Malcolm Harris on Political Paths for Quitting Oil

Malcolm Harris on Political Paths for Quitting Oil

Bestselling author of Palo Alto Malcom Harris is just now releasing his new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the ...
Computer Man! Your Tech Questions Answered: April 15, 2025

Computer Man! Your Tech Questions Answered: April 15, 2025

Don’t stress about your tech, call the Computer Man on KSQD between 6-7pm PT each Tuesday: 831-900-5773 Write to [email protected] Topics covered: ...
Cannabis Consumption Lounges are Coming / Second Harvest Food Bank Update

Cannabis Consumption Lounges are Coming / Second Harvest Food Bank Update

It’s no secret that Santa Cruz County loves its weed. Take a trip to UCSC’s campus on April 20th and ...
Timeless Hawaiian Music. Aloha! Wednesdays 11am

Timeless Hawaiian Music. Aloha! Wednesdays 11am

Aloha kakou, hello everybody! Wednesdays from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM join your host, Cousin Norm, for some Timeless Hawaiian Music ...
Behind the Mic with the hosts of "What a Week!" Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno

Behind the Mic with the hosts of “What a Week!” Erik Nelson and Tony Russomanno

Monday on Talk of the Bay, Christine Barrington goes Behind the Mic with the hosts of the creative and evisceratingly ...
Herbert Blomstedt applauds the orchestra and chorus

Ein deutsches Requiem – San Francisco Symphony and Chorus

Long-time music director Herbert Blomstedt leads the orchestra and chorus in this Grammy-winning performance of Johannes Brahms' A German Requiem ...
"Choose Your Own Adventure" Dreamwork with Sue Scavo and Bill St. Cyr

“Choose Your Own Adventure” Dreamwork with Sue Scavo and Bill St. Cyr

What kind of dream adventure do you want? Our "People of the Dream" guests, Bill St. Cyr and Sue Scavo, ...

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