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.
Music from the all over the Celtic diaspora: Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England, Brittany, Gallicia, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, Québec, the U.S.
With your host: Wendy McLaughlin
Wendy's last program was October 2. We hope she may return sometime in the future.
With your host:
with Ernesto Lechner and Josh Norek.
The show combines music with artist interviews. Recent guests
have included Ozomatli, Jaguares, Diego Garcia, Ana Tijoux and the Pinker
Tones.
Norek, co-founded the Latin Alternative Music Conference
and is a member of the Hip Hop Hoodios.
Lechner, author of Rock en Español: The Latin Alternative Rock Explosion, also has been a contributor to The Times' Calendar section.
With your host: Marc Matheson
The Place We Live is a live radio interview program created by Marc Matheson as a mode of sketching the West Marin landscape through the lives of the people who live or work here.
Inspired by "West Marin Review", a local art and literature journal, The Place We Live features live conversation with a diverse range of local folk - writers, poets and artists, students, teachers and parents, farm and ranch workers, shopkeepers and townspeople - at the intersection of not just literature and art, but also work and learning, and the appreciation of artfulness in daily life.
The program also addresses community and public affairs topics relevant to life in West Marin, including education.
The Place We Live airs live on alternate Saturday mornings at 11:00, for an hour. Archived recordings of the show are available for free download and sharing within a few hours. (Scroll down for the archives.)
Listen live to the program at www.kwmr.org!
Visit and like the Facebook page, The Place We Live!
Support Community Radio KWMR by becoming a member or giving a gift in appreciation for this show by clicking here - for as little as $30 a year or $10 a month, you can make Community Radio a part of your life!
Photo by Christopher Miles.
With your host: Amanda Eichstaedt
Warming up for Fish Tales at 9:30 am.
With your host: Jacoba Charles
Jacoba Charles and Mark Dowie doing oral histories with West Marin ranchers.
With your host: Vicki Leeds
A show about people and where in the world they go to pursue their dreams, to work, or to have great adventures.
With your host:
Stories and music with host Stuart Mclean, from the CBC.
The Sunday episode is repeated every other Tuesday at 10 am.
To see The Vinyl Café website, click here.