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February 24, 2011 at 12:56 am (art, buddhism, culture, drama, education, exploring interconnectedness, journalism, life, politics, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: america, children, community radio, Economy, ethics, family, Homelessness, Issues, journalism, Kansas City, KKFI, Marathon, media, men, money, news, outreach, people, politics, radio, random, religion, social justice, talk radio, women
Native American Grammy Music
February 14, 2011 at 1:19 am (culture, education, entertainment, history, Indigenous People, life, music, Native Americans, random)
Tags: A Gathering of Nations, A Spirit's Dance, Awards, Bear Creek, Canyon Records, culture, dance, Dancing into Silence, entertainment, Grammy, history, KKFI, life, media, music, Native Americans, Native Spirit Radio, New Age, news, Northern Cree, people, Pow Wow, random, Rhonda LeValdo, Temptations, XI
Here are some of the Native American musical nominees for the Grammy Award for Native American Music–and New Age ~Dancing Into Silence. A Spirit’s Dance won in the Native American Album category. Clicking on the cover art will take you to clips of the music on each album. Canyon Records also has a very interesting audio clip regarding their own history of recording Native American music at
http://store.canyonrecords.com/index.php?app=cms&ns=display&ref=Grammy_Awards_2011
There is a wide variety of wonderful music clips on the Canyon Records site which makes it enjoyable to explore extensively.
KKFI’s Native Spirit Radio’s host Rhonda LeValdo commented today that she didn’t understand why there was still only one category for Native American music in which pow wow competes against traditional music and other various Native American genres. Yes, every style of Native American music is apparently lumped into one category.
Enjoy whatever you discover.
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Got ears? You too can hear Native America Calling.
February 6, 2011 at 10:58 pm (culture, education, entertainment, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, fiction, history, humor, Independent film, Indigenous People, journalism, Lakota, life, movies, music, Native Americans, Pine Ridge Indian reservation, play, politics, random, religion, satire, Uncategorized)
Tags: books, culture, Depp, education, entertainment, ethics, family, Harlan McKosato, history, humor, Indigenous, Issues, journalism, KKFI, life, media, movies, NAC, Native America Calling, Native Americans, Native Spirit Radio, news, opinion, people, politics, radio, Rhonda LeValdo, satire, talk radio, thoughts, Tonto
<<Click the banner above to visit Native America Calling.>>
Wondering what Native Americans think of Johnny Depp playing Tonto in a new film? Well, surf to Native America Calling’s online former broadcasts and find out. Heads up, make sure you’re wearing your satire hat for the “win Depp” show. There’s an online archive list and summary of several years of broadcasts covering everything from healthcare to water rights to “matchmaking.” Oh yes, there is more talk radio in America than the usual media attention beasts bellowing on the sound waves. The discussions on Native America Calling are lively, smart, informative and enjoyable. Harlan McKosato is the show’s host and producer. Listeners are invited to call in and participate in the conversations.
Native America Calling broadcasts live Monday through Friday, 1-2pm Eastern time. 10 am PST. You can listen online too.
On Monday, February 7, 2011 the topic will be the “State of Indian Education.” Having blogged my thoughts about the general state of education in America, I’m very interested in hearing this particular broadcast.
You can view the subjects of this upcoming week’s shows here– http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
They’re serving everything from Casino Jack to Adapting to Climate Change. And it all gets archived for listening at later dates.
In the Kansas City Metro area there’s only ONE hour a week of radio programming featuring Native American music, news, issues, and people. Native Spirit Radio airs on www.kkfi.org hosted by Rhonda LeValdo (Acoma Pueblo), on Sundays, 5-6pm CST. NSR streams online.
Escape the radio boxes by expanding your listening horizons to Native America Calling. Sharing your discoveries here is very welcome.
OOPS! What the *&^! ??? OOPS Our Way
February 2, 2011 at 10:13 pm (art, Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, culture, education, entertainment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, humor, journalism, Lakota, life, photography, politics, random, satire, Writing)
Tags: ABC, art, business, can, culture, Democracy Now, economics, education, Egypt, ethics, Fox, gas, geography, humor, information, interconnectedness, KKFI, life, maps, media, money, musings, news, opinion, people, politics, rant, satire, tear, thoughts, world, Writing
OOPS! Another example of inaccurate information from the news source famous for misinformation, misrepresentation and–now-mis-location. OOPS! Who needs social studies classes? Where in the world IS Egypt???? Not “here”…..OOOPS!
Where in the world?
These are serious times, deadly serious times and yet–yet there are moments of sublime humor. Though the degree of sublimity depends upon your own individual subjective sense of humor. Btw, if anyone is interested, there is a little town called Sublimity in Oregon. Really, I’ve been there. Sublimity has a beautiful park of OLD trees, a post office built in 1890 and a few cemeteries for your touring pleasure. Now back to the main menu:
Oh lordy, lordy, lordy! I first heard about Fox’s inability to find Egypt via KKFI radio–but I thought they were being sarcastic and facetious–until a friend shared the image. I just could not keep it all to myself. Have to share it with everyone else who missed this priceless piece of world news coverage.
Where’s a geography teacher when Fox News desperately needs one? Mapquest anyone? Got a 3D globe? Rand McNally wall map? Hey, they only report “news”, right? What do we expect from journalists? Who needs geographic accuracy? Might be useful for a “smart bomb” programmer—or not. Just send out the drones.
Oh hey, ABC is on the ball–or the “CAN” as in this case. Yes, if you haven’t had the dubious pleasure of tear gas in person, this is its package. complete with Made in the USA. Click the can to read more news coverage–American style. OOPS! WE make this stuff? Export it? Our economy needs some serious greening from the looks of things.
ABC: Made in America
OOPS! And a major OOOOUCH! to everyone enjoying unemployment in America. What can one billion American dollars buy? Depends on where you’re spending it. It could house a few people made homeless by the ongoing foreclosure crisis. It would buy A LOT of propane for folks on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota –which, btw, contains THE POOREST county in the USA–Ziebach. What would you spend a BILLION dollars on? According to Democracy Now! the American government has been “donating” at least a billion dollars a year to the Egyptian government for the last 30 years. Click on the bundled buckeroos to learn more about this artwork–and view other visual aids. You can visit Democracy Now! for more about what H. Clinton did and didn’t say about Egypt at http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/27/egyptian_american_activist_hillary_clinton_forget
Visual Aid: One Billion American Dollars
Come on, don’t be shy–what would you do with a BILLION dollars every year?
Love drama? Catch L.A. Theatre Works’ “Atomic Bombers” Online!
January 26, 2011 at 3:53 pm (art, creative writing, culture, drama, education, entertainment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, history, life, literary fiction, nature, play, politics, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: Atomic Bombers, chamber music, community radio, education, entertainment, environment, ethics, history, KKFI, L.A.Theatre Works, media, music, nature, opinion, people, play, playwriting, politics, radio, Radio Redux, random, Science, theatre, Writing
If the idiot box offers nothing for your viewing pleasure tonight, then try tuning into L. A. Theatre Works on www.kkfi.org streaming online and pleasure your ears with Atomic Bombers a play by Russell Vandenbroucke. Atomic Bombers will explode online Wednesday, January 26 at 7 pm CST. KKFI offers L.A. Theatre works every Wednesday immediately after the Radio Redux. Afterwards there’s Chamber Music with Dr. Mike.
So pop your favorite corn, pour your libation of choice, get warm and cozy with your treasured blankie and turn up the volume on your radio (90.1 fm KKFI in Kansas City) or computer (via www.kkfi.org).
Catch some truly MAD Scientists in their quest to create the means of ultimate destruction. Oh yes, truths are always stranger than fictions.
click Atomic Bombers to visit L. A. Theatre Works
Chapman chants, Sue sings Joe, Neil needs blood
January 22, 2011 at 9:46 am (culture, entertainment, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, humor, life, music, nature, play, politics, random, Writing)
Tags: American Idol, culture, entertainment, environment, ethics, gasoline, humor, inspiration, Joe Jencks, KKFI, life, music, nature, Neil Young, opinion, people, politics, random, singers, sleep, songwriters, Sue Jeffers, Tracy Chapman, values, Vampire Blues, videos, Writing
Would someone turn off the lights already? It’s 3 am!!!
Oh yeah, it’s the “I’m never gonna sleep again blues time” –again. So, hey, some tunes are in order. Or maybe not? Aww what the heck, here’s a little trio that have been just been crying for connection like some rowdy kids wanting a sleep over in the back yard in the summer just so they can play with water balloons. Ah, yeah, well so that’s a feeble comparison–but there it is. Summer and water balloons sound good about now. To me anyway. I know there are some snow worshippers out there–some where. In Iceland? So gathered here they be. Tracy Chapman’s rich chant to the “Mother of us all” in “The Rape of the World”. Sue Jeffers strums through a rendition of Joe Jencks’ ”Gasoline”. First heard Jencks voice his ode to our “petroleum addiction” on KKFI. AS IF any other radio station would ever give this song air time. Not happening. Just not happening in this universe of corporate personhood. Before I detour down the road of the joke of corporations being ‘persons’ –STOP! Jeffers gives Jencks’ song an admirable go round in this video. And then there’s the eternal “Vampire Blues” of a man with incredible musical staying power, Neil Young. Eat your hearts out American Idol wanna be-s! Here’s the real deal–singer songwriters with more on their minds than scoring tv ratings. Now here’s a thought–let’s have THESE songs sung on American Idol. Why not? Eh? Why not indeed??? Some real blood, sweat and tears for the enthralled ‘voters’.
I wonder if insomnia was the reason Phillip K. Dick penned Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I rather doubt it, but . . . . Hey, what do you suppose ‘corporate persons’ dream about??? Serfs increasing their profit margins with cheap labor? Huh. Now there’s a rant in vitro….the serfs come marching one by one. Hurrah! Hurrah!
Oh please feel free to share your personal favorites of like-minded songs. I’m always game for new musical adventures. Almost always, but especially in the wee hours when I can hear the snowflakes beckoning….
Jazz Violin Blues a la Christian Howes & Robben Ford
December 18, 2010 at 2:09 am (culture, entertainment, life, music, play, random)
Tags: blues, cd, Christian Howes, culture, entertainment, jazz, KKFI, media, music, Out of the Blue, people, radio, random, Robben Ford, Sharon Hendrix
I’ve been saving this musical gift for a gloomy winter day and this is it–buckets of gloom looming. Ahhhh. Okay, many of you are probably tired of my beating the drum for KKFI 90.1 fm Community Radio’s “Liberated Airwaves” as one volunteer DJ says. But I’m going to beat the drum again for the all the great jazz it offers. Hear! Hear! One very cool thing about KKFI is that you can “win” free music. Yes, even I who has dark star bad luck with all games of chance—can win a cd by being the 4th caller into Jazz in the Afternoon featuring a live in studio interview with jazz violinist Christian Howes. Yes, you read that right–Jazz Violinist. I have no idea why I even decided to dial spin the opportunity. I suspect Howes’ tunes worked some sort of magic on my mind. But I did–and to my surprise I landed in the right phone spot. Out of the Blue arrived in my mailbox a few days later. Thank you! I’ve been enjoying its clear rich soundwave energy ever since. If you’re a jazz/blues fan you can too. This cd also offers guitarist Robben Ford’s magic fingers & Sharon Hendrix’s pipes on “Seek and Ye Shall Find.”
Click on the cover to visit “the Urban Flux’s” review of the music.
A Non-Profit Jazz Label with a Mission. Devoted to Preserving Jazz and Discovering the Rising Stars of Tomorrow. Click on the logo to travel to Resonance online. Listen. Order. Download. If you dig what they’re spinning.
Oh and yes, KKFI streams 24/7 at www.kkfi.org. It’s FREE in so many ways down there at 39th & Main in Midtown Kansas City. Except for the transmitter……
Bioneers–streaming now!
December 10, 2010 at 3:48 pm (culture, education, environment, ethics, exploring interconnectedness, food, history, journalism, life, nature, politics, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: bioneers, business, culture, Economy, education, environmment, ethics, Green, information, inspiration, Issues, KKFI, life, media, natural resources, nature, news, people, pollution, radio, sustainable economy
Bioneers–Revolution From the Heart of Nature.
Streaming online now at www.kkfi.org around the world. KKFI airs Bioneers every Friday at 9:30 am CST.
Bioneers is a wonderful informative program about our world’s state of being and the interaction of people and Earth. Discover it if you care about Nature. It’s about the interconnectedness of everything–people, planet, economics, et al, for example, green collar justice.
Clicking on the logo will take you to Bioneers’ site. I encourage you to take the journey if you haven’t yet.
News–Radio Flash–tribute to John Lennon on KKFI–NOW!
December 8, 2010 at 12:35 pm (culture, entertainment, ethics, history, life, music, random, Uncategorized)
Tags: culture, entertainment, history, imagine, KKFI, Lennon, life, media, music, people, politics, radio, random, video
Love Lennon? Then stream into www.kkfi.org this morning 5am – 8am CST.
Peace
om mani padme hum jewel in the lotus wahupa qi prana universal life energy
Paragon Radio’s Suicide 160
December 7, 2010 at 12:45 am (culture, entertainment, ethics, history, humor, journalism, life, music, poetry, politics, random, satire, Uncategorized)
Tags: audio collage, Ben, commentary, culture, entertainment, ethics, Inforwarts, Issues, KKFI, life, media, music, news, opinions, Paragon radio, poetry, politics, radio, Radio Redux, spoken word, suicide
Connect to the Suicide by clicking on the “cover” above. Good luck.
No, this is not “MY” plan. Nope, this Suicide/audio collage is online in its entirity at Infowarts. This is #160 Suicide - CLX Cousins Promise. Nearly one hour of issue rasing spoken word, news clips, music, archived material. It’s a hell of a potent brew that aired on Paragon Radio in the wee hours this Monday–as in approximatly at 3 am. Paragon Radio streams online at www.kkfi.org. Whether he’s of a mind to ’talk’ or not and just runs the audio radio board your host is Benjamin. If you’re curious, you can listen while you blog. Get some news, some ‘commentary’, some ideas, some issues, and who knows what might follow in your mind.
On Wednesdays at 6pm CST you can catch the Radio Redux with your “humble host Benjamin” for some talk radio that doesn’t go with the mainstream media status quo flow. Your location on the globe matters not because it streams live online at www.kkfi.org.
Be forewarned, there are NO sacred cows here.
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