FOLK MUSIC ON THE RADIO
Bay Area Folk Music on the Radio
SAN FRANCISCO, EAST BAY, ETC.
November 22, 2005


Compiled by David Brown - please send comments and corrections to davbrown-nospam-2@yahoo.com. (remove the "-nospam-")

SUNDAY
11am-1pm KQED Prairie Home Companion (repeat)
11am-1pm KPFA Across the Great Divide: folk & pop with Robbie Osman
1pm-3pm KPFA America's Back 40: eclectic KFAT-style country, etc. with Mary Tilson.
3pm-5pm KPFA Pig in a Pen (bluegrass with Ray Edlund) alternates with Panhandle Country (country, Cajun, Western Swing, bluegrass, etc. with Tom Diamant)

WEEKDAYS
5am-6am KPFA Early Morning Music
10am-noon KPFA Music of the World

MONDAY

TUESDAY
10 am-2pm KFJC Out Behind the Barn with Peggy O: Bluegrass, gospel, zydeco, old-timey

WEDNESDAY
8pm-10pm KPFA Dead to the World: music of the Grateful Dead
10pm-12am KPFA Sing Out: misc folk; Larry Kelp

THURSDAY
5am-6am KPFA Kevin Vance
8pm-10pm KPFA Bonnie Simmons: rock, country, folk
10pm-12am KPFA Hear and Now: folk, rock; Derk Richardson

FRIDAY

SATURDAY
10am-noon KALW West Coast Live: live variety show
12pm-2pm KPFA Blues by the Bay - Tom Mazzolini
2pm-3pm KALW Thistle & the Shamrock: Irish, Scottish, etc. - Fiona Ritchie
3pm-5pm KALW Folk Music & Beyond - JoAnn Mar & Bob Campbell
5pm-6:30pm KALW A Patchwork Quilt - Kevin Vance
6:30pm-8pm KALW Bluegrass Signal - Peter Thompson
6pm-8pm KQED Prairie Home Companion

KQED SF 88.5 FM
KALW SF 91.7 FM
KPFA Berkeley 94.1 FM
KSAN 94.7 FM
KFJC Los Altos 89.7 FM
KUSF SF 90.3 FM
KCSM San Mateo 91 FM
KQED-TV San Francisco Channel 9
All bets are off during marathons at KPFA.
TV listings, esp. KCSM, change frequently.

In the South Bay and Santa Cruz, check out:
KUSP 88.9FM Santa Cruz
Repeaters:
91.1FM Palo Colorado Canyon
90.3FM Los Gatos/Saratoga/Campbell
KZSC 88.1 UC Santa Cruz
KKUP 91.5 FM Cupertino
KZSU 90.1 Stanford

These are stations that I don't receive, so I don't keep up to date on their schedules.

WWW Resources:

  • KPFA 94.1FM Berkeley
  • KALW FM 91.1FM San Francisco
  • KQED 88.5FM & Channel 9 San Francisco
  • KUSP-FM Santa Cruz
  • KKUP-FM Cupertino
  • Northern Calif Bluegrass Society Radio Relay
  • Prairie Home Companion
  • Thistle & Shamrock
  • Bay Area Noncommercial radio
  • Don Mussell's Folk Music Program Guide for the Central Coast (Cupertino, Pacific Grove, and Santa Cruz)
  • David Brown's Folk Music on the Radio: San Francisco & East Bay (this calendar)