Alternative Vashon with Bill Reid #239

January 10th, 2025 - Posted in

Depeche Mode plays live in the Alt Vashon garage Bill plays his disastrous 1997 interview with Perry Farrell and killer tracks from Nirvana New Order Counting Crows and Beastie Boys are featured

Dessert

January 6th, 2025 - Posted in

The Rolling Wave ~ January 2025

January 6th, 2025 - Posted in

Keep the Chill and Gloom Away Kat and John roll into the new year with music from Altan, Bert Jansch, The Mary Wallopers, local heros Keltoi who performed on Vashon to a sold-out crowd in December, the Barra MacNeils, Kate Rusby, Mick Conneelly, Eddi Reader sings a Burns song to celebrate the Bard’s birthday on January […]

Alternative Vashon with Bill Reid #238

January 1st, 2025 - Posted in

Lou Reed plays live in the Alt Vashon garage Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins stops by and Long Lost Song is from 1993 and killer tracks from Nirvana Ramones and LCD Soundsystem are featured

Return To The Light ~ Vashon Poets 2024

December 21st, 2024 - Posted in

Returning to the Light – Vashon Poets on the SolsticeSaturday, December 21, 4pmVashon poet laureate Margaret Roncone will lead a band of Island poets as they read original works about Winter, ancient Solstice rituals and what brought them to poetry in the first place. All punctuated with musical interludes. The poets are Margaret Roncone, Lynn […]

The Moody Hours ~ Anneke

August 27th, 2024 - Posted in

This show features music by Arlette’s sister, Anneke.  Every song Anneke composed, arranged, played keys, wrote the lyrics, and sung the lead vocals.  Pop music which is rich and complex as only a classically trained pianist could pull off.  Some reviews compared her to Kate Bush. Here is a video of one of Anneke’s songs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVBr919zsI

Obscuro Disco 57

May 26th, 2024 - Posted in

Return To The Light ~ Vashon Poets

December 17th, 2023 - Posted in

Vashon Island is a place of natural poetry and, thus, a perfect home to poets. Organized by the Island’s poet laureate, Margaret Roncone, ten of our poets will read original works aimed at beckoning the light during this dark time — as humans have done for millennia. Our poets are Sandra Noel, Catherine Johnson, Hunter Davis, […]

Vietnam Series 3 ~ Letters Episode 3

August 11th, 2023 - Posted in

Vietnam Series 3 ~ Letters Episode 2

August 11th, 2023 - Posted in

This is a combination of reading actual letters, articles in old Vashon newspapers, recollections of veterans’ experience in a whole new world, and letters to the veterans in Vietnam.  These articles were carefully transcribed and read by Susan Shrier.