Happy 4th of July! Far West Highlights

KWMR would like to wish you a most glorious mid-week holiday this 4th of July!

Far West Fest - July 21 at Love Field

The FWF Hosts Three Stages, offering a lineup of blues, country, rock, folk, experimental, bluegrass and world music, internationally touring acts and local favorites. This year's fest will continue with the addition of the new acoustic "Oyster Bed Stage," featuring unplugged versions of favorites acts. 2012 Bands include:

Les Nubians

Orgone

VINYL

...with very special guests! MC RADIOACTIVE! MARSHALL PAYNE! Spark and Whisper Kelly McFarling Bo Carper (of New Monsoon) Katie Freeman and Matt Silva Eric Pollard Pat Nevins Garrin Benfield Kimberly Kenny and the Otherlies ...and MANY MORE to be announced!

Get your tickets NOW! at www.farwestfest.org! Blue skies, great food, kids zone, craft & art vendors.

Benefits local non-profits including KWMR, youth programs and Home Base at Love Field.

Far West Fest was Voted the Best Music Festival in Marin! Over $150, 000 raised for area nonprofit organizations. Good times for the greater good!

Stay tuned to KWMR for interviews with artists and musical selection from Far West Fest bands and musicians!

Program Highlights

Wednesday, July 4

4 pm "Special - Groundwork: Democracy Close to Home." From the Center for Documentary Studies, hosted by Scott Simon, this special tells stories of American democracy at the local level. In Upstate New York, North Carolina, Texas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alaska, we listen in as people wrestle with issues alongside-and in opposition to-their neighbors.

5 pm "Special - The Beat Pedaler." Producer Vanessa Lowe explores rapper, inventor, and educator Paul Freedman's passion for bike culture. It's a lot of fun, and filled with music and effects!

5:30 pm "Epicenter: Point Reyes Dialogues." Philosopher Jacob Needlman in conversation with Roger Walsh, professor of psychiatry and human behavior, anthropology and philosophy at UC Irvine.

Thursday, July 5

9:30 pm "L.A. Theater Works: Moving Bodies" written by Arthur Giron, and part of LATW's "Relativity Series" featuring science-themed plays. Alfred Molina stars as Richard Feynman - the brilliant mathematician, bongo-playing eccentric, and doting husband and brother. "Moving Bodies"looks at Feynman's life, including his pivotal role in the Rogers Commission, which investigated the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster. Rosalind Ayres directs Alfred Molina, Emily Bergl, Jessica Chastain.

Friday, July 6

Steve Kinsey

12 pm "Special Election Wrap-and-Preview." Herb Kutchins hosts Norman Solomon at noon, and Steve Kinsey at 12: 30. Questions include whom each is endorsing for Congress and the State Assembly in the fall election.

1 pm "Special - The 13th Annual Night of Nights." Richard Dillman and his Morse Code cohort send lusty salvos from West Marin 'round the world! Visitors welcome on July 12th at the Point Reyes Peninsula location. http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/events_nightofnights.htm

Saturday, July 7

11 am "The Place We Live." Marc Matheson's guest is professional intuitive counselor, astrologer, aromatherapist, and space clearer Christopher Miles.

12 pm "Forms and Feelings." Host Jim Bennett live in-studio.

6 pm "The Celtic Universe." Ken Eichstaedt joins Lyons Filmer to bring on more music of Scotland and the Islands, including from Jane Michelson and Don Smith's collection from their recent trip to the Orkneys.

Sunday, July 8

6 pm "Between Rock and A Jazz Place with Grey Shepard" features a conversation with one of the Far West Fest headlining acts and recorded music from the world/ funk artists on the Far West line up.

The Far West Fest, happening July 21st, will be featured throughout month of July on KWMR. Guests include festival chefs, artists and musicians. Listen for recorded music and studio appearances by Orgone, Vinyl, Les Nubians, Spark and Whisper, Bo Carper (New Monsoon) and others.

Monday, July 9

8:45 am "With Eyes Open with Peter Asmus." David Williard talks about the solar stage that Sage Renewables is again setting up at Far West Fest.

Tuesday, July 10

Rachel Swarns

10 am "Turning Pages: Waves of Joy." Joy Maulitz hosts Rachel Swarns, author of American Tapestry: the Story of the Black, White and Multi-racial Ancestors of Michele Obama.

Full Schedule at www.kwmr.org.

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NIGHT OF NIGHTS XIII - July 12, 2012!
KPH Entrance

Have you passed the entrance on Sir Francis Drake and said to yourself, "One of these days I'm going to go and check out what is down that super cool driveway?" Well, now is your chance and what a better time than on Night of Nights! It's NEXT week - July 12th.

Dick Flint of Inverness, former KPH operator, demonstrated his skills at a past Night of Nights.

12 July 1999 was a sad day for many of us. We knew it was coming but when the end finally arrived is was a shock. I was there.

It was the supposed last day of Morse code. The final sign off took place at a remote station on the Pacific coast. Women attending the event were dressed as if at a funeral. Grizzled, hard bitten old men, the kind you wouldn't mess with in a bar room, had tears in their eyes as the last messages was keyed out to the world at 0000 gmt. And then there was silence. It was just beeps in the air. But that's how much Morse code means to the men and women who made the profession of
radiotelegrapher one of honor and skill.

But the prediction of the death of Morse code was not to be fulfilled. On that day the Maritime Radio Historical Society was born. On that day we began plans to restore our own West marin Morse code radio station - the famous KPH. One year later we held the first "Night of Nights" when not only KPH but other coast stations appeared once again on the air. Every year since we have commemorated that date by returning these stations to the air and thereby, we hope, honoring the men and women who came before us.

Join us this year for Night of Nights XIII. See and hear a real Morse code coast station in full song. Mingle with the pioneers who were the men and women of the airwaves.

When: 12 July 2012 - Doors open at 3:00pm, first transmission at 5:01pm (0001gmt)
Where: KPH receive station, 14700 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, past the oyster company and G Ranch
Information: info@radiomarine.com or 663-8982

Light snacks will be served.

$3 Coin? Really?
Yes! A great way to support KWMR! West Marin Coastal Fund

Have you laid your hands on one of the Coastal Marin Fund tokens? We recommend that you do so right away! They are fun to spend. Once you have an empty container you can bring it or send it to KWMR! If you have questions about this, please ask. It's really almost too easy!

Fairfax Theatre Company Presents The World Premier of

Sam M. Parry's LOOT! A Pirate Musical

This is a rollicking new adventure with a twist, something different from the usual run of pirate stories. Come enjoy a fun filled play with a great story line, plenty of swashbuckling action, catchy songs, dancing skeletons, zombie sailors and stranded orphans . . . not forgetting the LOOT! A promise of fun for the entire family.

This performance features KWMR's own Tony Palmer, host of Sonic Sunspots each and every Wednesday night from 10:30 until the wee hours of the morning!

Tony Palmer

Weekends June 29 to July 21

Friday/Saturday at 7PM

Saturday/Sunday Matinees at 2PM

Tickets: Adults $15 - Seniors (60+) Students with I.D. and kids 3 years and up $10

Advance tickets at Fairfax Town Hall and Revolution9

[Come in costume and get a discount]

Cute Baby!

Bliss is a-bustin' out all over for KWMR DJ Chris Breyer and his spiritual guide/sweetie Cameron O'Rourke with the birth of Shayna Rose to Chris' daughter Jamila Low and her husband David.

In This Round-Up

Far West Fest

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West Marin Report

Night of Nights

$3!!!

KWMR's Tony Palmer!

New Baby!

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KWMR Board Meetings

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