“I never felt like I was ‘enough’,” Mimi Fox explains. “And now, for the most part, on my better days, I do. And that is a real gift of my aging and my healing, the changes I’ve gone through in my life. I’m really grateful for that ‘enoughness.’ That sense of being enough is great […]

Carolyn Sills and Gerard Egan join Andy Fuhrman to talk about their upcoming shows, 4th album release and new guitar shop ‘House of Twang’ new technology – The Pleck Machine  

Ken Kraft and Bonny June stop into the Brooklynbilly Music Mashup show October 24, 2023    

David Bean, host of New Squid in Town regularly interviews local artists and artists coming through town. On this show, he hosts singer/songwriter Rachel Anne Goodman who shares selections from her new album, California Morning. David’s show can be heard each Thursday fron 1-3 PM Pacific time on 90.7 FM, 89.7FM or 89.5FM or streaming […]

Nancy Zhou is one of the nation’s foremost solo violinists. She has collaborated with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and many more. She had her debut at 13 in the San Antonio Symphony. She joins the Santa Cruz Symphony as concertmaster and artist in residence and shares her music and passion […]

KSQD Community Concert Hall’s Christopher Smith interviews longtime Santa Cruz and Monterey County’s powerhouse classical music director Cheryl Anderson. Along with her husband, John Anderson, Cheryl has led classical music education and performance in the community for decades. Tune in to hear this wide-ranging interview on the anniversary of Ensemble Monterey’s 30th year. Interview date: […]

Interview by John Malkin Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, educator and author who grounds her projects in feminism, spiritual liberation and the movement to abolish prisons and police. Her latest album New Standards – Volume 1 received the 2023 Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Album and is a companion to Carrington’s book New […]

Tim Jackson and Bobby Bishop join David Bean on-air to talk about Tim’s retirement as Artistic Director of the Monterey Jazz Festival and his final event this year.

Roger McNamee is an American businessman, investor, venture capitalist and musician. He is interviewed by David Bean discussing the roots of San Francisco music and how that has influenced his band, Moonalice.

On KSQD’s Jazz Tracks, drummer Joe La Barbera speaks about his upbringing in music, career highlights including time spent with pianist Bill Evans, closing with thoughts on musical expression. Joe La Barbera is the co-author with Charles Levin of Times Remembered: The Final Years of the Bill Evans Trio (University of North Texas Press, 2021). […]