Host Blake More speaks with Sherry Glaser and Juan Wulff about the Mendocino County premier of their original play “Life and Death: A Love Story”. They will be talking about inspiration, necessity, and the bravery of meeting what is eventually coming for all of us.

Award winning actress, solo performer, Sherry Glaser  creator and star of the longest running one woman show in Off-Broadway history 'FAMILY SECRETS' returns to the stage after a two year absence with her new show and co-star Juan Wulff.  After a harrowing confrontation with mortality, Sherry’s familiar brand once again elevates and translates her true life experience into a comedic and unique revelation as only Sherry Glaser can. She is joined by new comer Juan Wulff whose theatrical debut will thrill and surprise audiences. Ricci Dedola, who directed Glaser’s OH MY GODDESS!, a comedy of biblical proportions which won best Avant Garde Performance at the 2015 United Solo festival on Broadway in NYC, will direct this new work.

Originally from Venezuela, Juan Wulff says close encounters with death have crafted his soul into becoming a Death Dula for a dear friend in 2023. His patient/doctor experience started with Hodgkin's Disease in 1982, Squamous Cell Carcinoma in 2024 with 3 other cancers in between along with 40 years of living with HIV. While his theater experience has only been with The New Conservatory Theater Center in San Francisco as a facilitator/actor for the AIDS youth aware program, he met Sherry Glaser at Dragons’ Breath Theater in Gualala in 2024 by chance and forged the relationship that sparked her to write Life and Death; A Love Story

Host Blake More speaks with Native Arts Expo Founders Eric and Karen Wilder, two Coast Pomo Natives who are dedicated to uplifting indigenous artists and creating cultural exchange through art. They’ll be talking about art, native American culture, the upcoming Native Artts Expo and how to align with more care, clarity and heart in all we do. 

Eric Wilder (Kashia Band of Pomo Indians) grew up on the Kashaya Reservation near Stewarts Point and is the grandson of Kashaya Spiritual Leader Essie Parrish. Immersed in cultural traditions from an early age, he learned ceremonial songs, plant uses, and family responsibilities, serving as a fire tender, feather dancer, Big Head Dancer, and eventually a Headman for his family.

Eric’s passion for art led him into the video game industry as an animator, storyboard artist, and concept designer, before returning home to apply his skills to cultural and language preservation. He has served as Tribal Secretary and Chairman, created educational resources for his community, and shared Kashaya knowledge through lectures, storytelling, and graphic design.  Today, Eric continues his work as an artist, educator, and community leader, guided by his grandmother’s teaching: “Each one of you has a talent, don’t hide it—bring it out for everyone to see, especially the young ones.”

Karen Wilder (Manchester-Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians) grew up on the Manchester-Point Arena Rancheria and has always carried a deep appreciation for the arts. While her career began in organizational and management roles—including work with the California Rural Indian Health Board, launching the Garcia River Casino, and helping establish the Tribal Head Start program—those experiences became the foundation for her later work supporting community projects and events like the Native Arts Expo, which she co-coordinates with her husband, Eric Wilder.

Karen earned her B.A. in Native American Studies from UC Davis, grounding her work in cultural understanding and community perspective. Her professional path reflects a commitment to building systems and opportunities that strengthen Indigenous communities, whether through health, education, or the arts. Today, Karen runs her own design business, where she blends creativity with strategy to help small businesses, and artists shine online. 

Visit Eric Wilder’s website

Visit the Native Expo website

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.                                       

Host Blake More speaks with Renaissance woman, Mendocino County treasure, artist and healer Serafina Andrews. They will be discussing Serafina’s creative life, her music, dancing, painting, healing and adventuring. Expect some deep stories, healing opportunities and lots of smiles. 

A gifted, sensitive, Renaissance woman, Serafina Andrews draws on a rich spectrum of experience. Early in her life she was fortunate to have a career as a concert ballerina, classical Spanish dancer, and flamenco harpist, touring worldwide. She also studied art at the well-known Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.

Serafina has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Egypt, giving seminars and retreats with her husband, Joel Andrews, harpist.   

As a poet she has published “Keys of Passage” and her recent “Daughters of Delphi”. She also authored “The Wisdom of Emotions” and “The Egyptian Book of Temple Initiations”.

Her CD recordings include “Doradus” – Spanish Harp and Guitar with Kent Newman, “Paradise Bird” and “Journey Toward the Sun” with Joel Andrews and “Creative Possibilities” – a radio interview on “Woman’s Voices”. Her paintings have sold throughout the United States and Europe.

View her recent artwork and books at harpofgold.org and SerafinArts.com.

Host Blake More speaks with three poets, and a musician about their two art books of ekphrastic poetry: Sonoma Valley Sonnet and A Poet’s Portrait of Point Reyes. They will also discuss the collaborative creative process, writing from nature, photography, inspiration and more. Poets Jeffery Bartfeld, Susanne Arrhenius, and Jaime Zukowski will also be reciting original poems from each of the books while accompanied live by guitarist Brian Abbott. The show originally airs on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.                                        

Host Blake More features the poetry of Mendocino county youth. 

Youth Poets include Frej Barty, current Mendocino County Youth Poet Laureate, Steven Mitchell and Videl Dieck from Pacific Community Charter High School, 5th grade students from Arena Elementary School, Manchester School and 2-3 and middle school poets from the Pacific Community Charter School.  

Every year I feature the upcoming voices of our county and highlight the wonderful programs funded by Get Arts in the Schools, the Mendocino County Office of Education, California Poets in the Schools and individual school site funds.  

I’ve been teaching poetry in Mendocino County classrooms since 2021, and it never gets old!  Every year, I am inspired, awed, entertained and grateful for each and every student willing to dive in and find the voice within.  

I hope you listen closely to the up and coming voices, and even more, I hope you enjoy their fresh and energized voices!  

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits and on the web www.kzyx.org.                                        

Be More Now host Blake More speaks with Somatic Pleasure Coach James Humecky.

James Humecky is a Somatic Pleasure Coach, Surrogate Partner, and Sensation Artist with over 30 years of experience exploring the living intelligence of the body. He works at the intersection of intimacy, touch, breath, and emotional truth—guiding people back to what they’ve forgotten they could feel.
 

His work is not therapy. It’s not performance. It’s reclamation. Through breath, movement, mindfulness, and touch, James helps individuals and couples strip away the numbness of modern life and return to sensation as a form of liberation.
 

He teaches from the body—not from a manual. He speaks in pulse, in weight, in the hum that comes when someone finally exhales in their own skin.
 

James is currently completing his book, Sensation as Liberation, and hosting the upcoming podcast Wisdom Keepers Series, inviting us all to live at the edge of our own truth, eroticism, and presence. More at:  https://somatic-pleasure.com/

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, and can also be found on the web www.kzyx.org.  

Be More Now host Blake More speaks with musician, poet, artist and south coast legend Harrison Goldberg. They will be discussing Goldberg’s long, interesting, creative career as a jazz saxophonist, poet, artist, and playwright. A man of many hats and stories!

Gualala, California resident Harrison Goldberg is a familiar face along the Mendonoma coast. With his trademark tools of musical expression, his three saxophones: tenor, alto and soprano, Harrison can be seen and heard in several local venues as well as on a variety of CD recordings. He changes these three instruments as easily as one might change hats, which brings something to mind: As the grandson of a Russian immigrant hat maker in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Harrison has “worn a few hats of his own making,” including that of an abstract artist in the Dadaist tradition, a wine label designer, a writer of music education workshops, and a mentor for young musicians. He has his share of awards for his visual art pieces which have found their way into some corporate and private collections worldwide. Harrison is an alumnus of the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and he has been playing saxophone professionally since the age of 17.

Following a series of successful music workshops for children, Goldberg has developed an epic musical edutainment story for young people, …& Music Was King™, which is in the process of being scripted for theater performance. He is also the creator of a cross- cultural music workshop project titled Tapestry International: Celebrating the Living Fabric of Cultures Entwined and its companion performance venue A Sound Vision, which showcases the artistic contributions of children in Tapestry International’s host countries.

Playing professionally since age 17, Goldberg enjoyed 12 years in the vibrant Newport, Rhode Island jazz scene, augmented by stints in Miami and on Carribean cruise ships, before relocating to northern California in the 1980’s. Here his expansion beyond mainstream jazz began in 1992 with formation of the performance art collaborative Tabula Rasa. This four piece ensemble undertook an intentional regimen of mental and musical exercises designed to reach beyond the players’ traditional “programming” as jazz musicians, and augment it with the ability to create new music purely by inspiration… through attentive, intuitive listening. (See NeonEgypt.com: Intuitive Music) This thread was later carried forward and expanded with other players in the group Cloudfire (cloudfiremusic.com), and in partnership with computer-electronic musician and visual artist Simon Burnett as Lavender Fog . Harrison’s latest group, BAKU, is dedicated to the art of spontaneous composition, combining contemplative, ambient structures and melodies with a strong, yet relaxing rhythmic pulse. Their “Jambient Soundscapes” embody a fusion of jazz, Afro beat, Middle Eastern, and other world influences and rhythms.

Goldberg continues to explore common ground between jazz music and the visual arts, collaborating with other mainstream and experimental artists around the globe from his home north of San Francisco. As he explains in his essay ImproVart: Jazz Musician As Painter, “As a practitioner of the musical and the visual, I embark on a dual creative journey. When I begin a painting I eagerly anticipate connecting heart and soul with a rich inner music. While creating, I observe, and at the same time listen to the painting to hear its underlying melody, allowing shapes, forms and colors to begin their inspired dialogue. And as in true jazz, a song soon emerges.”

Committed to sharing the fruits of his evolving artistic journey with audiences and fellow artists alike, Harrison continues to explore new musical expressions that expand the boundaries of his creative imagination. He describes his role in music as “one of many travelers… in concert with one another capable of creating peaceful and harmonious global connections, and building bridges with our neighbors near and far.” Web Site: See Harrison’s artwork with music pairings at: www.HarrisonGoldbergArts.com

The show originally aired on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as streams on the web www.kzyx.org.                                       

Host Blake More speaks with Grant Scroff, drummer for the Polyrhythmics, a Seattle based powerhouse musical group.
It’s true: I’m a superfan of this band. I first discovered their sound at the Hangtown Music Festival and have been listening closely ever since.  The Polyrhythmics signature sound originated in Seattle’s underground deep funk scene combining impossibly tight grooves with bold brass and hypnotic percussion that showcased elements of R&B, progressive jazz, and Afrobeat which defined the instrumental group’s early era sound.  
 
Now on their thirteenth year as a recording project and touring ensemble, the band’s sound continues to evolve following six full length albums, several EPs and live releases. The virtuoso musicianship and musical conversation built on a relentless touring schedule of the previous decade has led them to a brand of psych-funk that fills a room with an impending mood where anything could happen – sometimes evoking their brighter and cinematic Fela-influences, and other times a moodier darker turn toward a more progressive Seattle sonic palette. 
 
Drummer Grant Schroff has been with the band since its inception. The show features a conversation with him, plus a musical sampling of the Polyrhythmics.

Be More Now features an interview with Bryn Elizan Harris, leader of the band Bryn and Blue Souls.

A PAHS 2000 alumna, Bryn has an amazing vocal range covering many styles of music including Broadway, Jazz, Blues, Pop and Rock and Roll. Bryn studied performing arts at SRJC, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she received a BFA cum laude in Directing in 2010. Her professional career as a performer, choreographer, and director has taken her from the Bay Area to the Central Coast,   New York City, Portland and Ashland, Oregon and on tour in the Southern United States. Upon her return to the Mendonoma Coast, she has performed, choreographed, directed and produced for Broken Anchor Collective (as a Co-Founder), the Gualala Arts Center Theater, The Arena Theater and The Sea Ranch Thespians. 

Bryn & Blue Souls are a multi-genre bending, soul satisfying musical engine that has accelerated onto the scene with a fan base that is getting more voracious with each new release.  "Flooring" audiences since 2020, Blue Souls boasts the ability to "vibe down" and transform into a mellow jazzy duo or trio, or light up the dance floors and festival stages with a full sextet, featuring two saxophones.  As seasoned music veterans, influenced by the ever-glowing online music scene, Bryn & Blue Souls deliver an alchemy of soul, funk, jazz, R&B and Pop cover favorites and originals, proving that soul music can be exponentially greater than the sum of its hearts.  

More info about Bryn and Blue Souls at: bluesoulsmusic.com

Tune into Be More Now when host Blake More interviews Block Therapist Jessica-Mycelia. They will be discussing the too often ignored role of fascia in healing from physical, emotional and mental trauma, how block therapy was discovered, and a whole lot more. The show originally aired at 7pm, October 3 on KZYX&Z 90.7FM Philo, 88.1FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5FM Willits, as well as stream live on the web www.kzyx.org.