Yuji Tojo Percussionist Jim Greiner - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (2/17/2023)
Release Date: 03/12/2024
KZSC Bushwhacker's - Crys Matthews, Singer Songwriter - Folk & Social Justice - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club, Nov. 8, 2024
KZSC Santa Cruz
First performing gig was in 2007....her career took off in 2017 after she won an award at the 2017 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition at the Kennedy Center; as a songwriter, sometimes the songs just come to her; she writes and sings about social justice (e.g.: "Cancel Culture"); she plays banjo, having majored in music at college in North Carolina; started tour with Julian Taylor from Toronto...they're playing separate gigs, but will be back together for show next Thursday at The Ugly Mug in Soquel.
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Gail Pellerin, California 28th District Assemblymember, Nov. 15, 2024, on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club"
KZSC Santa Cruz
What can we do to prepare for Trump's clear mandate? It's a marathon, not a sprint...change starts local, and in ourselves; discussion of the changing face of local journalism, with Lookout Santa Cruz's birthday last night, and how they are rolling out in local schools; Gail studied journalism in college (Cal Poly, SLO), where she was editor of the Mustang, & later a reporter at the SLO Bulletin, Elk Grove Citizen, where she realized she had opinions; worked for Rusty Arias' district office, then the Bill Tracking Unit in Sacramento, and later, Santa Cruz County Clerk; the Governor *has*...
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Martine Watkins, City Councilmember in Santa Cruz, California, discusses history of sugar-sweetened beverage tax in Santa Cruz, and how earlier efforts were cut off by passage of the California Keep Groceries Affordable Act, which penalized charter cities who would raise taxes on sugar sweetened beverages. Martine and Cultiva La Salud sued the state, and won in the Third District Court of Appeal, which struck down the Act's penalty provision. On June 25, 2024, the City Council adopted resolution (No. NS-30,360) requesting that the Nov. 5, 2024 General Election ballot include a general tax of 2...
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kzsc_Bushwhacker's_musicians Zoë Aqua, Dmitri Gaskin, and Raffi Boden_20240329 Eastern European Village Music
KZSC Santa Cruz
Zoë Aqua, Dmitri Gaskin, and Raffi Boden play Klezmer music, in the tradition of Ashkenazi Jewish people from Eastern Europe villages. Dmitri plays accordion and lives on a Watsonville apple farm, Zoë plays violin & recently completed a Fulbright in the Transylvania area of Romania(!), & Raffi lives in Brooklyn and is a full time freelance musician playing in 3-4 Klezmer bands. Zoë also teaches, and Dmitri is an apple farmer. How did they stumble into Klezmer? Good question! Dmitri's parents had Klezmer music CDs when he grew up in Berkeley, California, and legendary Klezmer...
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Santa Cruz City Councilmember Scott Newsome - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/27/2024)
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Scott Newsome, City Councilmember in Santa Cruz, California, discusses how city ordinances are introduced and passed. Tennant protection ordinance, and an ordinance to prevent outside police departments from depositing unhoused individuals in Santa Cruz. The role of a city council member is to listen, and make progress; downtown construction and lowering barriers to approving housing. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange
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Risa Hosking, Singer Songwriter - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/20/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Risa Hosking, Singer Songwriter, on her life path and career, including where she grew up (Hatchett Mountain), 15 miles from the nearest school, and her early influences (the Mountaineer Jug Band) and a teacher who convinced her to join an all-girl band. It wasn't 'till she got to a California Bluegrass Association camp and heard people jamming at night that she learned she was playing "Old Time Busic"; now "country/folk with a little twang". Rita got a grant from Arts Council from the state, to write music / songs about climate change; making a living with music performing, running a...
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Owen Ragland and Kat Baker aka Honey Run, musicians- The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (9/27/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Owen Ragland and Kat Baker performing as Honey Run. They went to high school together, and reconnected after college - they knew they wanted a band, and were searching for a nature-inspired name...a friend told them about a name rejected by their band, and lo-and-behold!! they became "Honey Run". Owen is doing a bunch of music projects, & Kat is a civil engineer and works for the Forest Service by day, with music after hours. Owen is a multi-instrumentalist, whose parents were bluegrass musicians, with Owen wanting to play fiddle since he was a kid and, when he was a teenager, guitar; Kat...
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Joe Robinson on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club", Sept. 20, 2024
KZSC Santa Cruz
Joe Robinson, Australian finger-style guitar virtuoso and singer/songwriter, started playing guitar at age 10, and, at 16, won Australia Got Talent! Moved to Nashville to break into the music business, and spent 12 years as a studio musician, and touring 250 shows a year. He moved to Montana, where less distraction allows him to focus on music. Includes 3 live songs played in the KZSC studio.
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California State Assemblymember Gail Pellerin - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (5/17/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Gail Pellerin, CA's 28th District Assemblymember, on the recent May Revise horrorshow, the death of AB1999, and California's new state slug. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
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Singer-songwriter Butch Hancock - The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club (5/10/2024)
KZSC Santa Cruz
Butch Hancock, country singer-songwriter and founding member of The Flatlanders, on performing with his son Rory, his series of "No Two Alike" shows at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, and how songwriting requires self-discipline. Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.
info_outlineJim Greiner, percussionist for local band Yuji Tojo, on layering electric guitar tracks, musical influences, and the "business" part of the "music business." Hosted by "Dangerous Dan" Orange, "Kalamity Kyle" Keller, and Kaos.