Join me every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month at 8 pm, to celebrate music that transcends genres and spoken word artists who will capture the heart, mind, spirit and soul!
Paula the Small will pick music to groove to, accompanied by spoken words that will move and inspire you!
If you or someone you know is a spoken word artist and would like to share spoken word on the air, please get in touch!
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Bridget B.here, I'm set to host An Evening of Afrotainment this Saturday from 7pm to 10pm. Listen to music of the African Diaspora by Black artists worldwide. All genres from African traditional to esoteric experimental.
Today's playlist and musical journey provided by Keller Henry & Paula Small, while the divas of "An Evening of Afrotainment" take well-deserved holiday breaks.
Bridget B.here, I'm set to host An Evening of Afrotainment this Saturday from 7pm to 10pm. Listen to music of the African Diaspora by Black artists worldwide. All genres from African traditional to esoteric experimental. Slip and slide aurally through the spectrum of the Black experience. Become a member of KBOO 90.7FM.
Her name is Soha, a French contemporary R&B singer who signed with Virgin Music back in 2007 and quickly released her debut album D'Ici et d'Ailleurs with a re-release in 2008. She hails from Marseille and has Jazz, Blues, Soul, Jamaican Reggae and Latin influences sprinkled throughout her repretoire of music. I discovered her music during my recent trip to Paris and of these three songs that I played:
C'est samedi soir mes amis. Bonsoir et bienvenue a une soiree de Afrotainment. Je suis Bridget B. votre hote pour la soiree. Il est bon d'etre de retour.
Bridget B.here, I'm set to host An Evening of Afrotainment this Saturday from 7pm to 10pm. Listen to music of the African Diaspora by Black artists worldwide. All genres from African traditional to esoteric experimental. Slip and slide aurally through the spectrum of the Black experience. Become a member of KBOO 90.7FM.
Every year dozens of individuals are brutally murdered because they are transgender or simply perceived as gender variant. Rather than decreasing, the number of these deaths has increased in the last few years, possibly as a backlash against gay-marriage legislation.In order to memorialize those who have died for their gender presentations, activists founded the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20th.This year, Oregon Governor Kulongoski proclaimed the day a statewide day of remembrance; and the entire month of November has been dedicated to transgender awareness.
In this episode of Gender Blender, co-hosts Jacob Anderson-Minshall and Laura Calvo spoke to the organizers of some of those events including:Allison Cleveland, Executive Director of Eugene’s Gender Center and a key player in eliciting the governor’s proclamation; Natalia from Portland State University’s Queer Resource Center, which is sponsoring the local Transgender Day of Remembrance events, including a concert by trans musicians Katastrophe and Athens Boys Choir (aka Katz); and queer performer Peterson Toscano who will be presenting his one-man play, “Transfigurations—Transgressing Gender in the Bible,” Thursday, November 19th at the Epworth United Methodist Church, 1333 SE 28th Street in Portland.
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