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  Lady Sings the Blues: A Tribute to Billie Holiday returns to the Alberta Rose Theatre on April 4, 2026.  KBOO Art Focus presenter Joseph Gallivan talked to Jazz Lives’ Marcia Hocker, who is MC for the event and also one of the singers who will interpret Billie Holi... Read more

  KBOO COMMUNITY RADIO’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS RECRUITING Do you love KBOO Community Radio and its mission? Apply to join the Board of Directors! The Board of Directors of The KBOO Foundation governs the station: safeguarding its financial health, shaping its future, re... Read more

  Chart a course for engaging radio in our “Radio Ahead” special programming season! Choose your own adventure amongst our plethora of specials ranging from enlightening interviews, to compelling talk radio, to dynamic music of all genres.  KBOO’s DJs are bringing you ... Read more

  Spring has Sprung!  Sweet, beautiful country music, Baseball and Love are ON the air this Saturday starting at 6:00 a.m., during the three-hour broadcast of Swing ’n’ Country on KBOO-FM. First Saturday hosts Graham and Robert Parish cover all the bases, beginning wi... Read more

On this episode the parsing sound crew steps into the heart of April, exploring the season’s defining themes of Growth and Renewal.    Read more

Jerry Ryan is a life coach, psychotherapist and best-selling author of Living Less Stressed, and he is one of the authors of the new book We Choose To Be More Than Our Diagnoses.  HOST Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, international mindfulness expert, fo... Read more

Joe Clement returns to host an episode of the Old Mole, and we hear: Patricia Kullberg, our Well Read Red, reads excerpts from an article titled: “The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America’s Cycle of Violence,” by Sara Van Gelder. It was published... Read more

  This show aired originally on February 16, 2026   The largest waterfall in North America is Niagara Falls, a world renowned tourist attraction with spectacular views from many angles. The second largest falls is Willamette Falls, 16 miles south of Portland, Oregon, wh... Read more

This episode of Pastures of Plenty features a set of songs about the benefits of hard work.  The set includes two songs from the 2024 album Labor Day put together by George Mann and Si Kahn.  John McCutcheon sings "Go to Work on Monday," and Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer s... Read more

Today's show is the first of three shows with songs and tune titles containing animal names. Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes a re-broadcast from Against the Grain: While the wealthy disproportionately own real estate in the U.S., in many locales the properties of low income homeowners and especially homeowners of color are... Read more

  This program aired originally on February 23, 2026   As data centers continue to pop up like noxious weeds, a growing movement is coming together to stop their spread. Like oil and gas pipelines before them, data centers are uniting people of diverse backgrounds and p... Read more

On Tuesday, April 14, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews Julia Dolan of the Portland Art Museum about “David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation”.    Curator Dolan talks about how Hockney emerged from Swinging... Read more

  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more