Jack Straw Foundation
Sept 27, 2013 13:58:28 GMT -8
Post by Well on Sept 27, 2013 13:58:28 GMT -8
Found here
www.nwfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FolklifeFestival-2012_FINAL_LO.pdf
I missed this, but according to this they founded KBOO:
It's on the wiki page, so color me not paying attention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBOO
I wonder how Jack et al feel about KBOO now?
www.nwfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FolklifeFestival-2012_FINAL_LO.pdf
I missed this, but according to this they founded KBOO:
Jack Straw Celebrates 50 Years
The Jack Straw Foundation is celebrating its own fifty-year anniversary in 2012.
For many years it hosted and broadcasted stages at the Northwest Folklife Festival through KRAB-FM, a local radio station. As part of the 2012 Cultural Focus: The Next Fifty, Jack Straw is presenting the KRAB Radio Showcase, a fifty-year retrospective.
The Jack Straw Foundation was founded in 1962 to start one of the first community radio stations in the country—KRAB-FM. Hundreds of passionate volunteers
shared their expertise in the arts, sciences, and public affairs with individuals of all ages from Vancouver, British Columbia to Vancouver, Washington. When you listened to KRAB, you heard programs played nowhere else: music from other countries, thoughts and ideas not usually given public expression, programs that were a practical application of the First Amendment. You also heard live broadcasts of folk and ethnic music from the KRAB stage at the Northwest Folklife Festival.
The Jack Straw Foundation also started KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, and provided broadcast capability to Spanish-language station KDNA in Granger, Washington. After KRAB went off the air in 1984, the Foundation opened KSER-FM in Snohomish County. It also began Jack Straw Productions, an audio arts center in Seattle. Jack Straw Productions provides support to hundreds of artists so they can create and present new work through residencies and radio programs; teaches individuals of all ages to express themselves creatively; and presents artist talks, exhibits, performances, and media productions.
The Jack Straw Foundation is celebrating its own fifty-year anniversary in 2012.
For many years it hosted and broadcasted stages at the Northwest Folklife Festival through KRAB-FM, a local radio station. As part of the 2012 Cultural Focus: The Next Fifty, Jack Straw is presenting the KRAB Radio Showcase, a fifty-year retrospective.
The Jack Straw Foundation was founded in 1962 to start one of the first community radio stations in the country—KRAB-FM. Hundreds of passionate volunteers
shared their expertise in the arts, sciences, and public affairs with individuals of all ages from Vancouver, British Columbia to Vancouver, Washington. When you listened to KRAB, you heard programs played nowhere else: music from other countries, thoughts and ideas not usually given public expression, programs that were a practical application of the First Amendment. You also heard live broadcasts of folk and ethnic music from the KRAB stage at the Northwest Folklife Festival.
The Jack Straw Foundation also started KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, and provided broadcast capability to Spanish-language station KDNA in Granger, Washington. After KRAB went off the air in 1984, the Foundation opened KSER-FM in Snohomish County. It also began Jack Straw Productions, an audio arts center in Seattle. Jack Straw Productions provides support to hundreds of artists so they can create and present new work through residencies and radio programs; teaches individuals of all ages to express themselves creatively; and presents artist talks, exhibits, performances, and media productions.
It's on the wiki page, so color me not paying attention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBOO
In 1975, the 800-strong KBOO Foundation elected its first Board of Directors. The KBOO Foundation and its officers got the license and ownership of the station. KBOO became fully independent of KRAB and its parent, the Jack Straw Memorial Foundation. After 10 years, KBOO had come of age.
I wonder how Jack et al feel about KBOO now?