Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
Series produced by KALW
Stories of emerging musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area -- in their own words and music. Produced by KALW.
Stories of emerging musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area -- in their own words and music. Produced by KALW.
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Musician Marco Polo Santiago was raised in L.A., in a big Mexican-American family, with the sound of cumbia always in the background. He grew up to...
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 09:13
Lorin Benedict is a theoretical and computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore labs. His work focuses on predicting the properties of materials—...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 05:49
In our latest edition of Bay Area Beats we'll hear from Dom Jones. She came up in East Oakland, writing poetry and singing solos in church on Sunda...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 07:44
Berkeley-based singer songwriter Diana Gameros comes from Ciudad Juárez -- a Mexican border town ripped apart by violent drug cartels. Gameros hasn...
- Added: Oct 02, 2015
- Length: 03:44
Berkeley-based singer songwriter Diana Gameros comes from Ciudad Juárez -- a Mexican border town ripped apart by violent drug cartels. Gameros hasn...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 03:44
Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 06:21
The band Howell Devine -- Josh Howell, Pete Devine, and Joe Kyle Jr. -- is bringing the southern blues to the Bay. For this episode of Bay Area Be...
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- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 08:02
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Some of all Parts, is a San Francisco rap group made up of old high school buddies Carlos Teasdale, Daniel Velarde, and Joe Truss. Truss is Assista...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 03:23
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Eighteen-year-old Tatyana Martinez turned to writing poetry as a young girl to cope with big changes in her life. Over time, her poetry evolved int...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 04:38
Emily Ritz and Kacey Johansing are best friends. They were both in separate bands and living in Marin County when they decided to go on tour togeth...
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- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:53
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TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 04:36
Sunset Youth Services is an organization that supports transitional age youth and their families with things like parenting classes, food assistanc...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:32
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For more than 40 years, Bobby Hutcherson has lived a life most artists can only dream about. After making his name in the 1960s in New York as one ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 09:57
In 2008, double bassist and founder of the Musical Art Quintet, Sascha Jacobsen regularly attended the Sunday night chamber music jams at Cafe Revo...
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- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 06:22
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Local musician Kelly McFarling wrote her song “Atlanta” as an ode to her hometown, but she didn’t write it – or any other song, as a matter of fact...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 09:40
A lot of people these days hold down multiple jobs just to make ends meet. San Francisco resident Aaron Novik is a musician, a composer, an illustr...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 05:50