Profile: ARTplusradio.org
Year Founded
2007
Type
Non-profit
Last on Think
Updated on: 04/17/2009 12:31
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Mission Statement

Art endures.  ART+ interviews artists from around the world to showcase their work and  communicate to the listeners and viewers the emerging art in different countries and cultures.  ART+ broadcasts on KDRT in Davis, CA and is podcast on iTunes and Podcast Alley.  Our TV Channel is on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/artplusradio

Location
1623 Fifth Street
Davis, CA 95616
United States
Phone
530-297-1907
Fax
Website
http://www.artplusradio.org
Email
talk@artplusradio.org
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recent ART+  interviews on KDRT  www.artplusradio.org

- Interview with Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now about her new book

  Standing Up to Madness.

- Interview with Amy Ray of Indigo Girls about the Alternative Energy Project that the Indigo

  Girls helped fund on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  Indigo Girls

  Tour Schedule for 2009 is   http://www.indigogirls.com/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.pl

  If you can help distribute their posters in your West Coast city, you get a pair of tickets

  and a T-shirt  http://www.indigogirls.com/news1.html

 

- Interviewed music legend Sly Dunbar of Sly & Robbie about their new album: Amazing.

- Interviewed Clayton Bailey, California's 2009  Artist of the Year.  Clayton is famous for

  his robots which are all from recycled parts. 

- Started artplus TV channel on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/artplusradio

- Story of the King of Egyptian Music Mohamed Mounir

- Dan Cassidy talks about his award winning book How the Irish Invented Slang

- Birthday Celebration for the Einojuhani Rautavaara, the leading Finnish composer

- Interview with the leading American collage artist, Winston Smith 

 

 
 
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ARTplusradio.org 218 days ago
Interviewed Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, about her new book Standing Up to Madness. Amy Goodman's website http://www.democracynow.org
ARTplusradio.org 225 days ago
Will interview Punchface, an American band who just came back from a tour in Japan - they have a new album: Liberate is a great song, so is Let it Go which has a video here and on youtube. http://www.myspace.com/punchface
ARTplusradio.org 225 days ago
Interviewed 2009 CA Artist of the Year, Clayton Bailey, about his iconic robots that are in the Tech Museum and other museums in CA. Clayton makes his robots from recyled materials .. if you look closely at the video, you'll recognize, forks used as hands and freezer boxes used as robot bodies.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVaStJZ2tPE
ARTplusradio.org 460 days ago
Michael Franti's Free Fun event Power to the Peaceful http://www.powertothepeaceful.org
September 6, 2008 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco from 11 am - 5 pm. The event has free fun activities for children and for the whole family and of course great music by Michael & Spearhead, Ziggy Marley and many other talented musicians. I will post audio from Michael Franti's interview with Artplus next week. Stay tuned to listen to Michael talk about activism, Power to the Peaceful, his movie I'm Not Alone and his new album with Spearhead: ALL REBEL ROCKERS!
ARTplusradio.org 497 days ago
Folk Singer and Legend, Utah Phillips, "The Golden Voice of the Great South West", gave ART+ an interview in 2007. Utah passed away in June 2008 after a long illness. We are featuring his interview today to remind listeners why Utah Phillips was a great American Folk Legend. Utah's interview is the last interview on this page http://www.artplusradio.org/archive/library_072007.html
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Let It Go by Punchface
Punchface sings Let It Go http://www.myspace.com/punchface
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How the Irish Invented...
Dan Cassidy discusses etymology and traces the origins of American words like jazz, swell, scam, dude and others to the Irish language.
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