East African Music - African Radio

Streaming Live African Music from the Pacific Northwest:

Los Angeles
New York

Day of the Week

Pacific Time

Eastern Time

Program

Station
Monday
6pm - 9pm
9pm - Midnight
Best Ambiance
KEXP
Thursday
2pm - 4pm
5pm - 7pm
Africa O-Ye!
KBOO
Thursday
7pm - 9pm
10pm - Midnight
Music of Africa
KBCS
Saturday
3pm - 5pm
6pm - 8pm
Music of Africa (rebroadcast of Thursday show)
African Internet Radio

Seattle Area African Music Radio Programs

African pop music has had a home on Seattle non-commercial radio since the 1970s. Although not devoted to solely to African music, KRAB-FM was the early pioneer having several shows touching on African themes, including music. In June, 1984, Jon Kertzer started one of the first feature programs of African music in the US with his two hour weekly show, The Best Ambiance, on KCMU. The program has been running continuously ever since on KCMU and KCMU's successor, KEXP. Jon is back as the host of Best Ambiance with Doug Paterson filling in about every fourth week.

Today, the Seattle area has five hours of African music programs weekly on two public stations, plus considerable exposure of African music within regular programming (on public radio) throughout the week.

The weekly Seattle African music schedule:

African Music Radio in North America:
Nearly all of these stations offer online streaming of the programs.

Saturday

Monday

Also look for streaming African music programs from www.Live365.com.

East African Music - African Radio

To contact Douglas Paterson, send email to DPaterson@EastAfricanMusic.com.

Last updated 22 May, 2010.


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