Happy New Year everyone! Hope you are all looking forward to a new year with new goals and new challenges to be met. The KHNS staff and volunteers have the day off for the holiday, but we have a full schedule of special programming for your listening pleasure. KHNS staff and volunteers will be back Monday with regular news and programming.
Friday, December 31st, New Years Eve:
8-10am: Toast of the Nation (NPR New Year’s Eve tradition since the 1970s. Enjoy sets from Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, harpist Brandee Younger, organist Cory Henry, trumpeter Keyon Harrold and The Louis Cole Big Band.)
10a-12p: World Cafe (World Cafe spans an array of genres including singer-songwriter, classic rock, indie rock, Americana, alt-country, blues, world music, R&B and soul. Along with a carefully curated music mix, the central element of each daily show is a conversation with an artist focusing on his or her craft, songwriting, and inspirations, and combined with an exclusive musical performance.)
Noon: The World (The World is public radio’s longest-running daily global news program. Our goal is to engage domestic US audiences with international affairs through human-centered journalism that consistently connects the global to the local and builds empathy for people around the world. )
1pm: Dollar Country Best of 2021 (A country show like no other. Appealing to music nerds, people who “don’t like country,” and classic country fans alike, Dollar Country offers music forgotten to time and in many cases was never known in the first place. Featuring all country singles played on 45 rpm discs from private, local, regional, and major labels and artists, Frank the Drifter focuses on the unknown, unheard, and unloved artists in country music’s history.)
2pm: The International Americana Music Show Best of 2021 (On this end of year edition, host Michael Park casts his eye back over the past 12 months and plays tracks by some of the artists he only discovered this year as well as some of the year’s final new releases. The International Americana Music Show remains the only radio show that plays Americana music made exclusively by non-American artists. )
3pm: Toast of the Nation (NPR New Year’s Eve tradition since the 1970s. Enjoy sets from Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, harpist Brandee Younger, organist Cory Henry, trumpeter Keyon Harrold and The Louis Cole Big Band.)
4-6pm: NPR’s All Things Considered (NPR’s afternoon radio newsmagazine presenting two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special – sometimes quirky – features)
6pm: Alaska News Nightly (Nightly statewide news from Alaska Public Media)
6:30pm: The Daily (Hosted by Michael Barbaro and powered by The New York Times’ newsroom, The Daily brings listeners the biggest stories of our time, told by the best journalists in the world. The Daily focuses on just one or two stories each weekday, offering listeners a 30-minute, deep, textured portrait of the characters and human stakes driving the news.)
7pm: Toast of the Nation (NPR New Year’s Eve tradition since the 1970s. Enjoy sets from Quinteto Astor Piazzolla, harpist Brandee Younger, organist Cory Henry, trumpeter Keyon Harrold and The Louis Cole Big Band.)
8-10pm: Jasper Posey’s Best of 2021 show (Host Jasper Posey picks out his favorites from this year for a special Alternate Currents)
Saturday, January 1st, New Years Day:
Regular programming until 10am
10a-12p: New Years Day Holiday Concert from the Vienna Philharmonic
Regular programming until 8pm
8-10pm: 2021 Musicians Memorial
