Volunteer Vignettes KUNM

My name is Mark Weaver and I've been up here at KUNM since 1982 doing basically jazz programming. I started out doing free-form programming in the mornings and mostly for the last ten years or twelve years or something that's been jazz programming. The reason that I volunteer at KUNM and the reason that I do the shows that I do is because the music that I love definitely changed my life getting exposed to it and learning about it and falling in love with it. I'm also a musician that's another way I try to give back to the music and I play the tuba in a bunch of different groups. As related or spontaneous music or improvised music is really the most intriguing to me, both as a listener and as a player.

My name is Katrina Lucas. I volunteer. I do music to see the Savage Beast every Tuesday night and I also help out on the live variety shows MC with music to see the Savage Beast. There's all kinds of different things, Scott and Punk and all different kinds of things. So I hope it appeals to somebody who likes all those different kinds of music. KUNM is somebody who's looking for something different than what's offered commercially on the other stations. They may be the KUNM addict who listens 24 hours a day to every single program we have or it could be just the person on Tuesday nights who wants to listen to different alternative music, quote unquote, then what's offered on some of the other commercial stations across the dial here in Albuquerque.

Thanks for everything. I've had a wonderful time when I've been here and I hope to continue to have a wonderful time and I personally appreciate everyone's efforts and keep up the good work. It's just become a really big part of my life. I'm addicted. I admit it. Lou Longmeyer is a musician for the local group Apricot Jam and he's a disc jockey here on KUNM, hosting all that jazz. This is Lou.

They say it's not quite snowing up in Santa Fe. It is not quite snowing down here. If you can hear me, way up there in Tows. That's right. I'm asking you. Tows. What's it like? Is there snow? Is it happening? I need your answer. I can give that listener the feeling that I'm maybe someone that they know even if they don't know them and have that sort of comfortable friend voice over the air. Basically I started doing a jazz show because an opening came up about a year and a half ago and I knew a bit about jazz but not a whole lot and I figured there'd be no better way to learn a lot about jazz music than to have a show and immerse myself into the record library and also constantly ask listeners what they wanted to hear. Oh, life at KUNM is a constant battle of wackiness against wackiness, it's great. For sure, for sure, for sure.

I'm with that. Welcome to you and yours, White O' Dawson on the scene, on a free form today. My name is White O' Dawson and I've been volunteering here at KUNM since 1986. And lately I've been doing the daytime free form on Mondays and the afternoons. Free form for me is an experience of mine that I try to share with the audience. My experience is in life musically. Well, my musical background from Chicago is a lot of river and blues, a lot of soul, a lot of gospel, a lot of jazz. I'm fairly strong in those areas and know a lot of, well, we're talking 35, 40 years

of artists that I've heard. But I work at the post office been there, well, now 35 years. I live in Los Luna's, I come in and do the show here, go back home, rest a little bit, come back in and go to work. Can you tell me your name, please? Carla, Copo, I've been involved with KUNM since I think it's 1978, on and off. I get to do calendar and I for Friday and I get to do some board hopping and some news anchoring and the latest is has been the global, the global music show. My motto is global music for global peace because what I figure is the more on a personal

level, the more I know about other cultures, the less I can hate them. So when I'm upset with them, I have to stay at some peaceful level with them and that kind of thing creates world peace. Global music is on every Monday night, 10pm till 1am. It's one of those midnight shifts. I share it with Guillet, Guillet Quiros, she does alternating Mondays with me. So how do you find time to volunteer at KUNM? I make time, I have to create it. I take it out of my work somewhat, it's just for me one of the most exciting things in my life. I think KUNM is a banquet for the mind, check it out. My name is Tommy T and I volunteer at KUNM for two years.

Tombstone Rock is Wednesday nights, 10pm till 1am and the free form is 1am till 5am. I can ground break music that people have never heard before and I can play stuff that, you know, they're going to remember they heard it on KUNM and that's really what my main goal is to play music that you can't hear anywhere else except on this station. Tombstone Rock, it is definitely the heaviest of the genre and, you know, mainly appeals to the younger people, but, you know, we've gotten somewhat more of a diverse crowd, you know, but it's hard music to get into, you know, it's like, it's heavy stuff. Everyone that was KUNM, you guys definitely get the right idea. It's definitely your best alternative for any, you know, style of music you can hear every style and any style on KUNM and, you know, just keep supporting and tell your friends. This is Putney on the Blues Show right here on KUNM on Wednesday nights.

We've just heard something. Yeah, my name is Putney. And I host a program called The Blues Show. I've been here, this is going on my eighth year here at KUNM. I love Blues, first of all, so that was my first interest and then I did have some radio experience at another station I worked at when I was in my undergraduate school. And also, I'm not a musician, so this is going to be an outlet to express my thought about great music without actually playing the music myself. Outside of KUNM, I work as a counselor in the public schools and I work also at a health club part-time and I write for two publications, music publications in time. The audience that I'm familiar with is varied, it's a real eclectic community, it is a community and that's why I contact because I think people that listen to KUNM are a certain root of people that know good music and they like good music and news and all that too.

I think they're very informed people and I think they have a lot of intelligence and they're very dedicated listeners. My name is Dan Talon. I started working at KUNM in July 1994, trained for about three months to do on-air work on morning edition and started doing that live in October. Looking just ahead, a report on the practice of dehydrating food and sending it to food banks.

In the KUNM listening area today, partly to mostly cloudy in the north, partly to mostly sunny in the south, Albuquerque Metro, mid to upper 60s, Santa Fe near 60, you're listening to KUNM. In the middle of that period of time, I spent a couple of months in Canada and Regina Saskatchewan doing hockey broadcasting to help improve my KUNM public radio skills. It's been a challenge to me to learn how to operate the technical equipment that's involved in the production of the morning edition show. It's been very challenging for me. I've enjoyed trying to get a perspective on what it's like to speak to thousands of people to speak into a single microphone and try and reach each of them individually. Those are the top stories at seven o'clock.

I'm Scott Van Heuvelin, morning edition continues on KUNM. I started the KUNM in the fall of 1991 as a music library volunteer and I was lucky enough to be around when somebody quit the, I guess it was weekend edition slot on Saturday mornings and that's when I started my boardwork and it went from there. The best thing about KUNM for me has been it has provided enormous opportunities as a career in radio. I had no idea where to start in radio back in 1991 and little by little the exposure that KUNM gave me, it put me in the right place at the right time when an opportunity for radio came along. I play music, I listen to a lot of music, I write music. There's not a whole lot of things outside sports and music in my life. I'm interested in sports casting and that's another interesting thing. Through KUNM I've had an opportunity to attend the National Sportscaster School in the Midwest which is the University of St. Louis and that's probably my biggest motivation right

here right now. There's really no creativity in commercial radio so I've come all the way back around to really wanting to be involved in public radio. In public radio you've got people who actually are listening and waiting for the next program to come up and it's more of a complete thought process rather than just little sound bites. I'm David Bach and I've been at KUNM since 1981 and I'm currently the host of Fresh who cares at 10 o'clock on Thursday nights. On Fresh we're trying to present music and sounds that you usually don't hear some very unusual material that artists who aren't generally very well known put out.

It's a little hard to describe the variety of music that you hear. Some is electronic, free jazz, some is noise, some is more rock based but always we try to go for something that's more obscure. Well I'm drawn to this music because I think it helps me grow intellectually and spiritually also. I played trumpet in the high school band and I've been playing bass guitar since high school on and off mostly off but I'm playing with some friends right now in a rock band. When I'm not doing Fresh at the station for creativity I like to do photography, cooking

and as I said play in the band I mean. I find time for KUNM because it's almost like a mission to present this music that you just don't hear anywhere else. The KUNM family includes over 100 community and student volunteers who give thousands of hours each year to make your public radio station a reality. My name is Guillermina Kiros, I'm part of three different shows but the main one is Global Tribal.

That's the one that I give most of my energy. The second one is Vosis Feministas and then Reises. Basically what I do I search for music at the music library and outside and try to get a good show, a good music set for that day. I never expected that I was going to be doing this and I'm not an expert yet but you know you kind of just don't want to bring music and you don't know where this music comes from. You need to learn also about the music so you can tell the person that is listening and who is where this kind of rhythm comes from instrument, what is that, the culture, the place in the world that comes from that kind of stuff. It comes from different backgrounds, different cultures and different sensitivities and I

think that contributes a lot. I think that's the richness of KUNM. KUNM salutes all of its volunteers. These volunteer vignettes are produced by UNM students and community volunteers working in the production department at KUNM. This is the KUNM community calendar for Monday March 4th. Tuesday evening in Albuquerque. My name is Pamela Volk, I've been volunteering at KUNM for almost two years now and lately I have been working at KHTL Radio on the KHTL Morning Show. What I try and do with community calendar at KUNM is make it fun and informative and if I can just a little bit bizarre, I make time in my week for KUNM because I feel the

programming they have is quality and it's just a wonderful alternative. I would like to someday get back to singing, I'd love to get in jazz, but right now I just have an end of time to find other musicians and I can get together. I have a degree in music education from UNM and my concentration was vocal music so I'm classically trained but I would like to get into blues and jazz. I like KUNM because it brings out the individual in all of us. My name is Charlie Dervesky and I've been volunteering at KUNM for almost two decades actually

and lately I've been doing a hot lick show every Saturday night. Probably for every hour I'm on the air I probably put in at least another hour for each hour and that is scheduling guests, making phone calls, doing homework, typing up things I want to say, doing research on music. So it's probably for every hour on the air I put in another hour. I'm real happy without a joint which is broadcast on KUNM and the concert from the state pin. Charlie Z about to get introduced to the group here so let's go to Chandramanning. So let's give Z a big hand and really thank him for this event. Charlie. Thank you Chandram very much, it's my pleasure to be here and one of the things I'm doing now is having more community oriented announcements, more community oriented guests talking about

more events in the community. I've been finishing concrete about as long as I've been on the radio and I also try to write. I've had articles printed in New Mexico magazine. There are newspapers here in Albuquerque, a couple of national magazines and so I'm a budding journalist. But I look at myself on the radio as someone who's in the right place at the right time. I'm lucky to be on KUNM and I want to share that opportunity with individuals and organizations that do not have the avenue for either publicizing what they're trying to do or they want to be on the air and share their talent with listeners. The KUNM family includes over 100 community and student volunteers who give thousands of

hours each year to make your public radio station a reality. This is KUNM Albuquerque. I'm Richard Ross with a look at some New Mexico stories. I'm Richard Ross and I've been working for KUNM about year and a half I would say. I started in the office typing the thank you cards for Lynn Springer and now I'm hosting the morning edition show on Tuesday mornings and half of Thursday mornings. One of the other things I've been doing at KUNM, I've done the program logs for the station. I've done some remote broadcasting from the Outpost Performance Center. We recorded the concert in Madrid. We just finished up the Peggy Seeger concert. I really enjoy the production. I'm not here at KUNM.

I enjoy spending time with my family. I have a lovely wife and three beautiful children. I really enjoy the game of basketball and other physical activities. I find time for KUNM because I feel it's worthwhile to spend my time. It's a great experience. I've learned so much from the staff and other volunteers here at KUNM. It's just enriched my life in many ways more than just being here at the station. I have people in the morning tell me when I get back to work, I work here on campus. When I get back to work telling me, I heard you this morning sounded great. Just some of the real positive feedback. It really makes you a much happier person to see that you've affected some other people in that way. KUNM salutes all of its volunteers. These volunteer vignettes are produced by UNM students and community volunteers working in the production department at KUNM. Almost four years now, lately I've been doing alternating Sunday overnight and then when

I don't do the Sunday overnight, I come up right in early Monday morning and babysit the board for performance today in Native America calling. In my Sunday overnight show, I pretty much just play music, music, and more music and as many different kinds of music as I can, and basically just trying not to talk because I know people really don't want to hear my voice. Do you really want to hear this at all? I'd rather hear music myself. So what I do is I string together a wide variety of music and try to find the perfect segue between some hard rock and easy listening jazz. I'm in three bands, I play in the Albuquerque Blues connection, I also play in another band called RZF with another KUNM volunteer Craig Goldsmith, and I'm also in a third band

of Nakhnoonu which is on hiatus right now while we take care of our mental problems. I like it here because everybody's real nice and they let me do all sorts of crazy things. I think public radio is very important, I think more people should volunteer, and something that I'm pleased to get involved with. My name is Chris Martin, I'll be with you till 4 o'clock this afternoon, bringing you music from every place. And I've got so much stuff pulled out, there's so much music from here. I started at KUNM in 1982, and it happened when I was in a stuck spot in a rut with my painting.

I have a degree in fine art and painting and photography. And as all artists who have ever done visual arts, and I imagine this is the same thing with writers and anyone else, you'll get to a stuck spot where the creativity isn't quite flowing and you really can't get it out. And radio, for some reason, radio brought that out in me, brought that creative stuff moving again, got that going again, and so doing freeform and finding different ways to put music together has really given me the artistic expression that my painting did. Oh, you know, sometimes I go into my shows with a preconceived idea, but every time I do that, it never happens. I'll pull 40 albums sometimes, or 20 albums, and I have them sitting there, and I won't get to bit three of them, because the music seduces me and takes me off in its own direction.

And with freeform, you kind of have to elope with the music. And each new piece of music is like a new lover, I guess. If I had one thing to say to the listeners, it would be, keep on listening, thanks for the support and the phone calls over all these years, and I miss all of you when I'm not here. Music Music here from David Ware, working along with Matthew Ship, with Dickie, and William Partner, rhythm down. My name is Steve Burman, and I've been volunteering at KUNM for three years, I believe, I can't remember

exactly. And I've been hosting the, I started out doing some news in the morning, the morning edition, and I did the host freeform, hosted performance today for a while, and then worked on the morning edition host for a while, and then moved into covering the jazz show on Fridays, and I've been doing that, I guess, about two years right now. During the show, I like to play a lot of different styles of music from all different areas of jazz, back from Dickie Land up to the avant-garde, as it is sometimes called and just keep up with what's coming in and whatever sounds good to me. A lot of people who call in, I say I'm glad to hear the true curious about the music, you're always welcome to call, and I'll give you whatever information I can find. Sometimes I play requests, but I'm pretty picky, so I'll just play it if I really feel like it that day. I like coming down to KUNM to just keep up with the music I've been doing jazz shows on radio.

Since about 1979, I started back in Virginia on a little college station there and just got addicted to it and kept on doing it, and also to keep up with my friends who do shows here and listen to what they're playing, because I can't keep up with everything, but between all of us here we cover a lot of ground in the musical world, and let's see, I guess that's the story.