DJ Lillie serves up fresh, global, upbeat music, alongside groovy classics, to get you going in the morning. Be prepared for some ‘dance in your chair’ moments. She’s a Seattle native who discovered a love of rhythm when she first took the pots and pans out of her parents’ pantry. Having been introduced to an eclectic range of music as a child, she now enjoys searching for new artists that carry on the legacy of great tracks from the past. Early influences include: Ella Fitzgerald, Van Morrison, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, The Real World record label, Bill Evans, Coleman Hawkins, India Arie, Patsy Cline, and Sade.

Disco Geezer (aka Pete Lack) crafts a perfect union of 70s disco, 80s dance- and floor-shaking House. Disco Geezer is blazing down the boogie trail to thrill the many funk soul brothers and synth pop sisters who hunger for those days when it was cool to shake your booty and get down on it. Tune in to DJ Disco Geezer Thursdays 7-8pm. Email Disco Geezer.

Missy Nielsen has worked in the nonprofit sector over the past 20 years, from leading a social services organization for expatriate families while living in China, to driving development efforts for an afterschool STEM program. Her work consistently focuses on helping others thrive and grow, thus her passion for volunteerism. With a degree in Human Behavior and Ethics, her life work has also included Career Counselor at the University of Washington in Washington State.

When not working on behalf of the youth of Port Townsend, Missy can be found scrambling up a mountain, galloping down, creating art from salvaged objects and capturing stories from newly made friends over a cup of mocha. Most importantly she loves connecting folks to opportunities that ignite passion and purpose in life — indeed Everybody Can!

Everybody Can used to air on alternate Tuesdays (repeating the following week on Thursday) in the noon hour.  Listen to past shows on the podcast page

Hello, my name is Colin Foden. I’d like to invite you to listen to some opera. Each month KPTZ Goes to the Opera to preview the upcoming live from the New York City Metropolitan Opera performances at the Rose, the Seattle Opera, or simply to enjoy the best that Opera has to offer. As I did when I first heard Saturday afternoon Met broadcasts, I’m sure your eclectic tastes will find something dazzling about the drama and the music. The show airs every Sunday from 9-10am. I have a seat reserved for you and I look forward to your company. Email Colin.

Morning on the Salish airs every Tuesday morning from 9:30 to 11am. An actor and performer for many years, Chris Bricker graduated from California State University, San Jose with a B.A. in Theater Arts. After travels around Europe for a year, he did a stint at KTAO FM radio in Los Gatos CA as a show host.

He is a graduate of the Ringling College of Clowns, Class of 1971 and worked with Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus for three years. Later, he traveled throughout Japan, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and the continental U.S. performing in other circuses as well. Along the way, his musical saw playing came in handy. Chris and both his young sons, Christopher & Noah, teamed with their Dad for domestic engagements with various circus producers. As shipboard performers, he and his son Noah also traveled to Finland, Estonia and Sweden. Chris is a member of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Radio & Television Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and has worked in film, television and commercials. He is also a saw-playing member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 1000 (acoustic travelling musicians union).

His work experience over the years has also included union representation and organizing. He began his Labor Movement career representing hotel and restaurant workers, and later he was a field organizer for California state workers. He has been the opening act for the Western Workers Festival Concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as for the Great Labor Arts Exchange Concerts in Silver Spring MD. He has also toured with the New Old Time Chautauqua.

Keri French (aka Mermaid Keri) contributes regularly to Morning on the Salish with her sultry Tuesday Tide Report. Email Chris.

Tune in on Mondays from 8 to 9:30am for reprises of Music From that Cardboard Box. You’ll hear lots of music – as it should be.

Donn Trethewey grew up in a home filled with classical music. And music from Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Elvis what’s-his-name. All kinds of music. Still, it all still makes perfect sense. Bartok, Berry, The Beach Boys, and Beethoven, and Gavin Bryars . . they all work together. It was easy to hum parts of Copland’s Appalachian Spring while riding a loud scooter down Sunset Boulevard on a balmy night in LA back in the day. Or to hum in one’s head Johnny B. Goode during a Lutheran Church sermon. It’s all relative. Music simply is. It simply IS.

In a former life, he worked on cars and rode loud motorcycles.

Wake up to the sounds of Brazil! Wednesday mornings, Al Bergstein brings us Music2DrinkCoffee2, an acoustic musical tour of Brazil’s best choro, samba, bossa, forro, indigenous music and more. Featuring music from Brazil along with Brazilian-influenced musicians from around the world. Al features new work launching each week along with historic versions & background on what you are hearing. With marine weather and occasional guest artists.

Musical Fruit is an effervescent morning show, airing Thursdays from 9:30-11am that affirms non-linear, zoot-suit states of mind. DJ Goodwoman plays jump blues, rhythm and soul, chanson, exotica, swing, indie folk (old and new), stirring tunes from whatever genre, and rock ‘n’ roll in all its iterations. Your intrepid host also promises tarot readings, saxophone spotlights, cuts from the weird and wild vault, oddball and/or worldly insights, and interactive toe-dips into the realm of pure imagination.

DJ Goodwoman moved to Port Townsend right before the pandemic. She was born in the general vicinity, left for quite awhile, and then felt called to return – to live by the sea, with the trees, in the wind. She’s wanted to be a DJ since she was 9 years old. Dreams do come true! Email DJ Goodwoman

Now on Wednesdays from 8am to 9:30am. Time to rewind…With vintage KPTZ programming. All-original episodes hosted by Susan Bublitz. This is where the world’s ancient music collides with modern studio wizardry, all expressed in a deluge of grooves, tunes and little ditties. Be prepared to have your hair blown back! Music that spans the globe, on Saturday mornings. Email Susan.