Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live Entertains and Enlightens

Each week our two-hour radio variety show broadcasts live-to-satellite Saturday mornings in front of West Coast theater audiences and coast-to-coast radio fans.

The show entertains and enlightens you with music, ideas and humor from a rich mix of writers, thinkers, comedians, and musicians, drawn mostly from the Pacific Rim and the Western United States, but also from further afield as feels right to do. Think Bill Moyers meets David Letterman, according to one reviewer.

Our West Coast sensibility is conveyed both by our guests, and by on-location broadcasts from Yosemite to Alaska. WCL's signature sound of Bay water lapping against the piers opens each show.

Imagine the pleasure of watching a radio show come-to-life before your eyes, with the chance to be with world-renowned authors and musicians for live performance and spontaneous interviews in our intimate venues.

ON SEDGE'S NEXT SHOW:

at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House, 2020 Addison Street near Shattuck, with breakfast snacks and drinks available. Parking garage two doors down, downtown Berkeley BART stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck, with the fine Revival, Gather, and Venus restaurants nearby.

• TURTLE ISLAND STRING QUARTET, the great Americana jazz rock folk fusion with the traditional string quartet instruments Beethoven would recognize.
• ANGIE CHAU, author, of stories of Vietnamese immigrants to San Francisco.
• LIBBY SKALA, with a show at The Marsh, about the way to dance in Vienna, based on her grandmother's life.
• SEAN HAYES, singer-songwriter whose songs and ethos carry you to astonishing places in the heart.
• WES BROWN, surf filmmaker, about the life and times of a great surf championship.
• MIKE GREENSILL, piano, today joined by EMIL MILAND the magical cellist for some of Mike's compositions.  Also, they'll be performing with Wesla Whitfield and others at Old First Church performances Sunday September 5th at 4pm.

at the Freight and Salvage Coffee House , 2020 Addison Street near Shattuck, with breakfast snacks and drinks available.

Sedge welcomes a stellar line-up of guests for this last August weekend as we peer at September.

• NEAL POLLACK, humorist and author. whose latest book, STRETCH: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude , what If This is Tuesday it Must be Belgium did for European tourism, Stretch will do for the Yoga Journey.
• JOYCE MAYNARD, whose new novel The Good Daughters,, coursing through fifty years of family.
• MARGO HALL, appearing in Trouble in Mind, the play about a black actress trying to make a Broadway debut in the 1950s.
• MANDY PATINKIN, the Tony and Emmy award-winning actor is prepping for a new show at the Berkeley Rep based on the story of the publication of Anne Frank's story and featuring marionettes, Compulsion .
• EDEN BRENT, Mississippi jazz artist
• MIKE GREENSILL, piano, whose been known to play past midnight into the new month.

Parking garage two doors down, Downtown Berkeley Bart stop half-a block around corner on Shattuck, with the fine Revival, Gather, and Venus restaurants nearby.

"It's what we listen to on Saturday mornings in San Francisco. Check it out!"

"Sedge is the Indiana Jones of public radio, taking us on radio adventures from Alaska Tlingit longhouses to Edinburgh yurts and the Ashland Shakespeare Festival"

-- Craig Chaquico, renowned guitarist and humanitarian, about West Coast Live