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Help KBOO Continue our work with a Year End Donation

Thanks to our members, KBOO is off to a great start for a new year of exciting, vital radio! Thanks for helping to protect and strengthen one of the few strong independent media sources in the region, even the nation! Support KBOO with a year end donation! With commun... Read more

We love volunteers who help raise funds for KBOO!

It's especially busy at KBOO in the next few weeks. We've got the Martin Luther King Day events, including a day-long live broadcast from some of the festivities. We've also got the very important KBOO Community Meeting which I wrote about previously as well as our speci... Read more

Jazz In The Afternoon - March 28 Update

Thank goodness for friends like Rita Rega. With no notice, she stepped in and, tastefully and swingingly, took over "Jazz In The Afternoon" after our house fire on New Year's day. A big debt of gratitude is due her. Please expect nothing but the best jazz to continue from ... Read more

Support KBOO by posting on PostPDX.com

Looking for an alternative to craigslist, check out postpdx.com. For every post made PostPDX will donate a part of the proceeds to KBOO or another local non-profit. It's a lot like craigslist but they support local non-profits that are based out of Portland, OR. Read more

Portland Folk Festival

KBOO is a proud media sponsor of the Portland Folk Festival August 19th -August 22nd Our Mission The Portland Folk Festival is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the world's folk and traditional music, and to the vibrant community, forward-thinking quality... Read more

Visiting Pakistani Journalist Sadia Khan partners with KBOO News

(March 10, 2014) Portland, OR – KBOO Community Radio, in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), will host pioneering Pakistani journalist, Sadia Khan, in their newsroom March 10th to 31st, 2014, as part of the U.S. Pakistan Professional Partner... Read more

the pain of our inner troops

The Well-Read Red on the Old Mole Variety Hour 6/4/07 Earlier this year, the mainstream press discovered that there are problems with veteran’s health care. The scandal of dilapidated buildings and untreated soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center led to a series o... Read more

New Releases April 11, 2012

Amadou & Mariam Folila Nonesuch Africa [contemporary] Steep Canyon Rangers Nobody Knows You Rounder Bluegrass Vincent, Rhonda Taken Upper Management Bluegrass Cash,Johnny Bootleg Vol. IV Columbia Legacy C&W Watson,Gene & Rhonda Vincent Yo... Read more

the impact of my teacher, michael jackson, and that fateful day- 25 june 2009

there will be more blogs coming soon- blogs which have been a long time coming, but with respect to the 'year in review' pieces i suppose this would be safe to say that this would be the first blog for 2010...i suppose it's fairly obvious to anyone who knows me, or has l... Read more

Reel Music Festival 2011

KBOO is a proud sponsor for the 28th Reel Music Festival The Northwest Film Center presents the 28th Reel Music Festival, January 7-18, 2011. This annual celebration of sound and image, music and culture includes a range of musical genres and tastes. The Festival t... Read more