It is a little bittersweet to file this report, but Friday will be the final live broadcast of the Nonchalant Café Hour. After hosting the show since 2002, the Captain is moving on to new horizons and will air an entire hour of vintage NCH antics including Front Porch Weather Reports, Ukulele Jams, Word of [...]
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June 18, 2010
Red Sea Pedestrians Drift by to Discuss “Adrift”: Today on the NCH
Kalamazoo, Mich.’s the Red Sea Pedestrians recently released their new album “Adrift”. The 12 new songs offer a unique voyage for listeners handcrafted by a band carving a path with sounds from Eastern Europe, Folk Americana, a slight touch of rock and other global inspirations. RSP’s Rachel Flanigan (clarinet, vocals) and Ian Gorman (mandolin, banjo, [...]
June 4, 2010
Bell’s Beer Garden Opener Head for the Hills: Today on the NCH
Colorado’s Head for the Hills, out on tour in support of their self titled latest release, will join Kalamazoo’s Greensky Bluegrass for the annual Bell’s Beer Garden opener weekend. Adam Kinghorn, H4TH’s guitarist, banjo player and vocalist, will join the Nonchalant Café Hour by phone Friday to chat about the new album and all the [...]
May 21, 2010
Crawlspace Eviction Presents American Idle Hands | The KFS screens The Last Station: This week on the NCH
Crawlspace Eviction Theatre Productions will close out its 2009-2010 season with a show titled “American Idle Hands”.
May 14, 2010
May Erlewine Releases “Golden” at Bell’s: This Week on the NCH
Songwriter May Erlewine has released a new album titled “Golden”. After a few preview listens, the Lake City, Michigan-based musician’s fifth solo recording feels like a breath of fresh air and is a perfect release after the long winter. Recorded at Earthworks Farm in October, 2009 with engineering by Kalamazoo, Mich.’s Ian Gorman and mastering [...]
May 7, 2010
The Kalamazoo Tornado 30 Years Later, Also Seth Bernard Releases Is This You: This Week on the NCH
May 13 marks a significant anniversary for Kalamazoo. In 1980, two F3 tornadoes touched down and carved paths through Van Buren and Kalamazoo Counties eventually winding right through the heart of Kalamazoo downtown central business district. Five people were killed, and over 100 injuries were reported along with millions of dollars in damages. To mark [...]
April 9, 2010
Tambourines to Glory Closes WMU Theatre Season and the KFS Presents The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: This Week on the NCH
Western Michigan University Theatre Department will close out its 2009-2010 season with Langston Hughes’ gospel musical play Tambourines to Glory. Tambourines to Glory, which features the WMU Gospel Choir, is the story of faith and friendship in a storefront church in Harlem opened by Essie, who wants to deliver the gospel, and Laura, who uses [...]
April 2, 2010
Gorilla Comedy Comes to the Strutt also Oberon is Released to the Masses: This week on the NCH
Stand up comedy is headed to the Strutt in downtown Kalamazoo as part of a new series called Gorilla Comedy. The first show of the series is scheduled for Monday April 5 and features some of Chicago’s “wildest” stand-up comedians including Aaron Weaver, Simmons McDavid, Tony Blanco among other. As a special treat, former WIDR [...]
March 19, 2010
Iraq Oil Report’s Ben Lando Back from Baghdad | and WMU Opens Chicago the Musical: This week on the NCH
This week on a WIDR WEEK edition of the Nonchalant Café Hour tune in for a conversation with reporter Ben Lando, the Iraq bureau chief for the Iraq Oil Report. Lando, a Kalamazoo, Mich. native, now resides in Baghdad where he reports on the evolving and tenuous oil energies market in the heart of the [...]
March 12, 2010
Donny McCaslin Headlines WMU Jazz Fest: This Week on the NCH
New York-based jazz musician Donny McCaslin is in Kalamazoo this weekend to headline the WMU Jazz Festival. Tune into the Nonchalant Café Hour for an interview with the saxophonist who is scheduled to play with the WMU University Jazz Orchestra Saturday night culminating a daylong festival featuring educational and performance opportunities for high school students. [...]
