Reggae Central

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Chuck Foster hosts Reggae Central Sundays from 2-5 PM on KPFK. He features ska, rocksteady, dub, local and international reggae and dancehall with a special emphasis on roots music. Chuck is the author of Roots Rock Reggae: An Oral History of Reggae Music From Ska To Dancehall (Billboard Books, 1999) and The Small Axe Guide To Rockstedy (Muzik Works, 2009, updated 2016). He wrote the Reggae Update column for Beat Magazine for two decades and currently writes the Reading and Reasoning column for Reggae Festival Guide. Chuck started playing reggae on the radio in Southern California in 1982 and began hosting Reggae Central in 1997. Live guests on the show over the years include Dennis Brown, The Mighty Diamonds, Burning Spear, Alton Ellis, Etana, Stranger Cole, Freddie McGregor, Phyllis Dillon, Lucky Dube, Morgan Heritage, The Expanders and many, many more.

Contact email: cfoster907@yahoo.com

Archives of this show can be heard here: https://archive.kpfk.org/index_one.php?shokey=reggaecent

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Schedule

Nightscapes or Due Diligence
4:00am - 6:00am

Giving you the music to make you think, feel, expand your dreams, reach for the stars and grow your mind. Playing an eclectic blend of low-fi, chilled out neo-soul, jazz, rock, blues, and a few classics. No holds barred, anything goes--DJ Jillian Rise
Edna Tatum's Gospel Classics
6:00am - 8:00am

with host Gil Fears
Alan Watts
8:00am - 8:30am

For more than forty years, Alan Watts has earned a reputation as one of the foremost interpreters of Eastern philosophies for the West. Beginning at age sixteen, when he wrote essays for the journal of the Buddhist Lodge in London, he developed an audienc
Anti-War Radio
8:30am - 9:00am

with Scott Horton

Events

POSTPONED: Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles
Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles at Regal L.A. Live
5th Apr at Regal LA Live: A Barco Innovation Center
KPFK - Committee of Inclusion.
Conference Call info TBD (to be posted 24 hrs prior) To address issues of those underrepresented or excluded from process at KPFK
6th Apr at Teleconference
KPFK - Fundraising Committee Meeting
Conference Call info TBD (to be posted 24 hrs prior): Purpose is to revive the KPFK LSB Fundraising Committee, which has been dormant, discuss the role the LSB can play individually and/or collectively in raising funds, including brainstorming possible projects, and consider a motion to revive the KPFK Development Task Force.
7th Apr at Teleconference
KPFK LSB Finance Committee
KPFK Local Station Board Finance Committee Meeting
8th Apr at KPFK Station
CANCELLED: TCM Film Festival 2020
TCM Film Festival 2020
16th Apr at Roosevelt Hotel