KQED Music Series ‘Pass the Aux’ Turns Up the Volume on New Bay Area Music

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Last year, KQED's Arts & Culture team launched the music series "Pass the Aux" to spotlight new music by Bay Area artists. Highlights from the series this year have included the elegant vocals of Kadhja Bonet on her song "Dear Gina," the dembow and salsa rhythms of La Dona's "Pena con Pan" and the gentle meditations on love and grief in The Seshen's "This Time Around," among others. KQED Arts columnist and podcast host Pendarvis Harshaw joins us to showcase those tracks and more of the team's favorite early 2022 releases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.5	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It's time to play some good music here on this Friday.
1:06.4	Last year, KQED's Arts and Culture Team launched the series, Pass the Ox, to spotlight new music by Bay Area artists. And this morning, KQED's Arts and Culture Team launched the series, Pass the OX, to spotlight new music by
1:12.7	Bay Area artists. And this morning, KQEDE Arts columnist and right nowish podcast host, Penn Darvis
1:18.3	Harshaw joins us to showcase the team's favorite early 2020 releases. Welcome back to this show,
1:24.8	Penn. Hey, happy Friday. How are you doing? Hey, I'm good. I'm good.
1:28.3	Thanks for coming on. Can you tell us a little bit of just about Pass the Ox in the series and how it
1:32.4	works? Yeah, past the Ox. It's been running for a little over a year now. Really excited to have
1:37.2	this series going. It's just an opportunity to highlight Bay Area musical artists. I mean, the Bay is so saturated with talent. We don't often get the
1:45.1	opportunity to just dive deep into every last artist. So here's an opportunity to share some
1:49.7	of their work just on a lighter note. Yeah. And do you let people sort of write in and say,
1:55.1	hey, listen to my SoundCloud. How does that work? Yeah, yeah, we're open to it. You know,
2:00.2	there's a website at kQED.org slash past
2:03.4	the ox, and people can submit their music to us and we write about it.
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