After a career as a college biology professor (Princeton, Harvard, Purdue, SMU) and conservation biologist, Donna returned to her home in a small village in northern New Mexico to restore an 1825 adobe. She has also been a whitewater and horsepack guide and has managed a ranch.

She has taught social dancing and historic dances for 20 years and currently teaches at the Chavez Community Center. After being a guest twice on Gottadance talking about dance history, she joined the KSFR family. Being involved in public radio had been in the back of her mind for years.

Her involvement with music today is trying to provide good rhythmic tunes with thoughtful songwriting to the listeners of GottaDance, but she dabbled at guitar, dobro and piano and sang with local bands in college before realizing she made a better audience member. Her musical tastes are eclectic from 17th century English Country Dance music through swing, R+B and alt-country.

KSFR has been a rewarding ‘job’ for her in many ways: being part of a supportive and mentoring KSFR family, being able to promote local musicians, constant learning about music and about the aspects of show production, and being ‘on her own’ to sink or swim in the control room at night.

What she does in her spare time??? Spare time and KSFR DJ in the same sentence is a bit of an oxymoron….especially while living a rural life, but when she can she hikes, reads, cooks, helps out on round-ups.

The "Camp" was begun about 12 years ago and offers a new vision, "Radio Vision," for the medium of radio where our listeners, we call  "Campers" sit around the virtual campfire as we talk politics, share personally and interview people of passion. Camp Lovewave offers an altered and alternative view of truth, justice and the American 'lost' way and is designed to invite you to open up new neural pathways, breathe deeply, activate your right brain and your spinal column, and  experience a sense of timelessness with a bit of laughter along the way.

Terran has a counseling business using the tool of Astrology for the past 42 years and Bari is a potter creating Asian-looking ceramic bowls.

We raised four children in Santa Fe and have two granddaughters in Taos, Margot and Grace, who have often been heard on our show.

One of the most rewarding aspects of producing our show is that we get to do it spontaneously alive and 'live' and with great freedom to share in our own unique way with a responsive Camper listening audience.

Steve Terrell is host of The Santa Fe Opry -- which specializes in the sounds of good old country music from days of yore, plus ancient backwoods "Old Weird America" hillbilly and country blues and a huge slice of modern, underground and alt-country sounds. He also hosts Terrell's Sound World -- the home of Free-form Weirdo Radio which revels in garage, punk, psychedlelic surf, R&B, polka and other crazy sounds. Terrell also produces a monthly podcast, The Big Enchilada, whcih is part of the GaragePunk Pirate Radio Network.

When not playing his wild sounds on the radio, Terrell is a mild-mannered reporter and columnist who covers politics and state government for The Santa Fe New Mexican. Terrell also writes a music column, Terrell's Tuneup, for the paper. He's the father of two grown children and a proud rock 'n' roll grandpappy.

How did you happen to join the KSFR family?

Through Acoustic Explorations

What was your broadcasting background prior to KSFR?

Musical performances

What is/was your “Day Job” prior to joining KSFR?

Los Alamos National Laboratory

What is the most rewarding aspect of your work at KSFR?

Public service and community outreach

What “secret” thing about you do few people know?

PhD in aqueous chemistry

Have you been/are you a musician?

Yes

If so what instrument(s) do you play?

Guitar

What types of music do you enjoy?

swing, jazz manouche, bluegrass

How did you get started in radio?

musical performances

What’s your favorite album?

Django Reinhardt recordings 

What’s your day job?

aqueous chemistry

How do you spend your spare time?

bike riding, music, traveling

What are some of your all-time favorite talk or music shows (don't have to be on ksfr)?

Santa Fe Cafe, KSFR news, Amy Goodman

Do you have a talk show host or dj after whom you model your performance?

no

What sort of music or talk do you prefer to listen to?

swing, classical

Do you have pets?  If yes, how do they react to your presence on the air?

yes, cat's meow

What do you like about radio?

It is informative and interesting

How did you happen to join the KSFR family?

Can't keep a "good man" off the radio, and it's a nice fit

What was your broadcasting background prior to KSFR?

I've been doing both commercial and non commercial radio most of my life, as well as TV broadcast engineering, camerman, announcer, etc. I was a sub DJ and host at the legandary KJAZ in the Bay Area in the 80's, music director at KLCC in Eugene Or (mostly a college jazz station), and many other rock and public stations (including KPFA in the late 60!!).

What is/was your “Day Job” prior to joining KSFR?

Computer sales, radio/TV work, gardening

What is the most rewarding aspect of your work at KSFR?

Share the music, both jazz and blues, and stay on the air and keep sharp.

What “secret” thing about you do few people know?

I'm a good cook!

Have you been/are you a musician?

I play guitar/ harmonica (since the mid 60s') grew up in the folk/blues revival and I took it to heart. A few years later got turned on to jazz, and now I play both. Have a working band in town, The Country Blues Revue, which is about to start working on a second CD. I write some of the songs and co-produce the CDs as well.....

How did you get started in radio?

College (Univ. of Denver, then San Jose State, grad 1970 w/ a BA in Radio TV

How do you spend your spare time?

Garden, skiing in winter, give parties and travel.

What are some of your all-time favorite talk or music shows (don't have to be on ksfr)?

The old Dinner Jazz on KJAZ, now the Jazz Oasis on KCSM, San Mateo. ALso talk radio KGO in San Francisco.

Do you have a talk show host or dj after whom you model your performance?

I do a show without a play or set list, and let it evolve. I learned the art of "FM" or underground radio way back when, when the segue was the king. I run a tight board (usually) and love to present lesser known or off beat artists!

Libra Rising (nice), Scorpio Moon(ouch), and Aquarius Sun(different)…That’s Merrylin LeBlanc!  She has been producing Moonwise on KSFR since the summer of 2000, after having broadcast the show on KVSF here in Santa Fe beginning back in 1993, when she came to New Mexico from Berkeley, California.  Merrylin left the professional field of education to pursue her love of metaphysics and especially astrology as a tool for uncovering meaning in life.  Astrology can be used to explore many levels of existence, and Merrylin’s mission as host of Moonwise is to bring awareness to the public of the various uses of Astrology.  Topics discussed on Moonwise range from simple to complex.  Some listeners have commented on how much they have learned from this program even though some of it flies over their heads.

Susan Ohori pioneered the programming of world music on radio from 1972 - 1977 on Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley, with her program Last Chants. She served as Music Director there from 1976 - 1977, when she left the Bay Area to research and record Purepecha folk music in Michoacan, Mexico.

She published "An Introduction to World Music: 100 Records to Start With" in the Next Whole Earth Catalogue.

Moving to Santa Fe in 1980, she produced a weekly 6-hour program of classical music (including contemporary and world) on KUNM, Albuquerque, from 1980 -1982. She was Program Director for the Explorations in Music concert series at the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, from 1981 - 1985. In1992 she began producing her weekly 3-hour program of world music, Beyond Borders, on KSFR.  In 2002 (?), along with a group of dedicated station volunteers and supporters, she was instrumental in forming the non-profit Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation which won the contract to take over the management and fiscal responsibility of KSFR from Santa Fe Community College. She served on its Board of Directors from 2002 - 2009 (?).

She founded Ohori's Coffee, Tea & Chocolate, a roasting and retail business in 1984 and sold in 2001. She also opened Casa, in 1996, a retail store specializing in folk art.

She was a founding Board member of the Santa Fe Film Festival which she served on for 10 years. She has recently returned to her work on clay sculpture begun in the 1970's.

   Raised in a home with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Amad Jamal, and Milt Jackson cascading from the hi-fi; then older bro’s Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochrane, The Outsiders, Beach Boys, and Trashmen.  Loved it all: the sounds, the sway, and the signals.  Then on to teen adventures:  Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Moody Blues, Cream, Traffic, Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, Buffalo Springfield, Joni Mitchell Pentangle, Floyd, King Crimson and all that would sprout from these associations.   A family tree began to form.  Then, a momentous 1972, the fifth Beatle, George Martin, produced ‘Icarus’ by the Paul Winter Consort, featuring Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Colin Walcott, leading the Invisibleman to the group Oregon, and the ECM label (Towner’s first solo release).  For over forty years the Editions of Contemporary Music label out of Germany has provided the Invisibleman, and the World, an incredible roster of fine international musicians from jazz, classical, world, and contemporary chamber music.  Beginning in the 80s and 90s more and more early music and contemporary classical artists were added to the roster, and from early exposure to Airto and Flora Purim to King Sunny Ade, more and more world music began to be added as well.  Robert Fripp and Brian Eno’s ‘No Pussyfooting’ opened up new sonic possibilities in the seventies and the branches created by these two artists continue to flourish to this day.  By the late eighties and early nineties what was started by Soft Machine, Eno and others took flower in the electronica explosion – especially in Britain and Europe.  The Invisibleman took to it at once, assiduously collecting The Future Sound of London, The Orb, Aphex Twin, and other leading lights of this totally new way to create music.

Are there any guiding principles to such frenetic and far-flung musical tastes and collecting habits?  The Invisibleman attempts to subscribe to the VIP model which weds three important elements in the music to be brought into his collection: Virtuosity, Innovation, and Poetics.  If artists do what they do very well, offer a new approach or unique musical statement, and transmit sounds, sway, and signals deeply felt, they just may make it into the Invisibleman’s VIP club. 

The Invisibleman first began experimenting with song and artist sequencing over forty years ago on an 8-track recorder (remember those?) for his own amusement.  It wasn’t until the nineties that he allied himself with a cutting edge broadcaster in Milwaukee – best remembered as the Wireless Virus – and began spinning his vinyl and cds to the amusement and bemusement of others.  Too much frost on the windows in March of 2000 catalyzed his flight southwest and brought the Invisibleman to Santa Fe.  Shortly after KSFR became an independent entity, the Invisibleman contacted the Jazzman (aka John Greenspan) who helped to find him a three-hour weekly spot in the programming lineup.  Map Is Not Territory was born in March of 2001.  Catch it if your mom will let you stay up that late on a Tuesday

          A native New Yorker, drummer and Straight Up leader John Trentacosta brought his collective big band and small group experience to New Mexico in 1992.  After two decades as the rhythm force behind jazz notables Chuck Wayne, Jimmy Knepper, and the Al Porcino big band, John brought new energy to the New Mexico jazz scene.

   He received his formal music education at New York University, and was an Assistant Arts Director for The Staten Island Chamber Music Players, from 1978 – 1992.

   In 1993, he formed the jazz group Straight Up, and has since become the energy behind the group’s busy concert schedule and the two CD releases “Live Jazz in The Desert” and “No Need For Words.”  In 2003, John won a “MIC” award for best producer of the CD no need for Words.  He has been part of the rhythm team for concerts with saxophone legend James Moody, vocalist Teri Thornton, tenor sax sensation Doug Lawrence and 1996 Thelonious Monk saxophone competition Jon Gordon. Most recently he has performed with Eddie Daniels and The Santa Fe Symphony, Frank Morgan, Joshua Breakstone, Roger Kellaway, Nick Brignola, Lee Konitz, Bud Shank, Bobby Shew and Kenny Davern.  In 2003, John began a long tenure as musical director of John Trentacosta and Friends, a trio plus special guests bi-monthly, which continued until June 2009 at Bumble Bee’s Baja Grill in Santa Fe. The Past Two years have been filled with concerts in New Mexico and New York, and Drum Clinics for Magnarella’s Drum Shop and Grandma’s Music in Albuquerque, NM. In 2010 John played for a Broadway Review  staring Kaye Ballard, with Liliane Montevecchi, and Donna Mckechnie.

Since the beginning of March 2012, the KSFR “Music Café Series” has been the main focus of attention, presenting various artist in a jazz concert setting as a benefit to the Santa Fe public radio station.

John has been a jazz radio host at KSFR since 2006, originally hosting his own show “The Bopera House”, and currently co- hosting “The Jazz Experience & The Bopera House” with Arlen Asher on monday mornings.

Host of Good Morning Jazz since April, 2000.
Host of The Forum since January 2008
Attorney, Federal Communications Commission  1973-2000.
Married to Julianne Bodnar
Two children Teddy Greenspan and Katie Applefeld
Four grandchildren, Nolan and Phoebe Greenspan - Charlie and Daisy Applefeld
Three step-children, Emily Cline, Michael Cline and Leslie Cline
Five step-grandchildren, Logan and Sophia Frease, Noah and Hannah
Cline and Benjamin Vitale.
Currently serves on the board of the Friends of Santa Fe Jazz.
Has served on the boards of The Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation,
the Santa Fe Symphony and the Santa Fe Desert Chorale.
johnthejazzman@gmail.com
I also have a facebook account.