Bringing “Six Strings and Beyond” To The Radio

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - Michael Keith has been a professional musician for over 35 years, and lately people have been asking him to share some of his expertise on the radio. He finally launched ‘Six Strings And Beyond’ on Tuesday June 18th.  “The idea of the programs based on guitar, which is my area of expertise: guitar, guitarists, and guitar like instruments from around the world. So, plucked string instruments a number of which I've studied privately over the years. I'm an  amateur Ethnomusicologist,” he explained. Cortes Currents: What’s the format: interviews? recordings? your expertise? Michael Keith: “All of the above, I'm wide open. Cortes Community Radio (CKTZ 89.5 FM) would like to have local people as much as possible, so I'm certainly  open to that, but mostly just sharing anecdotes about  my experiences as a guitar player. discovering and being inspired by people ta lot of people (if they tune in) probably haven’t heard of. I've done such an extensive amount of listening and following of off the radar guitarists and other instrumentalists over the last 40 years or so. I also plan on bringing different instruments with me, having a little talk about them and playing a little bit live in the studio myself, just for the fun of it. Randy Bachman has done that on a CBC show where he'd have guitar player guests, and then they would jam a tune live on the air and I think that's a cool idea.” Cortes Currents: How is the show coming so far?  Michael Keith: “I’ve done two and they both went smoothly. So now we're starting to advertise it a bit. It's Tuesday afternoons on CKTZ 89.5 FM, at 3:30 to 5 PM.