Salmonfest Radio Cook Inletkeeper

Tune into our final episode of Salmonfest Radio! Although we can’t fit 20 bands, 2 fisher poets, 31 voices of Salmon Champions we’ve interviewed over 21 episodes into a single show…we’re proud of this recap and all of what we’ve accomplished during our time recording.
 
Connect with us by emailing: Salmonfestradio@inletkeeper.org
 
Music features: 
California Honey Drops
The Chamberliners
CON BRIO
Whiskey Class
Roar n Represent 
Tim Easton 
Ayla Ray
DeadPhish orchestra
DJ Starlight
WookieFoot
The Burroughs

We’re breaking our episode format with this show! Listeners will be taken on a tour through the Salmon Causeway and chatting with organizers and coordinators of various non-profits who work on salmon issues throughout the state. You’ll hear voices representing Salmonfest, Fishermen for Bristol Bay, United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Salmon Habitat Information Program, SalmonState and Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition. This episode is special because you'll hear sustained passion from people connected to Salmonfest's original life force - the campaign to Stop Pebble Mine, as well as voices bringing attention to other emerging and important salmon issues. Together these advocates keep our favorite festival with a cause near-and-dear to Alaskan’s hearts.
 
Connect with us by emailing: SalmonfestRadio@inletkeeper.org
 
Salmonfest Recorded Music featuring:
Nanwalek Seal Dancers
Roar N Represent
Roland Roberts Band
I Sing. You Dance. 
Blackwater Railroad Co.
Hope Social Club
KP Brass Band

Salmonfest Radio is coming back strong with a backstage interview from the crowd-pleasing act, LowDown Brass Band. Their music is infused throughout the hour with horns to keep Alaskans dancing! And you’ll stick around for another energized interview with Dune Lankard talking about the exponential benefits of kelp, to salmon, and coastal communities.
 
To connect with us, email: SalmonfestRadio@inletkeeper.org

This episode of Salmonfest Radio is all about expression, female empowerment, and artistry. Revel in Carsie Blanton’s tunes from her show at Salmonfest 2021- tunes and lyrics that have no greater creative direction than her own. Carsie pulls performances together from seven different albums and gives us an interview backstage steeped in spirited activism. 
 
Amber Webb, Bunnell Street Art Center’s Resident Artist last May uplifts Yup’ik stories, contemporary issues and ancestral knowledge through her art. With her ink on wood drawings she shares idigenous joy and perseverance. As an artist, caregiver, and mother, Amber is among a movement of female indigenous leaders committed to supporting the well-being of their culture, a culture intimately tied to the well-being of salmon.  
 
These women live the life and values they are seeking for the future. They both name hard truths and feel their weight, still inspiring courage and hope as they move forward. Don’t miss this episode.
To connect with us, email: SalmonfestRadio@inletkeeper.org

In this Episode of Salmonfest Radio we feature a sibling, strumming duo named BroGrass. They’re young, talented, and like many from their generation- aware of our climate’s struggle to maintain a habitat that is suitable for all. Get ready for a fast picking infusion throughout the entire episode! 
 
Our Salmon Champions, Sue Mauger and Maddy Lee, dive deep into their passion for salmon science. This is Sue Mauger’s second time appearance on our show (see: EP 2 of season 1, Cool Tunes, Cold Water). Sue, the Science and Executive Director for Cook Inletkeeper (CIK), is in the process of wrapping up a two decade long career of temperature monitoring of salmon streams in the Cook Inlet watershed. Maddy started her salmon journey as CIK’s intern in 2017 paddling rivers with Sue. She has since navigated her own path into the world of climate and salmon science, building off of the longterm data sets Sue has collected. These two share their perspective, journeys, and science insights both technical and big picture.
 
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Our fourth episode of Salmonfest Radio season 2 highlights long-time Anchorage based band Super Saturated Sugar Strings and returning Salmon Champion Sam Schimmel. From opposite ends of the festival grounds, both Sam and the Sugar Strings infused Salmonfest 2021 with salmon love and joy, Sugars Strings from the stage and Sam from the workshop barn where he spent the weekend smoking and sharing fish. In Inletkeeper’s recording lounge, we chatted with Sam about the importance of recognizing humans as part of a larger ecosystem and ensuring that within our movements to protect salmon the traditional access for subsistence endures. Sam is the team lead for a project called Operation Fish Drop which distributes donated sockeye salmon to Native Alaskans in the Anchorage area who no longer have access to their traditional fishing grounds. When Super Saturated Sugar Strings joined us in the backstage lounge, our conversation wandered from salmon rituals, to the gifting economy, to our civic duty to salmon. This heartfelt Alaskan band reminds us what Salmonfest is really all about and the magic that brings us in- we let the podcast version of this show run a touch longer than an hour to capture all of this great conversation.
 
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