KSPS PBS presents Inland Sessions

J.I. Gassen visits the studio as the drummer & lead vocalist for Timeworm, a new, collaborative and creatively progressive four-piece rock band out of Spokane, Washington. Indy Heyer, Drew Brereton, and Cade Brown round out the current lineup of the pop-psychedelic quartet, but today we are talking with J.I. and talk about his pathway through music and into Timeworm and how encouragement and support can be a gateway to freedom...

Together vocalist Tianna Guerra, guitarist Tanner Chick, bassist Adam Kitz, and drummer Chris Sturm become A Train to Nowhere, an band of emerging musicians who are exploring their pop sensibilities in Spokane, Washington. This is a half-hour extended interview and unplugged session where we invite you to get to know your local artists better.  KSPS PBS produces Inland Sessions, a half-hour showcase of artists with regional roots ...

Singer/Songwriter Andy Rumsey joins us in the studio to talk about how music gave him an outlet for his internal emotional life the way nothing else could, and why he believes in music and connection as a pathway to help heal and teach in an uncertain world.  Andy brings an unplugged acoustic set of music from his back catalog, an acapella A-HA cover, and more.  KSPS PBS is the Public Broadcast TV Station for the Inland Northwest...

Tango Volcado is a classically-styled Tango ensemble featuring Jody Graves on piano, Patricia Bartell on accordion, Eugene Jablonsky on upright bass, and Tana Bland on violin and viola.  These musicians include world champion musicians, cultural ambassadors, and respected music educators on the world's stage. This is an opportunity to meet each respected member as an individual, and learn how they were each introduced to music, an...

Kent Ueland stops by the studio to talk about and share some of his intimate and raw folk-based country music project The Holy Broke, which he brought to the KSPS PBS studios in Spokane, Washington for Inland Sessions. His full half-hour studio performance premieres on October 13th 7:30pm Pacific on KSPS from your digital tuner in the Pacific Northwest or streaming live and on demand at ksps.org/inlandsessions.  This episode inclu...

Riley C. Anderson visits Zana in the studio to talk about how picking up the guitar when he was a child helped him navigate his various identities and how he's forged a pathway through life with music. RCA shares a solo acoustic set, and we get a taste of RCA & The Radicals from their creative and energetic Inland Sessions studio performance! RCA & The Radicals premieres on Inland Sessions Monday, October 6th 2025 at 7:30p...

Hank Cramer is a singer/songwriter and traditional folk troubadour from Winthrop, Washington. Hank has spent his life collecting and sharing American and Celtic folk songs of the soldier, sailor, cowboy, pioneer, laborer, traveler, and friend alongside his own original music. A lover of history and storytelling, he delivers memorable performances with his guitar and distinct baritone vibrato. Hank joined today's host Tina Swannack ...

Mixing pop, grunge, punk, psyche, and jazz into a noisy new stew, Matt Legard and Tom Deckert of The Colourflies from Spokane, Washington join us in the studio to tell us how they discovered their passions for music and how they think about authenticity and performance as a balancing act. The Colourflies premiere on Inland Sessions Monday, March 3rd at 7:30pm Pacific on KSPS-TV and streaming at ksps.org. More information about In...

Neo-soul singer/songwriter Helmer Noel visits the studio to talk about how growing up, his mom was the church choir director who got him hooked on music and singing early on, giving him the confidence to explore expressing himself through performance and eventually his own music. Also how finding creative collaborators after moving to Spokane, Washington helped change the direction of his life and his music. KSPS PBS is a PBS aff...

Classically-trained singer/songwriter Pamela Benton visits the studio to talk about being immersed in a world of music for as long as she can remember, starting with the violin when she was 7 years old and progressing to teaching herself guitar by the time she was in Jr. High her music is built around her electric violin and guitar in contemporary cross-genre arrangements. She also delivers a stripped down acoustic performance as...

Singer/songwriter Carli Osika joins us to talk about music, collaborative writing, and how spending time in Nashville offered her lessons that she has brought home to Sandpoint, Idaho. Carli was 8 months pregnant when she filmed her Inland Sessions episode which airs Monday, February 10th 7:30pm pacific time on KSPS channel 7.1, and streaming or on demand at ksps.org.  Her new son was born January 2025 and Carli was gracious enou...

Bradford Little and Konrad VanDeest visit the studio to talk about their funky jam explosion, the B Radicals from Spokane, Washington which has been a backbone jam band for almost 20 years in the region. Their groovy sound which has an experimental edge invites audiences to a cosmic exploration, and failing that... they hope it makes you want to dance. Bradford and Konrad talk about how they first explored music and how they crea...

Dancer/Choreographer Monica Mota and guitarist/composer/arranger Mellad Abeid return to talk more about their live dance + music project Quiero Flamenco and their beautiful upcoming show "Gradience", in Spokane, Washington presented by KSPS-PBS at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center on January 10th, 2025. All music courtesy of Quiero Flamenco performing in studio at KSPS PBS studios, except a small excerpt from Jed Miley, th...

Jenny Anne Mannan, Caroline Fowler, and Karli Fairbanks are all singer/songwriters who love Christmas music, and in 2022, they gathered themselves around the band name Alcohol & Feelings and joined us in the Inland Sessions studio to record a half-hour of their sweetly bittersweet original holiday music.  Sit down by the fire with a cup of cocoa and enjoy set of new Christmas music that is rooted in feelings of joy and the bri...

Today Rosie Cerquone joins us in the studio to talk a little about her life & music, and play solo for us one of her oldest songs, one of her newest songs, maybe even a little Billie Eilish while accompanying herself on the vibraphone. See her full musical performance with her band on Inland Sessions airing Monday, December 9th at 7pm Pacific time on KSPS-PBS, or on demand without commercial interruption at ksps.org/InlandSes...

Young singer/songwriter Isaac Tonasket joins us in the studio with his mother, Monica Tonasket to talk about what has been driving him since his early years to forge his own path through life with music and honesty. Self-recording and self-releasing his song "Boyz Don't Cry" brought a lot of new attention and millions of views to Isaac's work, and he takes the opportunity to share some of the reasons he does what he does.  Isaa...

Sacha Boutros is known across the U.S. and Europe as a singer of the American Songbook, performing all around the world with her renditions of American jazz standards, but today she visits the KSPS-PBS studio to talk about recording her original music, and her experience in the music industry as an outspoken independent artist, musician, songwriter, promoter, and advocate for women and people of color in professional music. KSPS-...

Dancer/choreographer Monica Mota and guitarist/composer Mellad Abeid join me to talk about how they each found flamenco, where they found each other as artistic collaborators, and why flamenco is so stylistically singular, passionate, and powerful. Watch their full episode their dance/music performance on Inland Sessions premiering Monday, November 18th at 7:30pm PT on KSPS-PBS Channel 7.1 in the INW, streaming on ksps.org, and all...

Eddy Pace of Evergreen Afrodub Orchestra joins us to talk about following his dream to build a collaborative ensemble of the region's best musicians to come together for the love of reggae, Afrobeat, jazz, and funk. Colossal horns, big percussion, and layered guitars over a backbone of bass describes EAO's mostly instrumental jams, but it doesn't explain how Eddy brought Evergreen Afrobeat together or what it takes to keep a rota...