New York has the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Pasadena has the Rose Bowl Parade, but Sausalito’s Holiday season wouldn’t be complete without the Lighted Boat Parade. This year, Radio Sausalito will be airing a complete play-by-play of this year’s parade, in collaboration with Sausalito- On-The-Waterfront and the Sausalito Yacht Club.

Everyone watching the parade will be able to tune to Radio Sausalito’s internet stream, or to 1610 AM and enjoy the festivities and hear about each of the 50 or more brightly lit boats as they pass the reviewing stand next to the Ferry Terminal. Those lucky enough to watch from their homes in the Sausalito hills can also hear the audio via the “second audio channel” on Cable TV channel 26. The broadcast will be anchored by Radio Sausalito’s founder Jonathan Westerling, with play by play from longtime Bay Area TV Anchor Jim Vargas and great holiday music throughout.

The lighted boat parade has been a holiday staple in Sausalito since 1989. The free event is grand marshaled each year by Jim Gabbert’s 85’ Stephens motor yacht Defiance and begins off Clipper Yacht Harbor, passing the judges at the Sausalito Yacht Club downtown, and continues to the south end off the Cote d’Azure. The parade can be seen from The Seafood Peddler, Spinnaker Restaurant, Winterfest Tent, Gabrielson Park, the Ferry Landing, The Inn Above Tide, Casa Madrona Hotel, Yee Tok Chee Park, Angelino’s Restaurant, The Trident Restaurant, Scoma’s Restaurant, and all along the hillside.

Tune into Radio Sausalito this Satuday night starting at 6pm and enjoy the Lighted Yacht Parade like you’ve never heard it before – on the radio!

Radio Sausalito is proud to be the subject of a feature article in the leading streaming radio online magazine. Today, the RAIN (Radio And Internet Newsletter) had a nice mention of the station which you can read at this link…
http://kurthanson.com/news/website-spotlight-radio-sausalito

Finding The Joys of Jazz Wherever He Goes

For Immediate Release November 18, 2013
Media Contact: Jonathan Westerling – jonathan@radiosausalito.org

SAUSALITO, CA – Bob Hecht’s vacation itinerary usually includes one-on-one time with great jazz artists in cities all over the world. For example, a recent trip to Europe was an opportunity not only to enjoy the City of Light, but also to share a microphone with legendary pianist and Paris resident Kirk Lightsey, past staff pianist with Motown Records. “We spent an afternoon just hanging out at his place and recording the interview,” says Hecht, a veteran jazz DJ who has previously interviewed Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Erroll Garner and many others.
This Friday, Hecht will launch a new show on Radio Sausalito called the Joys of Jazz. It will present carefully curated musical playlists focusing on particular themes along with occasional excerpts from his interviews with the musicians themselves. The radio show will also celebrate the works of great jazz composers, instrumentalists and singers, as well as the central role played by the Great American Songbook in enriching the jazz repertoire.
“Jazz is a joyous sound,“ says Hecht. “No other music so honors individual expression and freedom, nor swings so much! As Duke Ellington once observed, ‘There are two kinds of music: good music and the other kind.’ My show is about the good kind!” Back home in Marin, Hecht recently interviewed pianist Denny Zeitlin and talked about Zeitlin’s remarkable dual careers as practicing psychiatrist and world-class jazz pianist.
This interview and many others will be interwoven with musical examples and heard on ‘The Joys of Jazz.’ – every Friday at 4 and 8 pm and again on Sunday at 8pm. Listeners in Southern Marin can tune in to 1610AM; in Central San Rafael to 1710AM, or anywhere via the station’s new audio stream at www.radiosausalito.org.