KUNV in Las Vegas

I have been living in Las Vegas for seven years now, with three different three month respites to Flagstaff, Reno, and Sedona. I like to get out of the big city because I love hiking and I love nature, and it is always a good idea to spend the summer someplace other that Vegas if you are not a camel.

I have come to appreciate many things about Las Vegas, however, and one of the very best things about living here is the public radio station KUNV. They play real jazz around the clock on Monday through Friday, and several of the on air personalities are actually accomplished, working jazz musicians in their own right, so the programming is quite authentic. John Nasshen, who is the drummer in the band Quintessence, is my own favorite KUNV jazz voice.

On the weekends they have a number of different shows that are devoted to different types of music that one rarely hears on the radio. There is a Hawaiian music show, a reggae show, bluegrass, women songwriters, blues, The Grateful Dead Hour with David Gans, world music, the Lyons Den, which is jam bands and other expansive music, the Word Up show, which is conscious hip hop...and they even have a Doo-Wop show.

When people who don't live here think about Las Vegas they generally don't realize that we have everyday people here living everyday lives. And one of the simple pleasure of my everyday life here in Las Vegas is KUNV.