KALW's 85th Birthday Benefit

Come celebrate 85 years of KALW Public Media, a Bay Area original! The legendary radio station is looking to The Next 85 Years with a once-in-a-lifetime benefit concert featuring out-of-this-world talents: BADBADNOTGOOD and Digable Planets, plus singer/songwriter Rozzi, and a special DJ set from DJ Wonway Posibul. Dance your heart out and celebrate a bold new vision for the Bay Area—where music, art, and culture reign once more.

FEATURED ARTISTS

BADBADNOTGOOD

Formed in 2010, Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD made their name by crossing genres. This seamless movement between styles hit hard when they took hip-hop into jazz and vice versa. The band, aka Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar and woodwinds), met on the Humber College jazz program in Toronto. At the time, instead of working with traditional jazz standards, the group sidestepped and drew from hip hop and other contemporary genres to create a unique sound rooted in Black American music.

Digable Planets

Digable Planets burst onto the music scene in 1993 with their Grammy-winning single, “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”. Made up of Ishmael Butler (“Butterfly”), Craig Irving (“Doodlebug”) and Mary Ann Vieira (“Ladybug Mecca”), the trio carved out a unique style of jazz-informed Hip Hop.

Rozzi

LA based singer/songwriter Rozzi is redefining what it means to be a modern soul-pop artist— melding emotional depth, bold storytelling, and cultural consciousness into every facet of her work. She's collaborated with icons like Nile Rodgers, PJ Morton, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, John Taylor (Duran Duran), Sheryl Crow, and Jacob Collier. She’s toured with acts including Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, and Joss Stone and has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Kelly Clarkson Show, The Talk, The Today Show, Apple's The Morning Show, and even played herself on Hulu's original series Dollface.

DJ Wonway Posibul

Juan “Wonway Posibul” Amador is a music tastemaker, MC, DJ, actor, and radio host who lives and works in San Francisco. Years of open mics, garage sessions, and table reads led to freestyle battle championships, DJ residencies in New York and Los Angeles, national theatre tours, performances around the world, and a GRAMMY nomination. He is the Associate Music Director at KALW Public Media, Resident Curator at Magic Theatre in San Francisco and active member of the Bay Area’s Campo Santo artist collective.

You can catch Wonway on KALW, weeknights Monday through Friday 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. on the KALW app and on-demand at KALW.