The Z107.7 Local Music Showcase, which I host, is now available by podcast.  Here are the links to get you there.

http://z1077fm.com/music-and-shows/podcasts/
 
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id393171775

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Pat Kearns presents an evening of independent music at Landers Brew.

Caitlin Sherman - In an "about damn time" kind of moment, Seattle based singer-songwriter Caitlin Sherman is stepping out solo. She’s had her fair share of collaborations over the years, most notably the cosmic psych rock of Evening Bell and the hazy noir of Slow Skate. As a songwriter and arranger in both projects, she also held the role of girlfriend and wife. Now she is neither. Her debut solo album, Death To The Damsel is a meditation on love lost and independence found in the wake of back to back romantic/musical entanglements. Each song an act to unbind oneself from the past in order to look forward. There will be no White Knight to free the damsel. It’s high time she untie herself from those tracks and make a move. “Find me a fire, I’ll find the escape, an exit from all that we built an invisible stairway, hidden from shame for a quick getaway.” And so that “heroine without a hero needed” emerged with ten songs charting her own path. Dark contemplative songwriting explored through fresh unpredictable pop sensibility, dripping with art and purpose.

Pat Kearns is a singer songwriter and recording engineer originally from Portland, Oregon. His newest album, Down In The Wash (2019), was recorded at his off grid homestead cabin in Landers using solar powered electricity.
https://www.patkearnsmusic.com/bio-and-pics.html

Northern California songwriters Jeremy Powers and William Duke join forces with a new band Sunset Canyoneers, delivering their self-titled debut on eclectic Spanish record label - You Are The Cosmos. A delectable full-length album of organic yet cosmic country folk-rock, it evokes the Gram Parsons-to-Big Star period when intoxicated Southern soul and rustic power pop revived Country and Western and gave rich pleasure to the crossover pop charts.
http://xopublicity.com/epksunsetcanyoneers

I am the new host for the Joshua Tree Local Music Showcase... straight from the news desk at Z107.7 KCDZ, here's the scoop.

"With the departure of Pat Michaels, the long-time host of Z107.7’s Local Music Showcase on Sunday afternoons, a new host has come on board. Managing editor Tami Roleff introduces Pat Kearns…

Pat Kearns, who moved to Landers from Portland, Oregon, and built a home and recording studio that are totally off the grid, has been involved in all aspects of music for 25 years.

“I’ve worked in radio before. I’ve been a professional audio engineer for over 25 years.”
Kearns is also a singer-songwriter, and has released two albums of his own: “So Long City” and “Down in the Wash.”

“ ‘So Long City’ was about saying good-bye to Portland and love affair with the desert down here. ‘Down in the Wash’ was really, once I got to be here, was influenced by the quiet and solitude I found out in Landers.”

Kearns has plans for the Local Music Showcase.

“There’s some local music that I’m in touch with that wasn’t on the show, so I’ve been gathering new artists that aren’t in the library and adding them to the library. And I also want to promote shows that local artists are doing, both in the Morongo Basin, and a lot of people are starting to play at the Alibi down in Palm Springs. I just want to make sure that everyone in the Hi-Desert knows about these things that local musicians are doing.”

The Local Music Showcase, which features the unique sounds of the desert is the only Morongo Basin program of just local artists, can be heard on Z107.7 Radio at 4 p.m. Sundays, right after the Ben Vaughn show.

If you’d like to contact Pat Kearns with suggestions for local music, email him at z1077localmusicshowcase@gmail.com."

My next high desert show!  With some fabulous folks; Kaz Murphy and Sarah Kramer.  More details to follow!