Host Spotlight

Tell our listeners about your show and how it came to be. I love the word “harmonics” because beyond the mathematics of the term in music, I relate to the definition of “pleasing to the ear.” First of all, I have to say that I love radio. Back when I held a transistor radio under […]

You started at KUCI with Momz Rock the House from 2007 to 2010, and then started Get the Funk Out! in 2011. Tell our listeners about the evolution from the first show to the current show. I started at KUCI as a DJ, hosting a three-hour music show called Momz Rock the House. At the […]

How’d you come up with the theme of your show, Music of Other Times, Cultures? The first thing to say is I can’t play a lick of music. I wouldn’t know a time signature from an autograph or a melody from a threnody. I listen to music with my ears and my heart. It touches […]

Film School has been on the air, how long now? I have lost track of exactly when Film School started, but it is at least 12 years. Since KUCI does not always have enough hosts/DJs during the summer semester, Nathan and I agreed to co-host a summer show. During the first year or so was […]

You’ve been on the air for what, 40 years? Since you were an UCI student, yes? Forty-two years. Since I was a UCI undergraduate (1977), then alumnus (1979), then UCI graduate (1989), and then alumnus again (since 1992). How has the format of your show changed or evolved over the years? I started with a […]

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell us about the origins of your show. I was reading the “On The Radio” column in the Orange County Register one day and saw the words “Want to be a DJ?” With that I saw the opportunity to try something I always thought about, but never tried. After eight weeks of […]

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett I recently listened to your show, Sound Evolution, which airs on KUCI Saturdays at 6-8 a.m. and became mesmerized. How did you come to play a combination of world music, Latin alternative, and electronic music? In the beginning, my intention was to do an electronic music show where I could play all […]

by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Who are some of the artists you play on your show, Ladies Of Voice Entertainment & Music? A few favourite artists: • Céu { Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças } • Emily Jane White • Angel Olsen • Myrkur {Amalie Bruun} • Mika Nakashima • Summer Twins {Chelsea & Justine Brown} • […]