Blues Festival Producer Michael Kinsman to Host Jazz 88.3 FM's "Every Shade of Blue" on Saturday Nights

SAN DIEGO (Sept. 8, 2014) – San Diego’s jazz radio station KSDS-FM (Jazz 88.3) has announced San Diego Blues Festival founder and former music writer Michael Kinsman will begin hosting “Every Shade of Blue” Saturday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight, beginning October 4. Kinsman succeeds on-air personality “T,” who retired June 30 after more than 30 years with the station. Jazz 88.3 FM will also air new blues programming Sunday-Friday from midnight to 2 a.m.

“We’re thrilled to have Kinsman join us,” said Program Director Claudia Russell. “His love for the blues, the San Diego community and music education is unwavering – a perfect fit for ‘Every Shade of Blue.’”

For the past 16 years, Kinsman has produced more than 20 festivals and more than 100 concerts throughout the country – including the San Diego Blues Festival, which he founded in 1998 and benefits the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank. His blues festival took a hiatus in 2003, then, in 2011, was resurrected, and has featured such major acts as Tab Benoit, James Cotton, Kim Wilson, Tommy Castro, Eric Burdon & the Animals and scores of other bands. Today, it earns its reputation as one of the most exciting blues festivals in the country.

For 25 years, Kinsman was a business and music journalist for the S.D. Union-Tribune and its predecessor San Diego Tribune. Additionally, he has written for Blues Music Magazine, Blues Revue Magazine and VH1.com; interviewed more than 500 blues, roots and rock musicians; reviewed more than 300 CDs; and his freelance stories have been published in more than 100 publications and scores of websites through the years.

For more information about Jazz 88.3 FM’s on-air hosts and programing, visit www.jazz88.org.

ABOUT JAZZ 88.3 FM

Member-supported KSDS Jazz 88.3 FM (“Jazz 88.3”) is San Diego’s authentic jazz radio station, licensed to the San Diego Community College District, broadcasting 24 hours a day from the campus of San Diego City College with 22,000 watts of power. The nonprofit is the only San Diego station serving an eclectic range of authentic mainstream jazz fare, and through numerous school and community programs, is committed to the presentation and preservation of, and education about jazz. For more information, visit www.jazz88.org.