Why listen to KEPW?

If you love classical music, you know your default radio station. If you’re a sports enthusiast, you know your default radio station. If you like “oldies” music, you know where to automatically tune. As a child, did you like the same comforting bedtime story every night? If any of these, stick with familiar MSM faces … Read more

KEPW Community Potluck August 1st, 2022

All are welcome to the KEPW community potluck. It’s usually on the first Monday of the month. Join us for an informal potluck where we chat, eat, drink and play! Where: It will be outdoors on the west side of the lawn at the RiverPlay Discovery Village Playground at Skinner’s Butte Park. Note: The playground … Read more

Get to Know: Island Earth Radio with Mike Meyer

Island Earth Radio is a collection of multicultural, multi-genre songs about nature. It may be one of the only nature-positive shows on radio anywhere in the world and is especially needed in this era of disconnection for our natural world and climate change. Songs from around the world are supplemented with national artists such as … Read more

Get to Know: Hard Rain and Slow Trains with Daniel Mackay

The following interview was produced for the 89th episode of the KEPW Weekly News program. Joshua: Today I’m speaking with Daniel McKay who produces a weekly radio show for KEPW called hard rain and slow trains, Bob Dylan and fellow travelers. He began listening to Bob Dylan in January of 1989 and has seen him … Read more

KEPW Community Potluck July 11, 2022

All are welcome to the KEPW community potluck. It’s usually on the first Monday of the month (except July 2022 which is the second Monday because of the holiday). This will be a “meet and greet” where we will give a short intro to our community radio station with ways people can help, then we’ll … Read more

Get to Know: Talk is Cheap

Talk is Cheap presents lectures and interviews from groups with solutions to state sponsored corporatism punctuated with progressive rock, jazz fusion and sardonic wit on KEPW from 4-5pm on Saturdays. Host DJSuss D has studied and experimented with Sustainable Design for over 40 years and has been involved with many community radio projects. He seeks … Read more

Get to Know: DEADISH and Jeff Harrison

By Jeff Harrison “Do you like good music—that sweet Deadish music?” (Hear Wilson Pickett.) Well, lucky for us, though “the band’s all packed and gone,” the music never stopped. It’s here for you every Thursday night at 9:00—in many different forms, but all “deadish.” In early 2019 KEPW decided a Grateful Dead show would be … Read more

Get to Know: The KEPW Weekly News Team

The KEPW Weekly News team is a group of community members that identify as being from KEPW or other organizations that are interested in reporting on the under-reported, and helping to bring community happenings to a wider audience. We tend to focus on a number of local issues such as the unhoused, emergency preparedness, and … Read more

KEPW Honored With Edward R. Murrow Award

PeaceWorks Community Radio (KEPW) was recently honored with the regional Edward R. Murrow award for its news web presence in the small market radio category. Five articles were submitted from the Eugene Community Newswire (ECN) website for the competition. ECN is currently in transition from its KEPW hosted location over to WholeCommunity.news (WCN), where it … Read more

Volunteer for KEPW to support local Community Radio

KEPW is a non-profit listener supported independent community radio station in Eugene Oregon and streaming online at www.kepw.org. We need your support to stay on the air. We offer free training and would love to hear from you! Fill out our volunteer form here to contact us.