KSPS PBS presents Inland Sessions

Inland Sessions - Mungo

Mungo, or Mungowona, is a singer/songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist visiting the Inland Sessions studio from Boise, Idaho. Born in Malawi, he's traveled around the world for an education and has found encouragement and community in the Inland Northwest exploring life as an artist and performer with his original music blending soul, funk, and amapiano.Inland Sessions is a weekly half-hour showcase of original music, poetry, or dance from popular creatives across the Inland Northwest. Full episodes of performances can be watched every Monday night, 7:30pm on KSPS-PBS across Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alberta, Canada or streaming/on-demand at ksps.org/inlandsessionsThis podcast is an extended audio interview with featured Inland Sessions artists, exploring their pathway to and through their art, the business side of being a performing artist at their level, and how they think about their role gathering community around the experience of live artistic performances. 

Inland Sessions: Timeworm

J.I. Gassen visits the studio as the drummer & lead vocalist for Timeworm, a new, collaborative and creatively progressive four-piece rock band out of Spokane, Washington.Indy Heyer, Drew Brereton, and Cade Brown round out the current lineup of the pop-psychedelic quartet, but today we are talking with J.I. and talk about his pathway through music and into Timeworm and how encouragement and support can be a gateway to freedom for creative thinkers and makers. You can visit timewormband.com to learn more about Timeworm's music and performance schedule. KSPS PBS is the Public Broadcast TV station based in Spokane, Washington but serving the whole of the Inland Northwest in North America. The non-profit mission of PBS affiliates is to produce and deliver high quality localized content that explores the people, stories, and events of our unique region, while offering a STEAM education to any/all lifelong learners for free through broadcast TV, streaming, on-demand, and online curricula and content. Learn more, including how to support KSPS PBS at ksps.org.

Inland Sessions: A Train To Nowhere

Together vocalist Tianna Guerra, guitarist Tanner Chick, bassist Adam Kitz, and drummer Chris Sturm become A Train to Nowhere, an band of emerging musicians who are exploring their pop sensibilities in Spokane, Washington. This is a half-hour extended interview and unplugged session where we invite you to get to know your local artists better. KSPS PBS produces Inland Sessions, a half-hour showcase of artists with regional roots and their original work which can be found performing in venues across the Inland Northwest and beyond. Public TV serves the greater good by producing and distributing high quality program produced by PBS stations across North America. KSPS-PBS broadcasts from Spokane, Washington across the Inland Empire featuring the people, places, and events that make this region unique. 

Inland Sessions: Andy Rumsey

Singer/Songwriter Andy Rumsey joins us in the studio to talk about how music gave him an outlet for his internal emotional life the way nothing else could, and why he believes in music and connection as a pathway to help heal and teach in an uncertain world. Andy brings an unplugged acoustic set of music from his back catalog, an acapella A-HA cover, and more. KSPS PBS is the Public Broadcast TV Station for the Inland Northwest across Eastern Washington, North Idaho, Western Montana, as well as parts of BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan Canada. This Podcast offers an in depth interview with performing artists from Inland Sessions, our weekly half-hour showcase featuring original music being written/performed across the heart of this region, highlighting new, emerging, and career musicians, poets, and dancers, alongside professional traditionalists and classical specialists. Top local and regional performers, alongside a new generation of artists every Monday at 7:30p PST on KSPS (check your local listings for channel) and can be streamed live, or watched on-demand at ksps.org. KSPS is a non-profit community media organization, devoted to enriching the community with high quality and locally-created programming intermixed with national and international programs you already know and love, showcasing the stories, people, and experiences that make the Inland Northwest unique. 

Inland Sessions: Tango Volcado

Tango Volcado is a classically-styled Tango ensemble featuring Jody Graves on piano, Patricia Bartell on accordion, Eugene Jablonsky on upright bass, and Tana Bland on violin and viola. These musicians include world champion musicians, cultural ambassadors, and respected music educators on the world's stage. This is an opportunity to meet each respected member as an individual, and learn how they were each introduced to music, and have since explored music and teaching music as a way to express themselves and explore the world through their ability to deliver extraordinary and heartfelt performances to audiences near and far. You will hear short selections from Tango Volcado's performance on Inland Sessions recorded in July 2025, and premiering on KSPS-PBS on 10/20/2025. To watch Tango Volcado on KSPS, to watch other episodes, or to find more podcasts like this go to ksps.org/inlandsessionsYou can support Inland Sessions, Public Broadcast, and celebrate access to world-class music performances by becoming a sustaining KSPS member anytime at ksps.org

Inland Sessions: The Holy Broke

Kent Ueland stops by the studio to talk about and share some of his intimate and raw folk-based country music project The Holy Broke, which he brought to the KSPS PBS studios in Spokane, Washington for Inland Sessions. His full half-hour studio performance premieres on October 13th 7:30pm Pacific on KSPS from your digital tuner in the Pacific Northwest or streaming live and on demand at ksps.org/inlandsessions. This episode includes exclusive acoustic performances of his songs "TV" and "Amen", as well as a chance to talk about his pathway to and through music. 

Inland Sessions: RCA & The Radicals

Riley C. Anderson visits Zana in the studio to talk about how picking up the guitar when he was a child helped him navigate his various identities and how he's forged a pathway through life with music. RCA shares a solo acoustic set, and we get a taste of RCA & The Radicals from their creative and energetic Inland Sessions studio performance!RCA & The Radicals premieres on Inland Sessions Monday, October 6th 2025 at 7:30pm Pacific Time on KSPS PBS across Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alberta Canada, and on demand at ksps.org/inlandsessions after their PBS debut!Learn more about RCA and finding his music at rcatheradicals.com
Inland Sessions & Inland Sessions: The Podcast is produced by KSPS PBS-TV studios in Spokane, Washington with with support from Spokane Arts, and their Spokane Arts Grant Awards!Spokane Arts supports arts and culture in the region through grantmaking, programming, advocacy, and professional development. Fostering creativity by providing direct support to individuals, groups, and organizations in the creative sector, and we promote local arts and culture to the wider community.

Inland Sessions: Hank Cramer

Hank Cramer is a singer/songwriter and traditional folk troubadour from Winthrop, Washington. Hank has spent his life collecting and sharing American and Celtic folk songs of the soldier, sailor, cowboy, pioneer, laborer, traveler, and friend alongside his own original music. A lover of history and storytelling, he delivers memorable performances with his guitar and distinct baritone vibrato. Hank joined today's host Tina Swannack to talk about his formative experiences with music and performance, sharing details of how a folk artist makes a living now a days. Inland Sessions is a KSPS-PBS production from Spokane, Washington. For Hank's full recorded performance, alongside other musicians from the Inland Northwest, or to find more interviews with Inland Sessions artists about art, music, passion, performance, and the business side of it all visit ksps.org/inlandsessions. To support Public Media, and non-profit KSPS-PBS productions and to see our schedule of broadcasts visit ksps.org to watch, learn more, volunteer, or donate.