'24/7 LOVE'

02/14/2006

As members of the performance group Lelavision, Ela Lamblin and Leah Mann integrate music and movement through instrumentation, dance, and sculpture. The two performers are also life partners, and their special Valentines Day event showcases several performing couples with distinct talents. Ela and Leah join KUOW's Dave Beck to talk about the dynamic of performing couples, and about tonight's performance featuring music, poetry, sculpture, video, and acrobalancing. Also this hour, Jack Nisbet uses fresh research to convey how North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson experienced the sweep of human and natural history etched across the Columbia drainage in the years between 1801 and 1812. Plus, pop music reviews with Cheryl Waters.



Today's Featured Music Selection: The Weepies
Deb Talan and Steve Tannen began writing together the first night they met and soon formed The Weepies. 'We were fans of each other. When we met, there was an electric connection that made us both nervous. After the show, when everyone went home, we stayed up all night playing songs for each other, drinking a bottle of wine and trading an acoustic guitar back and forth in a tiny apartment,' says Talan. 'That night has lasted four years so far,' adds Tannen. We'll hear how this collaborating couple makes music as we sample tracks from their new CD, Say I am You.

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The Weepies

At 2:05pm - 'The Mapmaker's Eye'
Before Lewis and Clark, there was David Thompson. Between 1801 and 1812, North West Company fur trader, explorer, and cartographer David Thompson established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire 1,250-mile course of the Columbia River. In succeeding years he distilled his mathematical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first accurate maps of the entire northwest quadrant of North America. In The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau, Jack Nisbet uses fresh research to convey how Thompson experienced the sweep of human and natural history etched across the Columbia drainage. Jack Nisbet talks today with Megan Sukys.

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'The Mapmaker's Eye'

At 2:33pm - '24/7 LOVE'
As members of Lelavision, Ela Lamblin and Leah Mann integrate music and movement through instrumentation, dance, and sculpture. The two performers are also life partners, and their special Valentines Day event showcases several performing couples with distinct talents. Ela and Leah join Dave Beck to talk about the dynamic of performing couples, and about tonight's performance featuring music, poetry, sculpture, video, and acrobalancing.

Related Event:
'24/7 LOVE' happens Tuesday, February 14th at 8:00 p.m. at Kenyon Hall in Seattle.

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Lelavision

Kenyon Hall

At 2:50pm - Pop Music Reviews with Cheryl Waters
KEXP DJ and The Beat's pop music critic Cheryl Waters spins a few tracks from her latest CD pick.