April at-a-glance Please visit wycc.org/schedule.html for the most current programming schedule. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Curious George Bob the Builder 6:00 AM Classical Stretch The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat 6:30 Body Electric Knows a Lot Knows a Lot About That! About That! Super Why! Wunderkind 7:00 Wai Lana Yoga Little Amadeus Dinosaur Train Peep and the Big 7:30 Sit and Be Fit Wide World / Pocoyo Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder 8:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog Angelina Ballerina: Sid the Science Kid 8:30 Wild Kratts The Next Steps 9:00 Anne of Green Gables Wild Kratts Sesame Street 9:30 WordGirl The Zula Patrol DragonflyTV Biz Kid$ 10:00 Curious George Garden Smart The Professors 10:30 Sid the Science Kid P. Allen Smith’s Pritzker Military 11:00 WordWorld Garden Home Library Presents The Victory Garden 11:30 Dinosaur Train PM Growing a Washington Week 12:00 Caillou Greener World This Old House Justice and 12:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Law Weekly The Best of the Sewing with Nancy Mid-American Quilting Arts Crafting at the The American Religion & Ethics 1:00 Joy of Painting Gardener Spotted Canary Woodshop Newsweekly Gary Spetz’s Painting Martha’s Sewing Room Music Makers with Fons & Porter’s Beads, Baubles, Hometime Closer to Truth 1:30 Wild Places! Scott Houston Love of Quilting and Jewels Wild Photo Adventures It’s Sew Easy Between the Lines Knitting Daily Around the House The Woodwright’s Second Opinion 2:00 with Barry Kibrick with Matt and Shari Shop Christina P. Allen Smith’s Rudy Maxa’s World The Cooking Odyssey Creative Living Woodsmith Shop Healthy Body, 2:30 Garden to Table with Sheryl Borden Healthy Mind The Jazzy Vegetarian Lidia’s Italy in America Essential Pépin Ciao Italia Joanne Weir’s Rough Cut Healthy Minds 3:00 Cooking Confidence Cook’s Country from New Scandinavian In Julia’s Kitchen Simply Ming America’s Test Kitchen Ask This Old House Maria Hinojosa: 3:30 America’s Test Kitchen Cooking with Master Chefs from Cook’s Illustrated One-on-One European Journal Various Shows— 4:00 Please Check Listings Charlie Rose 4:30 A Taste of History Consuelo Mack Asia Biz Forecast Out of Ireland The Truth About Money To the Contrary Antiques Roadshow 5:00 WealthTrack with Ric Edelman with Bonnie Erbe 5:30 Journal Congo (except 4/6) Inside Washington 6:00 Newsline In the Loop 6:30 Nightly Business Report MotorWeek Antiques Roadshow Congo (except 4/3) In the Loop Ladies of Letters Various Shows— Moyers & Company 7:00 Please Check Listings 7:30 Autoline Just Seen It The Red Green Show NOVA Inspector Morse Rick Steves’ Europe Lark Rise to Austin City Limits Masterpiece Great Decisions in 8:00 Candleford Mystery! Wallander Foreign Policy Travel with Kids Various Shows— 8:30 Please Check Listings Various Shows— Globe Trekker New Tricks Musicology: Live 9:00 Please Check Listings from the Old Town School of Folk Music 9:30 (4/19, 4/26) Just Seen It Me & Mrs. Jones Inside Washington 10:00 Journal Lead Balloon Beyond the Beltway 10:30 Tavis Smiley with Bruce DuMont 11:00 Independent Lens Charlie Rose 11:30 P. O. V. Children’s Comedy General How-to Drama Local News/Talk Travel 2 l wycc.org Bold type indicates a new program or a program being aired at a new time. contents APRIL 2013 Staff features Paul Buckner Station Manager Cynthia H. Syperek Cover Story Director of Programming & Content 4 Musicology: Live from the Cesar Rodriguez Old Town School of Folk Music Creative Services Director WYCC teams up with Chicago’s own Alisa Clark Membership Coordinator Old Town School of Folk Music for WYCC PBS Chicago is located a new original concert series that at Kennedy-King College features performances and stories 6258 S. Union Ave. from culturally significant artists Chicago, IL 60621 Tune in Thursdays at 9 p.m. and see the Telephone: 773-224-3300 from around the world. New Tricks of former policemen brought http://www.wycc.org back to work to solve cases long unsolved. April WYCC PBS Chicago 6 is owned and Program Listings operated by the Cheryl L. Hyman Chancellor 8 Station Break Board of Trustees • Celebrate Earth Day the Water Way Paula Wolff Chairperson • CCC Connections: Learn from Ellen Alberding Your Environment Vice Chairperson Charles Jenkins Trustee MHz Worldview Marisela Lawson 9 Trustee Everett Rand Trustee Membership Larry R. Rogers, Sr. 15 Trustee Your support helps keep WYCC going, Susan Santiago and we want to help you keep going out Art’s power to improve lives and Trustee on the town! With a WYCC MemberCard, strengthen communities comes into the spotlight on Humble Beauty: Zakeia S. Hampton you’ll get deals and discounts at locations Student Trustee Skid Row Artists, airing Sunday, throughout the area. April 14 at 4 p.m. and Saturday, WYCC PBS Chicago Magazine April 20 at 7 p.m. is published in cooperation with A+ Media, Inc. Not sure where to find WYCC PBS Chicago in Julio Abreu your area? Visit www.wycc.org to find out. Publisher Anton Galang Editorial Director Tammy West Art Director Amy Sawyer Editor Nancy Dreher Marianne Kroeger Contributing Editors Traveling from Lake Michigan to the Thar Desert, students from Northwestern University help tackle the water crisis on Water Pressures (Monday, April 1 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 6 at 7 p.m.). Turn to page 8 for more films and educational programs that open our eyes to environmental issues. WYCC PBS Chicago Magazine—Copyright © 2013 by WYCC PBS Chicago. Editorial Offices: WYCC PBS Chicago, 6258 S. Union Ave., Chicago, IL 60621 (773-224-3300). Material in this issue may not be reproduced in whole or part in any form or format without special permission from the publisher. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL, and additional entry. Printed in the U.S.A. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to WYCC PBS Chicago Magazine, Publication Offices: WYCC PBS Chicago, 6258 S. Union Ave., Chicago, IL 60621. ALTAN iscover artists and bands from across the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, the Pacific Islands, Asia, and the Middle East during Musicology: Live from the Old Town School of Folk Music. Each episode, filmed by WYCC’s veteran crew, will feature one culturally and Dmusically significant artist or group performing live at the 400-seat Maurer Concert Hall at the Old Town School of Folk Music. The episodes include 45 minutes of live concert footage along with 10 minutes of pertinent back story. There is no host or narrator, which gives each artist the opportunity to tell their own story in their language of choice (with subtitles utilized as necessary) and provide the historical, cultural, and musical context to better appreciate and understand their live performance. Thirteen artists or groups have been selected for the inaugural season of this unique and unprecedented music series, which will air Fridays at 9 p.m. starting April 19. 4 l wycc.org Habib Koité & Eric Bibb – Brothers in Bamako Future episodes include performances by: Friday, April 19 at 9 p.m. BAJOFONDO What began as a collective of Argentine and Uruguayan 21st-century Malian griot Habib artists who combined programming and samples with Koité and new world bluesman acoustic and electric instruments has now evolved into an Eric Bibb join the rhythms of eight-member group that liberally adds elements of Latin American roots music. their guitars and voices for some transatlantic blues. Koité’s ancestral knowledge set to song places him among the ALASH Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve, most influential voices of contemporary Africa. Bibb, godson the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western of Paul Robeson, has established his name in the new elements while staying true to their Tuvan music, culture, generation of bluesmen without renouncing the legacy and heritage. They are masters of both traditional Tuvan instruments and the art of throat singing. of folk and gospel. OLIVER MTUKUDZI & THE BLACK SPIRITS Oliver Mtukudzi is Zimbabwe’s pride and national The Creole Choir of Cuba treasure. A member of the Kore Kore tribe, he is one Friday, April 26 at 9 p.m. of the most successful African recording artists in North America. In fact, one of his biggest fans is Grammy-winning Founded in 1994, The Creole Choir country singer Bonnie Raitt. of Cuba has combined modern JOAN SORIANO Haitian sounds with music passed Born in the rural countryside in the Dominican Republic, ALTAN down from their families since the Joan fashioned his first guitar from fishing line and early 19th century. Although all of the members are native a discarded metal box. Today, he blends Afro-Dominican’s sacred traditions with bachata, which he infuses with equal to Camagüey, Cuba, they are also all descendents of Haitians parts romance and grit. enslaved to the Caribbean from West Africa. The Creole P’indékuecha Choir’s joyous sound is a feast for both the ears and eyes. This musical group of the indigenous P’urhépecha people of the western Mexican state of Michoacán Hamid Al-Saadi performs native genres using violin, guitar, bass, and vocals. First formed in 1999, they have since been recognized as Friday, May 3 at 9 p.m. cultural ambassadors. Vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi is the CHRISTINE BALFA & BALFA TOUJOURS leading authority on the Iraqi This traditional Cajun band from Louisiana plays it Maqam tradition and has been straight from the heart, as it has been played in their Cajun family for hundreds of years.