Our Pacific Northwest Music! We love our local musicians and those who are just visiting our favorite venues.

It would be an understatement to say that Our PNW Music co-hosts Rudy Giecek and Kristine Miller Cartwright are local music “enthusiasts”. A more accurate accounting would be that they are local music “fanatics”. Rudy and Kristine bonded over a shared love of their favorite Skagit Valley musical artist phenomenon, Jack Mattingly, whose song “You Wouldn’t Want To Miss This” is used for the opener and ending of the podcast. 

The idea for Our PNW Music podcast was originated in December of 2019 by Rudy and soon after Kristine was added to the project. This is a venture produced purely out love for local music and a need to share it with the public. The co-hosts, nor the podcast, are paid any fees and there are no sponsors. Bellingham community radio station KMRE 102.3 graciously agreed to give access to their studio for recordings and air the podcast on a monthly basis. After one airing, KMRE added the podcast as a weekly feature. 

All podcasts are available here on the website where you can listen at your leisure. You no longer have to search several different mediums for PNW local music information. Not only will Our PNW Music will be your Local go-to hub for everything you need to know, the website will include links to all featured artists social media pages so you can stay informed on all of your favorite musicians/bands. If you know of a local artist you would like featured on the show, please email us at ourPNWmusic.com

Every Tuesday at 8pm on KMRE 102.3, Rudy and Kristine will bring you everything you need to know about local music happenings. The first monthly episode will be a music roundup what’s coming up that month in Skagit and Whatcom counties. The second and fourth Tuesdays will be sit down interviews with local musical artists and will include in-studio acoustic versions of the artists music, as well as some favorite cuts off of their published recordings.  The third Tuesday (and fifth if applicable) of the month is entitled “Just Visiting” which will entail the top telephone interviews, along with a few songs, that Rudy conducts with artists from out of the area who are coming to the PNW to perform.