Sal Espana
Host of Beyond the Fringe and Classical ShowcaseSal’s musical tastes became twisted early by pre-teen exposure to Frank Zappa and Harry Partch. After studying Electronic Music in college, Sal founded the experimental ensemble National Debt and composed music for the Cal Poly dance company Orchesis and the Central Coast Shakespeare Festival.
Joining Jon Iverson as co-host for The Last Jazz Show in 2004, Sal eventually became solo host and updated the title to Beyond The Fringe. Then in 2023 he took the reins of Classical Showcase, which features classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Sal spends his non-musically-related hours writing historically-based comedy sketches and performing Stand Up. He is fond of hyphens.
You can reach Sal at beyondthefringe@kcbx.org.
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Classical Showcase host Sal España talks with David Harrington, the artistic director, founder, and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. They chat about the quartet’s 52-year history championing contemporary music, their newest release Glorious Mahalia, and their upcoming UCSB performance premiering their latest multimedia work "Three Bones" exploring the histories of Indigenous, Gullah-Geechee , and Chinese American communities in the United States.
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Classical Showcase host Sal España talks with David Harrington, the artistic director, founder, and violinist of the Kronos Quartet. They chat about the quartet’s 52-year history championing contemporary music, their newest release Glorious Mahalia, and their upcoming UCSB performance premiering their latest multimedia work "Three Bones" exploring the histories of Indigenous, Gullah-Geechee [GUH-lah GEE-chee], and Chinese American communities in the United States.
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In anticipation of the Zombies concert at SLO's Fremont Theater on September 13, Sal España chats with the band's frontman, Colin Blunstone, about the…
