Festival Season Begins, and RadioACTive Pop! Is Ready For It. Are You?

  • May 11, 2026
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Monday, May 11: From Kilby Block Party to POGO Fest to Busker Fest and Acoustic Music Strolls, RadioACTive Pop! preps you for festival season. We've even got a checklist. Plus, West Valley Pride wants your stories.

Get More Local, More Vocal with Tonight's Guests

Tonight's homegrown music: Unpaid Sandwich

A multi-instrumentalist, Unpaid Sandwich is just one of many homegrown acts you will see at this year's Busker Fest. Find out what his origin story has to do with his Dad's old PlayStation handle.

Name that Grassroots Activist!

RadioACTive's Connor Estes debuts a new show intro to start tonight's show. The first person to correctly identify the speaker of our new featured soundbites gets a RadioACTive T-shirt. Just email radioactive@krcl.org and tell us who said:

  • "I am the foot soldier for the Great Salt Lake. I am working tooth and nail for the lake."

  • "I know the community can make impact better than government can. Enough of me just being mad about it. This shows I'm going to do something about it. So this is my doing something about it."

  • "Buy local flowers, support local farmers, buy local food. There's a lot of amazing opportunities in Salt Lake to support local agriculture."

  • "Art isn't threatened by AI. We don't have an AI problem; we have a capitalism problem. People are always going to want to paint."

Classroom Craig for the Win

RA's Connor Estes talks with beat maker Classroom Craig about Avocado, the track he submitted and is now part of the show's new nightly intro. He is a songwriter, producer, beatmaker, and picture taker.

Rallies & Resources Spotlight (full list here):

  • May 29 & 30: Busker Fest | 5-10 PM on Main/Regent Streets, downtown SLC. Producer Kim Angeli breaks down the sky-high fun, including a unicycling unicorn, and drops details on next month's Acoustic Music Strolls along the Jordan River Parkway.

  • June 12: West Valley Pride Story Slam | 7-8:30 PM @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center, WVC. Masha Shukovich, Center for Documentary Expression & Art, issues a call for storytellers and a workshop that will take place on May 28.

  • June 13: 2nd Annual West Valley Pride | 12-6 PM @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W 3100 S, WVC. WVC's Tom Roche brings us the details for this free, family-friendly event. 

RadioACTive Pop! Gets You Read for Festival Season

From Kilby Block Party to POGO Fest, Busker Fest to Utah Arts Festival, RadioACTive Pop! preps you for festival season. Tonight's panel includes:

  • May 15-17: Kilby Block Party, Faye Barnhurst, S&S Presents — tickets almost gone!

  • June 20: POGO Fest, Nate McQuivey & Jules  Raho

How You Like Us Now?

  • NEW: Sound Off to RadioACTive via the KRCL Public Radio App — free wherever you get your apps. Click the menu > Talk to KRCL > Sound Off to RadioACTive. You can send us audio, video and pictures! 

  • Feedback: Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9FM. Send feedback to radioactive@krcl.org. 

  • Tonight's RadioACTive team included: 

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