In Pride Week 2018 (July 28 to August 5) SALTO Stads FM becomes "Pride FM" for a week. This means that the full schedule is changed and all programs are 100% dedicated to the Pride Week. 
Fingerpoppin Soul of course fully supports this and will in the show of August 2 be fully dedicated to the Pride theme. This means the show will only contain records made by gay artists or with a gay theme. 
There will be no compromise of course in the quality of the records played, Soul from all eras will be featured, by artists like Arthur Conley, Bessie Smith, Labi Siffre, Carl Bean, Rahsaan Patterson, Luther Vandross, Ma Rainey, Little Richard, Dusty Springfield, Jackie Shane (transgender), Laura Nyro, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Dynamic Superiors, Barbara Lewis, Queen Latifah, Keith Barrow, James Cleveland, Ronnie Dyson, and many others!
Listen on August 2 to this special episode of Fingerpoppin Soul on Pride FM and experience that there is more under the sun than Ibiza house and “It’s raining men”!
Broadcast is on Thursday August 2 2018 from 22-24 CET on Pride FM (106.8 FM and 103.3 Cable) and will be available on MIxcloud on Friday the 3rd of August.

Next week the venerable North Sea Jazz Festival is held again at the AHOY in Rotterdam. From Friday the 13th of July to Sunday the 15th hundreds of artists will perform in a dozen halls in Hollands main seaport city.
As always we will be there, although to be honest the main attractions at the festival are o in the early hours of the first day. 
The O'Jays are finally performing and they start their set at 5:15 PM... As soon as they finish we will hurry to another hall to see the magnificent Durand Jones & the Indications again. Late on the Friday neo soul legend Maxwell will do his thing. The other two days at NSJ don't really match this first day but we will see...

On Saturday June 16 two legends of 80s soul will be performing at the Escape club in Amsterdam (on the Rembrandtplein in the centre of town).
​We will be there of course because this is a really special gig! 

On Friday the 25th of May soul legend Madeline Bell will be performing the songs of Ray Charles featuring the Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw ate the Q Factory in Amsterdam East . Looks like a promising gig and we will be there.

On Friday April 27 Hans & Harry will be sitting across the Etos on the Haarlemmerdijk in the centre of Amsterdam playing records, having a drink, selling soul 45s and generally having a good time. Join us there if you feel like it from around 9 AM to 4 PM

This Saturday the Book Presentation takes place of the retrospective book on the history of legendary Amsterdam live venue Paradiso. The book was written by music writer Hester Carvalho and includes a contribution from Harry on a legendary concert by Curtis Mayfield at the Paradiso in 1990 just before his accident.
www.paradiso.nl/nl/programma/paradi50/25202/

Upcoming live soul gigs at the Paradiso are:
Avery Sunshine on April 25
Durand Jones & the Indications on May 10
​Cameo on May 24

This upcoming Friday March 2 the Whispers will perform at the Paradiso.
And we will be there of course!
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On March 1 we have Marc Janssen as a special guest on the radio show. Marc is a very very serious soul collector and is now co-running the mighty Everland record label, which re-releases many ultra rare soul albums and 45s. Marc will tell us a lot about how Everland works and will play a number of the releases of Everland in the show.
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