The ShowThank you for being interesting and thanks for being interested in this. We hope you like it here. This is the home of the Destination DIY radio show and podcast (formerly known as DIY, Portland). It's about revolutionary do-it-yourself projects. This innovative show has grown up from Portland’s grassroots. It started out as a live monthly show on KBOO Community Radio in early 2006 and has become a full-fledged audio documentary series with a significant following on the Internet and syndication on radio stations around the country.
We explore new ways people are working with limited resources to create rather than consume the world around them. Destination DIY blends recorded field sound, in-studio interviews, local music and personal narration to create an arc that takes listeners on a journey and brings them back inspired.
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Host, creator and producer Julie Sabatier
I’m Julie Sabatier. In addition to hosting and producing Destination DIY
once a month, I have produced quality radio for outlets such as Oregon Public
Broadcasting, Pacifica and American Public Media. I am the associate producer
of Oregon Public Broadcasting's daily talk show, Think Out Loud. I
grew up in Baltimore, attended Oberlin College and now, I live happily in Portland,
Oregon in a house full of men and cats.
DIY Composers
Grey Anne (aka Anne Adams) has a deep appreciation for magical realism, and a knack for classically catchy jingles. She wrote the current Destination DIY theme song and performed it using a kazoo, a ukulele, and a Hotlips blackberry soda bottle. Her debut album, facts n figurines, includes performances by Levi Cecil and Nick Jaina.
Nick Jaina
has painted faces in the streets of New Orleans for Mardi Gras, he has worked
in the Trump Building on Wall Street in New York City, he has played music in
the alleys of San Francisco, and he has run out of gas in the oil-rich state
of Alaska. He otherwise lives and plays music in Portland, Oregon and sometimes
produces albums for other people. He composed the first Destination DIY theme
song.
Jason Leonard finds and creates sounds on traditional instruments, unconventional objects, and stuff lying around the garage. Aural projects include live scoring for animation and film, music for radio, live sound effects and music for theater, and sitting on the back porch in a rocking chair with a guitar eating peaches. He currently plays with Nick Jaina and Laura Gibson. In addition to music, Jason creates illustrations and animations and runs a vintage poster restoration studio.
Leviethan is the first and middle name of Portland, Oregon musician Levi Ethan Cecil. He has been informed by the Minutemen, Fugazi and the entire independent movement of the 1980's and 90's. He has recorded and toured with idiosyncratic Northwest bands including Clock, System + Station, Heroes & Villains, and Deep North. He has released music by his own bands, and others in the Northwest on his own label Emeritus Records. He has worked in television, a hospital, and driven a taxicab. These experiences have informed his songs. He has just released his solo debut album "Monuments in Memory of Nothing So Far" on Emeritus. He was born in November, 1979 in Wisconsin, USA
Ali Ippolito is a musical implant from New York. She writes and sings and plays the piano. Other than her solo material, she performs with Heroes & Villains as a pianist/back-up (sometimes front-up)vocalist, Mr. Frederick as the same, the Nick Jaina band as an accordionist, clarinetist & back-up vocalist, and Rainbow & the Kittens as keyboardist/accordionist/back-up vocalist. She also teaches piano, and directs a choir and plays service music at a church. Her duty in life is to understand why she was made to play music.