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Tom Schnabel is currently Program Director of World Music at the Hollywood Bowl. Beginning Summer 1999 and continuing since, he has directed a new series of world music concerts called World Festival, The Hollywood Bowl's first such series of World Music concerts.
Tom Schnabel has also produced radio shows for radio station KCRW since 1979. During his tenure as Music Director of KCRW (1979-1990) KCRW grew from an obscure college station to become the biggest public station in the U.S, serving as a tastemaker for new and unusual music. He pioneered the use of the eclectic alternative format, and introduced World Music to public radio. During this time KCRW twice won the College Media Journal's "Best Noncommercial Station" award (1986, 1989).
Schnabel is the author of many articles about music for the Los Angeles Times, Jazz Magazine (France), Cashbox, Down Beat, Esquire, Buzz, LA Style and two books, Stolen Moments: Conversations with Contemporary Musicians (Acrobat Books 1988), and Rhythm Planet - The Great World Music Makers (Universe/Rizzoli, l998).