Mike Sakarias 
credentials
- KTOO/KRNN/KXLL, Juneau
Radio Operations Manager, keeping three stations on the air, managing radio automation software and the digital studio boards and hardware using audio over Ethernet
2007–present
- Alaska Folk Festival
Tech coordinator, organizing and training the volunteer stage crews, interfacing with the professional sound engineers and managing the tech end of the main stage
1989–present
- Anchorage Folk Festival
Stage Crew Lead/Trainer
2011–present
- KTOO, the Public Radio Station in Juneau
Radio Volunteer—a DJ with a regular weekly show. Radio production starting in the days of reel-to-reel tape and continuing through digital
1989–present
- Extra Class Ham Radio Operator
1980–present
I began working as an occasional sound engineer in 1988, learning on the job at everything from coffeehouse concerts to 1200-seat venues and by asking questions of visiting sound engineers.
I was a recordist for several Boston Productions jobs in Juneau, Alaska, including the film “Seeing Daylight,” a movie about Tlingit native culture, which is shown during the tourist season at the top of the Mount Roberts Tram run in Juneau.
From 1990 to the present, I have done audio engineering for KTOO TV. This involves studio as well as location work, including house sound and TV/web feeds for Sealaska annual meetings and for “Celebration,” the biennial Pacific Northwest Native event held in Juneau.
Current festival work:
- Alaska Folk Festival (a week-long event with 40 hours of main stage concerts and 13 hours of dances), 1989–present
- In charge of sound and stage in the main venue, training and facilitating 50 volunteers on stage and sound crews each year.
- Responsible for the monitor mix and the smooth running of the stage.
- Work with the FOH sound engineers and the facility staff.
- Anchorage Folk Festival, leading and training volunteer stage crews, setting up and mixing sound for dances and main stage FOH shifts, 2011–present
- Centrum Foundation festivals: The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, leading the stage crew for the public concerts, mixing dance music of varied genres in one of the dance halls, helping load in, set up, and load out of various venues, since 1996, and more recently adding stage crew and sound work at the Voice Works festival, Jazz Port Townsend, and the Acoustic Blues Festival.
Some highlight concerts:
recording in the M/V Malaspina’s FRB
(Fast Rescue Boat)
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listening in a Southeast Alaska Forest
on the air in Juneau
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the FRB in context
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