WFDD

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88.5 WFDD,88.5 WFDD, Public Radio for the Piedmont, is the only public radio station of its kind located in the Piedmont Triad. We broadcast news, information, and public affairs programming covering the arts, people, and institutions in the area.
We are the state's charter NPR® member and the longest continuously broadcasting public radio station in North Carolina. WFDD is a member of the North Carolina Public Radio Association. It is a broadcast service of Wake Forest University.

88.5 WFDD
#8850
1834 Wake Forest Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

phone: 336-758-8850
news tips: 336-758-3083
fax: 336-758-5193

wfdd@wfu.edu
wfdd.org

In Boone, you can hear WFDD at 100.1 FM.

Series

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35 Pieces

Steinway recording artist Peter Kairoff makes classical music accessible to all in Kairoff At The Keyboard.

  • From: WFDD
  • Updated: Feb 25, 2019
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News, personal reflections, commentaries, interviews, self-narrated pieces and much more. All stories are produced by High School students as part of their Radio 101 class.

  • From: WFDD
  • Updated: Aug 18, 2017

Latest Pieces

Caption: The Revelers, from Louisiana, feature in an upcoming Blue Ridge Music Center concert that calls attention to the broad reach of the late Joe Wilson’s career.  Wilson was a former head of the National Council for the Traditional Arts; he conceived and spea, Credit: Lee Celano, courtesy The Revelers
Summer listening sessions continue with a wonderful selection of classic bluegrass and crossover bluegrass honky-tonk. Hear Reno & Smiley, the Mad...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: We profile Bill Dillof, who died recently and unexpectedly, on this Across the Blue Ridge episode.  An attorney who left his career and devoted much of his energy to old-time and traditional music as a performer and scholar, Dillof demonstrated unquenchab
Our summer listening sessions continue this week with a fine selection of new recordings. Hear a Canadian band that bridges the gaps between old-t...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Asa Martin (shown here on a British reissue cover) was a country music recording pioneer who’s largely unknown today.  But he recorded many songs that have become standards – and we hear two of them on this week’s show.   , Credit: Publicity photo c. 1934, public domain, Paul Brown collection
This week we explore the highways and byways of traditional country music. Hear classic old time and bluegrass songs, a couple of live recordings...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Wayne Henderson (l.) and Presley Barker (center) with ATBR host Paul Brown at Muddy Creek Music Hall.  This week’s show presents excerpts from their July, 2017 performance.  Daniel Greeson joins Wayne and Presley on fiddle for a tune as well.  , Credit: Shana Whitehead
Here’s an encore edition of a listener favorite – a performance by guitar wizards Wayne Henderson and Presley Barker at Muddy Creek Music Hall in J...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Rick Ward, banjo maker, player, and ballad singer, of the Beech Mountain community in western North Carolina.  Here he’s holding a traditional mountain banjo he and his father made from parts found in Rick’s grandfather’s shop.  Rick is among the performe, Credit: Paul Brown
This week we hear from singer, banjo player and luthier Rick Ward; old-time musician and songwriter Trevor McKenzie with Terri McMurray and Paul Br...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Unidentified musicians, Memphis, c. 1935.  This week’s Across the Blue Ridge episode features some well known and some nearly unknown traditional musicians in a listening session that brings us sounds we seldom hear today.   , Credit: Ben Shahn for Farm Security Administration. Public domain.
A listening session this week features brilliant southern mountain and piedmont musicians of the past who don’t get a lot of exposure on radio thes...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: The remnants of a goat farm in Winston-Salem, NC.  This week’s Across the Blue Ridge features a broad selection of regional music, plus a look ahead to a special event at the Blue Ridge Music Center on June 15.  , Credit: Paul Brown
This week, a tremendous selection of old-time mountain, bluegrass and Americana music from bands old and new. Plus … a visit with Richard Emmett o...

  • Added: May 29, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Hazel Dickens (1935-2011), West Virginia-born singer, activist and songwriter, is inducted in June into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame in Wilkesboro, NC.  The Hall of Fame is getting new, expanded space for exhibits on its inductees this year.  , Credit: UNC Southern Folklife Collection, Free Artist License
As the festival and fiddlers’ convention season gathers steam with events all over the mountain south, we find out about the Blue Ridge Music Hall ...

  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
Caption: Jimmy Duck Holmes is the special guest artist at this year’s Mountains of Music Homecoming in southwest Virginia.  He continues the traditional acoustic blues guitar style of Bentonia, Mississippi.  , Credit: Courtesy The Crooked Road, Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail
The Crooked Road, Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail, presents its fourth annual Mountains of Music Homecoming June 8-16. It’s a movable feast of mus...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Ken Perlman has extensively documented the Prince Edward Island fiddling traditions, which came near to extinction in the 1950s and 1960s before local residents launched a revival effort.  On this ATBR episode, Perlman notes the cultural and musical simil, Credit: R.Geyer, courtesy Ken Perlman
Ken Perlman has documented, and as a result helped shepherd the survival – and revival – of a fiddling tradition on Prince Edward Island in the Can...

  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 56:59