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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Kairoff At The Keyboard 
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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Radio 101 
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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

Algia Mae Hinton remembered, and the joy of fiddlers’ conventions.
From: WFDD
Caption: Algia Mae Hinton, North Carolina blueswoman, dancer and songster, lived a dramatic and often difficult life. Her hardships and joys shone intensely through her music. We take stock of her life in this Across the Blue Ridge episode. , Credit: Music Maker Relief Foundation
A great variety show this week, starting off with some powerful songs and tunes from the old-time and bluegrass evolution. Then we have an appreci...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
New songs, country classics, and break time!
From: WFDD
Caption: Dewey Brown (l.) was bluegrass star Ralph Stanley’s last fiddle player, right up until Stanley’s death in 2016. Now Dewey and his wife Leslie (r.) are running a theater in Liberty, NC featuring live bluegrass and country music shows – and touring with the, Credit: Courtesy Dewey & Leslie Brown
This week we hear new songs from Vivian Leva and from Ralph Stanley’s last fiddler, Dewey Brown, and his wife, Leslie, with their band, The Carolin...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Classic songs, and new country/Americana artist Caleb Caudle
From: WFDD
Caption: Caleb Caudle, a North Carolina country & Americana musician is our featured guest this week on Across the Blue Ridge. His new album – his eighth – is out February 23. , Credit: Andy Tennille, used with permission of Caleb Caudle
As usual, we open the show with a powerful collection of country, bluegrass and old-time songs and tunes, keeping us rooted in traditions as we exp...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Fiddle tunes, tracing an old song, and classic brother duets
From: WFDD
Caption: Kyle Creed was an influential banjo picker, luthier, fiddler and record producer in the Blue Ridge. We feature him this week with two of his best fiddle tunes – Roscoe and Alabama Gals, both performed with the Camp Creek Boys, including Bobby Patterson o, Credit: Paul Brown
This week, we feature some classic Blue Ridge old time fiddle tunes and songs, from fiddlers Kyle Creed, Fred Cockerham, Tim Smith, and Tommy Jarre...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Blue Ridge Music Trails, WPAQ celebrates its 70th
From: WFDD
Caption: ATBR host Paul Brown at WPAQ, the radio station where he got his start in professional broadcasting and journalism in the early 1980s. WPAQ is featured in our Blue Ridge Music Trails series this week. The commercial station in Mount Airy, NC has offered, Credit: Paul Brown
This week’s program starts with a powerful collection of fiddle tunes, bluegrass, and old time songs. From there, we move into our latest Blue Rid...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 56:56
Early Country to the present: songster John Lilly
From: WFDD
Caption: John Lilly of West Virginia is our featured artist this week. He’s an instrumentalist and songster whose latest album features a dozen songs about U.S. states. His range of styles and subjects reflects his experience in old time, bluegrass, and classic, Credit: Hobart Jones, courtesy John Lilly
This week we take a trip down memory lane to a few of the earliest mountain and classic country music recordings. And our journey back brings us to...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 57:00
Winter listening, labor and work songs, and more
From: WFDD
Caption: The Blue Ridge Mountains, home to great music traditions, from Big Walker Overlook, US Highway 52, in southwest Virginia, 2017. , Credit: Paul Brown.
This week we bring you some fine listening across styles for those cold winter days and nights. Fiddler Chubby Wise kicks things off and from ther...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
New Year’s welcome, and the life of Curly Seckler
From: WFDD
Caption: John “Curly” Seckler (1919-2017), helped set the classic bluegrass sound with Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys following World War II. Seckler died at age 98 in late December, 2017, and we have an appreciation on this ATBR episode. , Credit: The Penny Parsons Company, used with permission
We enter 2018 with a satisfying selection of old-time, bluegrass, traditional country and gospel music – some standards you’ve heard, and some fasc...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker, guitar wizards
From: WFDD
Caption: Wayne Henderson (left) 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
We kick off the new year with a great selection of old time and bluegrass songs and tunes. Then we have excerpts from a Muddy Creek Music Hall show...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Breaking Up Christmas
From: WFDD
Caption: This week’s program reprises Paul Brown’s NPR radio documentary from the 1990s on the Breaking Up Christmas tradition in the Blue Ridge mountains of northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. , Credit: J Denise Coalson, used with permission
Here’s a reprise of Paul Brown’s Breaking Up Christmas: A Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday, produced for NPR member stations and first aired in late 199...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2017
  • Length: 56:55

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