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: Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown (L) and David Bragger jam at The Old Time Tiki Parlour, Bragger’s home and studio in Los Angeles.  Bragger is a musician and documenter who is recording as many current roots musicians as he can.   , Credit: Lisa Bragger
The allure of traditional southern music has spread across the U.S. and around the world. Case in point: David Bragger is a Los Angeles audio-video...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: The Delmore Brothers of Alabama, early country music stars, have influenced generations of harmony singers and guitarists. We hear them on this episode of Across the Blue Ridge, plus a Doc Watson interpretation of a Delmore Brothers song.   , Credit: Paul Brown
The Mountains of Music Homecoming is just around the bend. The movable feast of roots music takes place in communities around southwestern Virgini...

  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Lightnin’ Wells regales the audience at Muddy Creek Music Hall with stories and songs from blues, old time, bluegrass, ragtime and jazz traditioins.  He’s the featured performer on this edition of Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: Paul Brown
Mike “Lightnin’” Wells brings traditions together in his entertaining, informative and down-home one-man shows.

  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
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This week we take a moment at Merlefest – not for the main stage acts, but with the community of jammers at festivals. Beyond that, we hear a fine...

  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Del McCoury reaches back to the era of singles.  He and his band are on a streak of releasing single songs, rather than waiting to complete entire albums.   We hear the latest on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: Del McCoury Band
Del McCoury reaches back to the era of singles. He and his band are on a streak of releasing single songs, rather than waiting to complete entire ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 56:56
Caption: Jerry Douglas (l.) and Aly Bain host the Transatlantic Sessions, in the U.S. for the first time this year.  One stop will be Merlefest in North Carolina.  , Credit: Merlefest
A festival that started small at Wilkes Community College in North Carolina has become one of the most enthusiastically supported roots music event...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Mac Benford, a member of the Highwoods Stringband in the 1970s, reminisces this week on how he came to old time music and wound up in a highly influential band.  , Credit: Paul Brown
One outcome of the folk music boom of the 1950s and ‘60s was an increased interest in the music from which much pop and folk had sprung: old-time a...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2017
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Buddy Pendleton of Patrick County, VA was one of the world’s great old time and bluegrass fiddle players.  We offer some of his music and a remembrance of his life.  , Credit: Michael Abraham
This week we profile Buddy Pendleton (1935-2017), a remarkably talented and fluid Patrick County, Virginia fiddle player whose repertoire spanned o...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: The Quebe Sisters of Texas present swing fiddle tunes and triple-harmony singing at the Blue Ridge Music Center this season.  , Credit: Stewart Cohen
This week we hear some classic Blue Ridge mountain music, piedmont blues, and even some swing from the Quebe Sisters of Texas, who will perform at ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 56:55
Caption: Bill Monroe (second from right) and His Blue Grass Boys were early Grand Ole Opry stars who refashioned mountain music into the new genre called bluegrass. , Credit: nativeground.com
This week we dig into the riches of early country music recordings to hear classics of old time mountain, white and African-American gospel, blues,...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 56:57