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: Archie Edwards (1918-1998) was a barber in the Washington, DC area and a fine blues guitarist and singer who regularly welcomed other musicians to his shop for jam sessions.  , Credit: bygonebrookland.com
This week we hear a tremendously varied selection of solid bluegrass music; old time fiddling from field recordings; classic piedmont blues, and ne...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Blue Highway is one of the Grammy-nominated Bluegrass bands featured on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: bluehighwayband.com
This week we take a detour from the old dirt roads and head for the 2017 Grammy Awards. Listen to selections from the five bluegrass albums nomina...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: The Jeff Little Trio (L-R Jeff Little, Josh Scott, Steve Lewis) brings piano into a new generation of southern roots music, performing a range of old-time music, bluegrass, blues, jazz, swing and more. , Credit: Paul Brown
Southern roots music is much more than today’s typical bluegrass combination of banjo, fiddle, guitar, bass and mandolin. Piano is among the many i...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Rex McGee, an innovative and respected musician from Stokes County, NC, Credit: Paul Brown
Rex McGee of Stokes County, North Carolina displays a restless intelligence from the moment you encounter him. Raised on the family farmstead, son ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Bluegrass and country star Mac Wiseman is out with another new album at age 91. Here he talks with ATBR host Paul Brown in his Nashville home.  , Credit: Paul Brown
Mac Wiseman is one of the last of the original generation of bluegrass players. And he’s much more than that. He’s a farm boy-turned-musician, a ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: Becky Hobbs is both a gritty and sincere country singer and a fine songwriter.  She’s one of the performers we hear on this week’s “Across the Blue Ridge”.  , Credit: BeckyHobbs.com
This week we hear a fabulous bluegrass fiddle tune from Corinna Logsdon of High Fidelity … plus a gritty country song from Becky Hobbs … and the Al...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: Frank Bode (second from left) played with most of the top old time string bands in northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia.  His music is featured on this edition of Across the Blue Ridge.  (L-R Barbara Poole, Frank Bode, Ginger Bode, Terri McMurr, Credit: Bettie Clifton
This week, we hear a fine selection of bluegrass and old time songs and tunes. Melodic bluegrass banjo player Alan Munde; singers Dale Ann Bradley...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Alan Jabbour was a master fiddler, scholar and folklorist whose work influenced thousands of aspiring and established musicians.  , Credit: Library of Congress
Alan Jabbour, the founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, played fiddle, documented traditions and mentored o...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: John Cloyd Miller and Natalya Zoe Weinstein are Zoe & Cloyd, a North Carolina-based roots music duo embodying the modern American musical story of multiple backgrounds and influences.  , Credit: Paul Brown
This week we visit with Zoe & Cloyd, an acclaimed North Carolina roots duo whose combined musical heritage includes old time mountain, bluegrass, r...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2017
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Burl Hammons and his family, of West Virginia, carried a fascinating tradition of singing and instrumental performance and repertoire.   He’s one of many artists on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: Carl Fleischhauer
This week’s Across the Blue Ridge presents a fine collection of musicians and styles perfect for wintertime listening. Host Paul Brown takes us th...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 56:58