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 Carter Family: Maybelle, A.P., Sara.  Early country music superstars whose music lives on today.  , Credit: www.carterfamilyfold.org
This week we take some time with repertoire of early country music superstars The Carter Family.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 56:56
Caption: Harry and Jeanie West of Statesville, NC are just two of the many artists on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge, as our summer listening party continues., Credit: harryandjeaniewest.com
Our summer listening party continues this week with a tremendous selection of classic and new music from the mountains and beyond.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Branson Raines (left), Sheila Kay Adams (center) and Across the Blue Ridge host Paul Brown at the Bluff Mountain Festival in North Carolina, June, 2016.   They discuss the southern mountain ballad tradition and perform on this week’s program.  , Credit: Bluff Mountain Festival staff
In the summer of 1916, English literature scholar and pioneer folklorist Cecil Sharp made his first trip to document the survival of English ballad...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
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This week’s Across the Blue Ridge features a concert set and a visit with Sam Gleaves and Tyler Hughes, two of a new generation of roots musicians ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Aunt Samantha Bumgarner was one of the first women to record country music – in 1924.  She also performed at the Mountain Dance & Folk Festival in North Carolina, and at the White House.  , Credit: Ben Shahn, Library of Congress
This week’s Across the Blue Ridge presents classic fiddle tunes from Chubby Wise and others; country music pioneers including Samantha Bumgarner, H...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Rafe Stefanini emigrated from Italy to the U.S. because he loved southern Appalachian music and much else about American culture. Today he’s a highly respected interpreter of traditional southern tunes and songs on fiddle, banjo and guitar.  , Credit: David Bragger, Old Time Tiki Parlour
This week, our host Paul Brown brings in a collection of fabulous fiddle tunes old and new, including one from Erynn Marshall’s new album of her o...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 56:55
Caption: (L-R) Kitty Amaral, Presley Barker and Kyser George are three powerful players out of an exciting new generation of old time and bluegrass musicians bringing enthusiasm, training and great chops to the field.   , Credit: Paul Brown
Coast to coast and around the world, there’s a new crop of musicians storming the roots music world with loads of enthusiasm, great skills, and the...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 56:56
Caption: Charlie Sizemore recalls his years with Ralph Stanley on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  Above, Clinch Mountain Boys 1980: L-R Curly Ray Cline, Junior Blankenship, Ralph Stanley, Charlie Sizemore, Jack Cooke. , Credit: Bluegrasstoday.com by Fred Robbins  http://bluegrasstoday.com/charlie-sizemore-remembers-jack-cooke/
This week we feature some outstanding string band music from the New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters of southwest Virginia, with powerful singing, fid...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 56:53
Caption: Ralph Stanley, who recently died at age 89, was on the American music scene for seven decades.  The outstanding mountain banjo player and singer is the focus of this week’s Across the Blue Ridge., Credit: drralphstanleymusic.com
This week’s show celebrates the life and music of Ralph Stanley, the famed southwest Virginia singer and banjo player who died June 23, 2016 at age...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2016
  • Length: 57:24
Caption: Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a powerful gospel and blues singer, and an outstanding lead guitarist who blazed a stylistic trail for the emerging forms of R & B and rock and roll.  She performs a gospel song, My Man and I, on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge, Credit: Smithsonian Folkways
This week we mark the start of summer with a great selection of roots music that’s fun to listen to above all. Whether it’s a fiddle tune, a banjo...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 56:58