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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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: David “Dawg” Grisman (l.) and Del McCoury on one of their “Del & Dawg” duo tours.  , Credit: Live Music Daily/Showlove Media
Mandolinist and tunesmith David Grisman has established broad appeal among acoustic music lovers with his deft combination of Django Reinhardt-insp...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2016
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: The late fiddler and fiddle maker Albert Hash of Whitetop, VA is shown here wearing a collection of his legendary handmade instruments.  He’s just one of the outstanding musicians featured on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: Albert Hash Memorial Festival
This week we hear a cavalcade of heartwarming songs and tunes from Appalachian and piedmont musicians of the past. Host Paul Brown also previews m...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Megan Lynch Chowning and Adam Hurt are among the musicians featured on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  Their new album “Inside Out” presents their interpretation of classic fiddle tunes from Texas, the Bue Ridge, and elsewhere in the mountain South.  , Credit: Photo – Tyler Andal
This week’s Across the Blue Ridge treats us to field and studio recordings of historic musicians from the 1920s to the 1990s; contrasts between old...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: California fiddler, singer, songwriter and bluegrass bandleader Laurie Lewis is our featured musician this week. Her new album pays homage to bluegrass pioneers Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard.   , Credit: Photo by Mike Melnyk
California singer, songwriter, guitarist and fiddler Laurie Lewis was hooked on bluegrass fiddle when she heard recordings of the great fiddler Chu...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2016
  • Length: 57:02
Caption: The Slate Mountain Ramblers are a featured band on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge as we continue our Women’s History Month celebration.  Mother and daughter Barbara Bowman and Marsha Todd are mainstays of this North Carolina old time band.  , Credit: Slate Mountain Ramblers
We continue our Women’s History Month celebration with some great leading and supporting women in old time and bluegrass band settings. Bluegrass ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Rose Maddox was a pioneering woman in country music – the only woman in “America’s most colorful hillbilly band”, as The Maddox Brothers & Rose billed themselves.  We hear her story on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  , Credit: Fan card, public domain.
Once again we highlight women in country, traditional and bluegrass music as Women’s History Month continues. This week we’ll hear a great selecti...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Linda Lay, Credit: Paul Brown
Women have played a major role in the development and history of Appalachian string music and singing. But they haven’t always gotten the credit o...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Wade Ward (l.) and Charlie Higgins were two of the most revered old time musicians from the southwest of Virginia in and around the town of Galax.  We hear from them and others in a program with a big component of southwest Virginia musicians. , Credit: Photo: John Cohen
This week we check out some songs and tunes old and new from the Galax, Virginia area and beyond.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 57:07
Caption: Odell Thompson (l) and Joe Thompson, banjo- and fiddle-playing cousins from Mebane, North Carolina, provided a last link to African-American string band traditions that had largely disappeared, but whose sounds echo through today’s old time, bluegrass and, Credit: Photo by Nancy Kalow, courtesy Southern Folklife Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill
This week we hear some powerful string band music from white Appalachian performers including the legendary Camp Creek Boys, Tommy Jarrell, and the...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 57:49
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This week host Paul Brown guides us along a fascinating trail of old time mountain music, country blues, gospel and bluegrass shared by African-Ame...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 57:41