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 (center) with Betse Ellis (l.) and Clarke Wyatt at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Old Time Music Festival in Colorado.  Betse and Clarke, a duo with an interesting musical history before they concentrated on roots and old-ti, Credit: Paul Brown
This week we hear the stories of Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt, who came from the worlds of classical, rock and jazz, and fell totally in love with ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: L-R Dom Flemons, Alice Gerrard, Terri McMurray, Kay Justice, & ATBR host Paul Brown at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in October, 2018.  Hear excerpts from their concert celebrating the exhibition “Dorothea Lange’s America”, plus interview and hist, Credit: Marjo van Dijck
Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC is hosting an exhibition of work by the great Dust Bowl and Depression-era photographer ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Draft horse demonstrations at the Blue Ridge Folklife Festival.  This year’s festival takes place on Saturday, October 27th at Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA.  , Credit: Courtesy Blue Ridge Institute
This week we hear great music as always, as we examine the evolution of Virginia and North Carolina traditions in song, instrumental music, foodway...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 57:03
Caption: A barn in Lewis County, KY, the home county of Buddy Thomas, one of the master old time musicians featured on this Across the Blue Ridge episode. Listen this week to interesting and obscure masters on fiddle, autoharp, harmonica and voice.   , Credit: Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress, public domain
This week we hear some great fiddling from the transformative Arthur Smith, who set entertainment-style country fiddling on the path to what we now...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Musician, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935.  Untitled. , Credit: Ben Shahn. Library of Congress, public domain
Thrill to the slides, syncopations and flatted notes of the blues … in old-time, bluegrass and country music. These styles are all closely intertw...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
Caption: Frank Lee and Allie Burbrink are among the artists with new albums featured on this week’s Across the Blue Ridge.  From Bryson City, NC, they present an interesting mix of old-time, gospel, blues and bluegrass-infused acoustic music.  , Credit: Terri Clark Photography, courtesy Frank Lee & Allie Burbrink
This week we hear a solid selection of classics from the early days of bluegrass music – the 1940s and 1950s. Hear the evolution from Bill Monroe’...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: The Piney Woods Boys with Margaret Martin (L-R Wayne Martin, Matt Haney, Jim Collier, Margaret Martin) onstage at Muddy Creek Music Hall.  Three of the four band members were personally acquainted with the late Doc Watson and his family.  Their show explo, Credit: Paul Brown
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson (1923-2012) was a North Carolina mountain musician who made a global impact, playing fully traditional music, rockabilly, ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 57:03
Caption: This week we hear a broad selection of traditional southern mountain music, plus a preview of an Across the Blue Ridge special concert at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem on Saturday, October 6 at 3PM, Credit: Paul Brown
This week … a preview of a special Across the Blue Ridge concert in conjunction with an exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl era photos. Feat...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2018
  • Length: 56:56
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In this episode, Peter guides us through Gymnopédie No. 3 by quirky French composer Erik Satie.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KWAX


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Peter explores the life and music of Domenico Scarlatti.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1