Folk Music

We live in a hotbed of folk musicians and festivals.  Find out what is going on.

This page should be the root of a section of features devoted to folk music, performers, and festivals.

Somehow the "folkie" lineup has survived the cuts to the music on the station. This is likely a happy accident: in their haste to extirpate music from WUFT, Dean Wright and his crack team of researchers failed to find enough talk programming to pave over the weekends. We can only hold our breaths and hope that this music hangs on.

This the weekend lineup as we still have it:

The Caravan (8:00-9:00 Saturday evenings)

Bill Beckett's wonderfully eclectic program; it's always a treat.

AfroPop Worldwide (9:00-10:00 Saturday evenings)

A smorgasboard of popular music from Africa. This is not locally produced, but we claim it still. It is interesting that in the pledge drive one of the presenters noted this show as a reason to pledge.

On the Bridge (4:00-5:00 Sunday afternoons)

Kristen Wanner's program of insurgent country music. Don't let the label fool you: this is hardly what you hear on your average country station.

Across the Prairie (6:00-7:00 Sunday evenings)

Kathy DeWitt's folk-music program. Kathy is an active folk musician and often brings guests onto the show—and plays and sings with them.

The Thistle and Shamrock (7:00-8:00 Sunday evenings)

A well-known—and much pledged-for—program of Celtic music.

Music from the Hearts of Space (10:00-11:00 Sunday evenings)

This may not be folk music, but it is happily one of the survivors of the pogrom.