World Music Radio Stations/Programs in the United States

Arizona

KXCI has a show called Sabor Latino hosted by Javier and JP, Wednesdays from 8 to 10 Mountain Standard Time on 91.3 FM, Tucson, Arizona. Send comments or promotional music to: DJ Javier, Sabor Latino, 97 E. Congress, Ste. 130, Tucson, AZ 85701, USA. E-mail: djjavier@uswest.net

KXUA 88.3 FM has several shows:

• Interzone, hosted by Ted Swedenburg. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sundays, 4-6 p.m.It also has one called

• The Source: The Best in African Music, Sundays, 10:00-12:00 noon. Hosted by Robert Brinkmeyer. Address: Robert Brinkmeyer, Department of English, 333 Kimpel Hall, University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. E-mail: brinkm@uark.edu

California

KCR - College Radio at San Diego State University has a program called The World Fusions Radio Show, 1pm-4pm Sundays. It can be heard on 1620 AM SDSU Vicinity, 98.9 Cox Cable FM, Ch 42 Music Choice Time/Warner Cable. Office: +1 619.594.7014, Fax: +1 619.594.6092, Studio: +1 619.594.6982

KDVS 90.3 FM, in Davis, California, has a weekly radio show titled Crossing Continents hosted by Gil Medovoy. The show is on every Saturday 3-6 PM . Crossing Continents' focus is: the Indian subcontinent, the Far East, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region. It's on the Web with live audio (Real Player).

KXLU 88.9 FM in Los Angeles has a show called The Wandering Medicine Show produced by Kraig Grady. The show is specialized in the most traditional music possible considering it "one of the many endangered species.” It’s on Wednesdays from 8-9 p.m. Pacific Time. Live streaming at kxlu.org. E-mail: kraiggrady@anaphoria.com

KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, northern California, has several world music shows. Music of the World is aired Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. till noon. On Mondays the show is hosted by Kutay Derin Kugay, David McBurnie hosts the Tuesday edition, Sandy Miranda produces the Wednesday show, Stephen Kent hosts the Thursday show and Sarah Cahill produces the Friday show. Phone: +1 (650) 298-8188. E-mail contacts: Stephen Kent: skent@didjeridu.com

KUSP, in Santa Cruz, California has a world music program, Global Village, on Friday afternoons 1 - 4 pm Pacific Standard Time, hosted by Gypsy Flores. The show is broadcast to the central coast of California at several frequencies--88.9, 90.3, 89.3 91.3 &105.9 FM. It is also streamed on the Web at: http://audio1.cruzio.com:8080/ramgen/encoder/live.rm. The playlists are at:
http://www.scruz.net/~goyo/gv/GV_index.html

KVMR has a show called Gaia Grooves hosted by Diana Fox,
gaiagrooves@yahoo.com. KVMR broadcasts to the Sierra Nevada Foothills, the greater Sacramento California metropolitan area and beyond and features both variety and focused World Music programs. International music is featured on most variety format shows as well.

Address: Music Director, Alice MacAllister, KVMR FM, 401 Spring Street, Nevada City, CA 95959, USA. E-mail:
alicebmusic@netscape.net

KXST 102.1 FM has a show called Music Without Boundaries hosted and produced by Kenny Weissberg, Sundays 8 pm - 10 pm (PT). Address: Music Without Boundaries, PO Box 60427, San Diego, CA 92166, USA. E-mail: OtisSing@aol.com

KZSU 90.1 FM broadcasts eclectic programming from the campus of California's Stanford University. World music offerings include:

* Athaah Saagar - Echoes of India: classic film music with Neha &Hrishi
* Gharana Music: art music of India featuring live broadcasts, unreleased recordings, and archival material
* Global Warming: World roots and fusion sounds, specializing in music from Brazil
* Infinite Earth: music from all over, including contemporary Native American sounds
* Jewish Music for the New Millennium: a mix of traditional klezmer, modern Israeli pop, Yemenite and Ladino folk music
* Mostly Tamil: the latest in Tamil-language pop and film music
* No Cover, No Minimum: blending all kinds of jazz with contemporary and traditional world music
* Radiomundi: eclectic, hosted by Chuck Lawrence
* Sun In Libra, Moon in Pisces: positive music from Africa, India, the Middle East, and South America

The schedule changes quarterly. KZSU is Webcast from
http://realaudio.stanford.edu. Address: KZSU Music, PO Box 20510, Stanford, CA 94309. Phone numbers: requests: +1 650-723-9010, business: +1 650-725-4868, the music dept.: +1 650-723-4839, Fax: 650-725-5865, E-mail: KZSU info: info@kzsu.stanford.edu (for general station information), Press releases: releases@kzsu.stanford.edu (press releases sent to any other address are likely to be ignored).

Colorado

KGNU is Boulder County's (Colorado) only independent, non-commercial, community radio station. At 88.5 and 93.7 FM in Boulder county and at 99.9 FM in Ft Collins and Northern Colorado. The world music programming includes:

• One World, Sunday Nights, 10-Midnight Mountain Time, world beat and modern rhythms. With hosts Scott Medina, Selena, EC, and Joe.

• Corriente, Tuesdays, 7-9pm, with Hosts Ellen and T, Latin music.

• Musica Mundi, Wednesdays, 7-9pm, World music rooted in traditional styles.

• 1st of the month, Seolta Gael, Celtic music with Karl Kumli. Other hosts include Joel Davis and Laura Marshall.

KVCU-AM, Radio 1190, the Voice of the University of Colorado-Boulder, has a world music show called TerraSonic, produced by Joel Davis.

WWUH FM radio at the University of Hartford, Connecticut is a listener supported and volunteer staffed station with over 30 hours/week of programming solely for world, folk and ethnic music. The station has consistently been rated Number 1 or 2 for alternative programming in the Connecticut/Western Massachusetts region. Brian Grosjean produces a world music show called Culture Cafe. Address: Brian Grosjean, World Music Director, WWUH-FM, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA. Phone: +1 860.768.4703, Fax: +1 860.768.5701. E-mail: culturecafe913@yahoo.com. 

Florida

WDNA - 88.9 FM has a show called Fusión Latina in Miami, Florida. It is also available on the Web. Host/Programmer: Orlando Suárez. E-mail: dnadj@aol.com or wdna@paradise.net

Hawaii

KKCR has a world music show called On the Journey. Hanalei, Hawaii. Host: Michael Douglas. Phone: +1-808-826-7774. E-mail: ziziwin@hawaiian.net

Illinois

WRTE FM  -  Radio Arte has a weekly radio show called Globoscopio on Fridays, 12 pm - 1 pm, hosted by Mónica Posada. Address: WRTE FM, 1401 West 18th Street, Chicago, IL 60608, USA. Phone: +1 312.455.9455, Fax: +1 312.455.9755. E-mail: mmferro@radioarte.org

Iowa

KRUI 89.7FM in Iowa City, Iowa, has a show called The East India Rock Company dedicated to music from and influenced by the Indian subcontinent. It is hosted by Anjali Khosla. Show broadcast time (Central Standard Time): 10pm - Midnight, every Wednesday night. Listen live via the Internet at http://www.krui.org. E-mail address: eastindiarockcompany at yahoo.com.

Louisiana

KLSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has a world music show hosted by Joachim Vogeler. Phone: +1-225-926-5305. E-mail: vogeler@lsu.edu

WEAA 88.9 FM Baltimore has a show called Profiles On Africa Two-Way Talk. It airs Mondays 7 - 8 pm ET and can be heard throughout Maryland, DC, northern Virginia and southern Pennsylvania. Listen on the web at http://www.morgan.edu/weaa . The show is hosted by W Benjamin and J Mainamusic programmed by C Phillips. Address: Profiles On Africa, WEAA 88.9 FM, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland 21251 USA (attn: C Phillips). Phone: +1 -443-885.3564. Fax: +1 410.319.3798. E-mail: cphij@erols.com

WMBR 88.1 FM in Boston has many world music programs including Africa Kabisa, an African music show that broadcasts every Wednesday 4-5:30pm EST and streams live on the Web at http://www.wmbr.org/. Playlists and a complete calendar of Boston-area African music events are available at http://www.africakabisa.org/ . E-mail: africakabisa@hotmail.com

WIDR 89.1 FM in Kalamazoo, Michigan has a show called WIDR World that is hosted by Jason J Hall. The show is heard each Sunday afternoon from 3 until 6 p.m. E-mail: jasonjhall@mac.com

Radio K, KUOM 770 AM in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has weekly shows featuring world music.

• Radio K International hosted by Paul Harding consists of a diverse range of world music, especially world fusion on Sundays from 10am-noon CST.

• Rude Radio is a program of ska, rock steady and reggae hosted by General Moses every Saturday from 10am-noon CST.

Radio K also includes some world music during it's regular weekly programming. Radio K broadcasts live via Real Audio from www.radiok.org

WUSM-FM 88.5 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, has world music programming. Address: WUSM-FM 88.5, Southern Station Box 10045, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0045, USA. Phone: +1 (601) 266-4287, Fax: +1 (601) 266-4288. E-mail: wusm@usm.edu. Listen live: http://www.wusm.usm.edu/live.ram

KBGA 89.9 FM in Missoula, Montana, has world music programming. E-mail: jbradley@selway.umt.edu

KGLT has some world music programming. Address: KGLT, SUB 325, MSU Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. Phone: +1 (406) 994-5583. E-mail: ekrodger@montana.edu. Ellen Rodger, World Music director.

KUNV has a show called Mezcla hosted by Fernando Sánchez, Saturdays 6:00am-8:00am. Address: Fernando Sánchez, KUNV, 1515 E. Tropicana, Suite 240, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA.

WUNH 91.3 FM in Durham, New Hampshire, has a show called Worlds of Music produced by Roy Planalp. Address: R. Planalp, WUNH-FM, Memorial Union Bldg, Durham, NH 03824, USA. Phone: +1 (603) 862-2471.

WCVF-FM has a new radio program called "General Eclectic" hosted by Tom Bingham. While not a world-music program as such, it is an all-genre program and very much a world-music- *friendly* program. WCVF also has a four-hour
block of world music on Tuesday mornings, which Bingham is also involved with.  Contact: Tom Bingham, "General Eclectic"
WCVF-FM, 115 McEwen Hall, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063. E-mail: bingham@fredonia.edu.

WFMU 91.1 FM in the New York Metropolitan area and 90.1 FM in New York's Hudson Valley has a show called Transpacific Sound Paradise: Popular and Unpopular Music from Around the World with Rob Weisberg. E-mail: robw@wfmu.org

WHCL 88.7 FM has a show called Anywhere but Here hosted by Jonathan Mead. Address: Jonathan Mead, Assistant Music Director for World Music, WHCL, Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Rd., Clinton, NY 13323, USA. E-mail: jmead@hamilton.edu

North Carolina

WXDU 88.7 FM, in Durham, doesn't have a powerful signal, but it offers more variety than most of the other public and college stations, including world music, traditional music and blues programming.

• World Music. Sundays: 3-5 p.m.

Address: WXDU-Durham, PO Box 90689, Durham, NC 27708. E-mail: wxdu@duke.edu

WPVM 103.5 FM, a new LPFM station in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, has world music programming. For world music contact Steven Howard. He hosts Mental Notes on Fridays at 9:00PM eastern. Address: WPVM, 75 Haywood St., Asheville, NC 28801, attn. Steven. Phone: +1 828 258 0085. E-mail: steven  at wpvm.org.

WNCU 90.7 FM, in Durham, is primarily a jazz station. It has a blues show on Mondays. On weekends you can listen to Gospel, reggae and Latin music.

WSHA 88.9 FM, In Raleigh, plays jazz, blues, African music, Gospel, reggae, R&B and Latin music.

WXYC, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student-run radio, doesn't have a format. World music can be heard at times, combined with anything else.

The powerful WUNC 91.5 FM, station in Chapel Hill, has a show called Back Porch Music during Friday evenings and weekends. It includes singer-songwriters, American and English folk, bluegrass, European Celtic music and European Nordic music.

WRUW-FM has world beat programming and a chart that gets reported. Address: Wade Tolleson, Music Director -WRUW-FM, 11220 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. E-mail: wtolleson@oh.verio.com

KPFT 90.1 Houston now features a daily world music program, Music Beyond Borders hosted by the World Music Collective. Daily 1PM to 2:30PM CST.  For more information: info@musicbeyondborders.org.

WDCE 90.1 FM, University of Richmond radio. Richmond, Virginia.

• The Motherland Influence
  "Richmond's only African, Caribbean &Latin Sound Connection."Hosted by Charles Williams and David Noyes. Sundays 7:00-9:00 P.M. dnoyef@erols.com

• Soukous Machine
  Hosted by David Noyes
  alternating Sundays 5:00-7:00 P.M.

• The Other Black Music You Won't Hear on the Radio. Hosted by Charles Williams
  alternating Sundays 5:00-7:00 P.M.
  
  Playlists for all shows at alt.music.African Playlists, concert photos and other information at www.zyworld.com/motherlandinfluence

KAOS Radio broadcasts Independent Music, Global News and Local Voices at 89.3 FM from its station which is located on the Evergreen State College campus in Olympia, Washington, USA.

KAOS world music shows:

• Cover the Earth -- Host: Juli Kelen

• Na Mele O Hawaii -- Host: Sherry Bloxam

• Spin the Globe -- Host: Scott Stevens (see
  http://homepage.mac.com/spintheglobe)

• Reggae Roulette -- Host: Sam Martin

• Caribbean Nights -- Host: Ruby B. and Laura C.

• Roots in Rhythm -- Host: Austin Kelley

• Wheels of the World -- Host: Burt Meyer

• El Mensaje Del Aire -- Hosts: José Pineda, José Valadez, Carmen Acevedo-Pérez, Félix Torres

• Mi Rock Perdido -- Host: Puck

• Putumayo World Music Hour

The Desert Shore: North & West African Music is a weekly program on KUGS-FM 89.3, a student-run community radio station at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington, and airs every Sunday from 9-11am. You can listen to The Desert Shore streaming audio LIVE every week from anywhere in the world at www.kugs.org The show features a selection of the best music from the regions of West and North Africa, including established artists (such as Ali Farka Toure, Habib Koite, Bembeya Jazz, Tinariwen, Oumou Sangare, Baaba Maal, and Toumani Diabate) as well as an extensive collection of rare, out of print, and field-recorded material not commercially available anywhere. Read more at http://www.thedesertshore.blogspot.com

WOJB 88.9 FM, located on the Lac Courte Orielles Ojibwe reservation in northwest Wisconsin (USA) is an excellent station with several World music shows. (Morning Fire, Patchwork, CBS's As it Happens, Mountain Stage, Afro-Pop, Drum Song, Worldbeat Reggae, New Dimensions.  It is a listener-supported station with a broadcast radius covering 3 states, central and northern Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota, and the western UP of Michigan.

WORT 89.9 in Madison, Wisconsin, has several world music radio shows. Diaspora airs every Thursday morning from 9am to Noon. The show is hosted by Terry O'Laughlin . Address: Terry O'Laughlin, P.O. Box 3247, Madison, WI 53704, USA. Phone: 608-256-2695, Fax: 608-256-3704. E-mail: terryo@wort-fm.terracom.net

To find out about other world music shows, contact the station's music director. Address: Sybil Augustine, Music Director, WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio, 118 South Bedford Street, * Madison, WI, USA 53703-2626. Phone: +1 608.256.2001, Fax: +1 608.256.3704. E-mail: sybil@wort-fm.terracom.net

Afropop - The nationally syndicated Afropop focuses on the contemporary music cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora. It also organizes tours to Mali and other African countries

Fusion is a syndicated modern global radio program produced in Seattle by Dean Sven Carlson. It is promoted primarily to  commercial AAA radio in the United States (it's on KMTT in Seattle, Sunday nights at 8pm) and it is broadcasted in 15 different countries through the Voice of America music mix network. Address: 1517 12th Ave Suite 301, Seattle, WA 98122.

Sacred World Music, a eclectic blend of music hosted and produced by Richard Mauro featuring artists with a
vision to bring pure music to this earth. It is heard in Fresno (California), Lynchburg/Roanoke (Virginia), Slovenia (Europe) and on 2NBC in Australia. The web site includes playlists of many programs, along with other interesting links. Address: Sacred World Music, PO Box 271294, Fort Collins, CO 80527-1294, USA. Phone: +1-970-213-1777, Fax: +1-603-688-8523. E-mail: info@sacredworldmusic.com

The Thistle and Shamrock. A syndicated Celtic radio show produced by Fiona Ritchie. It's a National Public Radio show heard on numerous public radio stations in the United States. Address: PO Box 518, Matthews, NC 28106.

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