WRFG’s Music Programming – Current Schedule
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Monday midnight - 6AM M.A.P.P.T.I.M.E. Jazz
A montage of presentations of alternative life styles from a contemporary africanist perspective through a blend of on-air discussions, excerpts from taped lectures, and a wide variety of musical styles from the African diaspora. Hosted by Wanique Shabazz.
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Tuesday - Saturday 3 - 6AM [following NightWatch] Rough, Rugged, and Raw
Locally hosted hiphop program with a focus on the local ATL hiphop scene. Each of our hosts conveys a distinctive mood both with their music and commentaries;
Tuesdays: Collective hosts “Peas in The Pod” have a smooth academic approach
Wednesdays: “Casual Conversations” A female perspective hosted by DiA
Thursday: “Outlaw Radeo” host Malik Kalam is intense
Friday: “Ridin Durty” Tony Pitt and his regular crew are serious
Saturday: “The Remix” - DJ Cisco is straight-ahead
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Monday - Friday 6 - 10AM Good Morning Blues
During the week a wide variety of blues styles are presented. Most frequent is the blues style derived from the 1960s Chicago electric blues which became the source music not only for the basic blues in the blues clubs in contemporary Atlanta and elsewhere, but also the source music of the various strands of rock and roll and rock in the decades since the 1960s, from southern-fried rock [e.g., Allman Brothers] to cool electronification [e.g., Hendrix and zillions of successors] and from Soul [e.g., Ray Charles and Aretha] to concert rock [e.g., R.E.M. and in 2006 the Dixie Chicks!] Ten different airshifters each with one two-hour airshift every week present their own perspectives on "keeping the blues alive" using their own music collections plus occasional in-studio live performances. One specialist is UK Bob who surveys the British blues scene every Thurs from 8 - 10A.
Monday 6-8AM – “Different Hues of the Blues” Sidney Titleman and Dr. J.
Monday 8–10AM “The Blues Team”, Bill and Pat Hudson
Tuesday 6 -8AM “Ridin' The Blues Train”, Black Jack –
Tuesday 8-10AM “AJ's Kitchen”, AJ & Belle the Blues Kitty
Wednesday 6-8AM “The Blues Professor”, Rich Petit
Wednesday 8-10AM “Blues Therapy”, Larry Eaglin
Thursday 6-8AM “Bringing You the Blues You Can Use” Marian Daigler
Thursday 8 – 10AM “London to Louisiana”, UK Bob
Friday 6-8AM “The Casbah”, Michael Ellis
Friday 8 – 10AM “Good Morning Blues 2-Friday”, Abdul Mannon
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Monday -Friday 10AM - Noon "Soul Rhapsody" A showcase of the creativity, artistry, and beauty of African-American popular music of the various post-motown, post-Memphis horns decades.
On "Mellow Mondays" Tommy SloJam plays love songs, snuggle ballads and serious songs about relationships
On Tuesday's "Retro Ruckus" SuperD plays vigorous music of the 1970s and 1980s blended with discussions of contemporary African-American culture, especially covering the then nascent African-American segment of the movie industry.
On Wednesday's "Organized Fusion" Sister Rah focuses on "message music,' carrying on a WRFG morning tradition of her predecessor Sage and Sage's predecessor Suleiman.
On Thursday's "Words, Rhythm and Reason" DJ Nasiyr plays a blend of funk, early hiphop, and spoken word recordings.
On Friday's "Against the Grain Radio" Black Ice documents the spreading influence of African-American creativity on music from all the world's continents.
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Monday - Friday 2PM - 4PM Global Drumbeat -- Club-style presentation of recordings of various world rhythms derived from African music.
On Monday's “El Tambor” DJ Samba presents African diaspora music in our own hemisphere, with a focus on African diaspora music from Brazil, including a lot of live carnival recordings.
On Tuesday's “Kalikuta Show”, DJ Ausar showcases a variety of contemporary African styles from Juju to soukous, but as the name of the show indicates, the Tuesday center of gravity is Afrobeat and its prime exponent, Fela Kuti.
On Wednesday' s “Soul Chamber” DJ Tabone surveys the smoother sounds and subtler rhythms of NeoSoul both from the U.S. and other locales of the worldwide African diaspora.
On Thursday's
On Friday's "Caribbean Runnings" The show educates the listener about the Caribbean Diaspora through relevant music from the culture played in a manner that speaks to the values of that genre. The best of Reggae, Calypso, Dancehall, Soca and other Caribbean forms are heard.
Presented also are news and interviews. Interviews include community activists, community leaders, government officials, and artists. The show strives to take the listener to the Caribbean and the Caribbean to the listener. The show is hosted by Jason SkyWalker AKA Changez with the help of Shelly Maxwell and Martine Zhenga.
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Monday -Friday 8PM - 10PM Peach State Festival
The music featured on this weekday program is sometimes called “Americana.” What ”americana” really is is the panoply of styles developed by those of Scots-Irish descent in the southeast. Bluegrass, folk, and country are among the most well-known americana genres.
Monday program, Marc Miller--”The Old Folkie” --plays singer-songerwriters with an emphasis on songs with well-crafted lyrics. Dylan and his “chillun” are well-represented. Frequent live performances by entertainers in town.
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On Wednesdays, J.R. hosts “The Bluegrass Festival,” a program of classic bluegrass. Sometimes JR brings local performers to the program.
On Thursdays Dave Chamberlain hosts “Sagebrush Boogie.” Dave features a genre he calls “western swing” whose heyday and heyplace were the 1940s and 1950s in Texas. Western swing is a blend of country music and jazz from the swing era.
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Monday - Friday 10PM - midnight : Jazz to Soothe Your Soul
WRFG’s jazzmeisters focus on the classic mainstream small group jazz as it developed in the post-bop era of the 1950s and continues to be the primary form of jazz in clubs today. Within this format each day’s airshifter presents his/her own perspective including occasional representations from other jazz eras and from larger jazz ensembles.
On Mondays, “Jazz on the Left Side of the Dial” with Capt’n Mellow focuses on the local Atlanta jazz scene
On Tuesdays, “A Song for my Father” with Tawhiyda Tupac El makes the connections between swing and post-bop.
On Wednesdays, “The Music-The Movement” with Vino
On Thursdays,”Ascension” with John B connects mainstream jazz with newer directions, particularly the spiritual dimension most notably advanced by John Coletrane.
On Fridays, “Diva Vision” with the Jazz Diva Rita Jones focuses on jazz vocals.
SATURDAYS
Midnight - 3AM “Nightwatch” with Kofi
3AM - 6AM Rough, Rigged and Raw: “The Remix” with DJ Cisco and Gerald
6AM - 9AM The Doo Wop Show. African-American vocal groups from the classic vocal harmonizing days of the early and middle 1950s. Hosted by DJ who in his younger days back then was one of the doo-wop performers he reminisces about.
9AM - 11AM “Jazz, Straight, No Chaser” Host Lovell Hooks focuses on the subtler rhythms of jazz. He almost always includes a segment of Latin Jazz during his airshift.
11AM - 2PM “African Experience WorldWide”. Hosts Sharifa and Mufon play music from all over subsaharan Africa interspersed with news and public affairs segments about Africa today.
2PM - 5PM “Rockers International” . Hosts Lisimba and Paul play music from the caribbean, with the emphasis on what is popular in Jamaica today plus segments featuring Trinadadian soca.
5PM-7PM “Radio Diaspora” - public affairs
7 - 10PM “Serenata Latina” Alternating hosts Francisco and Jose play contemporary songs in a variety of rhythms from the Latin caribbean, such as salsa, merengue, and bachata. A bilingual program with announcements in both Spanish and English.
10PM -1AM Sunday “Beatz and Lyricz”. Two different hosts on alternate weeks--Jay Force and I-Ras-- present two different perspectives on the local hiphop scene. Jay Force makes the connections between Atlanta hiphop and hiphop world wide; I-Ras makes the connections between Atlanta hiphop and contemporary social issues.
SUNDAYS
1AM -5AM “House Music”. Four hours of dance music as played in African-American dance clubs. Hosted by Reqaya who often invites guest DJs to showcase their mixing styles.
5AM -7AM “Good Time Gospel”. Host Olendus plays celebratory African-American gospel music.
7AM -9AM “Route 66”. A blues program focusing on the “jump” blues era of the 1940s.
9AM - 11AM “My Own House”. Various hosts, including program originator Sharon Wiggins, play their own personal blends of country music and bluegrass.
11AM -1PM “Plain Ol Horizons” Host Stuart Myers, one of Atlanta’s most prominent record collectors, plays music from the pre-rock era of pop, show tunes, and folk, using records from his own collection of 78s and LPs.
1PM - 3PM “Zydeco Jo” hosts a program of zydeco music from the African-American culture of southern Louisiana.
3PM -5PM “On Music From India”. Manorma Pandit, Jagan Bhargave, and other members of Atlanta’s community from India host a program which begins with classical Indian music [ragas] and then explores the realms of pop music from India including the vast musical repertory from Bollywood [the film industry in India].
5PM - 7PM “The Celtic Show”. A program of music from the Celtic of westernmost Europe cultures, with hosts John Falstaff & Jenny Hubbard Young. While most of the music is Irish or Scots, there is some representation from Cymru [aka Wales] and Brittany [westernmost France].
7PM- 10 PM “Fox’s Minstrel Show”. A program of progressive topical music from various musical genres. Host Harlon Joye divides the program into several segments, each segment containing songs with lyrics having to do with a particular social issue.
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