Music

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Friday, September 28, 2018 Anandi grew up among music and musicians: her father is slide guitar master Debashish Bhattacharya, and she inherited her golden voice from her grandmother. Her singing is a mixed style of Agra, Patiala, and Maihar gharanas (Indian singing styles), and she has also delved into Bollywood music …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Saturday, September 29, 2018 Nicknamed the “Hendrix of Hurdy-Gurdy,” Guilhem Desq breathes new life and innovation into this old-world instrument – a deep-barreled, lute-shaped string instrument whose sound is generated by a the turning of a crank. Desq electrifies this originally acoustic instrument and plays a wide variety of genres on …

1. Various – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller 2. Paul Simon – In The Blue Light 3. Paul McCartney – Egypt Station 4. Chris Butler and Ralph Carney – Songs For Unsung Holidays 5. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers 6. Amy Ray – Holler 7. Kaia Kater – Grenades 8. Swamp Dogg – Love, Loss, and …

First broadcast live from Blockhouse Studios on WFHB on Friday, September 28, 2018 Sam Amidon digs through sounds and stories of late 19th and early 20th century American musical culture (ballads, hymns, work songs), using them as points of departure for his own melodic explorations. A singer and a multi-instrumentalist on banjo, guitar, and fiddle, Sam always creates original work …

First broadcast live over WFHB from Blockhouse Studios on Friday, September 28, 2018 Front man Jupiter Bokondji and the band Okwess hail from Kinshasa, in Congo. Their exhilarating version of soukous is jet-fueled – Congolese rhumba with healthy doses of funk, soul, and rock. Jupiter & Okwess deliver more than just high-energy music: his songs often touch on Congo’s colonial …

1. Paul McCartney – Egypt Station 2. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers 3. Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic 4. Various – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller 5. Carl Broemel – Wished Out 6. Chris Butler and Ralph Carney – Songs For Unsung Holidays 7. Paul Simon – In The Blue Light 8. Mirah – Understanding …

1. Various – King of the Road: A Tribute to Roger Miller 2. Paul McCartney – Egypt Station 3. Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers 4. Cordovas – That Santa Fe Channel 5. Evening Standards – Evening Standards 6. Rachel Caswell – We’re All In The Dance 7. Gorillaz – The Now Now 8. Paul Simon – In The Blue Light …

We’re very excited to announce WFHB’s Lotus Live 2018 schedule of live radio performances, produced remotely at Blockhouse Studios and broadcasting live on WFHB. All sessions are 20 minutes long and are scheduled at the times below (these sessions are not open to the public). On Thursday afternoon, Friday morning and Friday afternoon, WFHB’s music mix will be all Lotus …

Live from the Monroe County History Center on September 8th, the NorTones joined a Fund Drive edition of Saturday’s Child.  Stuart Norton and Cathy Norton  on guitar and vocal, with John Orie Stith on bass and Jamey Reid on drums, doing Cathy’s songs and more.

1. Evening Standards – Evening Standards 2. Rachel Caswell – We’re All In The Dance 3. The Beths – Future Me Hates Me 4. The Shackups – Shack It Up 5. Shemekia Copeland – America’s Child 6. Jupiter & Okwess – Kin Sonic 7. Tash Sultana – Flow State 8. Call & Response House Band – Call & Response House …