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

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Peter takes a look at one of the most well-known Impressionist composers: Claude Debussy.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 03:49
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Peter shares how visual impressionism can help shed light on Debussy’s music.

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Peter demonstrates why this wonderful plucked string instrument has captured the imagination of major composers for centuries.

Bought by 'The Sea'


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rhiannon Giddens, pictured here on a North Carolina Folk Festival poster, is guest curator at the inaugural North Carolina Folk Festival September 7-9, 2018.  In addition to performing, she will host a banjo history symposium. She is bringing performers t, Credit: Paul Brown
This week’s program provides a window into the upcoming North Carolina Folk Festival. The three-day event in Greensboro, North Carolina is a local...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2018
  • Length: 56:57
Caption: Near the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.  , Credit: Paul Brown
Hear the music of a fabulous songster this week – Jim Eanes, a southside Virginia son of immigrant parents who made good in bluegrass, classic coun...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: The Bogtrotters were a Galax, Virginia-area band – shown here in 1937 – active in the early years of the Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention, which was founded in 1935.  (L-R Doctor W.P. Davis, Uncle Alec Dunford, Crockett Ward, Fields Ward, Wade Ward) This we, Credit: Library of Congress, Alan Lomax Collection.
This week we hear music from the past at the Galax, VA Old Fiddlers’ Convention. The event was founded in 1935 by the local Moose Lodge, and is no...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 56:59
Caption: Plott Balsam Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina.  , Credit: Paul Brown
No matter what you’re up to this summer, you’ll enjoy this program. It’s a cavalcade of sound, from comfortable classics to adventures in byways a...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: High Fidelity is one of two bands of young adults featured this week on Across the Blue Ridge who are intentionally continuing traditions, playing the sounds they like.  High Fidelity presents classic bluegrass. Also on the show, Steam Machine, whose repe, Credit: Russ Carson, courtesy Rebel Records.
This week we enjoy a selection of powerful traditional old time, pre-bluegrass and bluegrass music. As we take a little tour of the evolution of b...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Frank Newsome of southwest Virginia is an Old Regular Baptist preacher – and a compelling singer of the ancient style of gospel music prevalent in his denomination. A new album features him singing solo, rather than with a congregation.  On this ATBR epis, Credit: Pat Jarrett, Virginia Humanities, courtesy Free Dirt Records.
This week we hear haunting Old Regular Baptist gospel singing – from the preacher himself, without the congregation. Frank Newsome’s new album, Go...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
Caption: Samantha Bumgarner (above) and her musical partner Eva Davis were the first women to record commercially in the country music industry.  They traveled from western North Carolina to New York City to do it. We hear a song from their very first disc, Cindy , Credit: Library of Congress, Public Domain
Unvarnished old-time mountain fiddle and banjo tunes figure in this week’s episode, from Surry County, North Carolina and the surrounding area, lon...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2018
  • Length: 56:57