WAMU
- Call Letters: WAMU
- Frequency: 88.5
- Networks: American Routes Private Network
Description
WAMU 88.5 FM is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the greater Washington D.C. area. It is member-supported, professionally-staffed, and licensed to American University. Since 1961, WAMU has provided programming to a growing audience that now totals more than 450,000 listeners in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.
Pieces
On the 58th edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll start off with some English language topical and story songs from the Caribbean, including Michael S...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 58:48
On the 57th edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll have coffee in San Antonio, do a jazzy freylach in Budapest, hear tubas and voices from Norway, explo...
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 58:55
On the next RootsWorld Radio, we'll start off in the northern Adriatic sea, wind our way across the Mediterranean and into Mali, the landward south...
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 58:38
It's all a bit of this and that on this week's edition of the show, as we travel from the Canadian maritimes to the pygmy forests of Cameroon. Mini...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 58:51
On RootsWorld Radio #54, it's another trip around the world, from Brooklyn to Burundi, from Warsaw to the west coast. Whispering trance music, 21...
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 58:45
On RootsWorld Radio #53 we'll one again pose the premise: "There's no such thing as African music." We'll listen to music new and old from Mali, So...
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:42
On the 52nd edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll move through the 1960s into 2013, exploring music from Tanzania, China, Cuba and Bulgaria. We'll samp...
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 58:42
On the 51st edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll wander the planet looking for traditions less heard and hear what happens when they are dragged into ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 58:36
On the 50th edition of RootsWorld Radio we’ll explore some Chinese avant garde, jazz from Sweden, a crawfish hora from Israel and much more of the ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 58:15
On the first anniversary edition of RootsWorld Radio, we'll listen to Nordic music with a twist. From traditional kanteles and nyckelharpas to prog...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 58:00
The 48th edition of RootsWorld Radio will be a one hour performance by one of the most influential and long-lived ensembles in the Americas, Inti-I...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 58:12
On the 47th edition of RootsWorld Radio we'll be getting our news from Trinidad, our guitars from Vietnam and Senegal and some plena from Puerto R...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 57:23
On RootsWorld Radio #46, we'll listen to three challenging renaissance men from Cameroun and NY, explore a new recording of the classic Brazilian ...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 58:26
The 45th edition of RootsWorld Radio will chase the elusive mandolin, in a number of its guises as it hides in the alleys and forests of the world....
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 57:56
On RootsWorld Radio this week we'll be celebrating subversion in America and Palestine, crossing the Caribbean from Jamaica to Cuba to Haiti, and l...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 58:13
RootsWorld Radio Program #43
For the first edition of RootsWorld Radio in 2013, we'll start off the new year with something completely different....
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 58:26
The week of December 29th, RootsWorld Radio #42 will ring out the old with music both contemplative and danceable. Join us and these artists: Kitty...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 58:42
In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, Connecticut-based RootsWorld Radio host Cliff Furnald plays music from around the world to try and help soothe ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 58:44
This week on RootsWorld Radio we're trying something different- it's all music and no talking. That's right, we're letting the music speak for itse...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 58:23
This week on RootsWorld Radio we'll visit the imaginary village of Pumpkintown, Massachusetts, listen to some spirituals from Virginia, tune in to ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2013
- Length: 58:03
Staff of WAMU
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Mark McDonald (Admin)
Program Director |
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Lettie Holman (Admin)
Program Director |
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Karen Munson (Admin)
Operations |
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David Taylor
General Manager |
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Joelle Costello
Manager, Fund-raising Projects and Special Events |
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Gary Henderson
producer / host |
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Kara Nichols (Admin)
Traffic Manager |
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Richard Cassidy (Admin)
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Jen Hitt (Admin)
Music Content Manager |
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Andrea Wenzel (Admin)
Global Affairs Producer |
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Cliff Gallagher (Admin)
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Jerad Walker (Admin)
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James Zelaska (Admin)
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Naomi Gingold (Admin)
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Chris Teskey (Admin)
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