This Thursday, August 4th, join WKCR as we celebrate the official birthday of one of the foundational figures of jazz: trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong. We will be preempting all regular programming as we honor Pops with 24 hours of swing beginning at midnight. The broadcast will follow up our celebration of Armstrong’s chosen birthday on July 4th. Listen at WKCR 89.9FM or online at www.wkcr.org.
Tune in tonight to Som do Brasil at 11:00 PM as we pay tribute to Edgar de Almeida. Joining us in the studio will be Joanna Nova York. She worked close with Edgar and together they won awards for their projects. Also, Túlio Araujo will join us to talk about his new projects and music.
Tune into Studio A tonight to hear an interview with Anais Mitchell, the writer of "Hadestown," a musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice playing at the New York Theater Workshop through July 31st. We also talk with Nabiyah Be, who plays Eurydice in the production. Missed the show? You can listen to the interview here.
Tune in to Afternoon New Music this Monday, July 25th at 3 pm for an exclusive in-studio interview with guitarist Marc Ribot. The 30-minute program will feature Ribot discussing his group The Young Philadelphians and their upcoming album Live in Tokyo, which will be released July 29th on Yellowbird. Marc Ribot & The Young Philadelphians will also be performing at The Bowery Ballroom this Thursday, July 28th at 9 pm. They will be supported by Inyang Bassey featuring Binky Griptite (Dap Kings).
Tune in to Som do Brasil at 11:00 PM on Wednesday, July 13 to hear from Cyro Baptista live in the studio. The show will feature musical selections and insights from Baptista, who has established himself as one of the country's premier percussionists since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country, Brazil. Cyro has recorded and toured with some of music’s most popular names, and his mastery of Brazilian percussion, as well as the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown.
Beginning at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, July 13, WKCR will dedicate nine hours of programming to the music and influence of visionary saxophonist, singer, and composer Albert Ayler in honor of his eightieth birthday anniversary. The birthday broadcast will culminate in a special edition of The Musician's Show from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM hosted by Jeff Lederer, who will be joined in the studio by Ayler's former bassist, Steve Tintweiss. Together they will present Ayler's music along with music that he inspired and some previously unreleased material.
Thanks to conductor William Christie's ensemble Les Arts Florissants, the operas of the French Baroque era have made a major resurgence back into the international repertoire, and the group's near-annual appearances in New York are awaited like no other early music ensemble today. Tune in to this week's Saturday Night At The Opera to hear the performance that instantly took the opera world by storm, Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys.
Tune in to Live Constructions at 10:00 PM on Sunday, July 10 to hear a live set performed by two multi-instrumentalists: Rick Parker on trombone, effects and synthesizer, and Li Daiguo on cello, pipa and throat singing. The one-hour program will feature 50 minutes of Parker and Daiguo's avant-garde psychoacoustic music followed by a quick interview in which the duo will talk about their collaboration and their new album, "Free World Music."
Starting at 12:00 PM on Saturday, July 23, and lasting until 12:00 PM on Sunday, July 24, WKCR will preempt all regular programming to present a live broadcast of this year’s Ragas Live Festival, which will take place at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. For the first time, fans of the festival, which is now in it’s fifth year, will be able to attend in person as well as listening in on the radio or online.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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