New Year, (more!) New Local Shows
We’re kicking off 2025 right, by filling the airwaves with even more locally made shows. This month, you’ll hear these new folks getting trained on the air with some of our current community members. As they are ready, the following shows will join us on the air in the weeks to come. Please give them a warm welcome when you hear them on the air (they may be a little nervous). Give a call to the studio, a chat through the website, and let them know you’re listening.
Here are the dozen new shows coming on the air, bringing us up to 60 locally made shows!
Civic Radio - A Vermont Community Foundation funded partnership with the Civic Standard in Hardwick. This show will record the sounds, people, and concerts of the town, produced by a Civic Standard crew of volunteers. They’ll have a 6 month limited run, starting in March in the Saturday 9am monthly rotation, the 2nd Saturday.
The Rubber Room - a music show hosted by retired Johnson State professor, Dan Towner. This show will “swing across the genres” with music from various genres. Tune in Wednesdays 1-2pm.
Pitter Patter Radio - Hosted by Pat Kantner, this music show will feature a range of genres, focusing in on queer artists and more. Catch them in a monthly rotation on Saturday mornings 10am-noon.
Cuneiform Radio - Hosted by local poet, print shop printer, and professor, Kyle Schlesinger. Join Kyle on a new Monday morning monthly rotation at 11am (2nd and 4th Mondays), for prose and poetry assignments for listeners.
The Monday drive at 2 - Hosted by Corey Flynn, featuring records from his extensive collection, crossing all sorts of genres. Catch the spinning Mondays, 2-4pm.
Good Ways Reggae Show - Hosted by Kind, you’ll hear a range of reggae music from their Jamaican roots. Tune in Sundays at 6pm.
Poa for the People - Hosted by Poa Mutino, this show will explore grief and how we connect to each other in the monthly Monday rotation at 11am (3rd Mondays).
Yardscrap - A story-based, community centered show focusing on all that is happening around us, hosted by VT Digger editor Yardain Amron on Tuesdays, 9-10am.
Eastern Dawn - A show focusing the stories and lives of youth, hosted by educator Luke Lampugnale, Tuesday mornings at 7am.
The Wild Kindness - Hosted by Trevor Ziegler, this music show will explore the more off beat and obscure music you don’t hear anywhere else. Tune in Tuesdays, 12-2pm.
Special One-Time Airing of - "From the Outside” - a Community Library of Voice and Sound Archive Remix project by Khonsu X, in partnership with WaveFarm and the Oral History Summer School. Part Horspiel with a Brechtian construction, this is a crip punk primer underpinned by all the personal trauma and triggers brought up by doing oral history investigation. Weaving archival footage and field recordings, this piece also includes two original songs written and produced by Khonsu X. “Au Revoir” and “3Peat” were his anchors in creating transmission art that attempts to honor the voices who lent themselves and the emotional turmoil of oral storytelling. Visit https://www.libraryofvoiceandsound.org to experience the original interviews and sounds influencing “From the Outside”. Airing December 11, 2024; 5pm ET on WGXC.org // 90.7 Acra, NY, Hudson. Hear this one-time airing on Saturday, February 8, 9-10am.
As always, we do our best to re-curate the syndicated programming we’ve aired (where these local shows are airing instead). Look for some minor changes to the lineup for where some of those shows will have gone (or retired). Thanks to our Programming Committee for giving such careful thought to how we continue to improve our programming to draw in even more Vermonters to tune in.
