Programming

Singers La Lupe in Havana and New York, Hector Lavoe, Lucrecia in Barcelona and New York’s Conjunto Libre! Plus a few other surprises on the second LATIN EXPLOSION of the new year, this Friday. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am, WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, listen live at https://wslr.org/ or listen anytime by typing WSLR LATIN EXPLOSION in […]

This Wednesday January 6 at 9am our guest was Sandra Goldmark, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Campus Sustainability and Climate Action at Barnard College. She’s the author of the new book Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Her website is FIXUP.  To watch a great twenty-minute video about the problems we talked about watch […]

  HOWDY,    Well campers I hope everyone survived New Years Eve?  I didn’t do bad if you consider that there wasn’t anywhere to go!  That was strange.     This is my first show of the new year so I thought I would clean house. At the end of every show there are a […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” WSLR is slowly coming back with a very sparse number of live studio programmers, albeit with very specific instructions as […]

Let’s welcome the New Year in a big way with the exciting sounds of Big Band Jazz on The Blue Groove, Sunday from 7:00 pm -9:00 pm on WSLR 96.5 FM or stream WSLR.org. From the sophisticated sound of Duke Ellington and the swingin’ Count Basie Band, to vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and his Big Band, […]

Kick off 2021 with LATIN EXPLOSION. Kako y Totico, Irakere, Larry Harlow, Enrique Jorrin, and of course, Eddie Palmieri’s “Champagne”. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, stream live at WSLR.org or listen anytime by typing WSLR LATIN EXPLOSION in your browser! Happy New Year/Feliz Ano Nuevo! “Se Las Nenas Me Dejan, Que!”

A special Tuesday Drive Home looking back and paying tribute to some of the American musical artists who have passed away over the last 12 months. We’ve lost some true icons: Little Richard, John Prine, Eddie Van Halen and Bill Withers to name a few. There have been some others that we’ll miss as well, […]

HotRodRock 4-6 PM Wednesday 12/30 Missed it ? No worries here is the link to entire show in the eithers.: https://archive.wslr.org/mp3/wslr_201230_160000hotrodrock.mp3 Been almost a year since I did all record show. So I pulled out the 45’s and went to town.  Ran thru some labels offerings and a collection Dan Crawford gave me .  Show […]

This Wednesday December 30, at 9am, our guest will be Kathy Kelly, an activist and writer who has helped co-coordinate Voices for Creative Nonviolence. VCNV has done great work over the years, In 2021 they’re moving to a new phase of organizing. Read their final print letter HERE. And here’s a letter Kathy wrote recently about […]