Programming

El Bárbaro del Ritmo/The Wildman of Rhythm is Beny Moré! We take a deep dive into Beny Moré’s Banda Gigante from the golden age of Cuban music. John Radanovich’s biography of Beny Moré, The Wildman of Rhythm (2009) is a must read. Send your Beny Moré questions or requests my way! LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 1/29/21, […]

Join me as we explore country blues in Memphis and Mississippi and celebrate Groundhog’s Day a week early.

“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!” An early headzup from Monday’s “Yesterday’s Dead Today” https://www.facebook.com/groups/testerdaysdead/ WSLR is slowly coming back with a very sparse number of […]

This Wednesday, January 27 at 9am, our first guests on Peace and Justice will be Patricia Allen and Marie Keeney from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota’s Social Justice Committee. We’ll talk about Sarasota policing and the reforms advocated on the websites Campaign Zero and #8cantwait. In the second half of the show we’ll talk […]

“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 […]

This Wednesday, January 20th at 9am, our first guest will be Jenna Stevens, State Director of Environment Florida. She’ll talk about their new report A Path to Cleaner Water. “America’s waterways are a national asset. They are the places we swim on hot summer days, kayak with friends and family, spend a relaxing day fishing, […]

This Friday it’s Latin jazz master Maraca, singer/composer Pablo Milanes, old Cuban charanga with Melodias del Cuarenta, and even Sergio Mendes y mucho mas! 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 your browser. “Tomasa No Baila!”

Mucho Macho Machito this Friday on LATIN EXPLOSION! The Interview will be with Mario Grillo, Machito’s son and longtime member of Machito & His Afro Cuban Orchestra. We will talk about music makers and innovators Chano Pozo, Machito, Mario Bauza, Dizzy Gillespie, Chico O’Farrill and many others. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am, WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, […]

Please join me as we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr through song .  So many styles, artists and themes connected to this Civil Rights leader.

“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 […]