Programming

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 […]

This Wednesday, January 13th at 9am, our guest was New College professor Brendan Goff. He talked about his soon to be published  book, Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism. It’s a new history showing how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the […]

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, […]