Watch sagebrush tumble past your busy city slicker life as you tune in to our Folk shows. Our DJs dish up eclectic blues; traditional French; Irish traditional music; American traditional, old-time, and hillbilly music; and classic country.
Monday |
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| 5:00pm | 6:30pm | A Feast of Irish FolkMary and Erik play Irish traditional music from the oldest recordings to the newest releases. |
Mary & Erik |
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Tuesday |
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| 9:00pm | 10:00pm | Freak Street Folk HourTuesday nights at 9 feature the folk genre in its contemporary and often untraditional form. New songs will be paired with old, giving the listener a sense of how far folk has traveled from its past, while still paying tribute to its roots in the blues, bluegrass, ballad, and country. Sit a spell, tune in, and open your ears. |
Ryan Lavery |
Wednesday |
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| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | This Show Kills NobodyRecently excised of his imaginary friend, DJ Muggy now brings you the finest folk classics, great songs you remember singing in elementary school, and the occasional live set from some eclectic emerging artists. |
Joshua Katz |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | Nate StevensSpreading the sound of all that is righteous and good from the streets of New Orleans. |
Nate Stevens |
| 6:00pm | 7:00pm | Adorable IllusionsListen to Adorable Illusions for a wide variety of folk covers, ranging from Japanese ukelele versions of 50s swing, to ironic acoustic guitar cover of rap songs, to Andrews Sisters style close harmony covers of indie pop, to bluegrass versions of hair metal. Adorable Illusions also features earnest renditions of everyone's folk-y favorites, so tune in! |
Nina Trumbo |
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Souled and NewDo you need more soul in your life? Here, we believe the answer is always yes, bringing you a balanced diet of soul, Stax,Motown, girl group, Wall of Sound, and everyfunk in between (Egyptian Shumba included). We'll also trace the genres to today's music, linking the old with the new, the classics with the rediscovered gems. So, tune in, find out that new dance craze, and get down. |
Julia | ||
Friday |
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| 10:00am | 11:30am | From the Dark End of the Street“The Dark End of the Street”, written by a white hipster from rural Alabama and a Memphis session musician and producer and sung by an ex-Gospel singer in 1967, is the greatest cheating song ever and the perfect soul ballad. Later covered by California hippies, country duets, and group harmonizers. Dan Penn, Chips Moman, James Carr, and other heroes of Southern music can be heard every week here: from Muscles Shoals, Memphis, Nashville, Austin, and Lafayette, Louisiana into your home on the South Side of Chicago.» Web site |
Ryan Jackson |
| 11:30am | 1:00pm | The Shape I'm InFrom Leeds to Los Angeles, The Shape I'm In brings you classic country, country and western, and contemporary twang with a message and an upraised fist. Squirrel Dundee plays host every Friday from 11:30-1:00 pm on WHPK, the pride of the South Side, where two guns beats four aces. |
Squirrel Dundee |
Sunday |
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| 9:00pm | 10:00pm | Pecan PieBluegrass and country lovingly served up fresh with a dollop of old-fashioned whipped cream. |
Chocolate Eclare |