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Joyeaux Mardi Gras! From big brass second line to Zydeco, we’ll let the good times roll with our annual trip to New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast. Fun stuff from the Night Tripper, Fess, Fats, Irma, Big Chief, Buckwheat, the Nevilles, and other favorites in the day-long music parade.

Sorry… Off for about 45 minutes yesterday morning

Get ready for Goin' Across the Mountain Live!

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Guitarist, Dead at 78 Bob Weir, the singer-guitarist who co-founded the Grateful Dead and later found success with Dead & Company, has died at age 78.

WNCW is sad to report the death of Bob Weir. Fare thee well… www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

WNCW's Top 10 Staff Picks of 2025 Here are the Top Ten new album release picks from some of the WNCW staff. Click here for the complete Top 100 list as voted by our listeners and programming staff.

Check out what 2025 releases our staff liked the most: www.wncw.org/top-100/2025...

Airing Thursday, 9am-Noon. See a list of many notables we lost in 2025 here: www.wncw.org/2025-12-30/t...

WNCW's Top 100 Albums of 2025 As voted on by our listeners and programmers, WNCW's Top 100 Albums of 2025! Click to see the full list.Click here to see some of our staff's picks.

Our Top 100 albums of 2025 are posted on our website, along with staff Top 10s. Thanks to everyone who participated, in the voting and in general this year! www.wncw.org/top-100/2025...

Wednesday at 8pm – Midnight: WNCW’s Rebroadcast of the Warren Haynes Christmas Pre-Jam We were elated to have another Pre-Jam this month, after last year’s Helene cancellation. And it was a great one! Daniel Donato might have surpassed Warren himself for the most blistering performances...

Tune in to our rebroadcast of the Warren Haynes Christmas Pre-Jam tonight! www.wncw.org/2025-12-30/w...

Coming your way Monday between 9am and 6pm, and then again with different songs on Tuesday. Where might YOUR favorite albums land?

Congratulations to @mgrace704.bsky.social for becoming WNCW’s 1000th BlueSky page follower!

A uniquely WNCW-curated Holiday mix today and tomorrow to help get you in the spirit. Sacred songs, solemn songs, silly songs… Season’s Greetings!

Raul Malo, Golden-Voiced 'Maestro' of the Mavericks, Dead at 60 Raul Malo, the operatic singer and frontman of the country-rock band the Mavericks, has died at age 60.

WNCW is very sad to report the passing of singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader of the Mavericks Raul Malo. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Voting is open for your Top Ten Releases of 2025! It's that time again! Time to vote for your 10 favorite WNCW releases of 2025, and help us create the Top 100 for our end-of-the-year countdown airing Monday, 12/29 from 9am to 6pm, and again on Tuesd...

Just over a week left to vote. Has your top ten been counted?

This post may be too late for #GivingTuesday, but Wednesdays through Mondays are great days for donating to nonprofits, too!
(Photo courtesy of @DIZANNA)

Happy Thanksgiving! Your WNCW family has a seat at the table for you, with songs of food & gratitude all day long this Thursday. In one of our favorite annual traditions, Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” fro...

Songs of food & gratitude all day long on WNCW this Thanksgiving Day. Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” airs just past Noon and at 9:30 p.m.

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WNCW Benefit Concert with Free Planet Radio - at The Resonating Room YouTube video by WNCWStudioB

Here is the livestream of Sunday's Free Planet Radio concert that was a fundraiser for WNCW. Enjoy, and feel free to donate via the "GiveButter" weblink provided! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWgv...

A portion of our 2008 interview with the late Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, former singer with the Grateful Dead, is coming up next on "Studio B Rewind"!

WNCW Benefit Concert Intimate Studio Concert with Free Planet Radio & Friends

WNCW is humbled to see this kind of support from the Free Planet Radio crew. If you can't make it to this Sunday afternoon concert person, they/we plan to livestream it on WNCW's YouTube page!
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We have ended our official drive at $294,844, which *beats our record!* We would love to reach $300,000 these next few days. So, if you didn't get an opportunity to donate this week, it is not too late! www.wncw.org

Thanks to you, WNCW will keep informing, inspiring, and entertaining listeners.

Our on-air fund drive wraps up at 9pm! Call 800-245-8870, or at wncw.org. At 6pm, one lucky person will win tickets to see Billy Strings at ExploreAsheville.com Arena on 2/10, plus a $50 Wicked Weed gift card. At 9pm: tix to the Warren Haynes Xmas Jam/Pre-Jam, plus 2 nights at The Aloft Asheville!

It's "all we are saying"!

We're celebrating with Day 5 of a successful 7-day Fall Fund Drive! And we're celebrating the CPB's securing of music licensing rights through 2027.

CPB Ensures the Music Plays On for Millions of Public Media Listeners Nationwide Washington, D.C. (October 27, 2025) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it has reached agreements with all five major performing rights organizations (PROs) to ensure ...

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Celebrate Public Radio Music Day today! We are pleased to report that the CPB has secured music rights for public media through 2027 (details below.) Celebrate with a donation to keep your station WNCW strong! www.wncw.org #publicradiomusicday2025