Music for the Masses: Funky Africa #9: Apr 14, 2024

It’s time to put on your groove shoes and get ready for a Sunday afternoon funk and soul session, African style! Featuring some of the greatest hits from the 1970s through early '80s – the Golden Era...

Music for the Masses: Music for the Masses: Apr 14, 2024

Broadcasting live from Catskill, NY.

Music for the Masses: Afro-Brazilian Jam #5: Apr 10, 2024

The music of Brazil has been deeply rooted in African as well as indigenous traditions since colonial times, but in recent years musicians have been reconnecting with those roots and bringing a new Af...

Music for the Masses: 20240407: Apr 07, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 6: Apr 02, 2024

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring contemporary artists from across the globe, with a growing number of cross-cultural collaboration...

Music for the Masses: Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 6: Mar 31, 2024

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring contemporary artists from across the globe, with a growing number of cross-cultural collaboration...

Music for the Masses: Nowruz Mobarak!: Mar 24, 2024

It’s a new year and a new season! Last week, millions of people around the world celebrated Nowruz – the Persian New Year, which is observed on the Spring equinox in portions of the Middle East, the C...

Music for the Masses: Celtic Meltdown: Mar 17, 2024

On the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day, a decidedly pagan celebration of musical marriages and their scattered offspring from the Celtic lands and well beyond. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Women’s Jam: Mar 10, 2024

A celebration of International Women’s Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and lively selection of contemporary women’s voices from across the African motherland and her diasporic family: “Africa...

Music for the Masses: Highlife House Party #2: Mar 03, 2024

Ghana Independence Day celebration: On March 6, 1957, the West African republic of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule. With its roots in the Gold Coast region (Anglophone West Af...

Music for the Masses: A Little Bit Country: Feb 25, 2024

Not to throw shade on Beyoncé for topping the charts with her current foray into Country & Western, but rather to shine a light on some Sisters who’ve been out here doing this a long time – we bring y...

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #10: Feb 18, 2024

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 10 of this continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present...

Music for the Masses: Matters of the Heart 5.0: Feb 14, 2024

Featuring a diverse selection of soul, funk, blues, reggae, and more on the theme of LOVE – the bitter, the sweet, the hopeful and hopeless, the happy and hapless. (Part 5 of an annual Valentine’s Day...

Music for the Masses: Matters of the Heart 5.0: Feb 11, 2024

Featuring a diverse selection of soul, funk, blues, reggae, and more on the theme of LOVE – the bitter, the sweet, the hopeful and hopeless, the happy and hapless. (Part 5 of an annual Valentine’s Day...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2024: Feb 06, 2024

Featuring a diverse selection of classic and contemporary music from across the African motherland and her diasporic family: “Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue.” (Part 9 of an ongoing ser...

Music for the Masses: 20240204: Feb 04, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: 20240130: Jan 30, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Deep State #3: Jan 28, 2024

If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, or straight-up furious, you’re not alone. In this series, we reclaim the meaning of “deep state” with two hours of trancified, funkifie...

Music for the Masses: 20240121: Jan 21, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Living the (MLK) Dream 2024: Jan 14, 2024

As the U.S. commemorates the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., some musical reflections on dreams of a better world … faith and hope, unity and struggle … and the illusion of progress in our ti...

Music for the Masses: The World According to Dub 8.0: Jan 10, 2024

A selection of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 8 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday livication to Diane...

Music for the Masses: The World According to Dub 8.0: Jan 07, 2024

A selection of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 8 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday livication to Diane...

Music for the Masses: 20240102: Jan 02, 2024

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: A Dance to 2024: Dec 31, 2023

It’s the eve of a new year in an era of global crisis. Let’s dance! "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both...

Music for the Masses: We Wish You a Catskill Christmas: Dec 24, 2023

A light-hearted musical set appropriate for gift-wrapping (or unwrapping), tree-decorating, cider-mulling, egg-nogging, house-cleaning, family-visiting, over-eating, nap-taking, or pretty much any hol...

Music for the Masses: Reggae Africa: Dec 17, 2023

Featuring songs about roots, resistance, revolution, and redemption from across the African motherland, spanning the 1970s to the present. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound a...

Music for the Masses: Disco Dancing Around the World: Dec 11, 2023

In this series, we bring back the Hustle, the Bump, the Funky Chicken, the Bus Stop, and the Disco Finger – all with an international twist – as we travel back to the 1970s and 80s when the musical me...

Music for the Masses: Disco Dancing Around the World: Dec 10, 2023

In this series, we bring back the Hustle, the Bump, the Funky Chicken, the Bus Stop, and the Disco Finger – all with an international twist – as we travel back to the 1970s and 80s when the musical me...

Music for the Masses: 20231205: Dec 05, 2023

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Jazz is Spoken Here: Dec 03, 2023

In this broadcast, an exploration of jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring selections by contemporary artists from Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2023, Part 2: Nov 26, 2023

This broadcast will feature a diverse selection of classic and contemporary music from across the African motherland and her diasporic family: “Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue.” (Eighth...

Music for the Masses: 20231122: Nov 22, 2023

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Brazil Rocks #4: Nov 19, 2023

Featuring two hours of rock fusion from across Brazil, a diversity of styles including rock, electronica, reggae, funk, soul, carimbó, maracatú, forró, tropicalia, samba and bossa grooves, almost excl...

Music for the Masses: PALOP Africa #4: Nov 12, 2023

The broadcast features a range of musical styles and eras from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa), the African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Port...

Music for the Masses: We’ve Got You Covered, Part 6: Nov 07, 2023

Part 6 of an ongoing series featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. Rebroadcast from Nov. 5, 2023. "Music for the Masses" invites you on...

Music for the Masses: We’ve Got You Covered, Part 6: Nov 05, 2023

Part 6 of an ongoing series featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhyt...

Music for the Masses: Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead #3: Oct 30, 2023

Calling all souls to celebrate the Day of the Dead, Haitian style! Every year, the beginning of November brings the sacred and spectacular Vodoun celebration that is Fèt Gede – a raucous, bawdy, fiery...

Music for the Masses: Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead #3: Oct 29, 2023

Calling all souls to celebrate the Day of the Dead, Haitian style! Every year, the beginning of November brings the sacred and spectacular Vodoun celebration that is Fèt Gede – a raucous, bawdy, fiery...

Music for the Masses: Meet Me in the Maghreb #5: Oct 25, 2023

In this rebroadcast from Oct. 22, 2023, listeners are transported to the Maghreb region of northernmost Africa, where music meets at the crossroads of tradition and global pop from Libya, Tunisia, Alg...

Music for the Masses: Meet Me in the Maghreb #5: Oct 22, 2023

In this broadcast listeners are transported to the Maghreb region of northernmost Africa, where music meets at the crossroads of tradition and global pop from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western...

Music for the Masses: Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 7: Oct 15, 2023

Celebrating the October 15 birthday of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) with Part 7 of the ongoing Afrobeat International series, exploring the rich language of Afrobeat...

Music for the Masses: Tanto Tango: Oct 09, 2023

The fourth and final feature in a month of Sundays celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month brings us to Argentina, where we will bathe ourselves in a swirling pool of tango nuevo, milonga, valseado, and f...

Music for the Masses: Tanto Tango: Oct 08, 2023

The fourth and final feature in a month of Sundays celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month brings us to Argentina, where we will bathe ourselves in a swirling pool of tango nuevo, milonga, valseado, and f...

Music for the Masses: Herencia Hispana Remixed 2.0: Oct 03, 2023

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with an appreciation of a new generation of Latinx artists embracing and expressing their own musical roots within the context of an even...

Music for the Masses: Herencia Hispana Remixed 2.0: Oct 01, 2023

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with an appreciation of a new generation of Latinx artists embracing and expressing their own musical roots within the context of an even...

Music for the Masses: 20230927: Sep 27, 2023

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Music for the Masses: Latin Music Rocks #7: Sep 24, 2023

A celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month begins with a fiesta of rock en Español, digital cumbia, tropical futurism, dubwise reggae, electro-funk y mucho más, from the 1960s to right now. (Pa...

Music for the Masses: LatinX Festival: Sep 17, 2023

Live from Hudson, NY.

Music for the Masses: Live from LatinX: Sep 17, 2023

An extended broadcast, live from the 2023 LatinX Parade and Festival at Waterfront Park in Hudson, NY. “Music for the Masses” host Neva E. Wartell teams up with Carline Murphy, co-host of “Li Le, Li T...

Music for the Masses: 20230913: Sep 13, 2023

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...