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Music for the Masses
Hosted by Neva E. Wartell.
Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam #12 (Solstice Streetside Session): Dec 21, 2025
Featuring a special high-energy mix to kick off an...
Music for the Masses: Funky Brazil #2: Dec 07, 2025
A Sunday afternoon groove session featuring classi...
Music for the Masses: PALOP Africa! #6: Nov 23, 2025
Part 6 of a series featuring music from the PALOP...
Music for the Masses: A Touch of the Blues: Nov 16, 2025
A lot of people have the blues right now. We offer...
Music for the Masses: Musical Gems from Guinea: Nov 09, 2025
Guinea (Conakry) is known for its musical riches:...
Music for the Masses: Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead 2025: Nov 02, 2025
Calling all souls to celebrate the Day of the Dead...
Music for the Masses: Diwali, Festival of Lights: Oct 26, 2025
Featuring a wall-to-wall mix of South Asian popula...
Music for the Masses: Music for the Masses: Oct 23, 2025
Broadcasting live from Catskill, NY.
Music for the Masses: Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 10: Oct 19, 2025
Celebrating the October 15 birthday of Nigerian mu...
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Carline Murphy of "Li Le, Li Tan," Michael Alan Hams of "Balance Check," and Neva Wartell of "Music for the Masses" (re-air of June 21, 2025): Jun 24, 2025: 5pm - 6pm
Tune in for special fundraising broadcasts with WGXC Volunteer Programmers! WGXC depends on the generosity of listeners to meet approximately 50% of the station's operating expenses. Each year it is...
Make Music, Not War!: Jun 22, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
As the current U.S. government escalates its military aggression against Iran, we offer today's broadcast in solidarity with the Iranian people, and declare: "Make Music, Not War!" Featuring a broad r...
Carline Murphy of "Li Le, Li Tan," Michael Alan Hams of "Balance Check," and Neva Wartell of "Music for the Masses": Jun 21, 2025: 2pm - 3pm
Dear Father: Jun 15, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Dedicated to all fathers – past, present and future – and to the memory of my own father, a true internationalist who dreamed of a world without borders and lived by his belief in liberation from oppr...
Sublime Soukous: Jun 08, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Featuring two hours of sweet, soothing, swinging, and sublime rumba Congolaise, soukous, ndombolo, mutuash, pachanga, and more – spanning more than a half-century and both sides of the Congo River."Mu...
I'm in the Mood for Ska #5: Jun 01, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Featuring a light-hearted mix of classic and contemporary ska – a genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and has inspired some fabulous and fascinating fusions with musical styles the worl...
Ayiti Cheri: May 25, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
May is Haitian Heritage Month, and a perfect opportunity to enjoy a bon fèt! Today we visit the "Pearl of the Antilles" to celebrate Haiti's rich history and diverse cultural legacy with a selection o...
The Golden Age of Compas Direct: May 18, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
A celebration of Haitian Flag Day (May 18), an occasion of pride and festivity commemorating the national flag, which was created during the Haitian revolution of self-liberated enslaved people (1791-...
A Mother's Love #4: May 11, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Part 4 of an annual Mother's Day series featuring a diverse selection of songs that celebrate the women who give us life – Mother Earth, the ancestral motherland, mortal mothers, and maternal spirits....
69 de Mayo / Mexico Rocks! #2: May 04, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
DJ Neva celebrates Cinco de Mayo and her birthday with a special selection of rock, funk, reggae and more from both sides of the fictitious border. (Part 69 of a lifelong series.)"Music for the Masses...
Meet Me in the Maghreb #6 (Re-air of April 27, 2025): Apr 29, 2025: 8pm - 10pm
We travel to the the Maghreb region of northernmost Africa, where music meets at the crossroads of tradition and global pop from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania. (Part...
Meet Me in the Maghreb #6: Apr 27, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Funky Africa #11: Apr 20, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
It's time to put on your groove shoes and get ready for a Sunday afternoon funk and soul session, African style! Featuring classics from across the Continent, spanning the 1970s to the 2000s. (Part 11...
Strictly Live #6: Apr 13, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
A selection of exceptional performances that, fortunately, were captured live – and now we get to enjoy them forever. Featuring recordings of Oneness of Juju, Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa 70, Joe Dr...
¡Descarga! Springtime Salsa Jam 2025: Apr 06, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
We add a little sazón to your early April showers and serve up a swingin' descarga – a non-stop Salsa jam featuring classic Afro-Latin grooves spanning more than six decades – from mambo to bugalú, gu...
Jazz Is Spoken Here #8: Mar 30, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring selections by contemporary artists from Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cong...
Struggle Sounds: Mar 23, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Part 9 of our "Afrobeat International" series, in which we explore interpretations of the genre from just about everywhere. Today's theme – the title of a song by Seun Kuti (son of Fela) – reflects th...
Pan-African Women's Jam 2025 (re-air of March 9, 2025): Mar 21, 2025: 2pm - 4pm
A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...
Treasures from the Emerald Isle: Mar 16, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Éirinn go brách! Seeing as how Greene County is home to the "Irish Catskills", today we'll celebrate our neighbors with a little bit country, folk, rock, jazz, blues, funk and other musical treasures...
Pan-African Women's Jam 2025: Mar 09, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Highlife House Party #3: Mar 02, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
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...
Reggae Africa #2 (Re-air of February 23, 2025): Feb 26, 2025: 8pm - 10pm
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 and...
Reggae Africa #2: Feb 23, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Africa Rocks! #11: Feb 16, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 11 of this frequent series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....
Pan-African Jam 2025 (Re-air of February 14, 2025): Feb 14, 2025: 2pm - 4pm
Black History Month has begun, but here at Music for the Masses we celebrate black and brown history every day: "Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue." This broadcast features a diverse sele...
Sublime Soukous for a Snow-Bound Sunday: Feb 09, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Are the mid-winter blues getting you down? Well, we've got just the cure for that! Let us take you to your Happy Place with two hours of sweet, soothing, swinging, and sublime Soukous grooves – guitar...
Pan-African Jam 2025: Feb 02, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Deep State #4: Jan 26, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, stressed out or straight-up furious, you're not alone! In this series, we reclaim the meaning of "deep state" with two hours of trancif...
Roots & Riddims 3: Situation Critical: Jan 19, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
Nothing but good vibes going out to the masses with Part 3 of our "Roots & Riddims" mini-series featuring reggae, afrobeat, soca, hip-hop, and more. Today's selections are about struggle, solidari...
Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 7: Jan 12, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring contemporary artists from across the globe, including several cross-cultural collaborations. (Par...
The World According to Dub 9.0: Jan 05, 2025: 1pm - 3pm
A selection of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 9 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday week livication to D...
Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 31, 2024: 8pm - 10pm
It began with the Biguine… A genre with many styles, cadence (Creole: kadans) evolved primarily in the Antillean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, and Haiti from the early 1960s through the...
Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 29, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Salsa Africana #3: Dec 22, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Winter has officially arrived, the holidays are here, and we've come to heat your home with music! Kick off those snow boots and get your dance on as we bring you two hours of burning African salsa cl...
Arabia Rocks! #2: Dec 15, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
How does Arabia rock? Let us count the ways. In Part 2 of a new series we cook up a stew of rock fusion from the Levant, the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula and more. The recipe? Start with a base of n...
So Much Samba! 5.0: Dec 08, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
A tropical escape from the chill of winter, featuring Brazilian classics from the 1960s through the '80s – because there's so much samba!"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...
Brazilian Breakaway #2: Dec 01, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
A two-hour musical vacation in Brazil, a land of unlimited interpretations and integrations of ancestral rhythms with contemporary, globally popular genres. Unfettered enjoyment strongly encouraged. W...
PALOP Africa! #5: Nov 24, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Part 5 of a series featuring music from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa) – those African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Portuguese as a common l...
We've Got You Covered #8: Nov 17, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Part 8 of an ongoing series featuring a selection of obsure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. D...
Abdullah Ibrahim (Abdullah Ibrahim Trio) - re-air of November 13, 2024: Nov 16, 2024: 9am - 10pm
In this special edition of "Music for the Masses," host DJ Neva speaks with distinguished pianist Abdullah Ibrahim of the Abdullah Ibrahim Trio. Abdullah Ibrahim performs in "The Egg Presents: Abdulla...
Fresh from Africa #7: Nov 10, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Part 7 of a series featuring new and recent releases by African artists across the continent and the diaspora, ranging from contemporary traditional to Afro-futuristic, with lots of collaboration, inn...
Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead 2024: Nov 03, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
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, fier...
20241029: Oct 29, 2024: 8pm - 10pm
"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...
Africa Rocks! #7: Oct 27, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 7 of this multi-part series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....
Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 8: Oct 20, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Celebrating the Oct. 15 birthday of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) with Part 8 of our ongoing Afrobeat International series, exploring the rich language of Afrobeat and...
Pan-American Jam #2: Oct 13, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
As Yom Kippur meets Indigenous Peoples' Day, we call upon the ancient spirits of the First Nations for forgiveness, mercy, and purification with sounds of resistance and resilience from the vast music...
African Soul Power – The Disco Era #5: Oct 06, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
In this series, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by advances of the previous...
20241001: Oct 01, 2024: 8pm - 10pm
Mali on My Mind: Sep 29, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
A mere sampling of music by some of the countless outstanding artists from Mali, West Africa. All but one are recent recordings, from within the last 15 years, by artists currently at the forefront of...
Son, Cuero y Boogaloo: Sep 22, 2024: 1pm - 3pm
Our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a throwback to the era of Fania Records, the independent label founded in 1964 by Gerald Masucci and Johnny Pacheco. Though the roots...