A Mother’s Love #3: May 12, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Part 3 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, maternal spirits, and mortal mothers....

68 de Mayo: May 05, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Host Neva Wartell celebrates her birthday on the radio, on her actual birthday – Cinco de Mayo – a rare treat and a special opportunity to share a selection of classic and contemporary Mexican music f...

¡Descarga! Springtime Salsa Jam 2024: Apr 28, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

We add a little sazón to your April showers and May flowers, toss ‘em around, and serve up a swingin’ descarga – a non-stop Salsa jam featuring classic Afro-Latin grooves spanning more than six decade...

SOS Humanity #2: Apr 24, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

On the occasion of Earth Day 2024, some musical reflections on the human condition, our natural environment, and our existential crisis. (This program is a rebroadcast from Sun. April 21 from 1pm-3pm....

SOS Humanity #2: Apr 21, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

On the occasion of Earth Day 2024, some musical reflections on the human condition, our natural environment, and our existential crisis. (This program will be rebroadcast on Weds. April 24 from 8pm-10...

Funky Africa #9: Apr 14, 2024: 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 some of the greatest hits from the 1970s through early '80s – the Golden Era...

Afro-Brazilian Jam #5: Apr 10, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Afro-Brazilian Jam #5: Apr 07, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 6: Apr 02, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 6: Mar 31, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Nowruz Mobarak!: Mar 24, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Celtic Meltdown: Mar 17, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Pan-African Women’s Jam: Mar 10, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Highlife House Party #2: Mar 03, 2024: 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...

A Little Bit Country: Feb 25, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Africa Rocks! #10: Feb 18, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Matters of the Heart 5.0: Feb 14, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Matters of the Heart 5.0: Feb 11, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Pan-African Jam 2024: Feb 06, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Pan-African Jam 2024: Feb 04, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

20240130: Jan 30, 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...

Deep State #3: Jan 28, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Gypsy Mixup: Jan 21, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

A wild and crazy adventure into the realm of contemporary Romani (Gypsy) music and its many interpretations found across the globe. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and r...

Living the (MLK) Dream 2024: Jan 14, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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...

The World According to Dub 8.0: Jan 10, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

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...

The World According to Dub 8.0: Jan 07, 2024: 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 8 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday livication to Diane...

20240102: Jan 02, 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...

A Dance to 2024: Dec 31, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

We Wish You a Catskill Christmas: Dec 24, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Reggae Africa: Dec 17, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Disco Dancing Around the World: Dec 11, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Disco Dancing Around the World: Dec 10, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

20231205: Dec 05, 2023: 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...

Jazz is Spoken Here: Dec 03, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Pan-African Jam 2023, Part 2: Nov 26, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

20231122: Nov 22, 2023: 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...

Brazil Rocks #4: Nov 19, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

PALOP Africa #4: Nov 12, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

We’ve Got You Covered, Part 6: Nov 07, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

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...

We’ve Got You Covered, Part 6: Nov 05, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead #3: Oct 30, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

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...

Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead #3: Oct 29, 2023: 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, fiery...

Meet Me in the Maghreb #5: Oct 25, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Meet Me in the Maghreb #5: Oct 22, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 7: Oct 15, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Tanto Tango: Oct 09, 2023: 9pm - 10pm

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...

Tanto Tango: Oct 08, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Herencia Hispana Remixed 2.0: Oct 03, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

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...

Herencia Hispana Remixed 2.0: Oct 01, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

20230927: Sep 27, 2023: 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...