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...

Latin Music Rocks #7: Sep 24, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Live from LatinX: Sep 17, 2023: 1pm - 3:30 pm

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...

20230913: Sep 13, 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...

Brazilian Breakaway: Sep 10, 2023: 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 is strongly encouraged...

Mas Come Again: Sep 05, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

It’s time to party — West Indian style! Following a two-year pause due to the Covid pandemic, Trinidad and Tobago carnival was “back on de road” in 2023, boiling over with the anticipation and excitem...

Mas Come Again: Sep 03, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

It’s time to party — West Indian style! Following a two-year pause due to the Covid pandemic, Trinidad and Tobago carnival was “back on de road” in 2023, boiling over with the anticipation and excitem...

East African Dance Party: Aug 29, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

A sound safari to the countries of Eastern Africa, covering a range of contemporary genres such as genge and kapuka (Kenya/Uganda), muziki wa dansi and bongo flava (Tanzania), taarab and sêga (Zanziba...

East African Dance Party: Aug 27, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

A sound safari to the countries of Eastern Africa, covering a range of contemporary genres such as genge and kapuka (Kenya/Uganda), muziki wa dansi and bongo flava (Tanzania), taarab and sêga (Zanziba...

Fresh from Africa #3: Aug 20, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

Part 3 of a series featuring current releases from across the African continent, ranging from contemporary traditional to Afro-futuristic, plus some cross-cultural collaborations. "Music for the Ma...

Strictly Live #5: Aug 14, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

In this rebroadcast from Aug. 13, 2023, a selection of live collaborations and performances by Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté, Bomba Estéreo, Conjunto Arsenio Rodríguez, Dédé Saint-Prix, Etta James, F...

Strictly Live #5: Aug 13, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

In this broadcast, a selection of live collaborations and performances by Béla Fleck and Toumani Diabaté, Bomba Estéreo, Conjunto Arsenio Rodríguez, Dédé Saint-Prix, Etta James, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Gyp...

We’ve Got You Covered, Part 5: Aug 09, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

A rebroadcast from Aug. 6, 2023 featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. (Part 5 of a returning series.) "Music for the Masses" invites y...

We’ve Got You Covered, Part 5: Aug 06, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

A broadcast featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. (Part 5 of a returning series.) "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion o...

20230801: Aug 01, 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! #3: Jul 30, 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, samba, and bossa grooves, almost exclusively 21...

20230726: Jul 26, 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...

Classic Dance Bands of Guinea #2: Jul 23, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

Few African countries can match Guinea (and also Mali) for legendary dance bands, soaring voices, virtuoso instrumentalists, and gorgeous melodies. In this broadcast, we feature some of the classic da...

Funky Africa #8: Jul 16, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

A Sunday afternoon groove session featuring classic funk and soul from across the African continent, spanning the 1970s to the 2000s. (Part 8 of an ongoing series.) "Music for the Masses" invites y...

Salsa for a Summer Day #2: Jul 10, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

We add a little more heat to a sultry summer day with some salsa caliente y picante – from classic to contemporary, bugalú to son montuno, danzón, cha-cha-cha, rumba, timba y mucho más. So throw off y...

Salsa for a Summer Day #2: Jul 09, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

We add a little more heat to a sultry summer day with some salsa caliente y picante – from classic to contemporary, bugalú to son montuno, danzón, cha-cha-cha, rumba, timba y mucho más. So throw off y...

So Much Samba! (Samba Soul): Jul 04, 2023: 8pm - 10pm

The month of July begins with soulful beats from Brazil and beyond — because there is so much samba! (Part 4 of a series.) "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Di...

So Much Samba! (Samba Soul): Jul 02, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

The month of July begins with soulful beats from Brazil and beyond — because there is so much samba! (Part 4 of a series.) "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Di...

Africa Rocks! #9: Jun 26, 2023: 10pm - 11:59 pm

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 9 of a continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present. Re...

Africa Rocks! #9: Jun 25, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 9 of a continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present. Re...

Freedom Songs: Jun 18, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

On the occasion of both Father’s Day and Juneteenth, this broadcast is dedicated to the memory of my dear father, Harry Wartell, and his life-long dedication to resistance, persistence, and the interc...

20230614: Jun 14, 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...

I’m in the Mood for Ska #3: Jun 11, 2023: 1pm - 3pm

Featuring a light-hearted mix of classic and contemporary ska — the music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and has inspired fabulous and fascinating fusions with musical styles the w...