Ginger Radio Hour: Hovey Brock: Sep 17, 2024

"A ball of black light lit up my heart one summer day." And so begins writer and painter Hovey Brock's essay about the transformative experience(s) of making art. He's a Catskills artist with deep tie...

Ginger Radio Hour: Cowboy Sadness: Sep 03, 2024

I'm talking to another trio this week — the musical supergroup called Cowboy Sadness. The band released Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 — their first full-length album — earlier this year. To make it,...

Ginger Radio Hour: Cowboy Sadness: Sep 03, 2024

I'm talking to another trio this week — the musical supergroup called Cowboy Sadness. The band released Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 — their first full-length album — earlier this year. To make it,...

Ginger Radio Hour: Reservoiristas: Aug 20, 2024

Nina Shengold, Gail Straub, and Kate McGloughlin make up the artistic supergroup called Reservoiristas. Listen to a live performance of "Ashokan Reservoir, Sunrise to Starlight" — their ode to the hau...

Ginger Radio Hour: Music for a summer day: Aug 06, 2024

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Peacock Mixtape (re-broadcast): Jul 22, 2024

I made a mixtape for the Greene County Wanderer — the peacock who makes his way around the Catskills looking for a friend and mate. I just saw him for the first time and was able to play a song for hi...

Ginger Radio Hour: Peacock Mixtape: Jul 16, 2024

I made a mixtape for the Greene County Wanderer — the peacock who makes his way around the Catskills looking for a friend and mate. I just saw him for the first time and was able to play a song for hi...

Ginger Radio Hour: Greene County Wanderer: Jul 07, 2024

It's that time of year, apparently, when a peacock known as the Greene County Wanderer makes his way around the Catskills looking for a friend and mate. We recently saw him in Cairo and called the aut...

Ginger Radio Hour: Greene County Wanderer: Jul 02, 2024

It's that time of year, apparently, when a peacock known as the Greene County Wanderer makes his way around the Catskills looking for a friend and mate. We recently saw him in Cairo and called the aut...

Ginger Radio Hour: Leslie T. Sharpe: Jun 18, 2024

Leslie T. Sharpe is a naturalist, writer, and good friend. She joins the show live from the Great Western Catskills to tell us about all the critters in her meadow and her upcoming program on “An...

Ginger Radio Hour: Turtle Season: Jun 04, 2024

Watch out for turtles on the road! It's turtle season in the Catskills and writer Sy Montgomery's new book Of Time and Turles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell helps put it all in perspecti...

Ginger Radio Hour: Neil Young, Prince, Dolly Parton: May 21, 2024

This week: An all-music session focuses on tremendous covers of songs by Neil Young, Prince, Dolly Parton, and more. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Ra...

Ginger Radio Hour: Tama Matsuoka Wong: May 12, 2024

Master forager Tama Matsuoka Wong has just published Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager. The book is definitely a field guide for how to forage and identify local plants, but it's also a med...

Ginger Radio Hour: Tama Matsuoka Wong: May 07, 2024

Master forager Tama Matsuoka Wong has just published Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager. The book is definitely a field guide for how to forage and identify local plants, but it's also a med...

Ginger Radio Hour: Michael Hurley: Apr 16, 2024

Musician and artist Michael Hurley is a legend. He calls the songs he plays "jazz-hyped blues and country and western music." And that music — his singing and playing — are truly singular. We have a c...

Ginger Radio Hour: Covers: Apr 02, 2024

An all-music session focuses on great covers of songs by Prince, Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and more. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio H...

Ginger Radio Hour: Spring equinox countdown: Mar 19, 2024

The spring (aka vernal) equinox occurs at 11:06 pm ET. Music and more to mark the occasion when night and day are roughly the same. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on t...

Ginger Radio Hour: Leila Philip: Mar 05, 2024

A recent Supreme Court ruling has huge implications for wetlands across this region. So we're talking about water and beavers. Writer Leila Philip wrote the definitive book about the beaver and its ro...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lucky 13 Pledge Drive Marathon - 13 ways of listening to the radio: Feb 26, 2024

A "best of" Ginger Radio Hour inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. We'll be featuring a mix of music and interviews that speak to the unique experience that is...

Ginger Radio Hour: Maria Manhattan: Feb 22, 2024

Maria Manhattan, host of The Hudson Café, chats with Justin about her WGXC music show that is focused on the American songbook. They also talk about the magic of community radio, what drew them to it,...

Ginger Radio Hour: Maria Manhattan: Feb 20, 2024

Maria Manhattan, host of The Hudson Café, chats with Justin about her WGXC music show that is focused on the American songbook. They also talk about the magic of community radio, what drew them to it,...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lonnie Holley Pt. 2: Feb 06, 2024

Musician and artist Lonnie Holley has devoted his life to improvisational creativity — he's turning 74 this month! Here's part two of our conversation about music, teaching, tools, art, and space. Ho...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lonnie Holley: Jan 16, 2024

Musician and artist Lonnie Holley is today's guest. He has devoted his life to improvisational creativity. And his newest album, "Oh Me Oh My," is testament to that vision. Our conversation focused on...

Ginger Radio Hour: Vinyl Extravaganza: Jan 02, 2024

It's an all-vinyl show to kick off the new year, featuring music from Prince, Wah Wah Watson, Asoka, Alice Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and others. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest insp...

Ginger Radio Hour: Nick and Lysa: Dec 19, 2023

Nick and Lysa host "Radiant Point" on WGXC — it's a monthly show featuring two hours of new music across all genres. They're musicians, partners, friends and a lot of fun. Listen to us chat live in th...

Ginger Radio Hour: Mark Trecka, Michal Mart: Dec 05, 2023

The Beacon Prison Books Project gets free books to incarcerated people across New York. The project was founded and bloomed at Binnacle Books in Beacon in 2019 and has since mailed out 3,000+ books. C...

Ginger Radio Hour: Nkoula Badila: Nov 21, 2023

Nkoula Badila works with the earth and the community. She founded Grow Black Hudson a few years ago and still runs its day-to-day focus on food and people. Badila will discuss growing your own food, t...

Ginger Radio Hour: Miriam Körner: Nov 07, 2023

In this broadcast, a conversation with Miriam Körner. Körner is the author and illustrator of the new book Fox and Bear, a modern fable about progress, production, the natural world, and quiet reflect...

Ginger Radio Hour: eteam: Oct 17, 2023

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Sy Montgomery: Oct 03, 2023

Naturalist and writer Sy Montgomery has a new book called Of Time and Turles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell. Did you know that turtles can regenerate nerve tissue? That they literally co...

Ginger Radio Hour: 20230919: Sep 19, 2023

Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features music, field recordings, performances, and interviews, primarily with people in and around...

Ginger Radio Hour: Viola He: Sep 05, 2023

Viola He, a Wave Farm 2023 Resident Artist, is a true maker: a maker of art, music, participatory audio experiences, and quiet spaces for play and communication. He chats with media theorist Natasha C...

Ginger Radio Hour: Gloria Dickie: Aug 15, 2023

Gloria Dickie's fascinating new book is called "Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future." It's packed full of stories and nuggets about the eight species of bears left on Earth. Dickie, an envir...

Ginger Radio Hour: Brian Knauer: Aug 01, 2023

Brian Knauer has been painting for almost his entire life, concentrating on oil painting since 1995. He's a tremendous artist and also my friend. He recently moved his primary studio from Brooklyn to...

Ginger Radio Hour: Lukas Volger: Jul 18, 2023

Chef and cookbook author Lukas Volger sets the table for a summer filled with veggie burgers — grilled, baked, sautéed, and fried. His impressive book "Veggie Burgers Every Which Way" has just been re...

Ginger Radio Hour: Steve Shunk: Jul 04, 2023

Steve Shunk knows woodpeckers. He's also a naturalist, conservationist, birder, and guide, based in Oregon. We chat about the seven or so woodpecker species that live in the Catskills and Hudson Valle...

Ginger Radio Hour: Steve Shunk: Jul 04, 2023

Steve Shunk knows woodpeckers. He's also a naturalist, conservationist, birder, and guide, based in Oregon. We chat about the seven or so woodpecker species that live in the Catskills and Hudson Valle...

Ginger Radio Hour: Mellow Marshmallow Hour: Jun 20, 2023

Thirty years ago, host Justin Maiman pitched my college radio station a new music show called "The Mellow Marshmallow Hour." It never came to be — for many reasons. So today marks a second chance: to...

Ginger Radio Hour: Florist: Jun 06, 2023

A celebration of Florist featuring an interview excerpt and their music. The Catskills-based band Florist continues to tour around their self-titled album from 2022. The 19 tracks, recorded in a rente...

Ginger Radio Hour: Rick Ostfeld: May 16, 2023

It's May — prime tick time in the Hudson Valley and Catskills — so we're talking tick prevention and more with Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecologist and senior scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem...

Ginger Radio Hour: Black Holes: May 02, 2023

According to physicist Janna Levin: "Black holes are nothing. Black holes are special because there's nothing there. There is no thing there." Sounds special indeed, but also lonely. So we've made a p...

Ginger Radio Hour: Earth Day: Apr 18, 2023

In celebration of Earth Day, a show focused on gardens, soil, sun, and starting over. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his latest inspirations on the "Ginger Radio Hour." The show features mu...

Ginger Radio Hour: Earth Day: Apr 18, 2023

In celebration of Earth Day, a show focused on gardens, soil, sun, and starting over.

Ginger Radio Hour: Marc Hamer: Apr 04, 2023

Gardener, artist, and writer Marc Hamer has a new book called Spring Rain: A Life Lived in Gardens. In many ways, it's a guide book for a life well-lived, given up to love and forgiveness. Our convers...

Ginger Radio Hour: Organ music: Mar 21, 2023

The Hammond B-3, the Wurlitzer, the Clavinet, the TONTO synthesizer — all featured in our playlist because we couldn't get enough organ music into the last show! Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, sha...

Ginger Radio Hour: Bob Chuk: Mar 07, 2023

In 1978, musician Bob Chuk sat down and recorded a set at his Wurlitzer in Chicago, Illinois. The tape still exists and we'll play the whole thing and a new recording of his memories of that evening....

Ginger Radio Hour: Robert and Johanna Titus: Feb 21, 2023

Robert and Johanna Titus are collectively known as "The Catskills Geologist" and have been writing, conducting research, and walking the trails of the Catskill Mountains for decades. As they put the f...

Ginger Radio Hour: Fern Apfel: Feb 07, 2023

Host Justin Maiman speaks with Kinderhook-based still-life painter Fern Apfel, who focuses on remnants of the past, including diary pages, letters, books, and illuminated manuscripts. The conversation...

Ginger Radio Hour: Steve Gonzalez, Scott Ketchum: Jan 17, 2023

A few years ago, Steve Gonzalez and Scott Ketchum moved Sfoglini Pasta from Brooklyn to Coxsackie. The company was built around a passion for pasta made in a traditional way and with organic ingredien...

Ginger Radio Hour: Leila Philip: Jan 03, 2023

Writer Leila Philip has written the definitive book about the beaver and its role in shaping the Hudson Valley and North America: "They've been taken for granted or considered a pest or a nuisance, an...