20241105: Nov 05, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20241015: Oct 15, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20241001: Oct 01, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240917: Sep 17, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240903: Sep 03, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240820: Aug 20, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240806: Aug 06, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240716: Jul 16, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240702: Jul 02, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240618: Jun 18, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240604: Jun 04, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240521: May 21, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

20240507: May 07, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Michael Hurley: Apr 16, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Covers: Apr 02, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Spring equinox countdown: Mar 19, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Leila Philip: Mar 05, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Lucky 13 Pledge Drive Marathon - 13 ways of listening to the radio: Feb 26, 2024: 6pm - 7pm

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...

Maria Manhattan: Feb 22, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

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,...

Maria Manhattan: Feb 20, 2024: 10am - 11am

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,...

Lonnie Holley Pt. 2: Feb 06, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Lonnie Holley: Jan 16, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Vinyl Extravaganza: Jan 02, 2024: 10am - 11am

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...

Nick and Lysa: Dec 19, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Mark Trecka, Michal Mart: Dec 05, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Nkoula Badila: Nov 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Miriam Körner: Nov 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

eteam: Oct 17, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Sy Montgomery: Oct 03, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Mountains: Sep 19, 2023: 10am - 11am

Sounds, recordings, and music inspired by a hike in Catskill Park, an area that rolls out across 700,000 acres and four counties, including Greene County. Host Justin Maiman, from Cairo, shares his...

Viola He: Sep 05, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Gloria Dickie: Aug 15, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Brian Knauer: Aug 01, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Lukas Volger: Jul 18, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Steve Shunk: Jul 04, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Mellow Marshmallow Hour: Jun 20, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Florist: Jun 06, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Rick Ostfeld: May 16, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Black Holes: May 02, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Earth Day: Apr 18, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Marc Hamer: Apr 04, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Organ music: Mar 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Bob Chuk: Mar 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

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....

Robert and Johanna Titus: Feb 21, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Fern Apfel: Feb 07, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Steve Gonzalez, Scott Ketchum: Jan 17, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Leila Philip: Jan 03, 2023: 10am - 11am

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...

Favorite Songs of 2022: Dec 20, 2022: 10am - 11am

In this broadcast, host Justin Maiman shares his favorite songs of 2022, from Alabaster dePlume, Rosalía, Weyes Blood, The Weekend, Mdou Moctar, Florist, The Smile, PJ Harvey, and more. Host Justi...

Best of Ginger Radio 2022: Dec 06, 2022: 10am - 11am

In this broadcast, new highlights from four inspirational moments captured on the show over the past year, including poet Cornelius Eady, an extended interview with the band Florist, the Ginger Collec...

Hibernation Mixtape: Nov 15, 2022: 10am - 11am

The black bears, bats, hedgehogs, turtles, skunks, and tree frogs of the Catskills are getting ready to bed down for the long winter. Host Justin Maiman has produced an hour-long mixtape to get them t...