WTJU is delighted to welcome John Doyle, Eamon O’Leary, and Mick McAuley, with special guest Duncan Wickel on fiddle, to our studios this Thursday afternoon, September 8, to kick off Folk & Beyond at 4 (edt). Later that evening Blue Ridge Irish Music School will present this powerhouse quartet in concert at The Haven (details).
Starting next Monday, July 13, WTJU’s classical department becomes Charlottesville Classical, your arts companion for our community. It’s radio for lovers of good music and curious seekers of new musical experiences. It’s radio for people who value our local community — yet who sometimes need a break from the bleakest of the news. It’s radio for […]
REGISTER HERE for this Zoom-based panel discussion on Friday, July 31, 4 – 5 p.m. Music entertains, but it can never be reduced to mere entertainment. Music is always a change agent in human life. And so it was in the early 1970s, when underground, freeform, and countercultural radio stations took to the airwaves, amidst […]
Film festival sensation WBCN and The American Revolution is now available in Charlottesville for screening in your own home. Don’t miss our panel discussion with the filmmaker and others on July 31: RADIO TALKS: The early days of underground radio The landmark film about the early days of the legendary, underground Boston radio station, will […]
New Blues and Soul News – 7/7/2020 New Blues: Eli Cook – All Night Thing (C.R.8): “Eli Cook draws a line between blues-rock-grunge on new music: and it’s wicked. “I want this record to sound like John Fogerty and Billy Gibbons forced Scott Weiland to listen to Chuck Berry and Bill Haley records for a […]
New Jazz News – 7/7/2020 Jens Bockamp Flow Quartet – Into The Zone (Float Music): “Cologne-based saxophone player and award-winning composer Jens Böckamp presents his third album as a bandleader, an individual collection of sophisticated compositions in structure, harmonics and rhythm but still catchy and with plenty of space. Joscha Oetz (bass), strong and impulsive, […]
The Classics a Day team unanimously decided to make #BlackLivesMatter the theme for July. Classical music isn’t immune to systemic racism. It’s an art form that, like painting, sculpture, literature, or poetry, is a powerful form of expression for many voices. But some voices are heard more often than others. If you’d like to learn […]
In response to best practices put forth by the CDC and other health officials, the WTJU offices will be closed to the public for the time being. The station will continue to broadcast both on 91.1 FM and online. You can continue to reach out to us via email at wtju@virginia.edu or by phone at 434-924-0885.
