Friday May 9

Member Concert 5:00 am
featuring The Swinging Steaks in a 1999 concert

Guest Mix 9:00 am
featuring Garnet Rogers

Live At Noon With Brian Quinn 12:00 pm
featuring Tim Blane

Saturday May 10

Member Concert 6:00 am
featuring Geoff Bartley in a 2001 concert

Guest Mix 7:00 am
featuring Garnet Rogers picks his favorite music

Mountain Stage 2:00 pm
featuring Peter Case and more
Peter Case, Le Trio Joubran, Storyhill, Band of Heathens, Comparsa

Sunday May 11

Etown 6:00 am
featuring NANCI GRIFFITH / PIERS FACCINI
In this encore airing, we welcome back legendary folkie and an etown favorite, singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith, as she returns with her long-time band. Also on the show is an impressive young talent, Paris-based singer/songwriter, Piers Faccini. Faccini calls on hosts Nick & Helen Forster and the etones to back him up some of his tunes. Plus, there is an outstanding e-chievement award story from Portland, Oregon that you won’t want to miss, this week, in etown.

American Routes 12:00 pm
featuring Big River of Sound: Music on the Mississippi
The musical and cultural meanderings of the Mississippi River, from exploration and trade to romance. Jazz, ragtime, and levee work-songs along with blues, rockabilly, gospel, and country. Guests include the late Memphis soul man Rufus Thomas and ethnomusicologist David Evans, speaking about influential Delta guitarist Charley Patton. Also, we visit a river barge pilot rolls on the river.

Afropop Worldwide 6:00 pm
featuring Afropop Conjurers
AFROPOP CONJURERS This program takes an imaginative look at the way musicians conjure fantastic realities—the past, the future, transformed cultural worlds—with their music. Habib Koite uses musicians from outside his own tradition to conjure ancient Mali. Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt collaborates with musicians from the UK, Syria and elsewhere to journey into the Andalusian past in the awesome surround of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. In Congo, Konono No.1 generate the ambiance of a village funeral in Kinshasa’s urban neighborhoods, and on their latest live album, in a Belgium concert hall. Then, back in the 70s in Guinea, a group of guitar virtuosos foretell the rise of instrumental, acoustic African music in a rare reissued set of recordings. All this and much more as Afropop Worldwide recasts the musician as magician.

Commonwealth Journal 7:00 pm
featuring White Privilege: How Full is Your Knapsack?
Janis Pryor's guest this week is Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., Wellesley College Associate Director Stone Center For Women.

Monday May 12

Member Concert 5:00 am
featuring Robbie O'Connell in a 2000 concert

Afropop Worldwide 11:00 pm
featuring Afropop Conjurers
AFROPOP CONJURERS This program takes an imaginative look at the way musicians conjure fantastic realities—the past, the future, transformed cultural worlds—with their music. Habib Koite uses musicians from outside his own tradition to conjure ancient Mali. Canadian singer Loreena McKennitt collaborates with musicians from the UK, Syria and elsewhere to journey into the Andalusian past in the awesome surround of the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. In Congo, Konono No.1 generate the ambiance of a village funeral in Kinshasa’s urban neighborhoods, and on their latest live album, in a Belgium concert hall. Then, back in the 70s in Guinea, a group of guitar virtuosos foretell the rise of instrumental, acoustic African music in a rare reissued set of recordings. All this and much more as Afropop Worldwide recasts the musician as magician.

Tuesday May 13

Beale Street Caravan 11:00 pm
featuring Ruthie Foster
Ruthie Foster is a breath of fresh air on the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise. Olga cut her chops at the knee of the legendary Jessie Mae Hemphill. She’s backed here by Jimbo Mathus at the Hi Tone Café in Memphis.

Wednesday May 14

WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour 5:00 am
featuring Carrie Newcomer and The Steeldrivers

WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour 11:00 pm
featuring Carrie Newcomer and The Steeldrivers

Thursday May 15

Grateful Dead Hour 11:00 pm
featuring Highlights of various Grateful Dead concerts with host David Gans

Friday May 16

Member Concert 5:00 am
featuring Cormac McCarthy in a 2000 concert

Guest Mix 9:00 am
featuring Paul Rishell and Annie Raines

Live At Noon With Brian Quinn 12:00 pm
featuring Lori McKenna plays live in studio
Boston-area singer/songwriter Lori McKenna joins host Brian Quinn.