Every Saturday, 9 AM – 9 PM EST
Radio Free Athens (RFA) is broadcast every Saturday between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m on WOUB 1340 AM, Athens, Ohio, USA. Since debuting in June 2002, RFA’s community volunteers and Ohio University students present music and the occasional live performance through a format-free, host-driven program.
Listeners are treated to a mix of all music genres: rock (& roll), pop, soul, punk, funk, jazz, blues, new wave, no wave, hip-hop, reggae, EDM, shoegaze, disco and all points before, after, in-between, above and underground.
Doug “R@T” Brooks, an avid lover and collector of all sorts of music, has been part of the Athens music scene for many years. His bands include Gravyland and the “performance art/musical act” known as Larry and the Lima Beans. Armed with hundreds of pieces of vinyl and CDs, listeners will hear anything from ABBA to Zappa.
Dr. Art Cromwell is a veteran radio and television producer whose radio show is without peer–a comprehensive and entertaining journey through the jazz universe from New York, Chicago and New Orleans to the European capitals. Art covers it all: Satchmo to Sun Ra, traditional, swing, be-bop, cool or outside. Duke, Ella, Miles, Bird, Monk and ‘Trane are of course represented, but so are their less well-known but no-less influential sidemen and women.
Michael T has championed underrepresented musicians on non-commercial radio on both coasts since 1980, characterizing his programs as “what progressive radio would be if it had remained progressive.” In addition to stints as a guitar technician, tour manager, concert promoter and independent record label director, he has performed and recorded in the U.S., U.K. and Europe as a guitarist with Robert Fripp & the League/Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists, Trap Door as well as his own bands.
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