BLUEGRASS & OLD TIME MUSIC RADIO STATIONS & PROGRAMS
This list is based on the recommendations of other listeners as well as my own listening experiences.
I'll add additional suggestions sent to <bgsignal@comcast.net>.
Please note that some programming is not be available because of station closures in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
11 STATIONS with multiple bluegrass and old time programs
Bluegrass Country - https://bluegrasscountry.org
Bell Buckle Radio - https://live365.com/station/Bell-Buckle-Radio-a26730
The Bluegrass Jamboree - https://thebluegrassjamboree.com
Bluegrass Junction on SiriusXm - https://www.siriusxm.com/bluegrassjunction
WNCW - https://www.wncw.org
WBCN - https://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio
WDVX - https://wdvx.com
WPAQ - https://www.wpaq740.com
WNRV - http://www.wnrvbluegrassradio.com
WBZI - https://realrootsradio.com
WMMT - https://www.wmmt.org
78 bluegrass and/or old time (and related) radio PROGRAMS. NOTE: all times are local.
Amarillo Highway with Richard “Professor Purple” Howard
Tue: 9 am; KZMU (Moab, UT) - https://www.kzmu.org
America's Back 40 with Mary Tilson
Sun: 1 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
American Anecdotes with Paul Peck
Thur: 6 pm; KAOS (Olympia, WA) - https://www.kaosradio.org
Americana Backroads with Rik James
Sat: 9 am; KGLT (Bozeman, MT) - http://www.kglt.net
An American Sampler with Ken Batista
Sun: 5 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org
The Back Porch with Al Kniola & Norm Mast
Sun: 7 pm; WVPE (Elkhart, IN) - https://www.wvpe.org
Back To the Country with Bill Malone
Wed: 9 am; WORT (Madison, WI) - https://www.wortfm.org
Back Up and Push with Annette Kastner
Mon: 4 pm; WTJU (Charlottesville, VA) - https://www.wtju.net
Backroads with Chris Jong or Jeff Emery
Sun: noon; KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA) - http://www.kzsc.org
Backroads Bluegrass & Beyond with Todd Tyson
Sun: 7 pm; WFVR (South Royalton, VT) - http://www.royaltonradio.org
Banjo Signal with Trudy Heffernan
alternate Wed: 8 pm; KUAC (Fairbanks, AK) - https://fm.kuac.org
Best Of Bluegrass with Bob Mitchell
Sun: 7 am; WIUP (Louisville, KY) - http://www.wiupfm.org
Sun: 9 pm: WFPK (Louisville, KY) - https://wfpk.org
Best of Bluegrass with Trevor Ruffell
Tue: 3 pm; Radio Kidnappers (Hastings, NZ) - https://www.radiokidnappers.org.nz
Blue Grass Time with Buddy Merriman
Wed: 6 pm; WUSB (Stony Brook, NY) - https://www.wusb.fm
Bluegrass and Beyond with Veta Gumber
Tue: 4 pm; KAFM (Grand Junction, CO) - https://kafmradio.org
Bluegrass & Old Time Music Hour with Mark Hogan
Mon: 7 pm; KOWS (Occidental, CA) - http://kows107-3.org
Bluegrass Borderline with Michelle Lee
Sun: noon; WOBL (Oberlin, OH) - https://woblradio.com
Bluegrass Breakdown with Becky Johnson
Wed: 2 pm; WCOM (Carrboro, NC) - https://wcomfm.org
Bluegrass Breakdown with Walter & Willa Volz
Sun: noon; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org
Bluegrass Café with Amy Orlomoski
Sun: 4 pm; WHUS (Storrs, CT) - https://whus.org
The Bluegrass Horizon with Mike Wuerstle
Mon: 7 pm; WDVR (Sergeantsville, NJ) - https://www.wdvrvolunteers.org
Bluegrass Jam Session with Bruce Mountjoy
Sun: 8 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org
The Bluegrass Hour with Edgar Duguay
Sat: 10 am; CHRQ (Listuguj, Quebec) - https://chrq1069.com/
Bluegrass Junction with Tom Banyai
Tue: 7 pm; WICN (Worcester, MA) - https://www.wicn.org
Bluegrass Ramble with Bill Knowlton
Sun: 9 pm; WCNY (Syracuse, NY) - http://www.wcny.org
Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sun: noon; KBCS (Bellevue, WA) - https://www.kbcs.fm
Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WOSU (Columbus, OH) - https://radio.wosu.org
Bluegrass Review with Frank A. Pearsall
Sun: 3 pm; WSQL (Brevard, NC) - http://wsqlradio.info
Bluegrass Saturday with Various
Sat: noon; WXPR (Rhinelander, WI) - https://www.wxpr.org
Bluegrass Saturday Morning with Phil Nusbaum
Sat: 7 am; KBEM (Minneapolis, MN) - http://www.jazz88.fm
Bluegrass Signal with Peter Thompson
Sat: 6:30 pm; KALW (San Francisco, CA) - http://kalw.org
Bluegrass Time with Nick Barr
Sat: 10:00 pm; WAMC (Albany, NY) - https://www.wamc.org
Bronzewound with Various
Thur: 8 pm; WERU (Blue Hill, ME) - https://weru.org
Coast Ridge Ramble with Rachel Goodman
Sun: 1 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org
County Line Bluegrass with Eric Rice
Sat: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org
D-28+5 with Various
Sun: 1 pm; WOUB (Athens, OH) - https://woub.org
Daybreak In Dixie with David Blakney
Sun: 8 am; CJAM (Windsor, ON) - http://www.cjam.ca
Down Home Bluegrass with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org
Down Home Harmonies with Marty Scarbrough
Sun: noon; KASU (Jonesboro, AR) - https://www.kasu.org
Down Yonder with Keith Dudding
Sat: 11 am; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org
Fire on the Mountain with Carl Goldstein
Sat: 10 am; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org
Hardly Strictly with Fred Frawley
Thur: 8:30 am; WMPG (Portland, ME) - https://www.wmpg.org
In the Pines with Various
Sun: 2:30 pm; CFRO (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.coopradio.org
Into the Blue with Terry Herd
syndicated: http://www.bluegrassradio.com/index.html
The Iron Skillet with Joseph Hnilo
Sat: noon; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu
Ken Till Ten with Ken Cartwright
M-F: 6 am; KYAC (Mill City, OR) - https://www.kyacfm.org
Knee-Deep In Bluegrass with Cindy Baucom
syndicated: https://kneedeepinbluegrass.com
Miles of Bluegrass with Ramblin’ Robert Paslay
Mon: 7 pm; KRVM (Eugene, OR) - https://krvm.org
Monday Night Bluegrass with Various
Mon: 6 pm; KKUP (Cupertino, CA) - http://www.kkup.com
Monticello Maine with Stu Fleischhaker
Fri: 7 pm, Sat: 6 pm, Sun: noon; WBCQ (Monticello, ME) - http://www.wbcq.com via KIXX (West Lebanon, NH) - http://www.kixx.com
Music For the Mountain Bluegrass with Jon “Chip” Colcord
syndicated - http://www.musicforthemountain.com
Music From the True Vine with Various
Sat: 9 am; KBOO (Portland, OR) - https://kboo.fm
Music You Can’t Hear On the Radio with John Weingart
Sun: 7 pm; WPRB (Princeton, NJ) - http://wprb.com
My Own House with Sharon Wiggins
Sun: 9 am; WRFG (Atlanta, GA) - https://wrfg.org
Nevada City Limits with Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Mon: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org
Old Grass Gnu Grass with Various
Sat: 9 am; KGNU (Boulder, CO) - https://www.kgnu.org
Old Time Music Hour with Bill Smedley
available on demand: https://padlet.com/newtchaser/OTMH
Orange Blossom Special with Trish "the Dish” Seeberg
Wed: 8 am; KBUT (Crested Butte, CO) - https://kbut.org
Pacific Pickin’ with Arthur & Andrea Berman
Tue: 6 am; CiTR (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.citr.ca
Panhandle Country with Tom Diamant
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
Pig in a Pen with Ray Edlund
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
Rezbilly Breakdown with Stephanie & Patrick Dressen
Tue: 6:30 pm; KDUR (Durango, CO) - https://www.kdur.org
Rise When the Rooster Crows with Amy Luncan
Sun: 6 am; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org
Rocky Mountain Breakdown with Andrea Bradstreet
KFRC (Ft. Collins, CO) - https://www.krfcfm.org
Rocky Mt. Bluegrass with Jerry Mills
Sun: 10 am; KRAN (Warren AFB, WY) - http://1033therange.com
Runs On Grassoline with Leigh Hill & Paul Hein
Sat: 2 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org
Rural Free Delivery with John Lupton & George Mercer
Sat: noon; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org
Sally Goodin with Jennifer Kitchen
Mon: 10 am; KFJC (Los Altos, CA) - http://www.kfjc.org
Salt Creek with Various
Sun: 6 am; WVBR (Ithaca, NY) - https://www.wvbr.com
Shorty's Bunkhouse with Lil' Shorty
Thur: 6:30 pm; KWMR (Point Reyes, CA) - http://www.kwmr.org
Smokin’ Bluegrass with Jim Marino
Sat: noon; CFMU (Hamilton, ON) - https://cfmu.ca
Strictly Bluegrass with Various
Sun: 10 am; KOOP (Austin, TX) - https://www.koop.org
String Fever with Barb Heller
Thur: 3 pm; NCPR (Canton, NY) - https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org
Studio B with Luke Church
Sun: 2 pm; WVTF (Roanoke, VA) - https://www.wvtf.org
That's Not Bluegrass with Sarah Bellum
Tue: 1 pm; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu
The I, The IV, and The V with Greg Priddy
Sat: 9 pm; WJCU (Cleveland, OH) - http://www.wjcu.org
UH Radio Bluegrass with Brian Burness
Sat: 9 am; WWUH (West Hartford, CT) - http://www.wwuh.org
Whiskey Before Breakfast with Richard Gordon
Wed: 11 am; WRCT (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://www.wrct.org
This list is based on the recommendations of other listeners as well as my own listening experiences.
I'll add additional suggestions sent to <bgsignal@comcast.net>.
Please note that some programming is not be available because of station closures in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
11 STATIONS with multiple bluegrass and old time programs
Bluegrass Country - https://bluegrasscountry.org
Bell Buckle Radio - https://live365.com/station/Bell-Buckle-Radio-a26730
The Bluegrass Jamboree - https://thebluegrassjamboree.com
Bluegrass Junction on SiriusXm - https://www.siriusxm.com/bluegrassjunction
WNCW - https://www.wncw.org
WBCN - https://www.birthplaceofcountrymusic.org/radio
WDVX - https://wdvx.com
WPAQ - https://www.wpaq740.com
WNRV - http://www.wnrvbluegrassradio.com
WBZI - https://realrootsradio.com
WMMT - https://www.wmmt.org
78 bluegrass and/or old time (and related) radio PROGRAMS. NOTE: all times are local.
Amarillo Highway with Richard “Professor Purple” Howard
Tue: 9 am; KZMU (Moab, UT) - https://www.kzmu.org
America's Back 40 with Mary Tilson
Sun: 1 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
American Anecdotes with Paul Peck
Thur: 6 pm; KAOS (Olympia, WA) - https://www.kaosradio.org
Americana Backroads with Rik James
Sat: 9 am; KGLT (Bozeman, MT) - http://www.kglt.net
An American Sampler with Ken Batista
Sun: 5 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org
The Back Porch with Al Kniola & Norm Mast
Sun: 7 pm; WVPE (Elkhart, IN) - https://www.wvpe.org
Back To the Country with Bill Malone
Wed: 9 am; WORT (Madison, WI) - https://www.wortfm.org
Back Up and Push with Annette Kastner
Mon: 4 pm; WTJU (Charlottesville, VA) - https://www.wtju.net
Backroads with Chris Jong or Jeff Emery
Sun: noon; KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA) - http://www.kzsc.org
Backroads Bluegrass & Beyond with Todd Tyson
Sun: 7 pm; WFVR (South Royalton, VT) - http://www.royaltonradio.org
Banjo Signal with Trudy Heffernan
alternate Wed: 8 pm; KUAC (Fairbanks, AK) - https://fm.kuac.org
Best Of Bluegrass with Bob Mitchell
Sun: 7 am; WIUP (Louisville, KY) - http://www.wiupfm.org
Sun: 9 pm: WFPK (Louisville, KY) - https://wfpk.org
Best of Bluegrass with Trevor Ruffell
Tue: 3 pm; Radio Kidnappers (Hastings, NZ) - https://www.radiokidnappers.org.nz
Blue Grass Time with Buddy Merriman
Wed: 6 pm; WUSB (Stony Brook, NY) - https://www.wusb.fm
Bluegrass and Beyond with Veta Gumber
Tue: 4 pm; KAFM (Grand Junction, CO) - https://kafmradio.org
Bluegrass & Old Time Music Hour with Mark Hogan
Mon: 7 pm; KOWS (Occidental, CA) - http://kows107-3.org
Bluegrass Borderline with Michelle Lee
Sun: noon; WOBL (Oberlin, OH) - https://woblradio.com
Bluegrass Breakdown with Becky Johnson
Wed: 2 pm; WCOM (Carrboro, NC) - https://wcomfm.org
Bluegrass Breakdown with Walter & Willa Volz
Sun: noon; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org
Bluegrass Café with Amy Orlomoski
Sun: 4 pm; WHUS (Storrs, CT) - https://whus.org
The Bluegrass Horizon with Mike Wuerstle
Mon: 7 pm; WDVR (Sergeantsville, NJ) - https://www.wdvrvolunteers.org
Bluegrass Jam Session with Bruce Mountjoy
Sun: 8 pm; WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://wyep.org
The Bluegrass Hour with Edgar Duguay
Sat: 10 am; CHRQ (Listuguj, Quebec) - https://chrq1069.com/
Bluegrass Junction with Tom Banyai
Tue: 7 pm; WICN (Worcester, MA) - https://www.wicn.org
Bluegrass Ramble with Bill Knowlton
Sun: 9 pm; WCNY (Syracuse, NY) - http://www.wcny.org
Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sun: noon; KBCS (Bellevue, WA) - https://www.kbcs.fm
Bluegrass Ramble with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WOSU (Columbus, OH) - https://radio.wosu.org
Bluegrass Review with Frank A. Pearsall
Sun: 3 pm; WSQL (Brevard, NC) - http://wsqlradio.info
Bluegrass Saturday with Various
Sat: noon; WXPR (Rhinelander, WI) - https://www.wxpr.org
Bluegrass Saturday Morning with Phil Nusbaum
Sat: 7 am; KBEM (Minneapolis, MN) - http://www.jazz88.fm
Bluegrass Signal with Peter Thompson
Sat: 6:30 pm; KALW (San Francisco, CA) - http://kalw.org
Bluegrass Time with Nick Barr
Sat: 10:00 pm; WAMC (Albany, NY) - https://www.wamc.org
Bronzewound with Various
Thur: 8 pm; WERU (Blue Hill, ME) - https://weru.org
Coast Ridge Ramble with Rachel Goodman
Sun: 1 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org
County Line Bluegrass with Eric Rice
Sat: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org
D-28+5 with Various
Sun: 1 pm; WOUB (Athens, OH) - https://woub.org
Daybreak In Dixie with David Blakney
Sun: 8 am; CJAM (Windsor, ON) - http://www.cjam.ca
Down Home Bluegrass with Various
Sat: 8 pm; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org
Down Home Harmonies with Marty Scarbrough
Sun: noon; KASU (Jonesboro, AR) - https://www.kasu.org
Down Yonder with Keith Dudding
Sat: 11 am; KDHX (St. Louis, MO) - https://kdhx.org
Fire on the Mountain with Carl Goldstein
Sat: 10 am; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org
Hardly Strictly with Fred Frawley
Thur: 8:30 am; WMPG (Portland, ME) - https://www.wmpg.org
In the Pines with Various
Sun: 2:30 pm; CFRO (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.coopradio.org
Into the Blue with Terry Herd
syndicated: http://www.bluegrassradio.com/index.html
The Iron Skillet with Joseph Hnilo
Sat: noon; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu
Ken Till Ten with Ken Cartwright
M-F: 6 am; KYAC (Mill City, OR) - https://www.kyacfm.org
Knee-Deep In Bluegrass with Cindy Baucom
syndicated: https://kneedeepinbluegrass.com
Miles of Bluegrass with Ramblin’ Robert Paslay
Mon: 7 pm; KRVM (Eugene, OR) - https://krvm.org
Monday Night Bluegrass with Various
Mon: 6 pm; KKUP (Cupertino, CA) - http://www.kkup.com
Monticello Maine with Stu Fleischhaker
Fri: 7 pm, Sat: 6 pm, Sun: noon; WBCQ (Monticello, ME) - http://www.wbcq.com via KIXX (West Lebanon, NH) - http://www.kixx.com
Music For the Mountain Bluegrass with Jon “Chip” Colcord
syndicated - http://www.musicforthemountain.com
Music From the True Vine with Various
Sat: 9 am; KBOO (Portland, OR) - https://kboo.fm
Music You Can’t Hear On the Radio with John Weingart
Sun: 7 pm; WPRB (Princeton, NJ) - http://wprb.com
My Own House with Sharon Wiggins
Sun: 9 am; WRFG (Atlanta, GA) - https://wrfg.org
Nevada City Limits with Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Mon: 10 am; KVMR (Nevada City, CA) - http://www.kvmr.org
Old Grass Gnu Grass with Various
Sat: 9 am; KGNU (Boulder, CO) - https://www.kgnu.org
Old Time Music Hour with Bill Smedley
available on demand: https://padlet.com/newtchaser/OTMH
Orange Blossom Special with Trish "the Dish” Seeberg
Wed: 8 am; KBUT (Crested Butte, CO) - https://kbut.org
Pacific Pickin’ with Arthur & Andrea Berman
Tue: 6 am; CiTR (Vancouver, BC) - https://www.citr.ca
Panhandle Country with Tom Diamant
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
Pig in a Pen with Ray Edlund
Sun: 3 pm; KPFA (Berkeley, CA) - http://www.kpfa.org
Rezbilly Breakdown with Stephanie & Patrick Dressen
Tue: 6:30 pm; KDUR (Durango, CO) - https://www.kdur.org
Rise When the Rooster Crows with Amy Luncan
Sun: 6 am; WYSO (Yellow Springs, OH) - https://www.wyso.org
Rocky Mountain Breakdown with Andrea Bradstreet
KFRC (Ft. Collins, CO) - https://www.krfcfm.org
Rocky Mt. Bluegrass with Jerry Mills
Sun: 10 am; KRAN (Warren AFB, WY) - http://1033therange.com
Runs On Grassoline with Leigh Hill & Paul Hein
Sat: 2 pm; KSQD (Santa Cruz, CA) - https://ksqd.org
Rural Free Delivery with John Lupton & George Mercer
Sat: noon; WVUD (Newark, DE) - http://www.wvud.org
Sally Goodin with Jennifer Kitchen
Mon: 10 am; KFJC (Los Altos, CA) - http://www.kfjc.org
Salt Creek with Various
Sun: 6 am; WVBR (Ithaca, NY) - https://www.wvbr.com
Shorty's Bunkhouse with Lil' Shorty
Thur: 6:30 pm; KWMR (Point Reyes, CA) - http://www.kwmr.org
Smokin’ Bluegrass with Jim Marino
Sat: noon; CFMU (Hamilton, ON) - https://cfmu.ca
Strictly Bluegrass with Various
Sun: 10 am; KOOP (Austin, TX) - https://www.koop.org
String Fever with Barb Heller
Thur: 3 pm; NCPR (Canton, NY) - https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org
Studio B with Luke Church
Sun: 2 pm; WVTF (Roanoke, VA) - https://www.wvtf.org
That's Not Bluegrass with Sarah Bellum
Tue: 1 pm; KZSU (Stanford, CA) - http://kzsu.stanford.edu
The I, The IV, and The V with Greg Priddy
Sat: 9 pm; WJCU (Cleveland, OH) - http://www.wjcu.org
UH Radio Bluegrass with Brian Burness
Sat: 9 am; WWUH (West Hartford, CT) - http://www.wwuh.org
Whiskey Before Breakfast with Richard Gordon
Wed: 11 am; WRCT (Pittsburgh, PA) - http://www.wrct.org