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January 20, 2025

WNRN Craft Beverage Trail

WNRN’s Craft Beverage Trail is live. From The Blue Ridge to The Bay, you can drink in the benefits as you travel around the Commonwealth. Collect three stamps from any of the locations in the link below to be entered to win tickets to a local concert! Use WNRN’s Craft Beverage Trail to find the places making the best beer, wine, cider, mead, sake and spirits in your neighborhood or throughout Virginia and support the businesses that make WNRN happen.

Grateful Dead and Phriends Playlist 1/18/25

Marc Smith and Ed Monde have hosted The Grateful Dead & Phriends for a long time, but love every minute of it. Marc and Ed are both diehard fans of Phish, Grateful Dead, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Umphreys McGee, Les Claypool, Widespread Panic, the Charlottesville music scene and many more. Please join the Grateful Dead and Phriends with Marc Smith and Ed Monde every Saturday from 9 a.m. – noon.

Chuck Prophet In-Studio Session

For our first In-Studio Session of 2025, we’re excited to start big with Chuck Prophet at the Front Porch in Charlottesville! Tune in to WNRN on Tuesday at 5 p.m. to hear the performance and interview with Bob Mosolgo.

Encore: Allison Russell on World Cafe

Allison Russell won her first Grammy for “Eve Was Black”, a song from her outstanding sophomore solo album, The Returner. On the next World Cafe, Russell talks about why the record is focused on the present, what Americana means to her, and how her daughter challenged her to write some “bangers” on The Returner.

Free Weekly Download: Redeem Your Track

The Vices will release their new album, Before It Might Be Gone, on February 7. The title-track is your Free Weekly Download at WNRN.org. The Dutch band will soon tour the album stateside with a stop in Washington D.C. to perform at DC9 on February 21.

“Most of us are dealing with some kind of pain — at times it feels easier to hide away and sedate yourself in some way,” says vocalist Floris van Luijtelaar. “Away from the hurt, but before you know it all the other feelings might be gone, too. In my experience, you need to feel the bad in order to be able to see the road to the good again. We as The Vices needed to go down that path.”