The Weather Station is the musical moniker of Canadian artist Tamara Lindeman. On the next World Cafe, you’ll hear a beautiful performance from The Weather Station and Tamara tells stories about how a toy keyboard, birds and a massive report on climate change inspired her 2021 album, Ignorance. Her new album, Humanhood, comes out at the end of this week.
Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble is a nonprofit based in Charlottesville that seeks to enrich the culture of Central Virginia through historically informed performances that reveal the beauty of early music.
They are presenting the third program of their fourteenth season in Staunton, Crozet, and Charlottesville public concerts on Friday, February 14th; Saturday, February 15th; and Sunday, February 16th. This Valentine’s program, entitled “If Music Be the Food of Love,” will celebrate love in its many forms through a blending of Italian pastoral drama with songs from the British Isles. This program will feature soprano Sheila Dietrich and historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino and include vocal and instrumental chamber music by Vivaldi and Handel and the songs of Henry Purcell.
NPR Music is looking for the next great undiscovered musician to play the Tiny Desk. Could it be you? Submit your song to the 10th annual Tiny Desk Contest by Feb. 10 at npr.org/tinydeskcontest
For the latest installment of World Cafe’s monthly series, Acadiana Music Showcase, tune in to a mini concert with Bruisey Peets, who blends their background in the D.C. DIY scene with their Lafayette, Louisiana roots to create what some have coined as “queer swamp pop.” On the next World Cafe, hear tracks from Bruisey Peet’s unreleased, upcoming EP, Cartwheel Clown.
On Sundays from 12-2 p.m. Drew, Dan, and Mike practice indie-rock archaeology as co-hosts of Les Temps Perdu. Tune in for two hours of old-school glam, punk, new wave, alternative, grunge, and indie-rock from the 70s through the mid-90s.
Join Desiré and Amber every Sunday night from 8-10 p.m. as they share two hours of brand new tunes.
Every Sunday from 7 – 11 a.m., Rusty handpicks four hours of bluegrass music for Bluegrass Sunday Morning.
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.
Long time WNRN volunteer and music host, Steve Hamilton, presents two hours of Fresh Roots New Blues, Saturdays from 6 – 8 p.m.
For years, Willie Watson was an integral part of Old Crow Medicine Show. After he parted ways with the band, the singer wiped the slate clean, releasing a pair of cover albums. On his new self-titled album, Watson’s songwriting and voice are front and center. On the next World Cafe, Willie Watson joins us to play songs from the new record, and he talks about finding the confidence to write and record in his own way.
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