WHFR News
WHFR Presents: A Spotlight On Female Composers
As we continue to celebrate Women's History Month, Robbwith2bees will spotlight the works of female film/television/video game composers on this week's "WHFR PRESENTS". Expect to hear selections by Laura Karpman, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Shirley Walker, Laura Shigihara, Lolita Ritmanis, Yoko Kanno, and MORE!
Tune in Sunday, March 23rd from 4:00 - 7:00 pm for this special 3-hour spotlight.
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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This Just In: Episode 37
Episode 37 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase airing Mondays from 8-9p, airs March 17th, 2025.
This week's playlist:
Baths - Eden [Indie Pop]
ALBII - Hold On (Psycho) [Indie Pop]
Sam Fender - TV Dinner [Alternative / Pop]
Hachiku - What Rhymes With Serendipity? [Indie Pop]
Andy Fairweather Low - Bright Lights, Big City [Blues]
Sadie Sink & Kelvin Harrison Jr. - Feelin' Free [Soundtrack / Rock]
A.J. Croce - I Got A Feeling [Blues / Rock]
Joe Fiedler Trio 2.0 - Pittsburghermeister [Jazz]
Southern Avenue - Upside [Soul]
Afton Wolfe ft. Courtney Santana - Forgive Yourself [Blues / Americana]
HotWax - Strange To Be Here [Indie Rock]
Deep Sea Diver - Loose Change [Indie Rock]
Everything Is Recorded ft. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble and Yazz Ahmed - Losing You [R&B]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
This Sunday on "WHFR Presents"...
The sacred and profane have been part of popular music since the early days of Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. WHFR host, Bill Keith, was recently listening to an Elvis Costello song and realized that the chorus was basically a prayer. He soon thought of so many other songs that combined prayers with music.
Listen Sunday, March 16, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. as he explores this influence of the divine with songs that are pious, and others that are filled with doubt and maybe some unbelief.
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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WHFR Journal Today, March 14 at 1pm
Join us for the WHFR Journal Friday at 1pm as we continue our Counselor Connection series with special guest HFC Counselor Amy Ducklow as she offers tools to help manage stress. Also, in honor of Women's History Month, we'll share the PRX special Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson as the poetry critic and Harvard professor shares her thoughts on Emily Dickinson’s poems, including her lesser known piece, "I cannot live with You-". Tune in!
This Sunday on "Hotwax Radio"
Attention Ladies [and Gents]! Set your clocks forward and tune in to Hotwax Radio this Sunday, March 9, from 7:00-9:00pm EDT.
Come join the White Rabbit in raising a toast to all the “Sheilas of Rock” with a festive playlist celebrating “International Women’s Day.”
You never know what to expect - and that is by design from yours truly, the White Rabbit, and WHFR.
"WHFR PRESENTS" MARCH 9TH
In observance of Women's History Month, WHFR PRESENTS presents the Gospel Lineage of Dr. Mattie Moss Clark: Jacky Clark Chisolm, Denise "Niecy" Clark-Bradford, Elbernita "Twinkie" Clark-Terrell, Dorinda Clark-Cole, Karen Clark Sheard, and Kierra Sheard-Kelly.
Please join Missy J on Sunday, March 9th from 4pm until 7pm for a shouting, and soul revival time.
WE ARE WHFR DEARBORN!
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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WHFR Journal This Friday, 3/7/25, 1pm
Please tune in to the WHFR Journal tomorrow, March 7 at 1pm as we share a rundown of some exciting activities happening here at Henry Ford College. We'll also kick off Women's History Month with a new PRX special program from the podcast series, Monumental, titled "The Suffragist in the Basement". When it comes to women and monuments in the U.S., we seem to prefer mythical or allegorical women.
WHFR Goes Classical Monday, March 3rd
All WHFR DJs have the day off because Henry Ford College is closed Monday, March 3, 2025.
We will be broadcasting our satellite Classical feed all day today... please enjoy!
All HFC classes and regular operations and activities, on-campus and remote (online), will be canceled throughout the day and evening.
For further information and ongoing updates, please refer to: www.hfcc.edu
This Sunday on "Hotwax Radio"
Winter blues got you down? Well, jump on board for a Magical Mystery Tour this Sunday, March 2, on Hotwax Radio’s "Beatles’ Faux Show" from 7:00 - 9:00pm EST.
Come join the White Rabbit taking a deep dive down the rabbit hole, enjoying many of your favorite Beatles’ tunes, freshly reworked by various artists. Perhaps you may even discover a new favorite? See you then!
TOP TEN BLUES for February 2025
Please join Highway 61 for the best in new Blues releases and local area Artists' music every Friday, 2:00 – 6:00pm, with host DJ~KittyLuv;) 'making~waves'.
Here is our latest Top Ten Blues new releases being aired at WHFR-FM 89.3:
1. BOB CORRITORE AND FRIENDS: Doin' The Shout! (VizzTone/ SWMAF)
2. TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS: Closer To The Bone (Alligator Records)
3. STEVE HOWELL AND THE MIGHTY MEN: Yeah Man (Out Of The Past Music)
4. THE BOB LANZA BLUES BAND: Breadman's Blues (MoMojo Records)
5. DADDY MACK BLUES BAND: Doctor's Orders (Inside Sounds)
6. MATT THE RATTLESNAKE LESCH: Blues Cut Like Glass (Blue Lotus)
7. REV. PEYTON'S BIG DAMN BAND: Honeysuckle (Family Owned Records)
8. EDDIE 9VOLT: Saratoga (Ruf)
9. BENNY TURNER: BT (Nola Blue Records)
10. FRANK BEY: Peace (Nola Blue Records)
DJ~KittyLuv;)
WHFR Blues Music Director
Upcoming on We Are Not Alone
Kathleen Marden’s amazing life as the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, the first scientifically investigated case of alien abduction, sent her on a lifelong search for the answers. For link to all archived shows, go to: https://whfr.fm/station/programs/malt-shop-we-are-not-alone-0 For the latest show archives: click the “Talk Shows” button on the home page then “We Are Not Alone”
WHFR Journal Wraps Up Black History Month Friday at 1pm
As we complete our spotlight on Black History Month, join us Friday, 2/28 at 1pm, as we share music, spoken word, art, and poetry that students and staff presented at the HFC Black History and Culture Student Showcase that took place on our campus earlier this week. We'll then feature a new PRX interview with author Aaron Robertson about his book, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America. It’s about the hidden legacies of Black utopian experiments and what they teach us about the power of community today. Tune in Friday at 1pm on WHFR-FM.
WHFR PRESENTS: CLEO LAINE
During WHFR PRESENTS this Sunday, March 2nd, from 4:00 – 7:00pm, Terence Tyson of The Play It By Ear Jazz Show will feature the vocalist Cleo Laine as part of Women’s History Month.
She was born Clementine Dinah Hitching on October 28, 1927, in a town near London, England. She was the child of an English mother and a Jamaican father.
Laine auditioned successfully at the age of 24 for John Dankworth's small group, the Johnny Dankworth Seven. She later married him in 1958 and they stayed together until his death in 2010.
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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This Just In: Episode 35
Episode 35 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase airing Mondays from 8-9p, airs February 24th, 2025.
This week's playlist:
Zoe Mazah - Echo Of Life [Reggae / Acoustic]
Bohemian Rogue - Tide [Folk]
Shelley Minson - Riverbank Red [Country / Australian]
Wuji - Chasm [Alternative Rock]
Youth Lagoon - Speed Freak [Alt / Indie Rock]
JE The #1 Baller - Wave [R&B]
Christopher Damman Sextet - When I Was Young and My Heart Had Windows [Jazz]
Dennis Egberth - Bogey [Jazz]
Cookie the Herbalist & Boomrush Backup - The Rain: Remembering Rainford [Reggae / World]
Ora the Molecule - Intergalactic Dance [Electronic / Indie]
Feathership ft. Laurence-Anne - Tant étrange [World / Indie Pop]
Steve Erickson - Sing That Old Song [Americana / Folk]
SUSS - This Land is Your Land [Ambient / Americana]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
WHFR Journal Black History Month Special Friday, Feb. 21 at 1pm
Join us on this week's WHFR Journal Friday, 2/21 at 1pm for a special program from PRX called "Whispers in Wilmington". Produced this January, the program explores and uncovers the story of the only successful coup d’etat ever to happen on American soil.
This act of racial violence was designed to eliminate all memory of a highly successful Black community in Wilmington, North Carolina back in 1898 and involved involved racist mobs, as well as historians, city planners, journalists and others conspiring for decades to make a Black community’s onetime prosperity and strength unimaginable. Almost unimaginable.
Tune in to hear this powerful story.
