On top of loving wildlife, mushrooms, nature, being outside, illustration, art and wooly mammoths, I LOVE music. I love playing it (in my rather limited ways), listening to it and learning about it. And one of the things I love most is WFMU radio. If you’ve never tuned in, you’ve got to give it a shot. Listen on the radio (91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, USA) or listen to it online from around the world at www.wfmu.org.
Lemme tell you something. I’ve lived in 4 major cities in the last 4 years spanning 2 countries, across one ocean, including 2 islands and places cross- and mid-continent. It’s thrilling yet exhausting, each time finding a new place to live, new job, new friends, new communities, new geography, and new flora and fauna. Besides my husband to make each new home feel like home, there’s also WFMU. “A radio station makes you feel that way?! Really, are you serious??” you might say. From wherever I am, I tune in and it’s like plugging into a live pulsing heart of music love. And yet it’s not familiarity and nostalgia that makes me feel this way. Sometimes the music is jarring, irritating and absurd, and most of the time it’s unfamiliar to me. But I hear and learn amazing things on WFMU, I love the DJs and it has made me laugh so hard I’ve cried. And that’s what’s so GREAT about it.
There are other wonderful things about WFMU too, besides the music. But that is for another post. In the meantime, WFMU needs our support. Pledge to the marathon and keep independent listener-supported freeform radio ALIVE. Thank you for your support!
