Radio Free Brooklyn presents: “Changüí, Music of Cuba”
Come join RFB on a musical journey into the heart of Cuba’s Changüí country with RFB host Gianluca Tramontana.
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#RFB Host Profile: Dan of “Dancers Anonymous”
Dan’s mission with “Dancers Anonymous” is to keep everyone dancing! That positivity is exactly what we need right now!
#RFB Host Profile: George Faulkner and “Metrowave”
George Faulkner spills about his favorite childhood band, the unexpected delight of creating music remotely—and internationally—during the pandemic, and why Sunday nights are Funday nights!
#RFB Host Profile: Kaitlyn DeTrinis & “Mixed Signals”
The Power of One: Kaitlyn DeTrinis of “Mixed Signals” wants to make us think more ethically about the way we all consume music.
#RFBMilestones: Jim Melloan and “50 Years Ago This Week”
Jim Melloan of “50 Years Ago This Week” has been bringing popular music from the 20th century to new audiences since RFB began. Read on for the method (and memories) behind his music madness! (That’s Jim on the left with his sisters 50 years ago, in 1971.)
#RFBMilestones: Happy RFBversary!
There hasn’t been all that much to celebrate lately…but check out these Radio Free Brooklyn shows that reached milestones this summer! Shout-outs and congrats to all!
“Improbable Confetti” hits Episode 100!
”Oh wait, I thought we were doing costumes for the 100th?! So I just bought this Jorge Luis Borges full-body suit and mask for nothing? Seriously, we talked about it and everything!”
RFB Host Profile: Ben Luton of No Thing Considered
“I believe that jazz can show (perhaps most astutely from the perspective of careful observer) that the nature of performance is ultimately imitative and that the boundary between improvisation and composition is dissolvable.” Ben Luton brings a poet’s ear to the genre he loves and lives for.
#RFBinTribute: Millie Small
In the mid-1960s, teenage Millie Small’s hit song, “My Boy Lollipop,” helped pave the way for Jamaican music and musicians (especially ska), to become internationally popular.
RFB Artist Interview: Noah Dreiblatt
“I’ve always thought if you can’t laugh into the abyss, it’ll laugh into you.” Experimental pop artist Noah Dreiblatt talks to RFB’s Girl Wunder about his debut solo album, Doomscrolling, on the eve of his appearance on this week’s (05/07) Virtual Voyager!