WRFI Community Radio

09/10/2025

Support for WRFI comes from listeners, locally owned businesses, community events, and non-profits operating in our listening areas.

This September we want to extend our gratitude to our recent underwriters who have helped support the radio programming we bring you daily:

End Abortion Stigma
Finger Lakes ReUse
South Hill Cider
Ithaca is Books Festival
Ithaca Underground
Wide Awake Bakery
Cornell Concert Series
The Cherry
Liquid State Brewing Company
Resident Noise
Tompkins County Workers' Center
Contemporary Trends
Friends in Service Helping
NYS Community Commission on Reparations Remedies

Learn about underwriting with WRFI Community Radio at WRFI.org/business-sponsors or reach out to [email protected] to learn more.
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Tune in at 88.1 FM Ithaca, 89.7 FM Southern Finger Lakes, or stream at WRFI.org

09/09/2025

Tonight we're featuring the South Indian classical/electronic fusions of Carnatic 2.0, previewing their free concert on Wednesday, September 10 in Statler Auditorium on the Cornell campus, 7:00-9:00pm EDT on WRFI Community Radio, 89.7 FM, streaming & archived at www.wrfi.org

09/05/2025

"“Forming small communities around music” is how we fight back against the algorithm, said Nico. It just so happens these often form around radio stations or other local music hubs, like venues. That’s why we love listening to local radio stations. It helps us feel more connected to the wider world around us and those nearby."

We celebrate local radio as a hub for discovery and community building through music.

09/05/2025

“Harvest Time”

Tonight on WRFI Community Radio’s Thrift Shop Radio we share the music harvested the past three months from independent record shops, flea markets, antique stores, garage sales, and roaming the web! Some new to all, some just new to me. We’re spinning everything from The Good Rats to the S*x Pistols, so there is bound to be something new for all! Stop in at 7 to hear what’s been spinning these days!

Listen at 89.7 in NY’s Southern Fingerlakes or online at wrfi.org. Also archived for two weeks for your pleasure anytime here; https://www.wrfi.org/archives/

09/02/2025

UPCOMING 'CREATIVES SPECIAL' on WRFI Community Radio - Weds 9/3 @ 5pm

Tune in for '20 Years after Katrina: New Orleans Second Line Music Before and After the Storm: Field Recordings and Interview with Musicologist Nelson Eubanks' hosted with Jacob.

Tune in at 88.1 Ithaca, 89.7 Southern Finger Lakes, or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org

This episode will be available for 2 weeks after its airdate at WRFI.org/archives, and on our Spotify Channel.

09/02/2025

UPCOMING special episode on WRFI Community Radio - Thurs 9/4 @ 10am

The Ithaca is Books Festival is coming up, and WRFI will be there! The festival features events all over town for book lovers of all ages from September 11 to 14.

Prolific author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow will launch the Festival this year, in conversation with Tompkins County Public Library Librarian Judd Karlman. Doctorow spoke with Techtonic host Mark Hurst about his new book, 'Ensh*ttification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It'. Tune in to WRFI on Thursday, September 4 at 10am to hear the interview!

Find us at 88.1 Ithaca, 89.7 Southern Finger Lakes, or stream from anywhere at WRFI.org

After airing this episode will be available on the Past Episodes page at www.techtonic.fm

09/01/2025

Catch WRFI DJs live at the Tompkins County Workers' Center Labor Day Picnic at Stewart Park, performing at 1 and 3pm.

The 39th annual Labor Day Picnic hosted by the Tompkins County Workers Center takes place this Monday, September 1st at the Main Pavilion in Ithaca’s Stewart Park. The free event from 12-4pm will feature free food, live music, and the TCWC annual awards ceremony. [...]

09/01/2025

In a special edition of her WRFI Community Radio show, Hospicare’s Emily Sanders Hopkins interviewed our bereavement counselor, Laura Ward, about work, surviving the death of a loved one, and being the mom of triplets. Give it a listen here: https://www.wrfi.org/hello-earthlings/

08/26/2025

02/07/2025

In the first two weeks of the second Trump presidency, we've seen a rapid increase in federal intervention at the local level across the country and right here in Tompkins County.

On the first episode of the FLX News Exchange on WRFI, Editor-in-Chief at the Cornell Daily Sun and Cornell junior Gabe Levin and Sun staff writer Maryam Ismail join WRFI's Felix Teitelbaum to discuss the effects of Trump's executive orders and other federal intervention on communities at Cornell and in Tompkins County.

Airing Friday, February 7 at 2pm and 5pm and available online at wrfii.org and cornellsun.com

01/28/2025

Dr. Sam Cushman (Onondaga Community College) is a special guest on tonight’s show, playing classical ragas, Indo-Trini jams, qawalli, and talking about his research on “Indian Musicians, American Orientalism, and Cosmopolitan Modernism Pre-1947,” 7:00-9:00 pm EST on 89.7 FM WRFI Community Radio, streaming & archived at www.wrfi.org

01/23/2025