WRFI Community Radio

07/26/2025

Please welcome a new addition to your new Friday night soundtrack:

Spinster's Rock with Cristina.
Spinning, threading, weaving musical textiles for the rowdy, moody, funky, scrappy, silly, sexy, and real. 7-9pm (alt weeks)

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Of course, Rocket Morton lands his ship on the same time slot every other week with an assortment of wild R&B shouters, lysergic weirdos with wah-wah pedals and fuzzed-out avant-garage punks.

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And as ever, the Conference of the Birds convenes at 9pm for experimental, folk, and classical musics from around and beyond the globe, from field recordings to free-jazz. Hosted by Stephen Cope.

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WRFI is homegrown by the people of Ithaca and the Finger Lakes. The federal government is gutting funding for public media. But one thing hasn't changed, only YOU make people-powered radio possible. RESIST THE VOID and get involved at WRFI.ORG.

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07/25/2025

Find WRFI at Odessa Community Day! Saturday 7/26 from 12-5pm. We'll have WRFI swag for sale, and information about our new on-air schedule!

WRFI broadcasts from 89.7 covering the communities of Odessa, Montour Falls, Watkins Glen, Millport, Cayuta, Newfield, Danby, Willseyville, Brooktondale, and Freeville.

Please join us this Saturday, July 26, 2025 for the 2nd Annual Odessa Community Days! There will be plenty of vendors, food, and drink, plus live entertainment. Reminder that Church Street will be closed from 7AM to 6-7PM for the event. We hope to see you there.

07/24/2025

07/15/2025

Tune in 88.1 Ithaca and 89.7 Southern Finger Lakes. Find us anywhere anytime at WRFI.org.

07/14/2025

Druuummrooollllllll Who will win the second pair of tickets to Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance?
and the winner is Julia Sumner! Julia check your inbox for details on how to collect your tickets, and we'll see you in the GrassRoots dance crowds next week!
Thank you to everyone who shared their stories, there are some true Roots gems in there!
Remember to tune in to WRFI at 88.1 Ithaca - 89.7 Southern FLX - and stream us from anywhere at WRFI.org

07/14/2025

We hope to see you TONIGHT for Film Screening 'Open Country' at Cinemapolis! The theatre is cool and dry!

Music begins at 6:30pm with Gerard Burke, screening at 7pm, followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Jesse & Glenda Drew!

Tickets can be purchased in advance at cinemapolis.org or at the door.

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

01/16/2025

“….Me!”

It’s all about “Me” tonight on a fill-in edition of WRFI Community Radio’s Thrift Shop Radio. Tonight at 7 pm the Shop is open in the Night Toast program slot. It’s all songs with titles ending in “Me,” with tunes from Ian Hunter, The Beths, Cracker, Dave Edmunds, James Hunter Six, The Decemberists, Graham Parker, The LeRoi Brothers, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, The Cactus Blossoms, Marshall Crenshaw, The Shivas, and so much more of “me!”

Listen at https://www.wrfi.org , or at 89.7 on the radio in NY’s Southern Fingerlakes
Archived for two weeks to listen at your leisure!