WESM 91.3 FM
Your Source for Iazz, Blues & NPR News!
03/15/2024
ICYMI, here's Jennifer Grimm and Joe Cruz
Singer-Composer Jennifer Grimm and her husband and musical partner, Joe Cruz, visited with Jazz88’s Peter Solomon on the Morning Show. Jennifer performed two originals – “Half a Man” and “I Miss Minneapolis/St. Paul” and did a short version of “Our Love Is Here to Stay.” She talked a...
08/11/2023
As of this afternoon I will be leaving my post as music director at WESM to take on a new role as morning host at KBEM Jazz88 in Minneapolis. Although I have only been in Delmarva for 2 years, I will miss the wonderful people that I've had the pleasure of working with at WESM WSDL and WSCL. Delmarva is fortunate to have such great public radio stations providing a local source of blues, folk, Americana, and news. I am proud to have served this organization for the past two years.
Interview with Daryl Davis, who has the dual career of rock and roll and boogie woogie piano player and racial reconciliator. Over the past forty years, Davis has helped more than 200 people leave the Ku Klux Klan.
08/01/2023
A beautiful Tiny Desk performance by the Nashville-based artist Peter One.
Shifting from English to French to G**o, Peter One brings his passion-filled songs about his storied past to the Tiny Desk.
07/27/2023
O'Connor, who had one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s with her version of "Nothing Compares 2 U," became as well known for her political convictions and the tumult in her life as for her songs.
Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.
A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.
Tony Bennett, the eminent stylist and last of the great saloon singers whose devotion to classic American songs and knack for creating new standards such as "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" graced a decadeslong career, has died at 96.
In July, 1963, 30 Black teenage girls were held in a one-room Lee County Stockade and imprisoned for the next 45 days. This is the story of the ‘Stolen Girls’.
A 125-million-year-old fossil from the early Cretaceous shows the skeletons of a smaller mammal biting a larger horned dinosaur, suggesting a much more complex ancient food web.
A few weeks ago we asked NPR staffers to share their favorite summer reads. Old, new, fiction, nonfiction — as long as it was great for hot and hazy hammock reading, it was fair game.
07/19/2023
The issues with WESM's stream have been fixed.
07/13/2023
We are having technical issues with WESM's live stream. Our staff is working to fix the problem and we hope to have it fixed as soon as possible.
07/13/2023
You otter be careful if you plan on surfing in Santa Cruz...
The 5-year-old female southern sea otter was first seen hijacking surfboards in Santa Cruz last September. Officials successfully drove the otter away from the area, but she has since returned.
You can still enjoy the outdoors this summer despite the scorching weather, if you're smart about it. Here's what to watch out for and how to stay safe.
In August 1973, an 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc played his sister's back-to-school fundraiser in the rec room of their apartment building. But he and his friends sparked something much bigger.
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DELMARVA PUBLIC MEDIA IS A COLLABORATION OF PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS OWNED BY SALISBURY UNIVERSITY (WSCL 89.5 AND WSDL 90.7) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE (WESM 91.3). IT COMBINES THE TALENT, EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE OF BOTH STAFFS TO LEAD A THREE- STATION OPERATION, FEATURING THE WIDEST VARIETY OF PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMMING ON THE DELMARVA PENINSULA.
WESM 91.3 FM is a 50,000 watt non-commercial public radio station, serving Maryland and Virginia’s Eastern Shore, as well as Southern Delaware, Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck. Also, our 24/7 live audio stream draws listeners from around the world. Licensed to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, WESM has served Delmarva and surrounding regions for nearly three decades.
WESM is an NPR member station and is also affiliated with Public Radio International(PRI), American Public Media (APM) and BBC World Service. Because of this, we’re able to provide a wide variety of news and information programming from around the nation and the globe, as well as news targeting the state of Maryland. Our music programming consists largely of jazz, but WESM also carries blues, folk, and world music.
WESM 91.3 FM began broadcasting in March of 1987 and our license is held by the University of Maryland Eastern Shore located in Princess Anne, Maryland. The University is a governed by the University System of Maryland (USM). The governing body for the University System of Maryland is the Board of Regents. A list of the schedule of meetings, agendas and minutes for the Board of Regents is available at: www.usmd.edu/regents
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