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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.

08/07/2023

https://www.delmarvapublicmedia.org/2023-08-07/boogie-woogie-master-and-racial-reconciliator-daryl-davis-to-play-maryland-folk-festival

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.

07/25/2023

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/23/1187779157/a-honduras-mayor-gambled-on-a-plan-for-her-town-she-got-80-guitars-and-a-lot-mor

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.

07/24/2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1182771707/the-story-of-the-saxophone-picture-book

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.

07/21/2023

https://apnews.com/article/tony-bennett-dies-c3b3a7e2360449fb936a38794c7c3266

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.

07/20/2023

https://www.radiodiaries.org/girls-leesburg-stockade/

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’.

07/19/2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188275701/this-fossil-of-a-mammal-biting-a-dinosaur-captures-a-death-battles-final-moments

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.

07/19/2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1186007897/what-to-read-summer-books

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.

07/12/2023

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/12/1187025949/heatstroke-heat-exhaustion-symptoms-prevent

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.

07/12/2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/11/1186407223/50-years-ago-teenagers-partied-in-the-bronx-and-gave-rise-to-hip-hop

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.