Royalton Community Radio

07/22/2025

🚴‍♂️🎶 Pedal Power to the People XII is rolling your way! 🎶🚴‍♀️

Get ready for Free Vermont Radio’s 12th Annual Gravel Enduro Fundraiser—Pedal Power to the People—on Saturday, August 23rd, launching from the beautiful Fledgling Farmstead in Tunbridge!

🏔️ Choose from 3 killer gravel rides:
➤ 18 miles • 27 miles • 30+ miles
➤ Elevation ranges: 2,000'–5,000'+ (get those legs ready!)

🎟️ Registration includes:
✔️ Your ride of choice
✔️ Entry to the all-day FledgeFest music fest
✔️ A refreshing post-ride brew from Upper Pass

🎟️ $70 gets you all this good stuff.
Prefer checks? Send it to:
📬 Royalton Community Radio, PO Box 281, South Royalton, VT 05068
🖱️ Or register online + pay via PayPal at wfvr.org

Support community radio. Climb some hills. Drink a cold one.
Let’s ride. 💪
fest

Fledgling Farmstead

07/20/2025

This Monday evening at 8PM (rebroadcast Wednesday at 11AM) on In It for The Long Run Jim Rooney continues to explore his more than 70 years in the musical world by playing whatever comes up on his computer song list alphabetically.

As we make our way through the "m's" we're off to a good start with a couple of versions of Mr. Tambourine Man, first by the man himself, Bob Dylan, and then the jingle-jangling rendition by Roger McGuinn and The Byrds. We revisit the original album "Mud Acres: Music Among Friends" with the title track delivered on twin banjos by Bill Keith and Artie Traum. We then get some Galician influenced music from the Irish piper Liam O'Flynn and the Galician piper Carlos Nunez, "Muneira de Polo/Muneira de Ourense." Next we get three different takes on "Muleskinner Blues" from Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and Odetta!!

We then listen to Bill and Bonnie Hearne sing about the rodeo rider "Muley Brown" with some help from Jerry Jeff Walker. We follow that up with one of my own songs, "Music In The Morning," and a couple of versions of "Music Makin' Mama From Memphis" first by me and Rooney's Irregulars and then by the man who wrote it, Hank Snow. Bill and Bonnie return with a live performance of the Bill Staines song "Must Be Goin' Home." And we close out the proceedings with some good Chicago Blues from Muddy Waters long time piano man, Otis Spann's "Must Have Been the Devil."

Every week you never know what's going to come up, which is why it's fun for me and I hope for you.

Thank you for supporting all volunteer Royalton Community Radio, 96.5 FM locally or streaming out there in cyberspace at www.wfvr.org. Free Vermont Radio!!

07/09/2025

🎧 Connections with Cecily

Tonight (Wednesday) from 9–10 PM on Royalton Community Radio.

Cecily dives into the surreal sonic world of David Lynch: director, dream-weaver, and low-key music maestro. From eerie ambient soundscapes to unexpected musical collaborations, explore the strange and beautiful connections that tie Lynch to the music world.

96.5 FM | streaming at wfvr.org

07/02/2025

Can it be done? Only in The Rabbit Hole! Tune in tonight (Wednesday) from 8-9 pm to hear music from:

Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Teddy Swims, Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Marshmallow, Pink, Sting, Halsey, Dua Lipa, Chappell Roan, Rema, Selena Gomez, Calum Scott, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish!

All in one hour! Doesn’t get more poppy than this on WFVR!

Inspired by last week’s My So Called Radio Show with DJ Momcore!

06/29/2025

This Monday evening at 8PM (rebroadcast Wednesday at 11AM) on In It for The Long Run Jim Rooney continues to explore his more than 70 years in the musical world by playing whatever comes up on his computer song list alphabetically.

Slowly, slowly we continue our journey through the "M's" starting out with a song for the times by David Olney titled "Millionaire." (Maybe it should be updated to Billionaire!). We come back down to earth with John Prine and Melba Montgomery doing "Milwaukee Here I Come." The Jim Kweskin Jug Band does a great version of "Minglewood Blues" sung by Geoff Muldaur followed by the original by Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers.

Next up we have the piper Liam O'Flynn and fiddler Sean Keane of The Chieftans doing "Miss Admiral Gordon's Straspey." (A strathspey is a Scottish dance form). "Miss the Mississippi and You" by Jimmie Rodgers is followed by the Merle Haggard version from his brilliant album of Rodgers songs, "Same Train, Different Time." We then get into a "missing" mode starting with Pat Alger's "Missing In Action," followed by two versions of Irishman Jimmy McCarthy's "Missing You," first by Jimmy himself and then by the one and only Christy Moore. We stay in an Irish mood with the haunting fiddle tune "The Mist on the Moor" by Blaine Sprouse.
Our set closes with the inimitable Thelonious Monk's performance of his composition "Misterioso" featuring the great saxophonist Charlie Rouse.

Every week you never know what's going to come up, which is why it's fun for me and I hope for you.

Thank you for supporting all volunteer Royalton Community Radio, 96.5 FM locally or streaming out there in cyberspace at www.wfvr.org. Free Vermont Radio!!

06/23/2025

This Wednesday!

06/20/2025

Raise your hand if you've been waiting for Jenny Brook all winter! Well, you don't have to wait much longer, it's next weekend. We will have our mobile stage there playing tunes in between musical acts and some of our local DJs will be MCing the workshops on the Artist's Stage. Don't forget Bob Amos will be interviewing Jim Rooney Friday afternoon. Can't wait to see you there!

06/19/2025

Dear Jazz Fans,

I'll be on the air this evening, for Thursday's 4th Branch Jazz show. If you're in the upper reaches of Vermont's beautiful White River Valley, tune your FM radio to 96.5 at 7:00 pm (Eastern Time). If out of radio range, link to the show by going to wfvr.org or searching for royaltonradio.org on your device.

Tonight’s show will feature the following artists, in no particular order:
Jazz orchestras - Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra; Igmar Thomas' Revive Big Band;
Combos - Artemis; Us3;
Vocalists - Fats Waller, Mark Murphy;
Guitar - Attila Zoller, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall;
Alto sax - Lee Konitz;
Tenor sax - Joe Lovano;
French horn!! - the amazing John Clark;
Piano - Fats Waller, Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer.
If you miss the show's live time slot, listen to the replay of the show on Monday at 1:00 pm ET, or find the replay on demand for a week by going to WFVR.org

-Mort

06/18/2025

This Wednesday morning at 11AM on the rebroadcast of In It for The Long Run, Jim Rooney continues to explore his more than 70 years in the musical world by playing whatever comes up on his computer song list alphabetically.

Still cruising through the "M's," getting started with Vermont's own Starline Rhythm Boys with "A Memory of Fred," followed by a Hank Williams "Luke The Drifter" classic "Men With Broken Hearts." The great Country singer Rose Maddox teams up with a young Buck Owens on "Mental Cruelty." Janis Joplin prays for a "Mercedes Benz." Marvin Gaye does the amazing "Mercy, Mercy Me," followed by Cannonbal Adderley's monster hit "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy."

We get some straight Chicago blues with "Messin' With The Kid" by Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. Another son of Chicago, John Prine, sings "Mexican Home." The Irish fiddler Nollaig Casey does the beautiful tune "Michael Ward." From her first album, Nanci Griffith sings "Michael's Song." We next get a beautiful Geoff Muldaur arrangement of "Michigan Water Blues."

We close things out with some great tunes from Nollaig Casey and Arty McGlynn, "Micho Russell's/The Yellow Cow/Jigging The Donkey."

Every week you never know what's going to come up, which is why it's fun for me and I hope for you.

Thank you for supporting all volunteer Royalton Community Radio, 96.5 FM locally or streaming out there in cyberspace at www.wfvr.org. Free Vermont Radio!!

06/17/2025

06/11/2025

Reggae returns to Free Vermont Radio from 3-5pm Wednesdays with Shay Berry taking the first shift on the "Conscious Party" this afternoon!

Keep it locked for your soundtrack to the summer on your favorite community radio station!

96.5FM / WFVR.org

06/04/2025

Presenting your host of the Wednesday Morning Breakfast Club, the incomparable Carl Newman, modeling our latest T-shirt color “Big Pink”! Get your’s today for a mere $15!