WCNY Radio

WCNY Radio This is the official page for WCNY-FM, the public classical music radio station for Central and Northern New York.

WCNY Classic FM Broadcasts On: Syracuse 91.3 FM Utica 89.5 FM Watertown 91.3 FM Syracuse 91.3 HD1 Utica 89.5 HD1 Watertown 90.9 HD1Also Offering Oldies on WCNY HD2 and Jazz on WCNY HD3 We also offer classic oldies on our HD-2 channel, and jazz on our HD-3 service. All may be heard worldwide on our website.

This Sunday, June 7th on the Bluegrass Ramble, Bill Knowlton pays tribute to Dan Duggan, the award-winning hammered dulc...
06/07/2026

This Sunday, June 7th on the Bluegrass Ramble, Bill Knowlton
pays tribute to Dan Duggan, the award-winning hammered dulcimer virtuoso who passed away on May 29th at the age of 69. The tribute, and some of Dan's music, will be in the third hour of the show. Also, Joe LaMay and Sherri Reese will make their monthly musical visit to the parlor, and Bill will count down the Top 30 songs in June's National Bluegrass Survey of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

Bill Knowlton's Bluegrass Ramble is heard every Sunday at 9:00 PM on WCNY Classic FM. Don't want to wait? You can listen at 6:00 PM on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org. Click the Classic FM microphone on the home page to listen online at 9 PM, or the Community microphone to listen at 6 PM.

Joey, Jim, and Super-Producer John invite you to "celebrate the Italian in you" every Sunday on "Ciao!", but this week, ...
06/07/2026

Joey, Jim, and Super-Producer John invite you to "celebrate the Italian in you" every Sunday on "Ciao!", but this week, there's more to celebrate! From Joey Nigro-Nilsen to all of you: "This Sunday we're celebrating 18 years of Ciao and thanking all who have helped make this happen...especially our listeners! " And we at WCNY thank the "Ciao!" team for all of the Italian and Italian-American music, recipes, and talk about Italian/Italian-American cultural contributions to our area and to the world!

Join the celebration this Sunday, June 7th...here's how to join the party this and every week! You can hear "Ciao!" every Sunday at noon on WCNY Classic FM, with an encore broadcast at 5 PM on WCNY HD3 Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org. Click the Classic FM microphone on the home page to listen online at noon, or the Community microphone to listen at 5 PM. Celebrate the Italian in YOU!!

Saturday, June 6th at 3:40 PM EDT, "Opera Encore" on WCNY Classic FM salutes legendary Italian soprano Maria Caniglia! M...
06/05/2026

Saturday, June 6th at 3:40 PM EDT, "Opera Encore" on WCNY Classic FM salutes legendary Italian soprano Maria Caniglia! Marie Lamb features Caniglia in music of Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, Umberto Giordano, and Francesco Cilea. Some of the selections will be from her 78-era complete opera recordings. She'll be joined by Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, and Tancredi Pasero. Conductors include Giuseppe Antonicelli, Gino Marinuzzi, Tullio Serafin, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Luigi Ricci, and Fernando Previtali.

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
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Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM

Join us today (June 5) at 1 PM on WCNY Classic FM for the All Request Hour! Host Adam Fine takes your requests all week ...
06/05/2026

Join us today (June 5) at 1 PM on WCNY Classic FM for the All Request Hour! Host Adam Fine takes your requests all week long at wcny.org/fmrequests and by phone at 888-333-4999, and plays them for you every Friday. Of course, you can make your requests for future shows anytime! Here's what Adam has for you this week:

1 ) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-Flat Major, K. 452 (Zoltan Kocsis, piano; Budapest Wind Ensemble)

2) Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude in B Major, Op. 87 No. 11 (Kori Bond, piano)

3) Uuno Klami: Kalevala Suite (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Leif Segerstam, conductor)

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
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Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM


Saturday, June 6 at 1 PM on Classic FM, the WFMT Radio Network begins its opera season with Smetana’s “The Bartered Brid...
06/05/2026

Saturday, June 6 at 1 PM on Classic FM, the WFMT Radio Network begins its opera season with Smetana’s “The Bartered Bride ” from the Vienna State Opera with Slávka Zámečníková, Pavol Breslik, and Peter Kellner. Tomáš Hanus will conduct the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
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Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM


Every Thursday at 1 PM on WCNY Classic FM, Adam Fine presents "Fresh from the Wrapper", featuring new classical CDs that...
06/04/2026

Every Thursday at 1 PM on WCNY Classic FM, Adam Fine presents "Fresh from the Wrapper", featuring new classical CDs that we've just received! Today, June 4th, here's what Adam has found in the WCNY mailroom to share with you:

1) Federico Mompou: Musica Callada (Jon Hamar, double-bass;
Adrienne Fontenot, piano)

2) Stanley Grill: Gaia’s Lament (Adam Novak, violin; Marek Stilec, conductor; Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice)

3) Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in d minor, K.1 “Toccata"; Sonata in d minor, K.9 “Pastorale”; Sonata in b minor, K.27; Sonata in d minor, K.32 “Aria”; Sonata in E, K.531 “Tarantella” (James Brawn, piano)

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
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Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM

So many choices...what's a bluegrass host to do? Well, on this Sunday's (5/31/26) Bluegrass Ramble, Bill Knowlton is fe...
05/31/2026

So many choices...what's a bluegrass host to do? Well, on this Sunday's (5/31/26) Bluegrass Ramble, Bill Knowlton is featuring artists from the "VIP Shelf" he has on his porch, featuring many of the people who helped to establish bluegrass as an art form. Tune in and find out Bill's choices from the VIP Shelf! Also, Bill's special feature this week is a broadcast from the Bluegrass Ramble archives featuring our friends Bill and Maggie Anderson.

Bill Knowlton's Bluegrass Ramble is heard every Sunday at 9:00 PM on WCNY Classic FM. Don't want to wait? You can listen at 6:00 PM on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org. Click the Classic FM microphone on the home page to listen online at 9 PM, or the Community microphone to listen at 6 PM.

Joey, Jim, and Super-Producer John invite you for "Ciao!" this Sunday, May 31st on WCNY Classic FM and HD3 Community FM!...
05/31/2026

Joey, Jim, and Super-Producer John invite you for "Ciao!" this Sunday, May 31st on WCNY Classic FM and HD3 Community FM!
Here's the word from Joey Nigro: "Lou Christie (photo) was born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco in a suburb of Pittsburgh in February, 1943, and passed away just last year. When we took over a long-running radio show, renaming it and changing its format, I wanted to make sure that we remembered and played some of the music of the Italian American rock/pop singers who dominated the music charts before the so-called "British Invasion." Most of them had to change their names, as was the case with Lou Christie, whose biggest hit, "Lightnin' Strikes", is in our playlist for this Sunday's edition of "Ciao!". What sets Lou Christie apart is not only that he co-wrote his hits, but that his early musical training was in classical music. He loved classical music, and with his nearly four-octave range was encouraged to become an opera singer, but chose pop stardom instead." Along with what you'll hear this Sunday, you can learn more about Lou Christie from this Facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/443883236071410

And you'll hear lots of other Italian and Italian-American music, as always! You can hear "Ciao!" every Sunday at noon on WCNY Classic FM, with an encore broadcast at 5 PM on WCNY HD3 Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org. Click the Classic FM microphone on the home page to listen online at noon, or the Community microphone to listen at 5 PM. Celebrate the Italian in YOU!!

Please join us on Saturday, May 30th at 1 PM EDT on WCNY Classic FM, as we close this season of live Saturday matinee br...
05/30/2026

Please join us on Saturday, May 30th at 1 PM EDT on WCNY Classic FM, as we close this season of live Saturday matinee broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera with the network premiere of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego – The Last Dream of Frida and Diego – by Gabriela Lena Frank. This acclaimed opera, with a libretto by Nilo Cruz, stars Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez as the iconic Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, who have an otherworldly reunion. The cast also features Gabriella Reyes as Catrina, guardian of the dead, and Nils Wanderer as the actor Leonardo. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Met Chorus and Orchestra in this vibrant score. El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego – Saturday, May 30th, live on the Robert K. Johnson Foundation-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
🎵 TuneIn App
🎵 "Play WCNY" on Alexa
Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM


Tune in to WCNY Classic FM for today's All Request Hour! Host Adam Fine has been taking requests all week long at wcny.o...
05/29/2026

Tune in to WCNY Classic FM for today's All Request Hour! Host Adam Fine has been taking requests all week long at wcny.org/fmrequests and by phone at 888-333-4999. Of course, you can make your requests for future shows anytime! Here's what Adam has for you, starting at 1 PM:

!) Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto for Recorder and Bassoon in F Major (Elissa Berardi, recorder; Dennis Godburn, bassoon; Philomel Baroque Orchestra)

2) Joachim Raff: Piano Trio No. 1 in c minor, Op. 102 (Trio Opus 8 )

3) Engelbert Humperdinck: Witch's Ride (Hexenritt) from "Hänsel und Gretel" (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Rudolf Kempe, conductor)

🎧 How to listen: 91.3 Syracuse | 89.5 Utica | 90.9 Watertown
🎵 Live Stream: https://bit.ly/3sJ5UZE
🎵 TuneIn App
🎵 "Play WCNY" on Alexa
Learn more at https://bit.ly/3J9BEOM


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