WHUP is a proud participant in Hillsborough’s free outdoor River Park Concert Saturday, October 28, and we want you to join us for a great day of music and community! The day will kick off at the WHUP studios with a WHUP Special live session at 10 am featuring two of the RPC headliners, Eric […]
Join us for a WHUP open house from 6-8 pm on Friday 10/13!
Begathon week continues with a special open house from 6-8 during our Friday live music show Pass the Hat. Come hear some great live tunes and check out the amazing WHUPmobile traveling DJ system, which will be parked out front. Come on up, enjoy some tunes and find out more about your community radio station […]
WHUP DJs in the news
We’re pleased to announce that two of our esteemed WHUP DJs have been spotlighted recently. Mrs. Bluegrass aka Becky Johnson, the host of WHUP’s Panhandle Country, was honored during the recent Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Retreat at the YMCA Blue Ridge Center in Black Mountain, NC. for her lifetime of promoting bluegrass music as a broadcaster, […]
WHUP sponsors Tuesday 10/10 Hillsborough candidate forum
As part of our mission to inform listeners about various local races for Mayor and city/town councils, WHUP will serve as Gold Sponsor of a special election event, Conversation with the Candidates, this Tuesday, October 10, at 1:00 pm in Room 230 of the Whitted building (300 W. Tryon St.) in the downtown historic district. […]
Please support WHUP during Begathon week!
Dear friends of WHUP, It’s time once again for our week-long on-air Begathon fundraiser, which will run from Sunday, October 8 through Saturday, October 14. We hope that you feel inspired to make a donation to the cause by going to our website, clicking on our contributions link and showing us that you care about community radio in […]
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and rising star Molly Tuttle to appear on WHUP Friday 9/8 at 4:00
WHUP is pleased to present another great live Special Session with Nashville-based Molly Tuttle, currently touring behind her new release, Rise. A Berklee School of Music grad, Molly has been featured on A Prairie Home Companion, Music City Roots, World Cafe and other top-tier radio broadcasts, and her stellar six-string guitar skills have landed her […]
New York, Texas and Asheville represent as Banjo Nickaru, Keith Rae and Hoot & Holler play live on WHUP this week
WHUP continues to lead the radio pack with not one, not two, but three live-music special sessions this week! On Wednesday, August 16, the two core members of Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches, Betina Hershey and Nick Russo, will make a pilgrimage to Hillsborough on their way to Tennessee for a set at 4:00 pm. […]
WHUP adds another unique show, Heart & Drone, to Monday lineup
Our roster of original music programs is now one show stronger with the addition of Heart & Drone, hosted by experienced community radio DJ (and author) Michelle Dove. Combining sonic landscapes, melodic and vocal twists and turns and spoken word, aggregating the unfamiliar but accessible into a two-hour journey through space and time. We guarantee you’ll […]