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 […]
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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 […]
New show spotlights music from the Eno Festival!
WHUP is pleased to announce the expansion of our live-music programming with a new show of live sets recorded at the Eno festival, which has been presenting the best in traditional and contemporary music from North Carolina and beyond for the last 38 years. Curated by eminent music authority Art Menius, Classic Eno Festival Live will air […]
(Old News Dept.) WHUP named 2016 Non-Profit of the Year by Hillsborough Chamber!
We’re not as good at tooting our horn as maybe we should be, and we just noticed that we failed to post the news back in October that the Hillsborough Chamber of Commerce honored WHUP as the 2016 Non-Profit of the Year at its annual awards banquet. Noting that WHUP has provided an ongoing forum for our […]
Renowned guitarist Will McFarlane plays WHUP Friday 6/2 at 4:00
Will McFarlane, guitarist extraordinaire, songwriter, member of the legendary Muscle Shoals studio rhythm section, in-demand session musician and a former member of Bonnie Raitt’s band, will be making a stop at WHUP on Friday, June 2 for a 4:00 live acoustic session in advance of the annual WillFest three-day extravaganza at Durham’s Blue Note Grill. He’ll be […]
Boston roots/blues guitarist and singer Danielle Miraglia plays solo on WHUP this Friday 4/28 @ 3:00
Tune in for another great WHUP live special session this Friday at 3:00 featuring Boston guitarist Danielle Miraglia, who will bring her stellar voice and vintage Gibson to the studio for an hour of original blues-flavored roots music. Danielle will be appearing later that evening with local favorite Jon Shain at the Cary Theater and […]
Support WHUP during Begathon week!
WHUP depends in part on listener contributions to keep us going and move us forward, and it’s time once again for our biannual week-long Begathon. Don’t turn the dial – we take an alternative approach to our on-air fundraiser, adding special programming to our usual high-quality, original, locally produced lineup without the usual interruptions and […]