WNRN is pleased to bring you World Cafe weeknights from 6-8 p.m. World Cafe is known by artists, appreciative audiences, and the radio and music industries as an influential source for music discovery. The two-hour daily program features a mix of artist interviews with in-studio performances by both established and emerging artists. The music selection encompasses singer-songwriters, classic rock, indie rock, Americana, alt-country, blues, world music, R&B and soul. As the nation’s most listened-to public radio music program, its impact on the careers and audience awareness of thousands of artists is immeasurable.
Recent World Cafe Programs
The Smile mini-concert on World Cafe
Wednesday, November 23rd at 6pm Johnny Greenwood and Thom Yorke of Radiohead teamed up with drummer Tom Skinner to start a new band, called The Smile. Their debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention, is [...]
Encore: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on World Cafe
Thursday, November 24th at 6pm Robert Plant and Alison Krauss had a hugely successful collaboration a decade and a half ago with the album Raising Sand. Last year, they finally released its long-awaited follow-up, Raise [...]
John Morrison’s Culture Corner on World Cafe
Tuesday, November 22nd at 6pm They may have been called Love, but the L.A. band’s reaction to 1967’s Summer of Love was very different from the hippies up in San Francisco. Correspondent John Morrison digs [...]
Calexico on World Cafe
Monday, November 21st at 6pm Cumbias and Rancheras dot the landscape of El Mirador, the latest album from Southwestern Tex-Mex band, Calexico. Lead singer Joey Burns wanted to both physically and thematically return to Tucson, [...]
Amy Ray on World Cafe
Friday, November 18th at 6pm Amy Ray can find hope in almost anything. On her latest solo album, If it All Goes South, the Indigo Girls member finds positivity and love in places other folks [...]
Encore: Tedeschi Trucks Band on World Cafe
Thursday, November 17th at 6pm I Am The Moon is the most ambitious project yet from Tedeschi Trucks Band. Based on a classic Persian poem, it’s a collection of 24 songs spread across 4 albums, [...]