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.
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Recent World Cafe Programs
Latin Roots Correspondent Byron Gonzalez on World Cafe
Tuesday March 16th, 6-8pm Spring is in the air and it’s time to get moving! On the next World Cafe, Latin Roots Correspondent Byron Gonzalez stops by with some tunes that bring the beats to [...]
Joy Oladokun on World Cafe
Friday February 26th, 2021 The song “Who Do I Turn To?” was a heartfelt plea, written by Joy Oladokun during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer. On the next World Cafe, she talks about [...]
The Black Roots of Rock & Roll, Part 4 on World Cafe
Wednesday February 24th, 2021 Throughout February, music journalist John Morrison is helping World Cafe celebrate the music of black artists with a series called The Black Roots of Rock and Roll. In this edition, we’ll [...]
Encore: Lizzo on World Cafe
Tuesday February 23rd, 2021 Back in the spring of 2019, as her album Cuz I Love You was exploding, Lizzo stopped by the World Cafe to perform some of her songs and tell stories about [...]
Re-Live World Cafe’s Sense Of Place: Virginia!
The World Cafe team from WXPN spent a week in Central Virginia last November with WNRN gathering audio for their Sense of Place series. The crew split their time between [...]
Coming up on World Cafe…
Monday, September 23, 2019 Rapper, singer, producer and classically trained flute player Lizzo earned her first Billboard number 1 song at the start of September. She popped by the Café earlier this summer to talk [...]