Audio Specials

This March, WYEP honors Women’s History Month is conversations with local women who are working to make Pittsburgh a better city.

We will be posting parts of the series throughout the month of March, the first audio is coming soon!

Featuring:

Heather Arnet, Executive Director of the Women and Girls Foundation

Liz Berlin, Member of Rusted Root and co-owner of Mr. Smalls. She also runs the non-profit Creative.Life.Support.

Deborah Starling-Pollard, Community Organizer/Social Worker at the County of Allegheny-Office of Behavioral Health. She is also a playwright, and singer.

Donna Sanft, Executive Associate Director of Athletics at the University of Pittsburgh

Shelia McKenna, Actor and Director, Teaching Artist at Point Park University

Deborah L. Acklin, Executive Vice President and General Manager for WQED Multimedia

Hilary Robinson, Dean, College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Margaret Ragni, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, and Director, Hemophilia Center of Western Pennsylvania

Elsie Hillman; A lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, Elsie Hillman has been involved for many years in the region’s civic, political and cultural activities.

Mexican American singer/songwriter Lhasa de Sela died of breast cancer on January 1st, 2010.

As tribute to her life and work WYEP is sharing this studio performance and interview with Lhasa recorded October 11th, 2005.

WYEP and Bricolage Theater Company spotlight the best cuts from Bricolage’s “Midnight Radio” series. Including this season’s winning radio play!

Mike Sauter leads you through an audio tour of The Beatles re-releases and events of 2009.

Brian Siewiorek looks back at the best tracks from WYEP’s 2009 Studio Sessions.

Rosemary Welsch looks back at the best World music releases from 2009.

Cindy Howes spotlights the best Pittsburgh local music from 2009.

Rosemary Welsch counts down WYEP’s Top 50 CD’s from 2009

To commemorate the 35th Anniversary of Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks”, WYEP invited local musicians to have their hand at a few Dylan classics.

When Rosanne Cash turned 18 her father gave her a list of “100 Essential Country Songs.” Johnny Cash’s aim was to educate his young daughter in the knowledge of great American roots songs. Rosemary Welsch talks with Rosanne Cash about the songs on the record, the four guest vocalists who accompany her, and her relationship with her father.

Live. Work. Play. Everyone. Everyday.

WYEP is the soundtrack that keeps us connected- to music, to the community, to each other.
Your City. Your Station. 91.3fm WYEP – The Soundtrack to Pittsburgh.

To celebrate the unique qualities of Pittsburgh we have assembled “audio postcards” of various Pittsburgh sounds to play on WYEP.

On October 1, 1969, the Abbey Road album by The Beatles made its U.S. debut, the final one recorded by the band before dissolving into history. For the 40th anniversary of this influential pop masterpiece, WYEP presented a series of features giving the stories behind each of the album’s songs as well as a look at the musical and cultural influence of one of the most important albums in rock history.

As Pittsburgh hosts the G-20 Pittsburgh Summit September 24th and 25th, WYEP will spotlight the music of many of the nations that will be in attendance. Music plays an important role in the cultural economics of the world, and we present some from The United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Russia, South Africa, India and Canada, just to name a few.

A look back at the year 2008 in music. Rosemary Welsch counts down WYEP’s Top 50 CD’s of the year, as well as tributes to those who passed on.

Cindy Howes hosts this look back at the year in the Pittsburgh local music scene.

Brian Siewiorek host this look back at the best moments from WYEP’s 2008 Studio Sessions. Featuring Michael Franti & Spearhead, Dean & Britta, The Drive By Truckers, Spoon and many more.

Tripp Clarke hosts this two-hour tribute to Pittsburgh and the musicians that have come from here, in honor of the city’s 250th birthday.

WYEP’s Rosemary Welsch interviews legendary Soul and Gospel singer Mavis Staples. Mavis Staples talks about a number of subjects including her family legacy, The Staples Singers, growing up in Chicago, the 2008 election, civil rights struggles, and her new live recording.

Originally aired on November 21, 2008.

2008 marks the 40th anniversary of The Beatles’ only double album. It’s also one of the few major albums in rock history that is rarely called by its correct title, ever since it was quickly nicknamed “The White Album”.

Originally aired November 25, 2008. WYEP produced a series of recorded pieces featuring the stories behind each of the album’s songs as well as a look at its musical and cultural influence.

The Nineties. Grunge, Trip-Hop, Lilith Fair, Lollapalooza, Brit Pop and “Alternative” Music. It was a decade with many musical milestones. To commemorate the Nineties, WYEP asked our listeners to vote for their favorite songs from the decade. We tallied the votes and here’s the countdown of the 100 most popular. Originally aired September 1, 2008

In celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday, WYEP’s Tripp Clarke produced tributes to 22 artists and musicians who called the Steel City home.

Stephen Foster, the father of American Music, was born on the 4th of July, 1826 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. His music lives on today and is performed by a variety of artists. Hear renditions of Foster’s best known tunes by Mavis Staples, Raul Malo, BR 549, Michelle Shocked and a few rare surprises.

Hosted by WYEP’s Afternoon Mix host Rosemary Welsch and Kate Borger of The Roots & Rhythm mix in celebration of Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday.

The “Summer of Love” occurred in 1967, and the events of that had significant social and cultural impact. Although most of the major happenings of that summer happened far away from Pittsburgh, the significance of them still can be felt today. Accompanying it was a musical soundtrack that directly related to these events.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”, WYEP crafted a series that looked at the events and aspects of culture that occurred in the summer of 1967.

This series won an “Excellence in Broadcasting Award” from the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters in 2008.

It’s almost cliche to rank The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as one of the finest and most influential rock albums of all time.

One can call it the “Citizen Kane” or “Moby Dick” of the rock world; even those who don’t count themselves as fans acknowledge its status among fellow artists and the public at large. No album has more broadly definedwhat an album could be and what it should aspire to.

For the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s release, WYEP examined each song from this landmark album. Click on the song names below to hear the audio…

1977 is known as “the year that punk broke”. In 2007, to commemorate the 30th Anniversary, WYEP produced a series featuring some of the punk bands that were active in 1977.

Click on the band/artist’s name to hear the audio.