WILL-FM: Music and Performance
What’s Cool
8 pm Saturday, Nov. 14, on American Routes
American Routes poses the question: “What is cool?” A style, a state of mind, the perfect horn riff, just chillin’? Some guests from the past offer their answers, including Merle Haggard, Yo La Tengo, McCoy Tyner (left), T-Bone Burnett and Ray Charles. All backed up, of course, by our “cool” music mix.
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50 Great Voices -- Help NPR Choose
In January 2010, NPR will launch a year-long exploration of 50 great voices in recorded history. Listeners nominated artists for the series. NPR and a panel of experts are in the process of whittling them down to about 100 singers -- a mix of familiar names and surprising discoveries. Click on the link to explore some of the nominated voices, and to choose five favorites you think should be included in the final 50 and tell us why.
Live and Local with Kevin Kelly
Weekdays noon to 1pm
On Friday’s “Live and Local,” I’ll talk with singer-songwriter Neko Case, who appears at the Canopy Club in Urbana Friday night; flutist and dancer Kevin Locke, who performs with his Native Dance Ensemble in Springfield next Tuesday; and the Xtension Chords, who present their X-fest of a-cappella groups at the University of Illinois on Saturday.
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Prairie Performances with Roger Cooper
8 pm Thursday
Host Roger Cooper presents Sinfonia da Camera’s “Tales of Shakespeare” concert. Inspired by the venerable bard, it’s music for the concert hall, the dance, and Broadway. Ian Hobson conducts with Yvonne Redman, soprano; Ricardo Herrera, baritone.
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A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
5 pm Saturday and
2 pm Sunday
Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits, and the latest news from Lake Wobegon.
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The Morning Express with Vic Di Geronimo
6 am to 10 am weekdays
Vic invites you to come on board for classical music, weather and NPR news headlines.
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WILL Digital Radio
FM 90.9’s digital service provides three streams of content: FM 90.9 HD1 airs a simulcast of the FM music service; both FM 90.9 HD2 and HD3 air the news and information service, also available on AM 580.
