WUMB
Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
By adamg - 11/29/10 - 4:30 pmNeed an alternative to WODS and WROR? WUMB is streaming Chanukah music 24/7.
Rest in Peace, Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center
By notloB - 11/2/10 - 2:09 pmWhat do WGBH-fm, WUMB-fm and now Club Passim all have in common? An aversion to the peoples' music. Each has gone to great lengths to re-invent themselves, scrubbing their programming and websites of the F word (folk, that is).
Highway 61 unvisited
By adamg - 4/25/10 - 12:03 pmNotlob reports the death of "Highway 61 Revisited" on WUMB.
WUMB folk fans want their music back
By adamg - 3/28/10 - 3:44 pmNotlob decries changes to WUMB - and the newly rebranded WUMB Music Festival (nee Boston Folk Festival).
WGBH plans to stay unique by doing the same thing as other stations
By adamg - 11/6/09 - 9:27 amWGBH tells the Globe that when the purchase of WCRB goes through, it will eliminate folk and blues programs because there are other outlets for that in Boston (so good news for WUMB, Boston's other other public radio station) and it wants to keep its programming "unique." And by unique, it means adding news and information shows just like the ones WBUR and WBZ already broadcast.
No Boston Folk Festival in 2009
By Ron Newman - 12/29/08 - 10:33 amBad weather washed out ticket sales for this year's festival, leaving WUMB radio with a $12,000 loss. So there will be no festival next year.
