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Playlist from 12/21/2024 @ 8:00am

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit

What've I Done to Help
Reunions 2020 via SouthEastern/Thirty Tigers
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(REQUESTED)

The War and Treaty

Jubilee
Hearts Town 2020 via Rounder
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From Albion, Michigan! By request.

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Patrick Landeza

Puanani Slack Key
Slack Key Huaka'i 2013 via Addison Street Records
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9:40 am
Grand Rapids Public Library (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from The Grand Rapids Public Library...offering a monthly book club for adults.

Book club members can enjoy popular fiction and nonfiction titles selected by GRPL librarians and participate in a discussion about each reading.

Grand Rapids Public Library book clubs offer an opportunity to meet new friends and discover new perspectives.

More information is at grpl.org

Ollabelle

Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus
Ollabelle 2004 via Sony
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Trombone Shorty

What It Takes (Feat. Lauren Daigle)
Lifted 2022 via Blue Note
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9:30 am
WYCE Year-End Fund Drive - Thank you! (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from listeners like you!

We'd like to thank all of you who supported us during our year-end, on-air fund drive, which officially wrapped up this past Wednesday at 6 PM.

If you didn't get a chance to donate, there's still time to give and help us reach our overall fundraising goal,  at wyce dot org.

Listener donations make up nearly half of the funding we use to keep WYCE on the air, so we're counting on your support.

Donate now at wyce dot org through December 31st, and thank you for supporting independent community radio.

Jack Droppers & The Best Intentions

Welcome to the Party
Dad Rock 2021 via Independent
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Local musicians!

website | facebook

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Kokoroko

Soul Searching
Could We Be More 2022 via Brownswood Recordings
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9:20 am
Wealthy Theatre - Stop Making Sense (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Wealthy Theatre...inviting you to Celebrate New Year's Eve at Wealthy Theatre with a special screening of the Talking Heads classic film,  "Stop Making Sense!"

Come dressed in your favorite NYE attire and ring in the New Year, with TWO screenings of the film at 8pm and 11pm. 

"Stop Making Sense!" is considered by many as one of the best concert films of all time - filmmaker Jonathan Demme captures the energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads, in a fully restored version of the film.

Tickets for both screenings are on sale now at wealthytheatre dot org and proceeds will support WYCE!

Frazey Ford

September Fields
Indian Ocean 2014 via Nettwerk
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Calexico

Mi Burrito Sabanero
Seasonal Shift 2020 via ANTI
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Khruangbin

A Love International
Single 2024 via Dead Oceans
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Thee Sacred Souls

One And The Same
Got A Story To Tell 2024 via Daptone
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Miriam Makeba

Amampondo
Welela 1989 via Polygram Records
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9:00 am
Vertigo (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Vertigo Music of Grand Rapids. Vertigo Music is proud to support New Standards, airing every Sunday night at 6pm on WYCE.  

Vertigo Music offer tens of thousands of new and used LPs, CDs, and cassettes spanning all musical genres, plus new music in stock daily.  Online at VertigoMusic Dot GR.

Host Larae brings you the very best of the latest new music releases on WYCE's New Standards Program every Sunday night from 6 to 7 PM on 88.1 FM. WYCE.

Pierce Pettis

Miriam
Making Light of It 1996 via Compass Records
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Daughter, then father in this short set.

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Grace Pettis

Vivian
Down To The Letter 2024 via Mpress
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8:40 am
Promo - GR Live (click for more info)

WYCE invites you to tune in weekly for "GR Live,presented by DGRI...Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc., Thursdays at Noon here on WYCE and live on wyce dot org.. 

Hosted by Quinn Mathews, GR Live features live music from groups playing in the area and interviews with people in our regional music and arts community.

You can listen to GR Live on 88.1 FM WYCE, WYCE dot org, our WYCE Smartphone App, or your smart speaker.

Leslie Odom Jr

Winter Song (with Cynthia Erivo)
The Christmas Album 2020 via S-Curve
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Various Artists

Sharon Van Etten - I Won't Back Down
Bad Monkey Soundtrack 2024 via WaterTower
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Johnny Blue Skies

Scooter Blues
Passage Du Desir 2024 via High Top Mountain
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8:30 am
GR Tuba Christmas (click for more info)
You're invited to join one hundred tubas and baritones as they play Christmas carols like you've never heard them before, at the 2024 Grand Rapids Tuba Christmas Celebration, Sunday, December 22 at 3 pm at the GR Public Museum. 

Admission to this year's Grand Rapids Tuba Christmas concert is included with admission to the museum. 

More information is available at gr dash tuba dash xmas.com.

Los Lonely Boys

Natural Thing
Resurrection 2024 via Shelter
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Mystic Dub

All Love
International Bird 2020 via Independent
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Nunica, Michigan musicians!

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8:20 am
Wealthy Theatre - Stop Making Sense (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Wealthy Theatre...inviting you to Celebrate New Year's Eve at Wealthy Theatre with a special screening of the Talking Heads classic film,  "Stop Making Sense!"

Come dressed in your favorite NYE attire and ring in the New Year, with TWO screenings of the film at 8pm and 11pm. 

"Stop Making Sense!" is considered by many as one of the best concert films of all time - filmmaker Jonathan Demme captures the energy and artsy groove of Talking Heads, in a fully restored version of the film.

Tickets for both screenings are on sale now at wealthytheatre dot org and proceeds will support WYCE!

Willie Buck

I Give So Much to You
Willie Buck Way 2019 via Delmark
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'Tis the season for giving!

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Lotus

The Greatest Gift Of All
Lotus 1999 via Australian Music

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Blossom Dearie

Give Him the Ooh-La-La
Verve Jazz Masters 51 1996 via Polygram Records
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Beau Jocque

Give Him Cornbread
Beau Jocque Boogie 1993 via Rounder / Pgd
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Bruce Cockburn

When You Give It Away
Breakfast In New Orleans, Dinner In Timbuktu 1999 via Rykodisc
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8:00 am
Vertigo (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Vertigo Music of Grand Rapids. Vertigo Music is proud to support New Standards, airing every Sunday night at 6pm on WYCE.  

Vertigo Music offer tens of thousands of new and used LPs, CDs, and cassettes spanning all musical genres, plus new music in stock daily.  Online at VertigoMusic Dot GR.

Host Larae brings you the very best of the latest new music releases on WYCE's New Standards Program every Sunday night from 6 to 7 PM on 88.1 FM. WYCE.