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This Week On Radio Free Athens: February 8, 2025


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Radio Free Athens (RFA) is broadcast Saturdays on WOUB 1340 AM and allows community volunteers and Ohio University students to present music and interview content through a format-free, host-driven program. Find the schedule and details about Saturday’s programs below. Listen to 1340 AM or click HERE to listen.

 

An image with the lineup for Radio Free Athens on February 8, 2025 on it.

6 p.m. – 9 p.m.: “Blues for Carter G.”  Excursions celebrates Black History Month Pt. I:
This is the 99th year of Black History Month, originally known as “Negro History Week,” launched February 7, 1926. Originally conceptualized by educator, scholar Carter G. Woodson as a period in which focus would be given not only to the contributions of African -Americans, but also an appreciation of the historical legacy of Africa throughout its diaspora.
Saturday Excursions begins its bimonthly February celebration of Black History Month with “Blues for Carter G,” an eclectic mix of extended/thematically linked historical music. Blending improvised Jazz with spoken word, diasporic, and African-American regional examples of Great Black Music-Ancient-to-the-Future.

Excursions, Saturday Feb. 8, from 6-9:00 pm EST, part of Radio Free Athens, heard on WOUB Ohio University Public Radio