Inside WRKF

Special programming to celebrate Juneteenth on WRKF. Stories celebrating identity. Music acknowledging Black composers.

WRKF presents these pride month celebrations, highlighting LGBTQ history, intersecting identities, and musicians musicians and composers from the LGBTQ community.

Through early June, WRKF will be experiencing periods of reduced operations for its over-the-air signal due to mandatory tower work. What's happening? When will it be fixed? Read further for details about why your signal may be affected and what you can do about it.

The Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) presented WRKF Public Radio's Taylor Caffery the Kari Estrin Founding President's Award for outstanding contributions to folk music and culture last week, at its annual music industry conference.

A series of five programs broadcast Sundays throughout the month addresses issues of mental health, including homelessness, race, incarceration, schizophrenia, and birth.

We address climate change and how communities across the U.S. and around the world are facing it. We hear about community science, cod in the Arctic, and fish migration.

WRKF’s Karen Henderson will interview Blues Festival musicians for our new series, Behind the Blues, at the Baton Rouge Blues Festival inside the Old State Capitol. Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21. View the schedule here.

Nick Spitzer of American Routes will join WRKF staff for an interview with blues musician Lil Ray Neal at the West Baton Rouge Museum Juke Joint Thursday, April 18, from 6 to 8 p.m. Bring your own chairs and drinks. The interview wraps up the museum’s day-long Musicians Fête in conjunction with the Baton Rouge Blues Festival and Foundation and WRKF. Learn more here.

Learn more about the astronomy of a total solar eclipse and how to prepare to get the most out of this rare experience, as we follow the celestial event as it crosses the nation on April 8.

Interviews, performances, conversations, and stories looking at the African-American experience.