Live from NOLA Jazz Fest!

We are very excited to provide special programming in partnership with our friends at WWOZ, New Orleans as part of the 55th Jazz Fest. 

WGDR & WGDH will live simulcast the Jazz Fest on two afternoons during the Jazz Fest:

Thursdays, April 24 and May 1, 12-6pm.

This year's Jazz Fest lineup includes dozens of New Orleans and Louisiana favorites, interviews with artists, and archival recordings of Jazz Fests from the past. The full schedule of live music will be posted at WWOZ.org, where you can stream the full festival. Along with the live performances, the simulcast will feature conversations with WWOZ’s award-winning show hosts, exclusive interviews with artists, and archival recordings of highlights from Jazz Fest history.

We hope you enjoy tuning into this iconic Jazz Festival by way of your very own radios here in Vermont.

Nominate & Vote for Central Vermont Community Radio as Best Nonprofit

This year Seven Days and the Vermont Community Foundation are teaming up to give the Best Nonprofit winner of the Daysies $10,000.

Community radio is a special kind of nonprofit. We are a media outlet for news, views, music, and more for listeners. We are a resource when times get tough like in floods, the pandemic, and other urgent needs in the community. We are a creative hub for thinkers, music lovers, poets, and live music. And, we do this all free for all. We think that puts us in the running for being at pretty good, if not “the best” nonprofit.

Please consider nominating Central Vermont Community Radio as part of the Seven Daysies before April 28 at ballot.sevendaysvt.com. 

Then, when the daysie voting starts May 29, please vote for your favorite community radio station in all of Vermont - us! 

The nonprofit with the most votes, wins the Daysie and the $10K. Thanks for lifting up community radio as a worthy cause here in the green mountains.

Listen to the monthly Radio RoundUp

Everyday you hear great locally made shows and content from across the country. We are continuing to add extra special programming and features to our line up to give you an even better listening experience. New in 2025, we’ve started a new monthly show from Central Vermont Community Radio about the projects and stories happening behind the scenes here at the station: Radio RoundUp.

Listen back to this new Central Vermont Community Radio show - Radio RoundUp - airing once a month, on the third Thursdays at 6pm. This gives you a behind the scenes listen to projects, strategy, and what's coming next for the stations of WGDR & WGDH. Through conversations, interviews, and listener calls, we will strive to keep our audience in the loop on all we are doing and why we are doing it. From programming decisions and strategy, to strategic plans for the station, to capital gear improvements like moving the WGDR tower, you will hear about it all each month.

The show is hosted by Station Manager Llu Mulvaney-Stanak or other representatives of the station, with special guests from within and around the station, depending on the month's topic.

Longer held archives are available on the Radio Round Up page. Below are the first two episodes from April and March, 2025 episodes.

More Live, More Local, More Folks!

Interest in the station continues to knock our socks off! Coming up this May, you will hear another 10 new shows making their way on the air through training and then the start dates. More details on these new folks and their show concepts coming soon!

We are so proud to have gone from just over 20 local shows a mere three years ago to now over 70.

Access to the airwaves is one of the most important things a community radio station provides and we are eager to continue to diversify what you hear and who you hear it from. Bringing these new folks on takes a lot of time and effort from our volunteer trainers to our programming committee who vets the show ideas, to the new folks themselves putting in hours and hours of their time before they even turn a mic on.

We are starting to max out our schedule openings for local shows. So, we will be pausing all new show applications until further notice. Our Programming Committee will be working on what we need and want to do next with programming for the rest of the year and we’ll update folks. Please know that part of this next phase of our programming work will generally will be prioritizing talk-based shows (local news, storytelling, interview or discussion shows, call in shows, especially for content that helps us continue to represent our diverse community. Any new applications for locally curated music shows will be on hold for now.

You crushed the $20K Spring Fundrive Goal

It is hard to make radio folks speechless, but you did just that yesterday!

Yesterday, on our very last day of the Spring Fundrive, the community rallied to the moment and not only met our big $20,000 goal, they surpassed it raising $20,505 (with checks still on the way).

We've got unofficial results on the rest of our goals too including:

• 7 increased monthly donors

• 6 new monthly, sustaining donors

• 24 returning donors, who haven't given in a few years - tied a drive record!

• 61 donors who stream us live at WGDR.org

• 65 new donors - a new one-drive record!

• ​Over $3,500 of donations were made in honor of the late, great, and dearly missed Dave Tucker. ❤️

• Over 250 donors total - by far a record for one drive!

We are so amazed - but not surprised - that you, our listeners stepped up in these huge ways to fund the programming that you all love and rely on. You get it. Community radio matters more than ever. Thank you for investing in us as we give it right back to you every day on the airwaves!

There was some amazing special programming happening over these last two weeks too. Be sure to go back in our archives to hear the live music on Saturday afternoons into the evenings that happened each weekend, the special afternoon drive shows during the work week, and the amazing Revel Level Wrap Party on the air last night with DJ EhMmAhh and Z-Point (pictured).

Congrats to our Fundrive MVP, Eben Flow for logging 12 extra hours of live radio across the drive. Eben was joined by 15 other programmers who produced nearly 40 hours of extra local programming during the drive. It sounded great!

Central Vermont Community Radio continues to be 75% funded by individuals like you. This is why our fundrives - twice a year - are so critical to funding the station.

• We now have over 90 sustainers, funding $16K of the budget each year (on top of drives). A small monthly gift by these folks, adds up in a big way for the station.

• Thank you to the 15 members of the station - programmers, board, staff, and volunteers - who kicked in to that final day match.

• Thank you to our anonymous major donors, Blackbear Biodiesel, and Diamantis Construction for making our other big matches. Together, we had $5,600 in matching support and this was what made the difference in making this $20K goal!

• Thank you to everyone who sent fan mail to the station and left such great comments on the drive site​. This powers the programmers for months to come, knowing there is such support out there for what they work so hard to do each week on the air.

We are back to normal programming this week! Phew!

You didn't miss your chance to give either. We're still accepting donations to the station for the rest of the year. All our funds help us make budget adjustments across the year in other areas that are far less reliable than our listeners! Thank you for making us part of how you support your community.

Remembering Dave Tucker

We share with heavy hearts that Dave Tucker passed away in mid-March.

On Friday, March 7, about a week before he died, the station hosted a gratitude show for Dave. He was our Board Chair, co-Music Director, Programming Committee Member, programmer mentor, all-around volunteer of all things, and most importantly, long-time host of "The Long and Winding Road."

Dave was diagnosed with a fast-moving and incurable cancer. The show was our way to honor him during the limited time he had left with us. We played his favorite tunes, told stories, and showed our radio love for his impact on this place. Dave was instrumental in these first few years of community ownership, and his legacy around here will be long-lasting. You can listen to the show in our special archives, linked above.

Our annual volunteer of the year award is now named in his honor: The Dave Tucker Volunteer of the Year Award.