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WFHB Community Radio

Since I first began volunteering at Bloomington, Indiana-based community radio station WFHB in 2011, I have served at various points as a live session producer and host, genre director, volunteer coordinator, youth program coordinator, and, above all, a music programmer, winning the station's internal DJ of the Year award for 2014-2015. Featured here are posted interviews and live sessions I've hosted and in some cases produced, many in conjunction with the annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.

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FIREHOUSE SESSION: Diles Que No Me Maten - WFHB

April 30, 2025
Firehouse Sessions, Music

30 Views Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 17:59 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOn Monday, April, 7th, 2025 we started the day with Mexico City based indie rock band, Diles Que No Me Maten!  Due to travel, they were unable to make it to the studio the day before for their scheduled session.  Instead, they woke up early after their fantastic show at The Bishop and came in for a Monday morning session – now that’s dedication!  Host, Adria...
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FIREHOUSE SESSION INTERVIEW: Erica Dawn Lyle of Bikini Kill

January 15, 2025
Firehouse Sessions, Music

14 Views On October 18th, 2024 we welcomed punk icon and activist, Erica Dawn Lyle, guitarist for Bikini Kill.  Host Adriane Pontecorvo chatted with Erica about her work around issues of race, land sovereignty, gentrification, community spaces, improvisation, and meeting the moment!  This is an incredible interview! Enjoy!
WFHB Production Team:
Host: Adriane Pontecorvo
Producer: Abby Noroozi
Post-Production: Josh Brewer

January 15, 2025
Fireh...
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FIREHOUSE SESSION INTERVIEW: Y La Bamba

January 2, 2025
Firehouse Sessions, Music

197 Views On Thursday, June 20th we welcomed Luz Elena Mendoza of American indie / experimental band, Y La Bamba before the show that night at Switchyard Park! Host Adriane Pontecorvo chatted with Luz about songwriting, producing, genres, and their newest album recorded in Mexico City, Lucha. This is such a great interview – don’t miss it!
WFHB Production Team:
Host: Adriane Pontecorvo
Producer: Abby Noroozi
Post-Production: Josh Brewer

January 2...
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LOTUS LIVE: Corey Harris and Cedric Watson

December 6, 2024
Live Sessions, Lotus Live, Music

37 Views On Saturday, October 5th, 2024, we welcomed two of the most fascinating voices in modern Delta blues, Corey Harris and Cedric Watson who joined us for a Lotus Live Session. Check out their conversation with Adriane Pontecorvo and hear them perform live in the studio before their Lotus performance.
WFHB Production Team:
Host: Adriane Pontecorvo
Producer: Abby Noroozi
Session Engineers: Alyssa Gray and Alex Hammel
Post-Production Engin...
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FUND DRIVE LIVE: Geodize

November 4, 2024
Firehouse Sessions, Live Sessions, Music

38 Views On Thursday, September 19th, we had local project Geodize in the studio for a Fund Drive Live Session!  Bloomington songwriter and brains be behind Geodize, Chris Barth, chatted with us about writing music, the evolution of this Geodize, the importance of community radio, Monon Day and more! Don’t miss this Fund Drive Live Session with Geodize!
WFHB Production Team:
Host: Adriane Pontecorvo
Producer: Abby Noroozi
Session E...
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FIREHOUSE SESSION: Katy Kirby - WFHB

September 17, 2024
Firehouse Sessions, Live Sessions, Music
29 Views On August 6th, 2024, fresh off the heels of her NPR Tiny Desk performance, Nashville, TN based indie folk artist, Katy Kirby joined us for an in-studio Firehouse Session. We talked about songwriting, her newest album “Blue Raspberry” out on Anti records, and touring – plus she performed 3 beautiful stripped down songs before a show that night at The Bishop.
Host: Adriane Pontecorvo
Producer: Abby Noroozi
Session Engineers: Mike...
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FUND DRIVE LIVE SESSION: JFBRONTOSAURUS

On Monday, April 15th Jim Beck, of Bloomington based indie rock project jfbrontosaurus, joined host Adriane Pontecorvo in the studio during our Spring Fund Drive to talk about what it’s like to make music in Bloomington, his local business BadKnees Tees, and the all ways in which WFHB supports the local scene. This was Jim’s first radio appearance and we hope not his last! Don’t miss this excellent jfbronosaurus interview and performance!
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Lotus@30

WFHB and the Lotus World Music and Arts Foundation have always shared close ties with each other and the Bloomington community. Our first broadcast hit the airwaves in 1993; Lotus threw its first festival a year later, bringing culture bearers from around the world into various Bloomington venues, including the WFHB studios. Now, a small team of Lotus staff is chronicling those years with the initiative Lotus@30. Project co-managers Jeremy Reed and LuAnne Holladay dropped by the Firehouse to tal
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2020 Lotus Artist Feature: Tuuletar

Fierce energy, beatbox rhythms, and other-worldly harmonies: TUULETAR (Goddess of The Wind in Finnish mythology) is taking Finnish music abroad with a novel approach. The band’s virtuoso singers create a sonic landscape, where beatbox rhythms meet global influences and Finnish poetry tradition. With freshly invigorating original music, Tuuletar enchants audiences globally with their heartfelt, tribal, and captivating spirit.

Edited and Produced for WFHB by Adriane Pontecorvo
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Interview with Paul Beaubrun of Boukman Eksperyans

Boukman Eksperyans is a mizik rasin (roots music) band that regularly tours the world as a favorite on the world music circuit. Founded in Haiti 40 years ago, the group merges traditional Haitian instruments and sacred Vodou rhythms with rock and reggae. Co-founders Lòlò and Manzè (Théodore Beaubrun, Jr. and Mimerose Beaubrun) have long been deeply invested in their community through their scholarship on Haitian cultural and spiritual practices. In particular, they are known for their environmen
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2019 Lotus Live – Lula Wiles

Long before they were a band, the members of Lula Wiles sang folk songs and traded fiddle tunes at camp in Maine. The trio, all of whom grew up in rural Maine, carry those lessons of community and the meaning of shared art with them as they create music that explores cultural virtues, soothes aching wounds, and envisions a better world. Their singing includes clear vocals and lovely three-part harmonies, and they are steady, stronger player on acoustic and electric guitars, fiddles, and upright
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2019 Lotus Live – Les Filles De Illighadad

Les Filles are from Illighadad, a secluded commune in central Niger, in the scrubland deserts at the Sahara’s edge. They draw on the traditional tende music of rural Niger that inspired Tuareg blues. The sparse music, which is built from a few elements (vocals, handclaps, percussion), is also dominated by women. Lead vocalist Fatou Seidi Ghali is one of the only Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. In lieu of the djembe or drum kit popular in Tuareg rock bands, Les Filles de Illighadad incorporate
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Lotus Live – Afrotronix

Electronic music meets Afrobeat. Born in Chad but now based in Montreal, Afrotronix creates what he calls “an electronic futurist package” by drawing on and sampling from (for example) Mandinka music of West Africa, Saharan Tuareg blues, Senegalese rumba, Chadian sai, dubstep, EDM, and reggae. And he takes his futuristic aesthetic seriously: expect his signature all-white clothing and a helmet that’s somewhere between “a highly-stylized combination of Alien and Sonic The Hedgehog.” Take club bea
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Lotus Live – Adilei – 4/9/19

Ensemble Adilei performs traditional Georgian polyphonic songs and chants. Gurian music is sometimes compared to jazz, because of the emphasis on improvisation, and non-parallel movement in all the voice parts. Gurian song is also characterized by k’rimanch’uli , a yodeling technique often present in the upper voice.

The ensemble has toured in a number of European countries, and participated in several notable folk music festivals, including the International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony
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WFIU Public Radio

In 2022, I began contributing music-focused segments to Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about art and culture in Southern Indiana. Inner States airs on WFIU Public Radio, Bloomington, Indiana's local NPR member station. 

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Witness Protection's Second Thoughts has transnational collaborations and prog rock roots

Witness Protection is a Bloomington, Indiana-based rock band fronted by singer-songwriter and ethnomusicology PhD student Kyle Fulford. Following up 2022 release College Ruled, Witness Protection releases new album Second Thoughts on March 31 in both English and Italian. Ahead of the launch, Kyle talks to us about the album's transnational collaborations, translation poetics, and how his studies overlap with his studio work. More information about Witness Protection is available on their website
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A Night with Busman's Holiday and Ross Gay

Adriane Pontecorvo: Busman’s Holiday is a band made up of brothers Addison and Lewis Rogers. They've been making music together for over 15 years now and fans know them for their remarkable combination of powerful songwriting and onstage charisma—and they’re nothing short of superstars in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. On Sunday, November 13, they’ll welcome new album Good Songs with a release party at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Joining them will be local writer Ross Gay, who will rea
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People from Bloomington: A Short Story Collection from Indonesia

The Indonesian writer Budi Darma came to Bloomington, in 1974. Like so many people who come to Bloomington, he was here for school. He was already an established literary figure in Indonesia, as a writer of absurdist short stories. He came here to get a Master’s degree in creative writing, then a PhD in literature. His dissertation was on Jane Austen, if you’re curious about that kind of thing. But more importantly for our purposes: while he was here, he started writing stories inspired by the p
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Southern Rock, Midwestern Soul

For music critic Stephen Deusner, songwriters fall into one of two camps. There are the ones who have something they want to tell you, and then there are the ones who want to figure something out. For him, the longevity of the Drive-By Truckers comes from their residence in the second camp. For decades now, they’ve been writing smart, complex songs whose characters add complexity to our picture of rural America, especially the South. Stephen’s book about the Truckers, Where the Devil Don’t Stay:

Other Multimedia Work

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Carol - Short film from the Music & Memory Project at Indiana University Bloomington

"Following in the footsteps of the Music and Memory program, Indiana University students in the Music and Memory class get to know senior citizens living with varying stages of dementia, coming up with playlists of meaningful music for them to keep on MP3 players. We worked with Carol, a woman with a lifelong appreciation for many kinds of music. This film documents the time we spent with Carol and her friends and family while chatting and listening to some of her favorite songs." - IU Students

About Me

I am a freelance writer, radio programmer, and PhD candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington. I have experience in writing music criticism, features, and publicity; writing corporate guides and white papers; and academic writing/editing and copy editing.

My radio work includes audio production, session hosting, and feature writing for public and community radio stations. I have also worked with radio- and music-related archives.

On this site, you'll find links to my available online work. Contact me for more!

Photo by Jar Turner