Ante Meridiem

English folk musician Nick Drake died decades before the song "Pink Moon" found him a wide audience, thanks to a series of Volkswagen ads back in 1999. They sparked a resurgence of interest in Drake's work — music largely ignored in his day but now inspiring legions of young musicians.

Coming up Monday Morning.

These guys will be playing at The Shrunken Head  April 20th.

You don't have to wait until then to hear some of their

high energy rock and roll, however, Just tune in to WCBE,

April 15th during the 11am hour.

That's Third Degree Sideburn, on 90.5 FM and HD,

WCBE Columbus, and 106.3 FM in Newark.

And online at wcbe.org

JJ Grey & Mofro will release THIS RIVER on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. This is Grey's seventh album and his first studio album since 2010's acclaimed Georgia Warhorse. 

Boston's Jesse Dee will bring his soul sounds to WCBE and play a few songs for us ahead of his show that night at Woodland's Tavern!

Join us for a set of Latin music as Grupo Fantasma will perform a few songs live during the Global Village! 

Josh Ritter is out on the road in support of his new release The Beast In Its Tracks and he'll be making a stop by WCBE to play a few songs live during the Global Village!

Tune in to hear local group Joshua P. James And The Paper Planes play a few songs live on WCBE ahead of (614) Magazine's 4th Anniversary Celebration at Skully's Music Diner on Sat. April 13th!

The Vermont based avant-pop artist Nick Zammuto and his four piece band will join us live during the Global Village.

Based out of Nashville, Louisiana native Kevin Gordon will play a few songs live for us during the Global Village.

Out of Nashville, TN., the southern folk pop family band The Vespers will play a few songs live during the Global Village! 

Tax day if fast approaching and William The Accountant is here to help ease the pain!

Today's guest, Leagues, provides a perfect start to World Cafe's week-long visit to Nashville, because it perfectly encapsulates the change going on there. A new rock band, Leagues was formed by an amazing singer, Thad Cockrell, who'd been so disenchanted with his alt-country career that he was ready to leave the music business altogether.

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This singer-songwriter will be at The Basement Sunday April 7.

After that, he will stay in town to play in studio a the following morning.

That's Michael Bernard Fitzgerald on 90.5 WCBE FM and HD Columbus.

Also at 106.3FM in Newark, and online at wcbe.org

Originally from Wiltshire, UK, Bobby Long now calls NYC his home.

Hadden Sayers will play a few songs for us during the Global Village ahead of his show that night at Murphy Theatre in Wilmington, OH.

Night Beds is the work of Winston Yellen, who originally started making music in his hometown of Colorado Springs. But he traveled to Nashville to write the songs for Night Beds' debut album, Country Sleep, in a pre-Civil War cabin once owned by Johnny Cash.

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