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Program Directory

Jazz & Classical

  • Terminal 7

    Jazz and clas­si­cal music with a strong focus on con­tem­po­rary sounds. These are umbrel­la terms for styles of music that draw more and more from dif­fer­ent gen­res around the world. Take a son­ic jour­ney through sound­scapes that con­vey a wide vari­ety of moods that can be dif­fi­cult to put into words.

  • Thank God It's Free Range!

    Thank God It’s Free Range! Join host (and UMFM Pro­gram Direc­tor) Michael Elves as he starts the week­end off with a run­down on upcom­ing shows; inter­views with local, nation­al and inter­na­tion­al artists; and all sorts of good music. Here on 101.5 UMFM, the week­end starts now!

  • The Night Shift

    The Night Shift fever­ish­ly sup­ports diverse, adven­tur­ous artists and musi­cal gen­res, rang­ing from Psy­che­del­ic Punk to Post-Jazz, Instru­men­tal Hip-Hop to Musique Con­crète, with a heavy focus on Cana­di­an and Inde­pen­dent artists .

  • the rest is noise

    doing it to you in your earhole

  • The Sentinel's Marvellous Kaleidoscope

    Through this lens, you will be guid­ed on audi­ble explo­rations, gaz­ing across the ever-chang­ing hori­zon of music. The fan­tas­ti­cal sound­scape is filled with land­marks, relics and anom­alies in pro­gres­sive, fusion and alter­na­tive styles, near and far. Each obser­va­tion­al ses­sion is con­stel­la­to­ry, pul­ver­iz­ing, mys­ti­fy­ing… and sim­ply marvellous.

  • The Wee Hours

    **cur­rent­ly on a COVID-induced hia­tus, enjoy some ​“clas­sic” episodes or automa­tion until we even­tu­al­ly return**

    Serv­ing insom­ni­acs, drunks, the lone­ly, cab­bies, night­shifters and odd­balls since 1998.

  • This, That and the Third

    Find­ing the through-line between jazz, soul, hip-hop funk and neo-soul. With ele­ments of punk rock and oth­er gen­res, Bren­dan will be putting togeth­er a diverse set-list every week. With­out a doubt, ​“This, That, and the Third” is quick­ly going to become your new favourite radio show!

  • Traveling Without Moving

    dial it !

  • UMFM Night Mix

    laten­ite robot sounds

  • Witchpolice Radio

    A bunch of dudes sit­ting around lis­ten­ing to records and argu­ing. The dis­cus­sion and musi­cal selec­tions of each epsiode are based around a week­ly theme. Fea­tur­ing hosts Sam, Jon and Rob, all of whom are in or have been in bands togeth­er in var­i­ous com­bi­na­tions since 1995. 

    Guest hosts appear week­ly, includ­ing local musi­cians who per­form live on the show.

  • Zassman Plays The Classics

    Nathan Zass­man presents his favourite clas­si­cal music pieces in an edu­ca­tion­al the­mat­ic style. Zass­man Plays The Clas­sics includes sym­phonies, operas, con­cer­tos, over­tures, and cham­ber music. Nathan stud­ied with the great Arnold Jacobs at The Amer­i­can Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music in Chica­go before mov­ing to Win­nipeg. He per­formed as 2nd trom­bon­ist with the Win­nipeg Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra for 21 years. A for­mer mem­ber of the U of M Fac­ul­ty of Music, Nathan taught music edu­ca­tion majors at the Fac­ul­ty of Edu­ca­tion, coached and con­duct­ed brass ensem­bles, and pro­vid­ed pri­vate instruc­tion for all brass instruments.