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Program Directory

World

  • Beer For Breakfast

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

    Tasti­er than toast, Beer For Break­fast is a full-serv­ing of home­grown artists, with a side order of vis­it­ing musi­cians.

    Span­ning all gen­res with the sweet sounds of Peg City since 1999, Broose deliv­ers direct to your radio; news, show list­ings, inter­views, per­for­mances, and tons of tunes; live, baby, live, every Sat­ur­day morn­ing at 8am.

    Plus, we end every show with the Near­ly Sci­en­tif­ic Six Pack — the six hottest songs from Peg City.

    Thank you for sup­port­ing local music.

  • Coalescence

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

    A sat­is­fy­ing mix of indie, alter­na­tive, and beyond, fea­tured in lan­guages from around the globe.

    Expect yodel­ing from time to time.

  • Expansive Prairie Skies

    Expan­sive Prairie Skies draws inspi­ra­tion from the wide open vis­tas that sur­round Win­nipeg.
    It’s the oppo­site of feel­ing hemmed in.
    It’s the sound­track to a late night dri­ve beneath a boun­ty of con­stel­la­tions.
    Con­tem­po­rary clas­si­cal and actu­al clas­si­cal.
    Avant-garde and musique con­crete.
    Noise and ambi­ent music.
    Jazz and more jazz.
    The host pro­vides the son­ic stratos­phere,
    the music does the talk­ing, you do the dreaming.

  • Festival Express

    Join some of your favorite UMFM hosts as they pre­view fes­ti­val sea­son here in Win­nipeg, fea­tur­ing inter­views and music from just a few of the great artists head­ed to Winnipeg!

  • Free Range Radio

    Your ol’ pal Skip­py cov­ers the musi­cal land­scape! Tune in each week for great music and what­ev­er else comes his way!

  • International Feel


    From the hosts that brought you Gold­soundz, 3D Radio, and Crude Radio, comes a new hour-long show for the ages. Broad­cast­ing a kalei­do­scope of obscure Funk, Jazz, Reg­gae, and spaced-out weird­ness from around the world every Wednes­day night from 9 – 10, Inter­na­tion­al Feel will be locked into your dial, whether you’re aware of it or not. Enjoy.

  • Latin Explosion!

    The orig­i­nal LATIN EXPLO­SION radio show (1972−1982) goes back to Chica­go at the peak of the Sal­sa music explo­sion! First launched as a mid­night show sev­en days a week on WEDC 12.40AM, the pro­gram’s last years were on anoth­er Chica­go sta­tion, WOJO FM 105.1 week­day after­noons and final­ly late night.

    Incred­i­bly, we were able to get LATIN EXPLO­SION on the air again after mov­ing to Sara­so­ta. In June 2018 LATIN EXPLO­SION launched as a two hour show Fri­day morn­ings 7 – 9AM Thank you, WSLR 96.5FM Sara­so­ta Com­mu­ni­ty Radio and Sara­so­ta music fans!

    Big thanks to the lis­ten­ers, music lovers and sup­port­ers across North Amer­i­ca that tune in week after week to hear the best in 20th Cen­tu­ry Sal­sa, Latin Jazz and Afro-Cuban music!

    • Thursday, 12:00am–2:00am
    • Juan Montenegro
    • World

  • Live on KEXP

    Live Music record­ed local­ly and dis­trib­uted around the world. Brought to you by KEXP.

    Under the Nee­dle is a week­ly series fea­tur­ing the best of KEXP’s live in-stu­dio per­for­mances. With finan­cial sup­port from the Cor­po­ra­tion for Pub­lic Broad­cast­ing, KEXP is mak­ing this week­ly series avail­able at no cost to col­lege and com­mu­ni­ty sta­tions from across the coun­try. Each show is also archived and avail­able on this site. KEXP hosts over 400 in-stu­dio ses­sions each year, includ­ing a range of gen­res and a mix of well-estab­lished and up-and-com­ing artists. Kevin Cole and his staff choose among these ses­sions to bring an eclec­tic mix of incred­i­ble live per­for­mances to Under the Needle.

  • Pastoral MIDI

    Dreamy, vin­tage, under­ground, and out-there sounds from Cana­da and around the world. Explor­ing the cos­mos of synth pop, rock, AOR schlock, ita­lo, folk, exper­i­men­tal, indie, ambi­ent, house, soul, tech­no, shoegaze, dream pop, and every­thing in between. 

  • Planet Mainstage

    Plan­et Main­stage is tru­ly music with­out bor­ders, play­ing you the best in World and Folk music from near and afar each and every Sat­ur­day after­noon from 2 to 4 pm! (Face­book: Plan­et Mainstage)

  • Revolution Radio

    UMFM’s answer to Brave New Waves, Rev­o­lu­tion Radio is an eclec­tic mix of punk, new wave, ska and reg­gae, with even some Brit pop thrown in for good measure!

    Your host Twist spins a com­bi­na­tion of clas­sic and new­er tracks from each genre, plus a healthy dose of local music.

    Be part of the Rev­o­lu­tion every Tues­day, from 4 to 5:30, on UMFM 101.5 !!

  • Ryan Inc.

    Wel­come and thank you for tun­ing into Ryan Inc., your one stop shop for all the weird, wacky music of our won­der­ful world. 

  • Seasons

    Wel­come to Sea­sons!

    Like Sea­sons peo­ple change and so does their moods. This show is moody and is inspired by the weath­er. The show intends to deliv­er the songs that will help you find the cozi­ness that you need no mat­ter how you feel and where you might be. The songs are picked week­ly for each episode with a theme and the songs are select­ed to fit the time and the weather. 

    The Music picked for the show are from new Indie artists, Video Games, Visu­al Nov­els, Inter­na­tion­al Music, Film, The­atre, and more!

    So do not hes­i­tate to send your favourite song to get fea­tured that you think fits a moody and chill evening vibe! 

  • 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 Bassment Sessions

    The Bass­ment Ses­sions is a week­ly radio show focus­ing on the his­to­ry & music of reg­gae, dub, hip-hop the gen­res they spawned. Host­ed by Dub­matix, a Juno-award-win­ning artist/​producer with a deep back­ground in radio and production.

  • The Heat Wave Baby Shutdown

    TBA

    • Saturday, 12:00pm–2:00pm
    • MGL
    • World

  • The Pan-Africanist

    The Pan-African­ist is on sum­mer sab­bat­i­cal, but will be back in the fall!

    • Thursday, 4:00pm–5:00pm
    • Rumbidzai
    • World

  • 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.

  • UMFM Night Mix

    laten­ite robot sounds