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Founded January 1, 2005 and operated as a project of the John Sinclair Foundation, Radio Free Amsterdam is a grass-roots experiment ininternet radio designed to create our own radio station with unique music & arts programming contributed by independent broadcast producers from around the world and beamed out from our underground headquarters in Amsterdam over our 24-hour live broadcast stream and as regular podcasts that remain archived on the Radio Free Amsterdam website

• John Sinclair Radio Show Is the flagship of Radio Free Amsterdam. Created in Amsterdam by the award-winning broadcast producer in November 2004, the John Sinclair Radio Show presents an hour each week of the host’s unique mix of roots music, timely commentary and spontaneous conversation with a galaxy of guest musicians, artists and cultural activists emanating from the coffeeshops, nightspots and cultural centers of Amsterdam and from diverse locations throughout the Western world. Produced by John Sinclair, Larry Hayden & Henk Botwinik for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast every Monday at 4:20 pm CET (GMT+1).

• John Sinclair’s 420 New Orleans Show Presents an hour of ancestraland contemporary music from the Crescent City beaming out from the 420 Café in the heart of Amsterdam, featuring an incredible mix of R&B classics, brass band jams, Wild Indian records, modern blues and the spectacular sounds of New Orleans from yesterday, today and tomorrow—from Louis Armstrong to Dave Bartholomew to Nicholas Payton and James Andrews, Champion Jack Dupree to Professor Longhair to Allen Toussaint, James Booker and Dr. John. Produced by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast every Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 pm.

• Black Star Sound Is a weekly radio show generated in the nightclubs and dancehalls of Amsterdam by DJ Den-Den and his sidekick, MC T, spinning the hottest sounds emanating from Jamaica and the Caribbean for the serious dancers at the Paradiso, Melkweg, Bitterzoet and other popular spots around town. Produced by Black Star Sound for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast Fridays at 9:00 pm.

• Blue Dolphins Is a weekly one-hour blues show hosted by John Sinclair at The Dolphins coffeeshop in the center of Amsterdam and podcast every Tuesday night at 11:00 pm. Modeled after the host’s popular Blues & Roots program for WWOZ-FM in New Orleans between 1992-2003, Blue Dolphins features authentic American blues from the early days to the present, from Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters to Magic Slim & the Teardrops, with special emphasis on the music of the Mississippi Delta, post-war Chicago, Detroit and New Orleans.

• Blues from the Red Rooster Lounge Was created by producer and host Cary Wolfson from Blues Access magazine—operating under the aegis of a mythical old-school blues radio personality called the Red Rooster—almost 20 years ago and has long enjoyed syndication by a network of American radio stations ever since he first dreamed up the program. Now it’s podcast on Radio Free Amsterdam every Friday evening at 6:00 pm. Produced by Cary Wolfson and used with permission of the producer.

• Empty Bowl Is a whimsical food show hosted by Mary Jo Tunison, master chef and proprietor of Eat at Jo’s café in the Melkweg where the program originates. Mary Jo offers recipes from her culinary repertoire and a running commentary from the kitchen on her loyal staff, her ever-changing menu, her clientele and the countless bands she feeds before their Melkweg performances, countered by music about food selected and programmed by John Sinclair. Produced by Larry Hayden for RadioFree Amsterdam.

• Highway 61 Blues with Scott Barretta is an award-winning one-hour blues program made in Oxford MS for the Mississippi Public Broadcasting network. Each episode offers an in-depth investigation into the music of a particular artist, region, blues institution or other topic of interest to serious blues lovers. Scott Barretta is the former editor of Living Blues magazine and director (with Jim O’Neal) of the Blues Landmarks program of the State of Mississippi. Podcast by Radio Free Amsterdam Tuesdays at 10:00 pm.

• ImageMakers Anthony Murrell hosts our creative artists program for Stichting Episodes broadcast Wednesdays at 3:00 pm on Radio Free Amsterdam. Anthony is an Amsterdam-based painter, conceptual artist and producer of spectacular art exhibitions like the recent Inventors, Makers & Movers show at Arti & Amici gallery in October 2006. For this project Anthony invited 18 artists of diverse origin to create a new art work inspired by a particular invention patented by a black inventor. He documented the project from inception to exhibition on DVD and through this series of ImageMakers radio programs for Radio Free Amsterdam that brought the artists to the microphone with Anthony to discuss their participation in the project and their own interpretations of the inventions they’d chosen to honor by creating a new work.

• Jazz from the Hempshopper Is our Friday evening jazz hour at the Hempshopper on the Singel canal at the Haarlemerstraat in Amsterdam with John Sinclair spinning modern classics from giants of jazz like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Yusef Lateef and all the way out to Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra. Produced by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast Fridays at 8:00pm.

• Jazz Roots Is a weekly one-hour radio series hosted by award-winning author, educator and jazz scholar Tom Morgan for WWOZ-FM in New Orleans featuring music by an incredible array of artists, both famous and obscure, recorded during the first 40 years of jazz, with special emphasison the traditional music of New Orleans. Produced by Tom Morgan for WWOZ-FM and used with permission. Podcast every Thursday at 7:00 pm.

• The John Sinclair Radio Archives Presents a different episode each week of the John Sinclair Radio Show drawn from the host’s first 200 programs since the first show on November 22, 2004. Produced by John Sinclair, Henk Botwinik & Larry Hayden for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast every Thursday at 9:00 pm.

• Light Brigade Country Cavalcade with The Lonesome Cowboy comes to Radio Free Amsterdam from Los Angeles with an hour of classic and modern country & western record hits and obscurities presented with knowledge, wit and old-school radio charm by Chad Brown, a West Coast writer, musician and independent broadcast producer. Podcast by Radio Free Amsterdam Tuesdays at 9:00 pm.

• Tom Morgan’s New Orleans Music Show Comes to Radio Free Amsterdam from WWOZ-FM in New Orleans, where it’s a big part of the weekday lineup from 11:00 am til 2:00 pm every Tuesday. Tom’s New Orleans show is powered by the producer’s comprehensive Crescent City record collection and the encyclopedic musical knowledge he shares with his listeners as the program’s host. Tom’s shows have been edited into one-hour programs which are podcast every Friday at 7:00 pm. Produced by Tom Morgan for WWOZ-FM and used with permission.

• The Radio Free Amsterdam Vaults Will introduce our listeners to programs from independent producers in Amsterdam and elsewhere who created original programming for Radio Free Amsterdam in the early days of our internet radio experiment. These include the arts program series Image Makers hosted by Anthony Murrell for Stichting Episodes; Cosmic Paradigm Shift with Marx Marvelous; Classical Gourmet with Gary Barton of Cincinnati; the Global Open Mike show, The Yaw Show, Senor JuanBots, Accidental Mondays and Alternative Amsterdam. You’ll also hear the opening episodes of new program series like Scott Barretta’s Highway 61 blues show from Mississippi Public Radio, the Light Brigade Country Cavalcade with the Lonesome Cowboy from Los Angeles, and the Volunteers Visual Voice Show with Brett Wolfson-Stofko from Baltimore. The series is produced by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast Thursdays at 8:00 pm.

• Vintage Radio Vault Is our salute to the great disc jockeys and broadcast producers who have contributed to the advancement of our civilization by beaming out their programs over the radio airwaves. The first wave of music from the Vault features legendary Detroit radio personalities Frantic Ernie Durham and Famous Coachman, the final edition of the Brass Band Jam show with the Duke of Tchoupitoulas on WWOZ, a series of special program productions by award-winning New Orleans radio producer David Kunian, Produced by john Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam and podcast Fridays at 5:00 pm.

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