Welcome to WVBI 91.9 FM, Beaver Island’s premier nonprofit, community-run radio station broadcasting from the heart of Lake Michigan. Our station brings the unique island spirit to listeners locally at 91.9 FM and worldwide through wvbi.net.
What We Offer
Our signature Cottage Mix delivers a diverse musical experience featuring:
• Pop, oldies, and country classics
• Celtic and folk traditions
• Jazz rhythms and local Island artists
• Special programming including tech tips and Islander stories
Stay connected with our comprehensive news coverage bringing you updates from around the world and keeping you informed about everything happening on Beaver Island.
Community Connection
WVBI serves as the heartbeat of Beaver Island, showcasing local talent and stories that matter to our community. Tune in for our Community Calendar updates and Island Reflections series that capture the essence of island living.
Special Programming
Friday’s enjoy "That Thing with Rich Appel" featuring top-forty hits from the 70s. Also, The Titus Jennings Experience" offering music from all genres, followed by "The Midnight Special" with Marilyn Rea Beyer  for music, farce comedy, and late-night escape.
Discover unique shows like Songs from the Trail, our Michigan-centric music program highlighting talented artists from across the Great Lakes State. Hosted by Steve Girbach and Jackson Smith, the Saturday evening showcase connects listeners to Michigan’s vibrant music scene and Country Classics with Sheri Timsak. Mark Beltaire brings Rockin' the Boat and the Blues Cruise Cousin Dan wraps up the night with the Too Good Radio Show and Tech Tips with Greg Doig
Listen Anywhere
Whether you’re on Beaver Island or across the globe, WVBI brings the island experience to you. Our worldwide listeners span continents, with fans tuning in from as far as Australia and Brazil.

Community Calendar Report For Friday, July 11, 2025

Ray speaks with Lama Jigme Rinpoche about his book "Refining The Mind: The Transformative Process of Buddhism"; also, Martha's Vineyard Community Services' CEO, Dean Teague; and Amy Vanneman shares Part One of the Three Part discussion with Documentary Filmmaker, Dawn Porter ("Eyes on the Prize III - We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest")

This program is supported by Cronigs Market, Morning Glory Farm, and MV Wine and Spirits

Vineyard Current - July 13th, 2025 (Lama Jigme Rinpoche; Dean Teague; and Filmmaker Dawn Porter)

312th radio show on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Check out the show page here ---> www.kalw.org/show/marcus-rosario

Tracklist:
Ami Taf Ra - Love (feat. Ryan Porter)  
Hector Plimmer - Infinity Mirrors (feat. Laura Misch & Marysia Osu)  
Monzanto Sound - Midas  
Jimi Tenor & Cold Diamond & Mink - July Blue Skies  
COLLIGNON - Vai Vai Vai (Into The Stars)  
SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE - LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE  
Her New Knife - kittyriff  
Sour Widows - Revival  
Tropical Fuck Storm - Teeth Marche  
Reginald Omas Mamode IV - No Maybes  
Cinema Royal, Nitai Hershkovits & Rejoicer - Affair in Redondo  
The Mystery Lights - Cerebral Crack  
Adrian Quesada & iLe - Bravo  
Brenda - Where Did I Go Wrong?  
Charbel Haber, Nicolas Jaar & Sary Moussa - Part 3  
Derya Yildirim & Grup Simsek - Nem Kaldi  
Sababa 5 - Zenith  
Elkotsh - Saraya  
Phoebe Rings - Aseurai  
Haruomi Hosono - Bara To Yaju  
Dusty - Nebula  
Girls of the Internet & Dani Siciliano - In My Dreams  
Falle Nioke - LDN Girl (feat. TaliaBle)  
John Glacier - Fly With Me  
Sunborn & Clap! Clap! - Acaraje do Salmao  
Quest - Smooth Skin  
L'Eclair - VERTIGO  
Gilligan Moss & Pollena - Do It For Yourself  
NEIL FRANCES - Teardrops (CLUB NF Version)  
The White Stripes - It's True That We Love One Another  


#312 • Live on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco Bay Area • July 9, 2025

313th radio show on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Check out the show page here ---> www.kalw.org/show/marcus-rosario

Tracklist:
Cochemea - Ancestros Futuros  
Mario-Georges & Razeen, Mor.lov - Nazel * nzil  
Nu Genea - Scialla  
MATTERS UNKNOWN & Somewhere Soul - Dream of the Contest (feat. megiapa)  
Kokoroko - Da Du Dah  
Roots Artefact - The Big Calm Dubwise  
Thee Marloes - Midnight Hotline  
Sinead Rua - Summer Spells  
Sons of Sevilla - Butterfly  
Potions Music NYC - Mother Oranya  
Sum of Its Parts - Hello High  
Ana Frango Eletrico - A Sua Diversao  
Melly & Slap - Tenha Calma  
No, Tori & Joao Menezes - te ver  
Cristina Camargo - Moral Tem Hora  
The Mauskovic Dance Band - Buckaroo Bank  
Thee Marloes - Beri Cinta Waktu (Instrumental)  
Vumbi Dekula & Dekula Band - Nzenze Ya Kwetu  
WITCH - Bang Bang  
Kanazoe Orkestra - Balan  
Busy Twist, Zongo Abongo, Bryte - Enya Easy  
Ginton, Richard Bona, Salif Keita - Kalaboncoro  
Ginton, Richard Bona, Salif Keita - Kalaboncoro (Instrumental)  
Buscabulla - Incredula  
Soulwax - Run Free  
Kirti Anuraag - Zindagi To Zindagi Hai (Daniel T. Rework)  
STRFKR - Chizzlers  
Q Lazzarus - Summertime  
NBI - Alphawaves  
Sai Galaxy - All Day Cool  
Psychic Mirrors - French Dip  
Leo Basel - Quelle Drole De Vie (Nick the record & dan tyler re-edit)  
East Coast Love Affair - Xylocopa Violacea  


#313 • Live on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco Bay Area • July 12, 2025

Joe Stickles speaks with Former Red Sox Player, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, who is now the Field Manager for the Falmouth Commodores


Jarrod Saltalamacchia - Field Manager of the Falmouth Commodores

TROY Public Radio’s newest podcast, "Inside Job: Understanding Vicky White", takes a look at how the relationships between prison guards and inmates can quickly go wrong.
And, the Rosa Parks Museum on the Montgomery campus is hosting a new exhibit highlighting the ongoing fight against inequality.

The Talk of TROY - "Inside Job: Understanding Vicky White" - July 18th, 2025

Alright, alright, alright! How do some catchphrases become part of the larger vernacular—to the point where people don’t always know the original reference? And the island of Ocracoke off the coast of North Carolina has a distinctive dialect all its own. A new book shows how tourism is changing how the locals talk.  Plus: Are you binge-watching or stinge-watching? If you’re stinge-watching your favorite TV series, you’re savoring it over a long period of time. Also, smearcase, names for imaginary friends, a disem-voweled puzzle, steen o’clock, the rocky origin of cloud, dreepy, nicknames for days of the week, bag raising, and how to pronounce the word mobile when it refers to that toy that hangs above a crib. http://waywordradio.org

Imaginary Friends (Full Episode)

Lulu Miller is a Peabody Award–winning journalist, co-host of Radiolab, founder of the podcast Terrestrials, and author of the acclaimed book Why Fish Don’t Exist. She joins to discuss her career at the intersection of science, philosophy, and storytelling, inviting us to question how we understand the world and our place within it.

Lulu Miller

316th radio show on KALW 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Check out the show page here ---> www.kalw.org/show/marcus-rosario

Tracklist:
Jambar - Afrodream  
Me and My Friends - Bring Summer  
D.D. Mirage & Private Joy - Night Time  
Smoke City - Underwater Love  
Soulnaturals - Give Me the Strength to Be Me (feat. Chalibrann) [Instrumental]  
The Altons - Love You Like That  
The Emkays - Let Love Walk Out Again  
54 Ultra - Where Are You  
Sly & The Family Stone - Try A Little Tenderness (Live in Redwood City, CA 3/26/67)  
Fish Go Deep - South Gate Step  
Koko Taylor - Voodoo Woman  
Feed LA - Fast Cash (Up In Stratosphere)  
Murray - Pantum Lama  
Santana - Se a Cabo  
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Speaking in Parallel  
Meridian Brothers - Cumbia del Relicario  
Afrosound - Cumbia de E.T. Extraterrestre  
Sonora Casino - Astronautas a Mercurio  
Bobby Matos And The Combo Conquistadores - Tema De Alma Latina  
Rick Panzer - Plies  
Lynda Dawn - Where You Are  
Yaya Bey - dream girl  
Pennye Ford - Don't You Know That I Love You  
The Pendletons - Waiting On You  
JT Donaldson - Sunday Drive  
Basement Jaxx - Bambina feat. Martina Camargo (Dream Edit)  
Prospa - If You Want My Loving  
Swindle - Summer Fruits  
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Beggin (Pilooski Edit)  
Dexter Colt - Guided  
Aliah Sheffield - Earth Is Ghetto  


#316 • Live on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco Bay Area • July 20, 2025

TROY University’s Sorrel College of Business is revamping its entrepreneurship program. The program focuses on training students in sales, marketing, and product creation.
Plus, we'll revisit the "Music Man" statue outside of the John M. Long School of Music on the main campus.

The Talk of TROY - "Entrepreneurship Program & Music Man Statue" - July 25th, 2025

A Way with Words is a fun and funny public radio program about language examined through history, culture, and family. Its mission is to change the way you think about language. The program is heard by broadcast and podcast across the United States and around the world by more than a quarter-million listeners each week. It's produced by Wayword, Inc., a nonprofit whose mission is to promote lifelong learning, better human communication, and the value of a thing well-said or well-written. Call or write with your language questions at any time: (877) 929-9673 (toll-free in the US and Canada) or just email us: words@waywordradio.org.

WVBI is a nonprofit, community-run radio station, broadcasting to Beaver Island, Michigan at 91.9 FM and worldwide on wvbi.net, to bring you a variety of music along with news, events, and local information. Our Cottage Mix offers a unique blend of pop, oldies, country, Celtic, folk, jazz, and Island artists. Our news shows bring you the latest from around the world, and keep you up to speed on everything that’s happening on Beaver Island. You’ll also enjoy special programming like tech tips, interviews, personal stories from Islanders, and more.

Troy Public Radio is proud to serve its listeners in the tri-state coverage area of central and southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle. Our network offers world, national and regional news, arts and cultural programming and is affiliated with National Public Radio, Public Radio International, the Associated Press and the Alabama Broadcasters Association.

Troy Public Radio also broadcasts in HD (Hybrid Digital). Our HD service is provided free to listeners (HD receiver required to receive HD stations). HD 2 broadcasts a mix of classical and jazz while HD 3 broadcasts BBC World News. All of the Troy University Public Radio stations and HD channels offer listeners a commercial-free radio experience.

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• Saturdays & Sundays 12pm-2pm PST on @kalw 91.7 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area & worldwide at https://kalw.org 

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Design Matters by Debbie Millman features interviews with designers, artists and cultural leaders, including Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Kruger, Malcolm Gladwell, Eric Kandel, Stefan Sagmeister, John Maeda, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, Michael Arad, Milton Glaser, Massimo Vignelli, Paula Scher, Steven Heller, Jonah Lehrer, among others.

In 2011, Design Matters received the People’s Design Award from the prestigious Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.

Subscribe to Design Matters for free on iTunes, where new episodes are uploaded weekly: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/design-matters-debbie-millman/id328074695

One of the last radio stations in the United States that not only features local/regional content, but never forgets that radio is a one on one mode of communication. And, of course, we bring you classic rock/folk/world music from the 20th Century, but Americana from the last and this century as well.

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