Playlist for Saturday, October 25, 2025

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

6:00 am

WFMT Membership Drive

Until 12:00pm.

12:00 pm

From Aix-en-Provence Festival

Bizet's Pearl Fishers

Elsa Benoit (Leïla); Pene Pati (Nadir); Florian Sempey (Zurga); Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Nourabad); Grand Avignon Opera Chorus & Les Musiciens du Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor. Sung in French.

2:30 pm

Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

An interview with VOCES8 artistic director Barnaby Smith and alto Katie Jeffrie-Harris on the ensemble's twentieth anniversary season.

5:00 pm

Music with Jan Weller

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

From the archives: Charming, powerful and modest, Californian Jackson Emmer came to WFMT in 2023, enthusiastically recommended by Tom Paxton with sideman Martin Gilmore, a 2025 Kerrville New Folk winner.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Made in Chicago: a cavalcade of Windy City folksinger and songs about our hometown to accompany WFMT’s on-air membership drive.