WPAQ: Your Home For Bluegrass & Old-Time String Music!
Tune in online, or at 106.7 FM / 740 AM- On Groundhog Day, 1948 people living around Mount Airy, North Carolina tuned their radios to 740 on the AM dial. After months of anticipation and excitement, they heard the first radio station their area could call its own.
- WPAQ presents a combination of bluegrass, old time and gospel music, plus religious programs not too removed from the original 1948 offerings.
- Live music by local musicians is presented each Saturday on WPAQ’s Merry-Go-Round program.
Merry-Go-Round
Schedule
Live Radio Broadcast
Every Saturday from 11 am to 1:30 pm at the Historic Earle Theatre, Downtown Mount Airy, NC
What’s On Air Now? (and coming up)
Mountain Morning
Morning Devotions
Triumphant Truth
What's New From WPAQ?
We are incredibly grateful to share that WPAQ has once again been nominated for Bluegrass Radio Station of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America
This nomination truly belongs to the musicians who trust us with their songs, the DJs who show up with passion and knowledge every week, and most of all, our listeners who keep bluegrass alive by tuning in, calling in, and supporting local music.
Being included alongside so many respected stations is an honor we don’t take lightly. Thank you to SPBGMA, and thank you to our bluegrass community near and far. We’re proud to do this work and grateful to be part of such a special tradition!
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#WPAQ #BluegrassCommunity
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Happy Saturday and Happy New Year! We hope you’re having a wonderful weekend! Stay tuned to WPAQ 740 AM 106.7 FM The Voice of the Blue Ridge all day this Saturday, for traditional, bluegrass, and old-time music 🎶this morning followed by Sunday School at 8am, followed by Nana’s Story Time at 8:15. Then, at 9am join us for Vintage Bluegrass with your old radio pal Tim Frye followed by Through the Bible, then The Gods Child Records Radio Show at 10:30, with your host John Rees. From 11-1:30 WPAQ presents the Merry Go Round, broadcast live from The Historic Earle Theatre & Old-Time Music Heritage Hall in Downtown Mount Airy. From 11-12 we’ll be featuring Snow Creek Old Time Band followed by Steve Marshall And High Road from 12-1:30. Following the Merry go Round stay tuned for Joe Buzzard’s Early Country Classics, then at 2pm, Born in the Mountian with Ivy S Sheppard followed by The Blue Ridge Spotlight with Kenneth Berrier! From 6-9pm enjoy classic big band sounds on Sundown Serenade! Stay tuned to 740am, WPAQ 106.7fm or online at www.wpaq740.com for great music 24 hours a day! Please take a moment and subscribe to our new YouTube channel. #wpaq740am #since1948 #ontheair
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🎻 TOMORROW ON WPAQ: BREAKIN’ UP JANUARY JAM 🎻
Before the fiddles fire up and the flatfootin’ hits the floor, tune in tomorrow at 3:00 PM as Kelly Epperson talks with Steve Solis about the Breakin’ Up January Jam, part of the Legends of Grayson Old-Time Weekend.
They’ll share details about this free, family-friendly jam, the musicians behind it, and why events like this matter so much to keeping old-time music alive in our region.
📅 Breakin’ Up January Jam
🕖 Saturday, January 31 at 7:00 PM
📍 The Station on Elk Creek Parkway
🎶 Open jam • Flatfootin’ • Food & fellowship
📻 Hear the interview on WPAQ
• 740 AM
• 106.7 FM
• Streaming at wpaq740.com
Turn it up, mark your calendar, and come be part of the story. 🎶
#WPAQ #BreakinUpJanuaryJam #LegendsOfGrayson #OldTimeMusic #MountainMusic #LocalRadio
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SOUP FELLOWSHIP & HYMN SINGING. Don't miss it!
Join us for a cozy, joy-filled evening of warm fellowship and delicious homemade soup, followed by a hymn singing gospel concert featuring congregational singing and special music.
WHEN - Sat. Feb. 7th @ 5:00 PM – Soup Fellowship in the Fellowship Hall
IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING – Hymn Singing & Gospel Concert in the Sanctuary
🍲 Bring: Your favorite pot of soup
🥖 Everything else is provided!
This is a night to gather in fellowship with each other, sing some favorite old songs, worship the Lord, and be encouraged together.
Invite your friends and neighbors. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
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Where Can You Hear Us?
10,000 Watts of AM Coverage – Listening tests indicate a receivable signal throughout area shown. Reports from many parts of North Carolina and Virginia, as well as from West Virginia and Tennessee, confirm the vast coverage of the WPAQ Clear Channel Signal. Station operates with one thousand Watts for approximately 1 ½ hours after sunrise and before sunset. (FM operates at full power 24 hours per day)
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Listen On FM Radio
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Listen On AM Radio
Tune in at 740AM
