GLT Events

Sweet Corn Blues Fest

There's no need to play favorites at this year's Sweet Corn Blues Fest. You'll find both corn and blues in abundance in Uptown Normal August 23rd and 24th. Enjoy blues from local favorites, including Hip Pocket. Get your share of the 50,000 ears of sweet corn. Visit the GLT booth and listen for live updates on GLT from Uptown Normal, made possible by Vitesse Cycle Shop.

Budweiser Illinois Blues Fest

Labor Day weekend's Illinois Blues Fest on the rivefront in Peoria is an end of summer central Illinois tradition. We'll be there Friday August 29th and Saturday August 30th. This weekend (08/22-24) during GLT Blues, we'll give you a chance to hear this year's musicians -- including Tommy Castro, The Lonnie Brooks Band, Bernard Allison and more. You'll also have a chance to win passes to the fest. Don't miss our Illinois Blues Fest Weekend with your chance to win passes and get a musical preview.

Reporting on Reporters

On the Media, Sunday at 10 AM

You're invited to turn on, tune in, and wise up with On the Media. Hosts and veteran journalists Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield decode what you hear, read, and see in the media every day, arming you with the critical tools necessary to survive the information age. With compelling reporting and uncommon insight, the program breaks through the white noise to uncover significant issues of the day and carefully expose the relationship of the media to culture and society.

Infamous Stringdusters

See this up and coming bluegrass six piece September 13th

The Infamous Stringdusters debut CD won the coveted Album of the Year from the International Bluegrass Music Association in 2007, with the title cut “Fork in the Road” earning Song of the Year. GLT presents this amazing band at Illinois State University's Center for the Performing Arts, Saturday, September 13th. Tickets are available right now!

GLT Technology Update

New Transmitter for GLT

Soon we'll be unwrapping new digital radio stations. First we had to unwrap a new digital transmitter (see photo with GLT Engineer Mark Hill). Transitioning to digital radio means our main signal will sound a bit better and we'll be able to bring you two new radio stations. To accomplish this, we've installed and are still tweaking a new transmitter. Until the installation is complete, we may sound a little funny and sometimes you may not be able to hear us at all. We're sorry for any inconvenience, but we think you'll like the new listening options coming soon.

New Look for GLT On-Line

You're looking at the new wglt.org. After months of sweating every detail we've launched a site we think is more navigable, easier on the eye and better organized (and easier for us to update and maintain). But our opinion is not the one that matters. Let us know what think about this new web site and be sure to let us know if you encounter a problem. Thanks to GLT staff Pat Peterson and Mike McCurdy for shepherding this project and thanks to Jacob DeGeal and Alex Skorpinski with Institutional Web Support Services at Illinois State University.

ME @ The GP

Morning Editon at the Garlic Press Market Café

GLT returns to the Garlic Press Market Café and you're invited to submit a question and even stop by to watch live radio. If you want you can even ask your question live on the air. During the next ME @ the GP Jim Browne will have local news weather and sports and Willis Kern talks with experts about the big threat to McLean County trees from a tiny beetle.

GLT Jazz

Listen Monday through Friday

You can hear a jazz mix that ranges from the newest to the some of the earliest on GLT. Check out Laura Kennedy and Jon Norton and our daytime mix, great to keep you company during the day. Evenings are a time to relax. We're even here overnight. Listen as Kevin Trueblood brings you GLT Jazz until Morning Edition at 5 AM. Hear swinging early jazz during SwingTime, Tuesday at 7 PM and swing is the thing during Radio Munson Thursday night at 7. Check out our program grid to find a time you can enjoy GLT Jazz.