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?
Happy Saturday and Merry Christmas 🎄 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 11-1:30 we’ll be featuring High Country Grass on the Merry Go Round. 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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Happy New Year Everyone!
As we go into 2026, we are announcing our “Farewell Tour”.
After 17 years of performing in front of the best people and venues across multiple states, it’s time to take a break, focus on our health and our families. We are looking forward to seeing you all on the road this year and will be featuring only the best in traditional bluegrass music.
I personally want to thank the current band (Henry Mabe, Tim Frye, Hersie McMillan, & Doug Joyce) for all they do. I consider these folks not only to be friends but family (some really are family)! I’m sure you will see them out and about with other bands after years end, and I hope you will support them.
Also, to all those that played a critical part in the success of the band including previous members (Rebecca Jones, Hunter Motts, Renee Martin, Jon Faries, and Danny Bowers), words can not express my gratitude for your time and sacrifices.
I am thankful for the opportunites and experiences that I have had. From immeasurable quality time with my dad on stage, sharing laughs and tall tales on the road, to meeting my wife. Bluegrass Music has been the common denominator.
With all that said, 2026 will be a special year! We hope to make it as memorable for you as it will be for us. Make sure to follow us here on Facebook for all dates.
And who knows, you might even see us from time to time in future years!
Stay tuned - Travis Frye
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We had a real good time on the Merry Go Round this Saturday! Thank you to all the folks who called in with requests! Thank you New Direction Bluegrass for your beautiful bluegrass Christmas music 🎵 Thank you, Wes Clifton, Kevin and Trish Fore, Chloe Mylet, Paul Brown for the impromptu Breaking up Christmas 🎄 #wpaq740 #breakinupchristmas #since1948 #wedothiseverysaturday
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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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