WUFT Host Interviews

"People still don't believe that we made up the stuff on 'Whose Line?' That's like the bane of our existence ... that some people just think 'there is no way they're making this up,' which is in a certain sense ... like the ultimate compliment and insult all in one."

WUFT's Fanfares From Home features several former Fanfares favorites performing like you’ve never seen before, including Billy Buchanan, Bears and Lions, the Savants of Soul, UF Health Arts in Medicine Musicians in Residence (Michael Claytor, Jason Hedges, Ricky Kendall, Sam Moss, and Cienna Wesley) Maestro Gary Langford from the Gainesville Community Band, and two unique videos produced this past May – one from the City of Gainesville called the Gainesville Sing-A-Long and Band Together.

"I totally fail at keep[ing] my hands off my face. Let me just say that aloud, I can’t not touch my face. I’m a face-toucher. … If that’s the solution, then I, personally, am doomed."

WUFT Morning Edition host, Glenn Richards, recently spoke with two founding members of the Gainesville punk band, Piss Test: guitarist Mike McCoy and front-woman, Debra Fetzer. Fetzer is no stranger to the Gainesville music scene having been in numerous bands over the years including the legendary all-female punk band, Mutley …

WUFT Morning Edition host, Glenn Richards, spoke with Gainesville musician and writer Travis Atria about his new book, Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp. Travis is a graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism …

Six months after Glenn Richards’ conversation with Jason Hedges about his band’s debut album, Jason (also frontman of the Petty tribute band, Heavy Petty) would be organizing a concert to celebrate the life and legacy of Gainesville’s Tom Petty, who passed away unexpectedly on October 2nd. Two years later, that original event – held over what would have been Petty’s 67th birthday – has grown into the Tom Petty Birthday Weekend featuring multiple events across the city including two music festivals.

Nick Bublitz says, “The co-production is a yearly event between the School of Theater and Dance and the Hippodrome and it is the base of which we kind of launch both seasons … and it’s a wonderful opportunity to really have students at the School of Theater and Dance work professionally at the Hippodrome.”

Travis Atria says, "Essentially, these songs sound better than they ever have before. This is the ideal version of the album."

All The V Words will perform at the Hardback Cafe in Gainesville on Thursday, July 11, with the Ghetto Blasters (Chattanooga) and P*** Test (Gainesville).