WMOT Roots Radio is joining the local
Murfreesboro Loves initiative to boost business around the downtown square this
Saturday.
WMOT will broadcast live with host Whit Hubner from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, from Puckett’s Grocery &
Restaurant, 114 N. Church St. in downtown Murfreesboro. The radio station has
booked several guest artists to perform throughout the event, which is being
called WMOT Loves.
“WMOT is more than just a radio station, it’s a community of artists,
listeners and supporters,” said Val Hoeppner, executive director of
WMOT Roots Radio and director of MTSU’s Center for Innovation in Media.
“Music transforms your mood, your day and makes you resilient. WMOT
Loves is our way of using music to lift up our Murfreesboro business community
who closed last weekend in anticipation of protests.”
Last Saturday’s scheduled White Lives Matter rally prompted numerous
downtown businesses to close on what for some was the busiest day of the week. Murfreesboro
Loves, the counter-protest effort made up of a variety of individuals and
organizations, is behind an effort to drive business downtown this Saturday to
help those affected businesses recoup some of their losses.
WMOT Loves live performance times and artists are as follows:
• 10:30 a.m. — Plow'd
• 11 a.m. — India Ramey
• 11:30 a.m. — Travis Meadows
• Noon — Webb Wilder
• 12:30 p.m. — Jon Latham
• 1 p.m. — John Salaway
• 1:30 p.m. — HooDoo Men
WMOT-FM is a 100,000-watt professional radio station housed in
the Center for Innovation in Media inside MTSU’s Bragg Media
and Entertainment Building. The station changed formats Sept. 2, 2016, from its
classical, jazz and news-talk focus to Americana in a partnership with Music
City Roots, a Nashville-based firm that provides programming for both radio
and television.
WMOT, which broadcasts at 89.5 FM as well as online at www.wmot.org, is a
charter member of National Public Radio since 1969 and the
region’s only Americana music channel.
For more information about WMOT-FM Roots Radio 89.5, part of
MTSU’s College of Media and Entertainment, visit www.wmot.org.
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