Welcome to Grateful Dread Public Radio, Baltimore’s progressive peace station. You’ll also find our award-winning longtime blog All Facts and Opinions housed and archived here, along with new postings sharing GDPR announcements and presenting news and commentary on current events, controversial issues, activism, society, culture, music, the arts, religion, and more.
Since 1996, The Armchair Activist/Grateful Dread Media, our independent noncommercial media activism and writing-services project, has presented Grateful Dread Public Radio, an internet radio station airing diverse sounds and ideas for open minds. The Little Peace-Minded Radio Station That Does provides progressive news/talk programming and commentary, POVs you won’t hear on corporate media, activism information and opportunities, info you can use on a variety of subjects, and our singular “Kind Mix” of multigenre music featuring ”name” and indie artists playing rock, reggae, jamband, country, folk, blues, funk, bluegrass, intelligent pop, ska, world and more. The mission behind the music and information is to spread a peace and justice message throughout Baltimore and the available listening community (the world); to entertain, inform, inspire and involve in hopes of motivating people to do their part to make this a better world; to give needed exposure to artists shut out of the mainstream; to educate on progressive issues, tolerance and nonviolence; to help in some small way to bring about a more peaceful, just, open society where equality under law exists for all.
Listening is available via Live365 VIP memberships (requires a monthly fee to Live365 - not part of station membership). Whether we can bring back the free stream is up to you.
This is an activist/altruist nonprofit effort. It lives or dies on the contributions of listener-members. If you can help with a contribution or by becoming a Supporting Member, please do - we need you. Send us an email or phone us at (800) 519-4610 to get all the details or donate directly with Paypal or a credit card. As we are not government-certified yet (we are in the midst of this long, expensive process), contributions are not tax-deductible at this time. Also, if you would like to get involved with the station by volunteering your efforts or donating equipment, office furniture/supplies or anything, please write us.
If you need to contact us (and artists certainly are encouraged to send along releases they wish considered for airplay; be sure to include a signed, notarized statement giving GDPR and NR Davis permission in perpetuity to air your material pro bono for promotional purposes), write us at:
GRATEFUL DREAD PUBLIC RADIO
c/o NR Davis, Program/Music Director
PO Box 32640
Baltimore, MD 21282
This is also the official mailing address for Grateful Dread Media.
We are looking toward building partnerships with progressive and GLBT groups in and around the Baltimore-Washington area. If you are involved with such a venture, odds are we’re on the same side in the world-fixing game; please contact us about the good we can do together via GDPR.
