Wisconsin Public Radio’s Jonathan Overby named to Folk DJ Hall of Fame

Jonathan Øverby, a Milwaukee native and host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s international music program “The Street to Larger Floor,” was inducted into Folks Alliance Worldwide’s Folks DJ Corridor of Fame Wednesday night time, at a ceremony in Kansas Metropolis.

“I grew up within the interior metropolis of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and there I realized the facility of hatred, mistrust and worry,” Øverby, a Rufus King Excessive Faculty alum, mentioned in his acceptance speech. “However the energy of music that I might be taught later in life taught me about music and its energy to create love, unity, inclusion and the celebration of people that have been completely different than me.

“Not simply because they have been completely different, however despite their distinction. I exploit my radio program to have fun these individuals with the hope of making a greater understanding between numerous teams en path to lowering human hatred.” 

Øverby has hosted “The Street to Larger Floor” since 1994. Earlier than becoming a member of Wisconsin Public Radio, he produced and hosted weekly gospel music program for greater than 20 years on WORT-FM, a group radio station in Madison. He is additionally the host and govt producer of the annual State of Wisconsin Tribute and Ceremony Honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The Folks DJ Corridor of Fame acknowledges radio present hosts “who’ve made an impressive contribution to the preservation, promotion and presentation of folks music.” 

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