Dave Barber
Host of NiteTrane and Think TwiceDave Barber has hosted music programs on WYSO for nearly 50 years, making him one of the longest-tenured voices on the station. A Dayton native, he first connected with WYSO as a listener in the 1970s, inspired by programmers like Art Snyder, Larry Blood, and Jon Fox. Barber is also a graduate of WYSO's Community Voices training program.
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Bill Short and Willa Seidenberg discuss their decades-long project documenting Vietnam War GI resistors, including rare interviews with Donald Duncan and Howard Levy. -
Festival director Eric Mahoney previews the 2025 lineup honoring Rod Serling. Plus a rare interview with legendary filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on collaboration. -
This episode has interviews with filmmaker Nelson George, YSFF director Eric Mahoney, and Yemi Oyediran, who just released a documentary about Cincinnati's King Records. -
Dr. Barber is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and a senior Kettering Foundation fellow. In September 2024, he spoke at a conference at Sinclair Community College. -
A Yellow Springs Film Festival Preview with its Founder Eric Mahoney and Oscar-winning Director Steven Bognar. Also, a conversation about the status of art-house-cinemas. -
Cheryl Brown Henderson talks about the legacy of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Brown is the daughter of the lead plaintiff, Oliver L. Brown -
Kevin McGruder, professor at Antioch College, and Steve Schwerner, the brother of Mickey Schwerner (an activist murdered by white supremacists) talk about Freedom Summer on its sixtieth anniversary. -
Dave Barber hosts an special about cornet player Joe “King” Oliver. Guest Dave Greer talks about Oliver's life and relationship with Louis Armstrong, and his band plays Oliver tunes in studio. -
Local baseball fans and historians have had new opportunities to learn about a lost part of the history of the sport in the Miami Valley: The Dayton Marcos of the Negro League. -
When local filmmaker Steven Bognar captured Steve Schwerner doing his WYSO jazz show in 2007 it was just a year before Steve and his wife Nancy left Yellow Springs and moved to Brooklyn. Watch the film now.
