Dave Barber
Host of NiteTrane and Think TwiceDave Barber has hosted programs on WYSO dating back to 1977. A Dayton native, Barber got involved with the station after listening to YSO and learning about all kinds of music from programmers such as Art Snyder, Larry Blood, Jon Fox and many others. He's also a graduate of WYSO's Community Voices training program.
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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. -
In 1962 an Ohio State student, a singer and guitarist named Phil Ochs, moved to New York City and was soon at the center of the booming folk music scene… -
In this iteration of Rediscovered Radio Encore, we’re taking you back to the 1960s and meeting a legendary Yellow Springs disc jockey. Music’s been a mainstay at on WYSO since we began broadcasting more than 60 years ago. -
Community Voices producer Dave Barber has the story of a local doctor and the support groups who emerged to play important roles in battling AIDS when it first surfaced in the Miami Valley region in the 1980s. -
These was a time in the 1940’s and 50’s, when people arrived from Appalachia daily in Dayton in buses and cars. They came in hopes of jobs at factories such as National Cash Register, Frigidaire and GM. Many brought guitars, mandolins and banjos and settled in East Dayton. A new book and CD, Industrial Strength Bluegrass tells this history. Dave Barber has the story of the Mullins family, one of the families that sits at the center of this story.
