CELEBRATE RADIO, the international listener-supported Positively Music, interfaith and social justice radio station, programmed by veteran radio producer and broadcaster Don Fass, has announced ‘a carload’ of great new secular and spiritual programming beginning this April to June and a line-up of 3 new podcast series as well.. 

In addition to 1200 emerging artist songs from 16 countries, in 12 languages, hourly newscasts and news headlines from UNI News Washington and programs already airing, including Radio Envoy’s look at culture and faith, Don’s own Reaching Up! Music and interview show for youth and young adults, Songs of the Week and Albums of the Month, Celebrate Radio will be adding the weekly Little Orphan Archie look at music oddities from the 30’s to the 60’s, Don and Deanna’s On Bleecker Street music and interview retrospective on the 60’s and the Japanese Beach music series as well as Ireland’s Raymond McCullough’s Precious Oil Show, New Christian Music (NCM) from London, the Jewish Contemporary music ‘Songs of Shalom,’ and KEXP Seattle’s .Music That Matters.  A half-hour music feature from Alameda California’s non-profit Crosstown  Coffee House and Community Center is in the planning stages.  

New short form programming includes daily minutes from Anne Graham Lotz (Daily Light for Daily Living), Rabbi Yehudah Baum from Jerusalem, Reflections from South Africa,  Doing Good (ways to get involved and help others), performing artists Max McLean’s Listen to the Bible and Rob Lacey’s Word On The Street, social activists Ron Cline’s Beyond the Call, Wess Stafford’s Compassion Speak Up,  Mercy Ships the Mercy Minute,  the Catholic Phat Mass, Elissa Morgan’s  MomSense, Steve Brown’s Think Minute, Raul Reyes’ Life Culture, The Garlow Perspective, Don’s own What’s Up With God and World of Religion (also new PCN podcasts). Rabbi Daniel Alter’s Take 5 for Torah. Dr. Jim Burns HomeWord parenting tips,  KMTT Torah Readings, Max Lucado’s  UpWords, Youth Outlook’s reports by teens, Billy Graham’s Decision Minute, Jewish-Arab All for Peace Radio from Jerusalem ,as well as short scripture readings in Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Chinese and sermons by Ghana’s Pastor Paul Asamoah, Alameda’s Pastor Jim Meyer, Oakland’s Todd Spitzer and Cornerstone Fellowship’s Steve Madsen, . All the new short-form programs will be going up on Celebrate Radio between mid-April and June with Anne Graham Lotz, Max McLean and Rabbi Green starting in mid-April.  

Celebrate Radio’s extremely eclectic Positively Music mix on satellite, shortwave and on the web (and soon being syndicated to FM stations around the world) includes secular pop, folk and rock music and Christian, Jewish and Catholic Contemporary music from the U.S. and around the world including artists like Shadrach, Vocolot, Spoken Grove, Bill Malonee, General X, Mike Roe, Georgia, Craig Taubman, Lori Jo Gardner, Zehnder and Michael Pritzl from the U.S., India’s Pralay, Canada’s Debbie Zepick, Sweden’s Xmile and Josie, Japan’s Vienna, France’s Emilen and Eric Vincent, Israel’s  Lenny Solomon, Shlock Rock, Voices of Eden,  Holland’s  Healing  Authority, Egypt’s Yousry Sharif, Nigeria’s Anthony, Ireland’s Raymond McCullough,  Taiwan’s Heavenly Melody,  Italy’s Lucyan, Argentina’s Debbie and Slovakia’s Cargo Cult.

Celebrate Radio’s first podcasts, 2 separate series, Positively Music and Reaching Up! began on Podomatic and I Tunes mid-March and its year-old first benefit music compilation CD New Music New Hope, with artists ranging from King Crimson’s Adrian Belew to Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary is still selling well on CD Baby, I Tunes, Tower, and Yahoo Music. At least 5 more CDs are planned. over the next 2 years.. Celebrate has also produced 16 live concerts at a unique Alameda coffee house and community center and at Oakland and Alameda churches.