Laura Shine
Host/Producer, WFPKRadio started as a hobby for Laura Shine with a one-hour show focusing on music by women called Womanwaves. It debuted in 1992 on WFPL. At the time, she was in a popular local band called Yer Girlfriend and an English major at U of L. It was her bandmates that encouraged Laura to create Womanwaves, which became an instant hit for the station.
A few years later, she was tapped to be the morning drive-time host for WFPK's relaunch as an adult album alternative station (billed at the time as “The New 92”). Her voice introduced Louisville to the format January 8, 1996. On that dark and snowy morning, WFPK switched from Mozart to Timbuk 3's The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades.
The hobby of radio soon turned into a passion - and then a career. Laura is now the host of afternoon drive and Senior Host/Producer. She loves the “give and take, the connection with listeners that live radio offers like no other medium.”
Email Laura at lshine@lpm.org.
You can hear Laura every weekday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Listen to the most recent episodes of Laura's Friday Ride Home:
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Laura's Recent Playlists:
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Louisville bluegrass duo Bibelhauser Brothers recorded "This Heart of Mine" with New Grass Revival's John Cowan
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Louisville's Bad Milk Dirty Peaches teams up with folkster Wilder Adkins for a Zen-like song
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AHC is puts multiple genres in her new album Multicolor.
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Lacey Guthrie just released her new album Flower-Eating Monster and talks about it with WFPK's Laura Shine
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Louisville band Cabin is back on the scene as Fossy Filf with new music to share
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Louisville musician Andrew Kane is a nurse in the USAF and misses his family in new song "Home For Christmas"
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WFPK's Laura Shine interviews soulful singer and songwriter Cam Clark
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Louisville band Don't Call Me Lady just released "White to Blue" in time for the holidays
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Cadillac Young's new Xmas song "Love Lost at A Truck Stop in Texas"
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Louisville native and film composer Sean Giddings as Sparrowghost releases new song "Snow"