Win 10! Pledge now!

Today's the fundraiser edition of The Beat Authority. The show is absolutely unimaginable on commercial radio, especially comm radio in northern New York. Public radio relies on listeners to pay the bills instead of advertisers, so we're freed from many of the programming constraints of our commercial brethren. And so you can hear funk, latin, hip hop, and world music in the North Country weekly - only on North Country Public Radio. In fact, public radio nationwide (just check out KCRW in LA or XPN in Philly or NPR's new music site) has become the home of so many non-pop or -country genres: jazz, hip hop, folk, much indy rock, and definitely world music.

Take a moment to celebrate this special space on the airwaves by giving a little cash to NCPR's fall fundraiser. Here's the link to the pledge page.

And here's the deal: contact us during the Beat Authority (3-4:45pm ET), and you'll be entered in a drawing to win 10 "Beat Authority approved" CDs - Chiwoniso, Issa Bagayogo, Chris Joss, Charanga Cakewalk, Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars among them. Definitely on the Good Foot.