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The Kent State Folk Festival is the second oldest continuously produced folk festival on a college campus. Started in the 1960s by a group of Kent State students catching hold of the folk revival, the festival continues to preserve folk and heritage music through concerts, workshops and educational programs. Since 2000, WKSU-FM has produced the Kent State Folk Festival, after more than 30 years of production by student campus organizations.

WKSU-FM is a nationally recognized public radio station and affiliate of National Public Radio. Award-winning host Jim Blum presents three weekend evenings of originally produced folk music programming, offering the best in singer/songwriter, Celtic, acoustic, traditional and world sounds. In September 2003, WKSU launched Folk Alley, streaming folk music to the world 24 hours a day at folkalley.com.

WKSU broadcasts NPR and Classical Music at 89.7 FM and is a service of Kent State University. Station programming is also heard on WKRW 89.3 FM in Wooster, WKRJ 91.5 FM in Dover/New Philadelphia, WKSV 89.1 FM in Thompson, WNRK 90.7 FM in Norwalk or online at wksu.org.