World Cafe is hosted and produced by Raina Douris in Philadelphia at WXPN, presenting interviews and performances with today’s essential and emerging artists. Launched in 1991, World Cafe is known by artists, appreciative audiences, and the radio and music industries as an influential source for music discovery.
The two-hour daily program features a mix of artist interviews with in-studio performances by both established and emerging artists. The music selection encompasses singer-songwriters, classic rock, indie rock, Americana, alt-country, blues, world music, R&B and soul.
As the nation’s most listened-to public radio music program, World Cafe’s impact on the careers and audience awareness of thousands of artists is immeasurable. Get more information, videos and playlists online here.
Listen to World Cafe Monday-Friday at 11pm on KXT 91.7.
About Raina Douris
Raina Douris
Raina Douris became host of World Cafe, NPR’s popular music program, in October 2019. In this role, she conducts extensive research and artist interviews, and helps to write and produce the daily, two-hour music program that is distributed by NPR to more than 200 US radio stations.
Produced by WXPN/Philadelphia, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, World Cafe is known by artists, appreciative audiences, and the radio and music industries as an influential source for music discovery. It features a signature mix of artist interviews with in-studio performances by both established and emerging artists, and a curated music selection that encompasses singer-songwriters, classic rock, indie rock, Americana, alt-country, blues, world music, Latin music, R&B and soul.
Douris, an award-winning radio personality from Toronto, Ontario, came to World Cafe from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), where she was host and writer for the daily live, national morning program Mornings on CBC Music. Douris also served as guest host and interviewer for various CBC Music and CBC Radio programs, and red carpet host and interviewer for the Juno Awards and Canadian Country Music Association Awards, as well as a panelist for such renowned CBC programs as Metro Morning, q and CBC News. She was also involved with Canada’s highest music honors: from 2017 to 2019 she hosted the Polaris Music Prize Gala, for which she was also a jury member, and she has also been a jury member for the Juno Awards.
Douris began her career at Toronto rock station 102.1 the Edge, and then continued on to CBC Radio 3, where she hosted daily music-focused shows. In 2013, she was part of the team that launched Central Ontario Broadcasting’s Indie88 radio station, and served as its music director and afternoon host before moving to the morning show. In both 2014 and 2015 she was chosen as the “Best Radio Personality in Toronto” by Now Magazine readers for her work. She is a 2009 graduate of Ryerson University’s Radio & Television Arts program.
Learn more about Raina and World Cafe, and get videos, playlists and more here.
Listen to World Cafe Monday-Friday at 11pm on KXT 91.7.
