Bio

(taken from my facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/irene.trudel/ Music pours in and out of my brain all day long. Can't help it-- I suspect it's imprinted on a cellular level. My tastes are a dreamy blend of music which reflects the gentle kind of life I wish I had as chaos swirls around me. I've been a DJ/Program host on and off since 1972, love to mix live music on the radio and admit to being an unrepentant collector of all kinds of music, with British and American primitive folk, jazz and fingerstlye guitarists, light classical and chamber jazz being particular favorites. The radio bug bit me in the 70's while attending Morristown High School (NJ), which owned a 10-watt student-run station (WJSV). Around that same time I made my first tentative steps toward becoming a recording engineer by taping local folk singers at a coffeehouse for later broadcast. Years later, following a grossly unsatisfying start in the commercial broadcast world at WDHA/WMTR, I realized my heart was in non-commercial radio. In 1986 I joined the DJ staff at WFMU, which has been quietly producing the kind of radio that has sadly disappeared from most other stations. Currently I'm hosting a show on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream. https://wfmu.org/playlists/IT2020 After 30+ years with WFMU I still find great music I want to share. Summer of 1994 I began a long and happy run at New York Public Radio. Among my many tasks as a Senior Broadcast Engineer, is mixing live music for New Sounds' Soundcheck Podcast, and I am a part of the concert crew for WQXR, New Sounds and other live music broadcasts and recordings. https://www.newsounds.org/shows/soundcheck My home is in New York City with husband Peter Keepnews and kitties Nica, Mister Mushy and Kitka. My life's a constant work in progress, never finished.