Down Home Dairyland was a weekly radio show highlighting the Upper Midwestern folk
musicians and immigrant communities. The program aired on WHA Radio from February 1989
through October 2000. The shows featured musical performances and interviews with musicians,
and discussions of musical cultures and musical instruments ranging from Slovenian button
box, polka bands, Ojibwa flute and Polish accordion, to Walloon dialect singing and German
brass bands. Edited versions of the first 40 shows were also issued as audiocassettes with
an accompanying listener's guide designed for use as educational curriculum materials.
