Jerry Schaefer has presented the only commercial blues radio program in the New York City/Long Island area for more than a decade. His show, Graveyard Blues, is featured on WRCN 103.9 FM on Sundays from 10 p.m. to midnight. In addition to playing blues records, Schaefer also has conducted in-studio interviews with, and featured live performances by, the likes of B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Robert Cray, as well as local NYC blues acts. In conjunction with his 100th program, in 2004, Schaefer organized the first ever Graveyard Blues Festival, which has become an annual late-spring event raising money for local charities and the Suffolk County Make-A-Wish chapter.
