• Molly Tuttle (vocalist, flatpicker, and songwriter) interviewed by WPKN's Bob Anderson
    Nov 13 2024

    Molly Tuttle joins WPKN's Bob Anderson (A Little Bit of Everything) for an interview ahead of her Tuesday, November 19th appearance at Fairfield Theater Company in the Warehouse.

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    9 mins
  • Discussion of Artist Julie Buffalohead
    Nov 13 2024

    Valerie Richardson sits down with Lilia Uribe and Dr. Royce K. Young Wolf, the inaugural Assistant Curator of Native American Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and Collection Manager of the Native North American and Indigenous Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum, to discuss the powerful work of Native American artist Julie Buffalohead.

    In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the Housatonic Museum of Art will host a special storytelling session highlighting Buffalohead's painting, Resurrection, which is currently on display at the museum.

    Wednesday, November 20 from 3:00pm - 6:00pm

    Storytelling through the Art of Julie Buffalohead

    Beacon Hall Event Center, CT State Housatonic

    900 Lafayette Blvd. Bridgeport, CT 06604

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    37 mins
  • Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group, Nuggets compiler, writer, composer) interviewed by WPKN's Martha Willette Lewis (The Flux Capacitor)
    Nov 6 2024

    Lenny Kaye talks with WPKN's Martha Willette Lewis on The Flux Capacitor ahead of Lenny's November 8, 2024 appearance at Small Batch Cellars in North Haven.

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    19 mins
  • Jonathan Yates (Music Director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra), and Alexander Markov (violinist) interviewed by WPKN's Richard Epstein (Sometimes Classical)
    Oct 24 2024

    WPKN's Richard Epstein (Sometimes Classical) chats with Jonathan Yates, Music Director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra (norwalksymphony.org), and violin soloist for the first concert of the season Alexander Markov (alexandermarkov.com). The pair discusses the 85th season of the Norwalk Symphony and Markov's innovative playing at his recent Carnegie Hall recital.

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    23 mins
  • Nate Hilts of the Dead South interviewed by WPKN's Martha Nachman
    Oct 18 2024

    Nate Hilts of the Dead South checks in with WPKN's Martha Nachman (The Music Never Stopped) ahead of the Dead South's 10/24 performance at College Street Music Hall.

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    8 mins
  • Jason Kao Hwang (Composer, Violinist, Improvisor), interviewed by WPKN’S Joseph Celli
    Oct 9 2024

    Jason Kao Hwang discusses his early training and eventual emergence in New York’s improv loft scene. He discusses the Asian American music movement, his mentors, and the use of the electric violin. Jason has worked as a violinist with innumerable new music legends including Anthony Braxton, William Parker, Henry Threadgill, Tomeka Reid, Wadada Leo Smith, Joëlle Léandre and many others. He has received support from Chamber Music America, Rockefeller Foundation, US Artists International and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and others.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Exene Cervenka, singer and artist in X, interviewed by WPKN's Rich Kaminsky
    Oct 6 2024

    WPKN's Rich Kaminsky, host of Off-Beat! airing Saturdays, 2 a.m. – 6 a.m., interviews singer and artist, Exene Cervenka ahead of X's last national tour and new album, Smoke and Fiction.

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    21 mins
  • The Courettes with WPKN's Howard Thompson
    Sep 30 2024

    The Courettes join WPKN's Howard Thompson (PURE) discussing their fourth tour of the US in conjunction with the release of their new album THE SOUL OF THE FABULOUS COURETTES...

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    1 hr and 11 mins