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WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast

The WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast features guest interviews hosted on WPKN broadcasts with our renowned DJs. Musicians, artists, producers, writers, movers and shakers - dig deeper into their philosophy and ethos. Founded in 1963, WPKN is a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM in Bridgeport, CT and streaming online at WPKN.org. WPKN’s terrestrial signal now reaches to a listenership of 1.5 million people in Connecticut, Long Island, parts of New

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46:21

Larry McDonald (the Skatalites, Lee “Scratch” Perry,...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2026/01/08

For the first edition of “Rockers Arena” of the new year, the Night Nurse, Amy Wachtel, invited her long-time friend, Jamaican percussionist Larry McDonald to sit in with her and shoot the breeze.They spent much of the time reviewing Larry’s long and illustrious career, including time with Taj Mahal and his almost 30 years with Gil Scot-Heron.The loquacious octogenarian is currently a member of the Legendary/Legacy JA ska band, the Skatalites, touring regularly world-wide. Larry Mac, as he

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62:25

Parranda Y Salsa Special! on ReHumanize Yourself...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/11

WPKN is a media partner for Parranda y Salsa at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport on Thursday, December 18th, running from 5 to 10 pm. Now in its third year, this holiday celebration brings the Parranda traditions of the Caribbean together with live salsa music for a night of dancing, community, and culture. The Downtown Cabaret Theatre is located at 263 Golden Hill Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This event is sponsored by: City of Bridgeport, Greater Bridgeport Latino Network

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40:09

Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (My...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/12/05

Joseph Celli WPKN's host of My Other Music (MOM) and SoundPrintAsia interviews composer/guitarist Nels Cline (WILCO) about his inspiration to devote his life to ‘sound’ with his wide range of music making groups ranging from progressive rock to free improvisation. Nels talks about the differences between recording and live performance and his love of improvisation and live audiences. During the course of the interview we hear three cuts of his music and discuss his various bands.

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71:47

Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule interviewed by WPKN's...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/17

Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule speaks with WPKN's Bill Cosentino of Organic Radio ahead of Gov't Mule's New Haven, CT 10/30/25 date at College Street Music Hall.

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24:43

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Atelier Cue is a collaborative design and fabrication studio specializing in place-making, community engagement, and the creation of architectural works of art. Partners Ioana Barac and Marissa Dionne Mead founded the Atelier as a stage for connecting the art of design and the craft of making. Essential to our method is a process of experimentation, prototyping, and fabrication which ensures a sense of both high-design and hand-craft in their work.Each of their installations is influenced

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24:57

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Cathode ray televisions, LED monitors, digital scanners, laptops, desktop tower computers, digital photo frames, cell phone and smartphones: these are among many of the pieces of technology that Paul modifies and deploy in my practice as a new media artist. Most of these devices are used once they’ve become so ubiquitous in public life, that they are either offered up with deep discounts, passed along for free, or found curbside. These objects typically go through some form of physical

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31:14

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/14

I make work out of unconventional materials such as tarpaper, string, vinyl, foam and pom poms often combining them with paint. My work combines the handmade with industrial, and organic with geometric.. I explore how memories can be suggested, using form, color and pattern that incorporate nature, landscape, science, culture and more.My work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and nationally and can be found in corporate and public collections including Log-Me-In

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21:23

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Amelia Ingraham is a photographer and creator producing work out of her New Haven studio. She works as a freelance commercial photographer for a variety of companies and publications. The personal work she produces is often surreal and highly conceptual. Being raised by an artist and an auctioneer inspired an endless amount of ideas while building her sets. Her photography boasts a minimalist point of view, with a subtle amount of chaos. Her use of styling and composition showcase her

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21:32

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with the...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/13

Valerie Richardson spoke with four of the five members of the artists' collective G.L.O.C. who will be presenting a collective work during Erector Square Open Studios. G.L.O.C = Megan Czekaj, Emily Herberich, Anna Russell, Gabriella Svenningsen, and Allison Hornak (not present for the interview).

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26:32

Erector Square Open Studios 2025–Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/13

WPKN's Valerie Richardson speaks with Eric March, a realist painter and draftsman whose work explores themes of urban life, urban environments, and narrative-often through dense multi-figural compositions. Since 2020 Eric has created five different large community-focused figurative artworks for public display at local health facilities, including Yale New Haven Hospital and Cornell Scott Hill Health Center. Eric also is an illustrator and a web designer and developer—and is the creator of

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23:40

Erector Square Open Studios 2025–Interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/10/13

WPKN's Valerie Richardson interviews artists Fethi Meghelli, an Algerian-American artist whose career spans more than five decades, three continents, and experimentation in a wide variety of media and styles, from printmaking, masks, and found objects to paintings, sculpture, and collage, often combining the urgency of social realism with the expansive imaginativeness of surrealism.Meghelli earned his BFA from the School of Fine Arts in Algiers, Algeria, where he was mentored by the

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38:22

Ink and Impressions: 110 Years of the Society of...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/09/15

In this episode, Valerie Richardson sits down with Dr. Jennifer Reynolds‑Kaye, Director of the Housatonic Museum of Art, and guest Bill Behnke to explore Ink and Impressions: 110 Years of the Society of American Graphic Artists. Behnke is a former president of SAGA. We talk about SAGA’s legacy and what it means to mark the organization’s 110th anniversary with its 90th annual members’ exhibition—150 hand‑pulled prints by artists whose works span intaglio, wood engraving, lithography,

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19:48

Elm Shakespeare Company — A Midsummer Nights Dream

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/08/20

Valerie Richardson speaks with Rebecca Goodheart, Producing Director of the Elm Shakespeare Company. Their 30th anniversary production is a Bollywood-styled A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performances run August 14 through August 31, beginning at 7:30 pm, in New Haven's Edgerton Park. Admission is free. elmshakespeare.org

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30:14

Our Woven Community—Discussion with Cynthia Davis

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/08/20

Valerie Richardson speaks with Cynthia Davis on WPKN's Community Hour on August 18, 2025. Cynthia shares the origin story of Our Woven Community and the women whose artistry fuels it—bags, scarves, and new beginnings. She also previews “Sew Strong Together,” the September 7 gala supporting OWC’s next chapter.

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13:08

Lou Pomales (WPKN's La Esquina Latina) interviews...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/14

WPKN's Lou Pomales (La Esquina Latina) interviews Richard Hill of Mikata as the band approaches their 40th anniversary.WPKN is a media partner in Trova Y Salsa, Mikata, 40 Year Anniversary Celebration happening Friday July 18, at 9PM, at Park City Music Hall, in Bridgeport. Mikata celebrates 40 years of music making. This event is paired with Park City Music Hall’s Trova y Salsa monthly series, dedicated to the ritmo, cultura, and community of regional salsa. Tickets and more information

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24:09

Mike Calabrese (Lake Street Dive) 2023 interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/10

2023, Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive talks the history of the band and current music making with WPKN's Martha Nachman.

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21:34

Fred Tackett (Little Feat) 2023 interview with WPKN's...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/10

2023, Fred Tackett talks with WPKN's Martha Nachman about all things Little Feat.

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49:41

Michael Friedman (Photographer) 2018 interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/10

Photographer Michael Friedman (THE LOST ROCK & ROLL NEGATIVES OF MICHAEL FRIEDMAN) talks about his photography, stories, and book of unreleased 1960's rock 'n' roll photos with WPKN's Martha Nachman.

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35:05

Olivia Panella (UMA GAIA, Healer) and Yamin Alma...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/10

2018 conversation with Olivia Panella (UMA GAIA, Healer) and Yamin Alma (Afternoon in the Park), hosted by WPKN's Martha Nachman.

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40:55

Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter) 2018 interview with...

WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast ·

2025/07/10

2018, WPKN's Martha Nachman in conversation with Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter).

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