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WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast — 63 episodes

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1

Jackie Downing on the Great Give 2026! (Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven) with WPKN General Manager, Brendan Toller

2

Guitarist/Composer Julian Lage interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (My Other Music, Soundprint Asia)

3

Larry McDonald (the Skatalites, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Gil Scot-Heron) interviewed by WPKN's Amy Wachtel aka DJ Night Nurse (Rockers Arena)

4

Parranda Y Salsa Special! on ReHumanize Yourself Radio with Herman Olivera feat. Ric Reyes, John Torres, and Molly Dryman

5

Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (My Other Music, Soundprint Asia)

6

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with Artist and Architect Ioana Barak of the Atelier Cue

7

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with Artist Paul Theriault

8

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with Artist Suzan Shutan

9

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with Photographer Amelia Ingraham

10

Erector Square Open Studios 2025—Interview with the Artists' Collective G.L.O.C

11

Erector Square Open Studios 2025–Interview with Artist and Open Studios Organzer Eric March

12

Erector Square Open Studios 2025–Interview with Artist Fethi Meghelli

13

Ink and Impressions: 110 Years of the Society of American Graphic Artists — Valerie Richardson interviews Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye and Bill Bill Behnken

14

Elm Shakespeare Company — A Midsummer Nights Dream

15

Our Woven Community—Discussion with Cynthia Davis

16

Lou Pomales (WPKN's La Esquina Latina) interviews Richard Hill of Mikata on their 40th Anniversary

17

Mike Calabrese (Lake Street Dive) 2023 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman

18

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

19

Michael Friedman (Photographer) 2018 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman

20

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

21

Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter) 2018 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman

22

Tod Papageorge (Emeritus Director of Photography at the Yale School of Art) & Lisa Kereszi (Assistant Director in Photography at Yale) interviewed by WPKN's Valerie Richardson

23

Sam Carlson of the Tines, Co-Owner/Producer at Sans Serif Recording (New Haven) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller (Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio)

24

John Kinsner of Black Ink Presents, "Jim Henson's" Labyrinth in Concert"with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio)

25

Gang of Four's Jon King interviewed by WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio)

26

Force MD's, Kahlil and Stevie Lundy, interviewed by Terrible Tee and Gee's Records

27

Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)

28

WU MAN (Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso) interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli

29

Dr. Andrea E. Reid, Gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital on Colon Cancer Awareness & Prevention Screening with WPKN's Andrea Shellman

30

Jason Duncan (Just Add Water Records, So What) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller

31

Derv Gordon (the Equals) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller

32

Nicole Mitchell interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (Soundprint Asia, My Other Music)

33

Joe Russo (JRAD, Selcouth Quartet) interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)

34

Neubody, New Haven Techno Collective, on Heatsync Records: Buddy City EP Vinyl Release and more, with WPKN's Brendan Toller

35

Poets on Fire, Presented by WPKN & Mega Bass Productions

36

Dr. Julius Garvey (son of Marcus Garvey) interviewed by WPKN's ICON

37

Mystic Bowie interviewed by WPKN's Amy Wachtel (Night Nurse) and Ebong Udoma

38

Vance Gilbert (singer-songwriter) interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli

39

Scott Freiman of Deconstructing Dark Side of the Moon, and, Deconstructing the Beatles

40

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

41

Discussion of Artist Julie Buffalohead

42

Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group, Nuggets compiler, writer, composer) interviewed by WPKN's Martha Willette Lewis (The Flux Capacitor)

43

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

44

Nate Hilts of the Dead South interviewed by WPKN's Martha Nachman

45

Jason Kao Hwang (Composer, Violinist, Improvisor), interviewed by WPKN’S Joseph Celli

46

Exene Cervenka, singer and artist in X, interviewed by WPKN's Rich Kaminsky

47

The Courettes with WPKN's Howard Thompson

48

Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain with WPKN's Herman Olivera

49

Tim Butler of the Psychedelic Furs with WPKN's Herman Olivera

50

Artist Iyaba Ibo Mandingo interviewed by WPKN General Manager, Valerie Richardson

51

Amina Figerova interviewed by WPKN's Richard Epstein of "Sometimes Classical"

52

Bryan Munar of Hadestown with WPKN's Valerie Richardson

53

Bridgeport Film Festival 2024 Preview with Artistic Director / Founder Jason Coombs, and Filmmakers Nilsa Laine and Brian A. Russell

54

Michael Pillot, Festival Organizer of the Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr's Quantum Leap Festival, Nola2Nofo with WPKN's Kevin Gallager (Digging in the Dirt, GaiaGram)

55

Amy Rigby interviewed by WPKN's Martha Willette Lewis (The Flux Capacitor)

56

Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams interviewed by WPKN's Jim Motavalli

57

Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers interviewed by WPKN's Jim Motavalli

58

Author Erica Gies & Jazz Bassist Stephan Crump interviewed by WPKN's Jim Motavalli

59

Cory Younts of Old Crow Medicine Show interviewed by WPKN's Jim Motavalli

60

Bob Mould (Hüsker Dü) interviewed by Mike Cooper (The Defcon Five, The Hymans)

61

Saxophonist/Composer James Brandon Lewis interviewed by WPKN's "Musicians Speak" Joseph Celli

62

Jon Auer (Posies, Big Star, Big Star Quintet) with Richard Epstein of WPKN's Sometimes Classical and Brendan Toller

63

Andy Zax, Music Reissue Producer on Woodstock '69 Festival interviewed by Brendan Toller