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From the Mic

Mary Wesley, CDSS

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Host Mary Wesley takes you behind the caller's mic to explore perspectives from the people who choose to stand in that curious place between the band and a roomful of dancers. Featuring conversations with callers of American social dance forms (contras, community dances, trad squares). Why do they do it? How did they learn? What is their role, on stage and off, in shaping our dance communities?
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Fiasco

Pushkin Industries

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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country's most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Benghazi unpacks the 2012 attack in Libya that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens—and the ensuing political storm, which raised questions about America’s role in the world, established a playbook to weaponize attention in the social media age, and ultimatel ...
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Healing Wisdom

Pandora Peoples

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Healing Wisdom explores the healing aspects of the arts, mind-body-soul connections and the spiritual aspects of every day living. Healing Wisdom speaks with authors, filmmakers, comedians, scientists, historians, activists, actors, musicians, doctors, artists, and holistic health care providers, discussing their passions and the issues of the day. Since 2013, Pandora Peoples has hosted and produced Healing Wisdom on Outermost Radio, airing on WOMR 92.1 FM in Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM in ...
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Click to view a full transcript of the episode Sound bites featured in this episode (in order of appearance): Bill calling his contra dance Weeks on the Road at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend in Durham, NH in 2020 Bill calling the singing square dance On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine at the Ralph Page Dance Legacy Weekend in Durham, NH in 202…
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Send us a text Eleanor Dubinsky and Dario Acosta Teich talk about their new forthcoming album, Just the Three of Us. They'll be performing a holiday concert at Wellfleet Preservation Hall at 6pm on Saturday December 20th. Get your tickets now at wellfleetpreservationhall.org ! Here Dario talks about his indigenous Argentine roots, the folk music of…
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Send us a text Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts began in 1950, located in a pine forest in the San Jacinto Mountains of Southern California. The school was started by Bee and Max Crone, artists who believed everyone should grow up exploring all the arts. They thought nature was the best environment for that exploration. So, they brought their…
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Click here for the episode transcript Sound bites featured in this episode (in order of appearance): Lindsey calling the dance “Susie's Send-Off" by Scott Higgs with music by Audrey Jaber and Alex Cumming at the Lake City Contra Dance in Seattle on April 17, 2025. Lindsey calling the dance "Labor of Love" by Kathy Anderson with music by Pachelbel's…
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Send us a text Actor, Director and Improv Teacher John Shuman explores his life in a staged reading of his new one man show directed by Dan Lombardo. The show features music and images to accompany his comedic memoir on his acting career. The show takes place 1-2pm at Parish Park on Saturday November 1st as part of the Pop Up Practices series from …
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Send us a text Vocalist Natalia Talentso talks with me about how Murmurosi's new album “Svitanok” (Dawn) features contemporary songs with traditional melodies, folktales, and lullabies. It features Greek and Middle Eastern influences as well as traditional sounds from the Carpathian Mountains. One of their songs “Yak Pryikhav” addresses how familie…
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Send us a text Here's my conversation with musician and storyteller Mwalim Daphunkee Professor talking about his upcoming show at Wellfleet Preservation Hall called Thunderchild happening October 10th at 7pm! Mwalim is the co-founder of the multi-Grammy-nominated band The GroovaLottos, a multi-award-winning playwright, author, composer and educator…
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As the political world looks toward the 2016 Presidential election, Benghazi becomes a Clinton scandal. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in Apple…
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Send us a text Carolyn Rogers and Kevin McMahon are co-chairs of the Wellfleet Cultural Council, they are also gifted singers. Together they created The Stephens Sondheim & Schwartz Broadway Cabaret with producer Andy Lantz and fellow singer Frankie Campofelice. The performance is sold out, but it's a lovely conversation and the podcast features th…
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How the attack in Benghazi collided with an American election, and how the seeds of a scandal were planted. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in A…
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Send us a text First, we speak with Folk duo George and Charles Clements about their show happening at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Thursday September 18th. The twin brothers talk about their blood harmonies, being twins and growing up in a musical family. Lou Antonucci talks about his show featuring all Harry Chapin music. Portrait painter Taylo…
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An anti-Islamic video sparks protests in the Middle East, and the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi comes under attack. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fi…
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Libya is swept up in a wave of revolution, and an American diplomat makes his mark on Benghazi. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in Apple Podcast…
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How a prison massacre carried out under Libya’s long-time dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, set the stage for the Benghazi attack. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Benghazi, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasc…
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Fiasco: Benghazi unpacks the 2012 attack in Libya that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Chris Stevens—and the ensuing political storm, which raised questions about America’s role in the world, established a playbook to weaponize attention in the social media age, and ultimately changed the course of U.S. history. For a list of books, …
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Send us a text 13, 14, 15. Were some of the most awkward times of our lives. Veteran TV actor and screenwriter David Dean Bottrell is coming to Wellfleet Preservation Hall Saturday August 2nd to share with you his most awkward, embarrassing and hilarious takes on the Teenage Wasteland of adolescence. You've seen him on Boston Legal, Mad About You, …
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Send us a text These workshops are for young film-lovers and young filmmakers interested in filmmaking. Learn every aspect of filmmaking with professional filmmakers. These workshops will help you to develop and create a short, narrative or documentary which you are welcome to submit to our Wellfleet Youth Film Festival by August 22nd. This year th…
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Send us a text Musicians Ken Field and Michael Holt talk about their band's new album, Dancy Pants. You're invited to their album release party on July 20th at Prez Hall. Two rockers from Ani Difranco's Righteous Babe Records Jocelyn Mackenzie and Kristin Ford are performing with Rachel Sage in Wellfleet at a house concert. Check out their awesome …
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Send us a text Ukrainian-born singer Marichka Marczyk reports on her interviews with families who were in Russian camps. Just back from being embedded with a battalion in Kiev and Donbas, she shares her recent experience there, as well as her new single from her music project educating people about the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children. Medica…
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Send us a text In this podcast visual artists Penny Gamble-Williams and Jennifer Staples of Bowen's Arrow and storyteller/musician Mwalim Daphunkee Professor talk about the landmark gallery exhibition, All Our Relations: Art of the Wampanoag Nation happening now through June 29th at the Cotuit Center for the Arts. The exhibition is co-curated by Ma…
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Send us a text Director Kahane Corn Cooperman and producer Innbo Shim talk about their film, Creede USA, about the impact of a theater on a small conversative mountain town that saw its boom when it was established for mining in the late 1800s. Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder tells the story of book banning and witch hunt of librarians in Texas and Florida…
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Send us a text Emerald Trinket Walker discusses teaching history through music, movement and performance. Her program Undesirable Elements at Global Kids has performed at many locations including Columbia University, Council on Foreign Relations, Lincoln Center Institute, Apollo Theater, Sarah Lawrence College, Schomburg Center for Research in Blac…
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Send us a text This episode focuses on fear and empathy in humans and other animals. Dr. Abigail Marsh also talks about our biological predisposition toward empathy and care, how adolescent brains evolved to rebel and take risks, why teens are more anxious than in previous generations, and psychopathy as a spectrum. Find out why fearful expressions…
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Send us a text We speak with Carol Bosco Baumann, chief executive officer of Cape Wellness Collaborative. She shares what brought her to the Cape, her personal connection with the mission of CWC, and what's happening this year at the annual Cape Cod Women’s Music Festival. We also speak with retired reverend Jamie Faile who served for 35 years as a…
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Click here for the episode transcript Sound bites featured in this episode (in order of appearance): Ang calls the dance The Magpie and the Seal by David Zinkin with music from Sycamore (Cedar Stanistreet, Samuel Foucher, Michael Sokolovsky) at the Mt. Airy Contra Dance Ang calls their dance Golden Girl with music by Gus La Casse on fiddle, and Pep…
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Send us a text Jenny Wood is a travel guide and retreat facilitator, taking groups on "authentic, immersive, transformational travel experiences to support personal and global healing and peacemaking". With a background in acupuncture and 5 elements coaching, Jenny Wood is a unique travel guide who customizes your oversees adventures. We talk about…
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A bonus interview with journalists Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan. Honey and Avirgan tell Leon about their time reporting on the Contra war from the southern front in Costa Rica. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this season visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Ira…
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How Oliver North decided to do a little multitasking -- and ended up on a plane to Tehran. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Iran Contra, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in Apple Podcasts …
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How the United States got involved in a not-so-secret secret war in Nicaragua. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Iran Contra, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page in Apple Podcasts or at Pushki…
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Send us a text Multi-instrumentalist Ed Pias earned his degrees in music from the University of Washington in Seattle, Cal Arts, and Berklee, he studied the pakhawaj drum in Bangladesh and India, but it wasn't until he was asked to help a man transition from his hospice bed, that he discovered the healing power of music and connected with the heali…
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Send us a text Here history professor Michael Schoeppner talks laws that were made to hinder slave rebellions and resistance to slavery in the Antebellum South. He talks about laws meant to keep free people from moving between states and crossing state boarders and why the history of those laws is relevant today.…
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How the Reagan administration landed in a hostage crisis…and extended a hand to one of America’s sworn enemies. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Iran Contra, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show pa…
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How a crew of amateur spies from Long Island helped the Reagan administration set the stage for Iran-Contra. For a list of books, documentaries and resources we used to research this episode visit: bit.ly/fiascopolitics Subscribe to Pushkin+ to hear the entire season of Fiasco: Iran Contra, ad-free, right now. Find Pushkin+ on the Fiasco show page …
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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Fiasco: Iran-Contra tells the story of a secret war, a secret deal, and a foreign policy scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan…
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Host Leon Neyfakh transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of our country’s most pivotal historical events, bringing to life the forgotten twists and turns of the past while shedding light on the present. Fiasco: Iran-Contra exposes a secret war, a secret deal, and a scandal that threatened to destroy Ronald Reagan’s presidency—until it did…
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