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The Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast is a deep-dive interview series with musicians, artists, conduits, collectors, and dedicated fans focusing on 20th century Connecticut music history across all genres. This project preserves narratives, heralds unsung movers and shakers, and defines Connecticut’s influential role in cultural history.
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Often live, unique, remote, out-in-the-wild WPKN broadcasts. WPKN, cited as “the greatest radio station in the world” by The New Yorker, founded in 1963 as a 100-watt campus outlet, WPKN is today a 10,000-watt listener-supported community radio station broadcasting at 89.5 FM 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 York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunte ...
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Blake Street Gut Band on "Preservation Sound" with guests Bobo Lavorgna & DeArmond Mourgen hosts Chris Ruggiero & Brendan Toller
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The latest installment of Chris Ruggiero's monthly Preservation Sound Radio show brought forth members of Hamden/New Haven's Blake Street Gut Band including Bobo Lavorgna and DeArmond Mourgen, with Brendan Toller along for the interview ride. Ruggiero featured the band's newly released 1969 demo The Kaleidescope Sessions recorded locally at Kaleide…
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Joe Flood Interview, Music, and In-Studio Performance with WPKN's Brendan Toller
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This WPKN Special Broadcasts Podcast features songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Joe Flood in studio with Brendan Toller, DJ B the T Jr. of Shake 'N' Vibrate Radio. Karen Schoemer of the New York Times says Flood has “songs bursting with eccentric characters ... a voice that perfectly straddles the fence between country and the blues…” And it's …
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Goodnight Moonshine In-Studio Performance and interview with WPKN's Mike Horyczun
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Goodnight Moonshine join WPKN's Mike Horyczun for a beautiful in-studio and performance ahead of their myriad of appearances in the Northeast.By WPKN
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WPKN Live from New Haven Open Studios at Erector Square 2024
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WPKN's Valerie Richardson, Martha Willette Lewis, and Brendan Toller lead a special live broadcast from New Haven's Erector Square Open Studios featuring interviews with Eric March, Oi Fortin, Lesley Finn, Janet Warner, Adrian Martinez, Paul Theriault and more.By WPKN
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Rebel Music In-Studio Concert & Live Broadcast with Gold Eris
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WPKN's debut in-studio live concert broadcast with Black Rock, Bridgeport musician, Gold Eris! http://www.golderismusic.com Gold Eris was formed by singer/songwriter Thomas Oliverio in 2017. Indie/Alt/Artrock, with influences including David Bowie, St. Vincent, and notes of 90's grunge, Gold Eris recorded and self-released their debut album, Born A…
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Rebel Music In-Studio Concert & Live Broadcast with Lys Guillorn
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WPKN's first live in-studio broadcast concert with CT avant-twanger, Lys Guillorn! https://www.lysguillorn.com/ Lys Guillorn is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Shelton, Connecticut. They are of the same musical school as Laura Veirs, and Kristin Hersh, with a little Emmylou Harris thrown in: dreamy…
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Shawn Taylor (singer/songwriter) interview and performance with WPKN's Mike Horyczun
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WPKN's Mike Horyczun hosts an interview and performance with singer/songwriter, Shawn Taylor ahead of his show at the Black Bear Americana Music Fest, October 11-13, in Goshen, CT, and, November show at Best Video in Hamden, CT.By Mike Horyczun, WPKN
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Hope In Space: A Benefit for CT Storm Victims Special Broadcast with WPKN's Herman Olivera, TEAM Inc., Will Diaz of Pangea and more
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On August 18, in the middle of the day, residents of the Naugatuck Valley and surrounding areas received weather advisory warnings on their cell phones. Within hours, many found themselves standing inside their homes in several feet of water, forced to move to higher ground. Those on the roads were trapped, unable to drive, as floodwaters from surr…
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WPKN Live from BLACK ROCK PORCHFEST 8.24.24 with THE ZAMBONIS & THE COVERALLS ! feat hosts Emma Speer and Gold Eris
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WPKN's inaugural LIVE REMOTE broadcast from Black Rock Porchfest featuring the musical stylings and live sets from THE ZAMBONIS & THE COVERALLS!By WPKN
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Hank Hoffman, CT Music Oral History Podcast, March 2024
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Hank Hoffman, now retired, was the former executive director and programming director for Best Video Film & Cultural Center in Hamden. An archivist of the New Haven original rock music scene since the late 1970s, Hank has cassette and digital recordings he's made at hundreds of shows. Along with being a fan and supporter of the local music scene, H…
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Karen Ponzio, CT Music Oral History Podcast, 8.29.23
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This episode features, Karen Ponzio, arts and culture journalist for the New Haven Independent. Karen has shared her poems, displayed her artwork, and hosted a variety of live shows at venues throughout the New Haven area over the past ten years as well as the CygnusRadio.com show The Word According to KP which featured both poetry and music. Here’…
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Barbara Reis, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, 3.7.23
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Welcome to another installment of the Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast. This episode features Westport’s own Barbara Reis, a musician, composer, and music therapist whose travels took her to Julliard, High School of Music and Arts, University of Michigan, Tanglewood, the Brill Building, Westport Country Playhouse and theater committee. Barbar…
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Jim Slice, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios, 2.8.23
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The Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast returns with an interview conducted all the way back In February of this year (2023). It’s a complete deep dive with hip hop artist and documentary filmmaker, Jim Slice. From growing up in and around the advent of hip hop culture, performing all over the globe with New Haven’s Stezo, and now documenting Co…
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Gary, Gee's Records, CT Music Oral History Podcast, 9.6.22
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Buckle up for Gary of Gee’s Records wild ride through true hip-hop culture as a producer, promoter, and record dealer. From roller rink hip-hop shows, to house parties, to 1212 Studios with Paul C, to Jazzy Jay at Strong City, to producing tracks with Beatnuts, and Afrika Bambaataa, recording with Grandmaster Flash, and selling sought-after break-b…
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Rob Fraboni, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at the Westport Library 6.21.22
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Rob Fraboni is a renowned producer and engineer. Fraboni is well-known for his work with the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Buckwheat Zydeco, Hubert Sumlin, John Martyn, Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, and Melissa Ethridge, and served as VP of Island Records in its heyday. Fraboni, leant his expertise to the Verso hybrid analog recording studio, having built…
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Christine Ohlman, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at the Westport Library 5.31.22
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https://christineohlman.net/home.html This queen of blue-eyed rock n’ soul, who grew up loving equally the sweetness of a Memphis horn line and the raunch of an electric guitar riff, whether played by Muddy Waters, Keith Richards, or Pop Staples, teased her blonde hair into a beehive in honor of Ronnie Spector and never looked back, picking up a gu…
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Lys Guillorn, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 12.7.21
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http://www.lysguillorn.com/ Lys Guillorn is a singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and multi-disciplinary artist based in Shelton, Connecticut. She is of the same musical school as Laura Veirs, and Kristin Hersh, with a little Emmylou Harris thrown in: dreamy, lyric-driven, melodically interesting, and undefinable. She calls her genre of music…
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Big Al Anderson, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 12.14.21
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Connecticut music legend! https://bigalanderson.com/ He’s been known as one of rock n’ roll’s greatest guitar players. Listed as one of the top 100 guitar players of the 20th century by Musician Magazine and with over 900 cuts internationally, Big Al’s music career was destined. Raised by his piano teacher mother and a radio that would get WWVA in …
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Dick Kalt, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 11.29.21
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Dick Kalt began his radio career in Detroit, moving to Connecticut in 1970 to join the management team of WPLR-FM New Haven which is celebrating its 50th year of broadcasting. As most of us know, WPLR has been central in the Connecticut community and music scene. Dick is an expert at creating synergistic buzz and making the seemingly impossible, po…
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Rick Allison, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 11.2.21
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Rick Allison is a central and towering Connecticut music figure both literally at 6 foot four and figuratively. Rick has been a radio DJ at an alphabet soup of stations including: wybc, wkci, wplr, whcn, kpig, wpix, sirius satellite radio and cygnusradio.com. Rick has also been an announcer for abc, nbc, cbs, espn, hbo and a bushel of commercial cl…
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Frank Critelli, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 9-22-21
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https://frankcritelli.bandcamp.com/ Frank Critelli writes songs and often performs live. Many times solo, and sometimes accompanied by one or more musical co-conspirators. For over 30 years, he's played in streets and subways, clubs and coffeehouses, barrooms and classrooms, colleges, festivals, theaters, and in his kitchen. Frank Critelli co-host …
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Kelly Reilly, Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast, Verso Studios at Westport Library 8-24-21
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The Connecticut Music Oral History Podcast is a deep-dive interview series with musicians, artists, conduits, collectors, and dedicated fans focusing on 20th century Connecticut music history across all genres. This project preserves narratives, heralds unsung movers and shakers, and defines Connecticut’s influential role in cultural history. https…
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