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 York and Massachusetts. Operating 24/7 and largely run by volunteers, WPKN offers a unique and eclectic mix of live and recorded music, news, public affairs, spoken word, arts & culture and other free-form programming which defy genre.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 50
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Elm Shakespeare Company — A Midsummer Nights Dream
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 ru…
Our Woven Community—Discussion with Cynthia Davis
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, a…
Lou Pomales (WPKN's La Esquina Latina) interviews Richard Hill of Mikata on their 40th Anniversary
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 Celebratio…
Mike Calabrese (Lake Street Dive) 2023 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman
2023, Mike Calabrese of Lake Street Dive talks the history of the band and current music making with WPKN's Martha Nachman.
Fred Tackett (Little Feat) 2023 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman
2023, Fred Tackett talks with WPKN's Martha Nachman about all things Little Feat.
Michael Friedman (Photographer) 2018 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman
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.
Olivia Panella (UMA GAIA, Healer) and Yamin Alma (Afternoon in the Park), 2018 with WPKN's Martha Nachman
2018 conversation with Olivia Panella (UMA GAIA, Healer) and Yamin Alma (Afternoon in the Park), hosted by WPKN's Martha Nachman.
Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter) 2018 interview with WPKN's Martha Nachman
2018, WPKN's Martha Nachman in conversation with Nicole Atkins (Singer/Songwriter).
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
Valerie Richardson speaks with Tod Papageorge, emeritus director of photography at the Yale School of Art, and Lisa Kereszi, assistant director in photography at Yale, about At the Beach + In the Poo…
Sam Carlson of the Tines, Co-Owner/Producer at Sans Serif Recording (New Haven) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller (Shake 'n' Vibrate Radio)
Sam Carlson, a lynchpin of the modern-day New Haven, CT music scene drops by to preview singles from the new Tines album Barrows (hitting in August 2025), and to share his favorite productions from S…
John Kinsner of Black Ink Presents, "Jim Henson's" Labyrinth in Concert"with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio)
John Kinsner of Black Ink Presents, and "Jim Henson's" Labyrinth in Concert" talks with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio) about the upcoming Saturday, May 3, 2025 event at College Str…
Gang of Four's Jon King interviewed by WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio)
Gang of Four's Jon King talks with WPKN's Herman Olivera (ReHumanize Yourself Radio) ahead of the band's farewell tour opening date at Verso Studios/Westport Library, Friday, April 18th. Jon King has…
Force MD's, Kahlil and Stevie Lundy, interviewed by Terrible Tee and Gee's Records
WPKN is a media partner in the Force MDs and Family Live in Concert Pre Memorial Day Celebration at Foolproof Brewery in Bridgeport, happening Sunday May 18th at 6PM with doors at 4PM. In support of …
Nels Cline interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)
Guitarist Nels Cline is interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino as they discuss Cline's expansive genre-defying work across multiple projects. Nels Cline's Consentrik Quartet comes to the region Wednesd…
WU MAN (Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso) interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli
Radio Host Joseph Celli interviews Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso WU MAN prior to her performance with the New Haven Symphony. WU MAN discusses the 2,000 year old pipa tradition, the new …
Dr. Andrea E. Reid, Gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital on Colon Cancer Awareness & Prevention Screening with WPKN's Andrea Shellman
Andrea E. Reid, MD, MPH is a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where she is also the Director of Diversity and Faculty Development for Gastroenterology. Dr. Reid is also the Associ…
Jason Duncan (Just Add Water Records, So What) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller
Jason Duncan of the late-60s/70s reissue record label, Just Add Water Records, and rock 'n' roll band So What chats with WPKN's Brendan Toller about being a rock 'n' roll renaissance man, and the upc…
Derv Gordon (the Equals) interviewed by WPKN's Brendan Toller
Derv Gordon of the Equals chats with WPKN's Brendan Toller about his life in music, the formation of the Equals, trajectory, and upcoming 2025 tour that stops in New Haven at Cafe Nine on Weds, March…
Nicole Mitchell interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (Soundprint Asia, My Other Music)
Joseph Celli will features an interview with award-winning jazz flutist Nicole Mitchell on his My Other Music (MOM) show on Mon., March 10, 9-10am exclusively on WPKN 89.5fm or streaming @ WPKN.org. …
Joe Russo (JRAD, Selcouth Quartet) interviewed by WPKN's Bill Cosentino (Organic Radio)
WPKN's Bill Cosentino speaks with Joe Russo about his musical history leading up to and including Joe Russo's Almost Dead (JRAD), as well as his latest project with Selcouth Quartet. They sonically e…