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10-11-24 Vocalist Karen Frisk - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe features Vocalist Karen Frisk from her newly released 2024 self-published recording, Still A Dreamer.

10-05-24 Flynn Automotive & Tire 2024 - The 95.9 Company Break

This month, The 95.9 Company Break welcomes Caroline Flynn and Vinny Flynn of Flynn Automotive & Tire. At Flynn Automotive & Tire, they are dedicated to giving special attention to every auto repair need. They are known for making clients feel comfortable and value all vehicles. They will inform and discuss the options clients have for your automobiles. They have dedicated their lives to ensuring you and your family are safe on the roads. They ensure customers are satisfied with Flynn's repairs and other personalized services. Call 401-789-3596 or visit flynnautomotive.com

10-05-24 A Witches Brew - WCRI‘s Kids Hour

In this week's WCRI Kids Hour, hosts Jamie and Spencer listen to music about witches. You'll hear music from Wicked, Harry Potter, Antonin Dvorak, Modest Mussorgsky, and more!

10-03-24 In Awe - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane talks about how observing nature makes us feel better.

10-06-24 Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society Fall 2024 - Conducting Conversation

The CT Gilbert and Sullivan Society is the subject of this week's program with Dr. John Dreslin, Music Director. We talked about the upcoming event to be held at Valley Regional High School in Deep River, CT, and listened to some of the music from “Yeomen of the Guard,” which will be performed on October 19th and 20th. For more information, you can call 860 554-1256 or go to www.CTGandS.org
 
 

10-04-24 Drummer Ken Serio's Brooklyn Oasis - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Drummer Ken Serio from his newly released 2024 Tipping Tree Music recording, Brooklyn Oasis.
 

09-28-24 Europe's 2023 Tree of the Year: The Fabrykant Oak - This Old Tree

In this episode, host Doug Still introduces us to The Fabrykant Oak. The Fabrykant Oak, translated as the "Factory Owner's Oak," received 45,000 votes to become Europe's Tree of the Year. Located in Łódź, it captures the hearts of people in its home country of Poland and around the world. Full of personality and stunningly beautiful, the story of this Quercus Robur strikes deep into the city's culture and history. How does an old tree overcome the past to become a symbol of rebirth and a brighter future?

09-26-24 Provision - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane talks about the goings on at the lake.

09-29-24 Mary Kimball Hail Music Mansion - Conducting Conversation

The Mary Kimball Hail Music Mansion, on the East Side of Providence, is the subject of this week's program with Peter Hail and Joe Parillo, the organization's secretary. We talk about their work to restore and maintain the historic Music Hall. We’ll also play some of the music that has been presented through the years and talk about upcoming events. For more information, you can go to www.musicmansion.org 

09-27-24 Vocalist Mark Murphy - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Vocalist Mark Murphy,” from his 1997 Capitol Records compilation recording titled “The Best of Mark Murphy.”

09-21-24 New York Times Bestselling Authors Allison Pataki and Emily Franklin discuss their books: Finding Margaret Fuller and The Lioness of Boston - Ocean House Author Series

Join Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with our featured authors. This week, New York Times bestselling authors Allison Pataki and Emily Franklin discuss their books Finding Margaret Fuller (Pataki) and The Lioness of Boston (Franklin).
About Allison Pataki: Allison Pataki is the New York Times bestselling author of FINDING MARGARET FULLER, THE MAGNIFICENT LIVES OF MARJORIE POST, THE QUEEN’S FORTUNE, THE TRAITOR’S WIFE, THE ACCIDENTAL EMPRESS, SISI: EMPRESS ON HER OWN, WHERE THE LIGHT FALLS, as well as the nonfiction memoir BEAUTY IN THE BROKEN PLACES and two children’s books, NELLY TAKES NEW YORK and POPPY TAKES PARIS. Allison’s novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former news writer and producer, Allison has written for The New York Times, ABC News, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Fox News and other outlets. She has appeared on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Good Day New York, Good Day Chicago and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Allison graduated Cum Laude from Yale University with a major in English.
About Finding Margaret Fuller: A “sweeping” (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America’s forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
About Emily Franklin: Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association among many other places as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. She lives outside of Boston with her family including four children and two dogs large enough to be lions. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner is in its sixth printing.
About The Lioness of Boston: “Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive—irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world.”—Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children.
For more information about bestselling author Allison Pataki, visit allisonpataki.com; for Emily Franklin, visit emilyfranklin.com. For information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

09-19-24 Under My Nose - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane states there are times when we just need to reboot.

09-20-24 Saxophonist Michael Brecker & Trumpeter Randy Brecker - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Saxophonist Michael Brecker and Trumpeter Randy Brecker from their 1992 GRP Records recording, “Return of the Brecker Brothers.”
 
 

09-22-24 Trevor Neal, Artistic Director of Newport Classical - Conducting Conversation

Newport Classical is the program's subject with Trevor Neal, Artistic Director, this week. We talked about their past concert season, which ran at many venues throughout Newport and listened to music related to their upcoming performances. For more information, you can go to www.newportclassical.org

09-14-24 New York Times Bestselling Author Beatriz Williams and Her New Novel Husbands & Lovers - Ocean House Author Series

Join Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with our featured author. This week, New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams will be discussing her new novel, Husbands & Lovers.
About Beatriz Williams: Beatriz Williams is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of nineteen novels, including four novels in collaboration with bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. She graduated from Stanford University with an MBA in finance from Columbia University. Williams has won numerous awards for her novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children.
About Husbands & Lovers: Two women—separated by decades and continents and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952 and her all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal.
Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations.
Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.
For more information about bestselling author Beatriz Williams, beatrizwilliams.com. For information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

09-12-24 Memories - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane finds that nature seems to claim fond memories like we do.

09-15-24 URI Guitar Festival - Conducting Conversation

The URI Guitar Festival is the subject of this week's program with Adam Levin, Artistic Director. We talk about the concerts that will be presented from October 13th to the 20th at several different locations. The event will feature over a dozen performers. For more information, you can go to uriguitarfestival.org

09-13-24 Pianist Marian McPartland - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Pianist Marian McPartland,” from her 2000 Concord Records recording titled “The Single Petal of a Rose.”

09-07-24 The Musical Duo of Bridge & Wolak - WCRI‘s Kids Hour

On this month's WCRI's Kids Hour episode, host Jamie listens to Bridge & Wolak! Bridge & Wolak is a globe-trotting musical duo from Canada that creates life-affirming concerts full of beauty, virtuosity, and humor. Michael Bridge, accordion, and Kornel Wolak, clarinet (both are also skilled pianists) share a love for classical, jazz, and world music, a fascination with fusing genres, and a passion for performance on Sunday, October 6 at 2:30 PM at the Newport Classical Recital Hall. They invite you to join them on their slightly unruly musical adventure in this free concert, which is fun for the whole family! To register for this free performance, please call 401-846-1133 ex. 1 or visit newportclassical.org/event/bridge-wolak

09-05-24 Counter Intuitive - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane finds that sometimes it works better even if it doesn't make sense.