Week of January 22, 2006 Two special benefit events take place this week: Friday, February 17, 8:00 PM The Mammals in Bridgeport The Mammals, one of the country's best Americana roots bands (featuring Pete Seeger's grandson, Tao Rodriguez Seeger), will play a special benefit concert at United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue in Bridgeport, on Friday, February 17 at 8:00 PM. The concert will jointly benefit WPKN and the United Congregational Church. The concert takes place in the church's Pilgrim Hall. Refreshments and secure parking will be available. For advance ticket reservations and directions, call WPKN. Sunday, February 19, 3:00 PM WPKN's Wine-Tasting at Carole Peck's Good News Cafe in Woodbury, Connecticut. We'll have a wide variety of wines for your sampling, a really terrific silent auction, WPKN programmers spinning the music, and simpatico hors doevres. A silent auction will feature paintings, prints, and sculpture, pottery, puzzles, gift certificates, chocolate, wines, three books by the late playwright Arthur Miller, once owned by and signed by him, and more. Please reserve immediately, because space is limited. You can make reservations for both events by calling the station weekdays during business hours: 203 331 9756 ------------------------------------ On the air this week: Sunday, February 12th
10:00 p.m. David Schwartz Doris "Bambi Jones" Rozelle is going to talk about her life working as an entertainer in the burlesque nightclubs clubs of the 1940s. She was known professionally as "The Panther Girl", "The Mona-Lisa Girl", "Bambi Brooks" & "Joi Naymith". (Schedule subject to change because of weather conditions) Monday, February 13th
3:00 PM A performance by the Ukranian folk ensemble Cheres, a concert recorded at the Pequot Library in January. Led by master piper Andriy Milavsky, they play traditional music from the Carpathian Mountain region on violin, clarinet, double bass, drums, and tsymbaly. 4:00 PM A re-broadcast of The Afro-Semitic Experience concert recorded live as part of WPKN's 'Live from Where?' series in December.
8:00 pm - Counterpoint host Scott Harris features the following interviews:
- Max Sawicky of the Economic Policy Institute discusses the Bush budet and proposed deep cuts in social programs effecting the poor, the sick, the elderly and the young.
- Ben Dupuy, co- director of the Haiti Progres newspaper, analyzes the results of Haiti's recent presidential election.
- Farideh Farhi, adjunct professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, assesses the growing confrontation between the U.S. and Iran over that nation's nuclear program.
- Interviews and speeches from the World Social Forum held in Caracas, Venezuela in January.
Audio archives of Counterpoint can be found at http://www.whiterosesociety.org Some edited audio files of Counterpoint interviews can be found on the Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine website.
Tuesday, February 14th
5:30 pm - Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for Tuesday February 14, 2006
- Summary of some of the week's under-reported news stories and
- Bush Defense of NSA Domestic Spy Program is Challenged in Senate Hearing. Interview with Shayana Kadidal, attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris.
- International WTO Opponents Strategize on Blocking Hong Kong Accord's Implementation. Excerpt of World Social Forum speech by Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, produced by Scott Harris.
- Critics Concerned Over Possible White House Plan to Resume Dangerous Plutonium Reprocessing. Interview with Ed Lyman,senior staff scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.
Audio files of this program can be heard/downloaded/ podcast at http://www.btlonline.org. A new edition of Between The Lines can be heard every Wednesday morning at 8:00 am. The program is rebroadcast each Saturday at 2:00 pm and Tuesday at 5:30 pm. 8:00 p.m. Singer-songwriter Charlotte Kendrick, recently returned from her triumphal tour with multi-instrumentalist Liam Bailey. From her bio: "Charlotte wanted me to list some of her influences like Shawn Colvin, Ryan Adams, Neil Young and Lucinda Williams. You can hear how these artists my have inspired her in her music, but I think youll agree, that at the heart of everything, shes truly an original. And thats why I like her, both as a musician and a friend."- Brian Hunt, General Manager, Wondermore Records. 9:00 p.m. Myshkin, the leader of Myshkin's Ruby Warblers, will join host Jim Motavalli in a telephone interview to talk about her music, which combines Jewish influences, jazz, confessional singer-songwriting and some beatnik word jazz. The Washington Post wrote: "Both lyrical and politically pointed, though blessedly free of rhetorical excesses. Myshkin's Ruby Warblers are all about the sound: a rich blend topped with her broad-ranging, keening voice." 10:00 p.m. - New Music New Haven, local concert performances (recorded at Yale University) hosted by composer Martin Bresnick. This month:
- Three Songs after Borges by Patrick Burke
- The Moon Blurred" by Jacob Cooper
- Figure Butterfly by Mark Dancigers
- Pulsar by Augusta Read Thomas
- In My Sky at Twilight by Augusta Read Thomas
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