WPKN Music, Arts, and Culture Podcast

About 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.

Publisher

WPKN

Category

arts · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Aug 2024

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

65 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Author Tony Fletcher ("POW! When UK Punk Went Pop 1980-84") with Germaine Valentine on Radio Base Camp

   Author Tony Fletcher of the new book"POW! When UK Punk Went Pop 1980-84" joins Germaine Valentine on Radio Base Camp for a morning of music and conversation.

2. 

   1 May 2026

   Jackie Downing on the Great Give 2026! (Senior Director of Grantmaking and Nonprofit Support at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven)

   Jackie Downing of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven discusses the Great Give 2026! The Great Give, now in its 17th year, raises over $4.4 million annually for more than 500 local nonprofits. The fundraiser also offers over $200K in matching funds. Advance gifts can be made for The Great Give beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, May 1. Donation pages will remain open until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, May 11. The Great Give (https://www.thegreatgive.org/) Donate to WPKN on the Great Give (https://www.thegreatgive.org/organizations/wpkn89-5fm)

3. 

   27 Feb 2026

   Guitarist/Composer Julian Lage interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli (My Other Music, Soundprint Asia)

   WPKN radio host Joseph Celli interviews guitarist/composer Julian Lage as he discusses his early training, guitarists that influenced him and that he admires as well as several of his Blue Note releases. Lage, a child prodigy, presents several cuts of his music including the solo Day & Age, his quartet recording with Bill Frisell and a cut from his newest release Scenes From Above. “Mr. Lage sounded almost miraculous …. A guitarist of extravagant technique, he made each solo feel like an onrushing discovery, reeling off lines and phrases while neatly sidestepping cliché. And for all the self-possession in his playing, it felt tempered by an introspective humility, ….” Nate Chinen (NY Times, 4/18/12)

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

8,233

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

32