Feb 7th- Sarah Blacker
Feb 21- Glenn Roth
March 14- Brian Dolzani

Saturday, Jan. 30th, 7:30 p.m.
FTC on Stage One
70 Sanford St., Fairfield, CT

Sunday, January 17th, 12:30 p.m. – Organic Soul, LIVE in Studio 207
Sunday, January 24th, 1:00 p.m. – Sushi Grade Panda, LIVE in Studio 207

WPKN • 89.5 Bridgeport • 88.7 Montauk • wpkn.org

Step in to the Wayback Machine as we explore the NYE shenanigans of some jam bands. All the heavyweights are represented, including the Disco Biscuits, Umprey's McGee, moe., Phish, and the undisputed kings of New Year's Eve--the Grateful Dead. We can't show you Bill Graham (z"l) entering the venue at midnight, but we'll rock out as only radio can.

Weather permitting, I will be in the studio doing my annual tribute to Frank Zappa. Let's hope for clear roads in the morning. 

11:30 a.m. Matthew DeTroy will join us in the studio.
7:30 p.m. Concert at FTC on Stage One, 70 Sanford Street, Fairfield, CT.

Blast away with this crew of seasoned local musicians as they make their debut on Stage One. Delivering sultry and snappy swing era classics diced with jazz and blues, ZOoT PLANeT will teleport you to a time and place where the roots of great music blends with the sensibility of sound in the millennium. Whether you're a rug cutter or a seat tapper, you're in for a treat that's out of this world! The ZOoT crew is - Matthew DeTroy (keys), Carol Piro (vocals), Bruce Couillard (sax/vocals), Hans Broecking (drums), Tim DeHuff (guitar), Rich Zurkowski (bass). In support of live, local radio ZOoT pLAnEt shares proceeds with WPKN.

1:00 p.m. Typhanie Monique & Neal Alger will join us for an hour of music and conversation.

While many musical units are formed with a specific agenda, the jazz duo of Typhanie Monique, vocals, and Neal Alger, guitar, came about mostly by chance.  With a background that contains R&B icons Tina Turner and Lionel Richie from her mother's listening habits, Typhanie came to discover jazz in her teenage years.  After studying jazz vocal technique in college, Monique moved to Chicago and formed a successful funk/acid-jazz group Peking Turtle and performed at many venues in the midwest.  Neal too eventually embraced jazz by his late teens but came into it from a different angle; Neal grew up listening and performing hard rock/progressive rock.  Chicago became home for Alger after college as well, and he freelanced with local jazz luminaries and fronted his own trio.

In the holiday spirit of an inclusive 'musical family', YULETIDE GROOVE, the newest project from Alger and Monique, features many special guests including rising Hammond B3 organ star Tony Monaco.  Monaco brings an infectious beat, a rock-solid swing, and warm vocals to the chestnut "Baby It's Cold Outside" while Monique revels in Monaco's vitality, turning in an inspired vocal performance.  A horn trio of trumpet, sax, and trombone brings a lush but not overly sentimental flavor to Vince Guaraldi's "Christmastime is Here" and the classic "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree".  The sultry sexiness of "Santa Baby" is beautifully enhanced by a cha-cha arrangement which features the contagious musical exuberance of latinos pianist Darwin Noguera and trumpeter Victor Garcia.

The WPKN Sunday Brunch Concert presents an encore performance of Stacy Phillips & Paul Howard live at the Kasbah from January 6, 2008.

The duo performs a wide range of material—swing/jazz standards, Caribbean dances, Hawaiian hulas, bluegrass, calypso and East European gypsy music - all in their authentic styles. The addition of their original compositions makes their concerts a stimulating and diverse experience. Stacy Phillips and Paul Howard have been together since 1988 and have performed in a variety of venues, including several tours of Europe and the West Coast. They have two CDs, one self-titled and the other, "Neo Urban Traditions".

This performance was originally recorded for Live From...Where? at the Kasbah Garden Cafe. Producer: Cliff Furnald. Engineer: David Schwartz.

11 a.m. - Interview with Pamela Luss (Listen)
1 p.m. - Sunday Brunch Concert: encore performance of Boris Garcia

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