WPKN 89.5FM
NEWSLETTER
APRIL 2014
We invite you to participate, volunteer, contribute and celebrate WPKN.  Thank you for your support of community radio station- WPKN-89.5FM.  Celebrating 50 years of broadcasting.
To volunteer at WPKN please contact us at [email protected]
On-Air Themed Fund Drive
"ALL ABOUT TRANSPORTATION"

 Friday + Saturday April 11th-12th

 

WPKN programmers will explore the broadest 'means' and 'concepts' of TRANSPORTATION as only WPKN programmers can do.  WHY now?  We are celebrating our WPKN/Car Bob Show Trip to the New York International Auto Show. See below.

Pledge Line:  (203) 384-9756 or wpkn.org

 

How about setting up monthly donations to WPKN? 

  • Become a Member of the " Auto Club" and make automated monthly donations to WPKN via check.  Call the pledge line!
  • If you want to use a credit card to make automated monthly donations please visit our website at wpkn.org and set it up under monthly payments.
        

 

    

 

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Come ride the bus with the Car Bob Show + WPKN-FM...

 

   

 

 

 

 

WPKN's New York International Auto Show Trip

WPKN  Bus Trip, Friday, April 18th 2014

 

3rd Annual Trip to New York International Auto Show

Hosted & sponsored By WPKN's Car Bob Show Crew and partnered with The New York International Auto Show

 

Ticket price:  $60 per/ $89.50 for two.

Includes roundtrip transportation from New Haven and Bridgeport to the 114th NYIAS at the Javits Center on board a Deluxe Tour Motor Coach.

 

 

 

Pick up times 8 AM in New Haven (Ikea Parking Lot) and then on to Bridgeport at WPKN studio parking lot at the Cox Student Center-University of Bridgeport. (End of Myrtle Ave. before the pedestrian walkway or GPS coordinates 250 Myrtle Ave.)

 

We will spend the day freely wandering the Javits Center and enjoying the show. We will reboard our bus for an evening meal in NYC's Chinatown. (Meals are not included in this ticket price.)

We will return to CT after dinner and desert.

Note to Purchasers:

Please make sure we have complete information of Phone, email, mailing address  so we may contact you with more complete and explicit details.

  

 

Contact WPKN Business office during normal business hours with any questions. 203-331-9756

 

WPKN Car show team.
Car Bob Costanzo
Mark 'The Mechanic' Mushin
Diesel Doug Echols
George Dragone- Motorcar Historian
Mike Mitchell- Road Crew
Del-  Phone concierge

Dave Schwartz- chief engineer

 

 

 

  

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WPKN Music on Film Series Presents: Muscle Shoals  
Monday,  April 14 th at the Bijou Theatre in Bridgeport

  WPKN Music on Film Series Presents: "Twenty Feet from Stardom" ....Oscar-award winner this year at the Bijou Theatre with world-class sound and projector.

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.


The film follows the behind-the-scenes of backup singers and stars Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, T�ta Vega, and Jo Lawry, among many others 
 Morgan Neville | Rated PG-13 | 91 min
 

WPKN thanks our sponsor, the newly opened Fairfield Antique & Design Center in Norwalk


 

Doors Open at 6:00pm 
Show Starts at 7:00pm

General Admission: $15 

 

 

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  WPKN is a Media Partner for two concerts on Friday April 11th 2014 
Information as listed on the concert posters....... 

 

 

  

 

 

 

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WPKN's next DRUM CIRCLE in the IMPACT series in Saturday, April 19th from 1pm to 3 pm in New Britain's historic Anvil Building.
All are invited to this FREE event. Bring a drum if you have one...if not we'll have a few extra!
Join the IMPACT Facebook page.  
 
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WPKN supports
International Record Store Day   

 

 

Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1000 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally. There are Record Store Day participating stores on every continent except Antarctica. 

This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store-the staff, the customers, and the artists-to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April. 

Last year at WPKN's inaugural MUSIC MASH '13-Record Fair (save the date for WPKN's Music Mash '14 on September 6, 2014)  event at the FTC-ANNEX in Fairfield, CT we had strong support from all of the local record stores in our listening area.  We thanked them then...and we want to thank them again and urge our WPKN-FM listeners to patronize these 'gate-keepers' of great music:


 

Merle's Record Rack      Orange, CT

Exile on Main         Branford, CT

Gerosa Records      Brookfield, CT

Disc & Dat         Bethel, CT

Brass City Records        Waterbury, CT

Johnny's Record Stop        Darien, CT

Record Stop         Shirley, NY

RedScroll Records         Wallingford, CT

Replay Records       Hamden, CT

Willamantic Records         Willimantic, CT

The Telegraph           New London, CT  

 

  

  

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 SAVE THE DATE: 

GOT BLUEGRASS?  WPKN's Annual Bluegrass & Roots Benefit Concert

Thursday May 1st at the Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport 

 

 

 


    

 

WPKN Releases FREE "WPKN Live" Worldwide for iPhone and iPad  

 

NOW available at the Apple App Store

Copy and paste or click below:   

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wpkn-live/id704986292?mt=8

 

WPKN has unveiled the new iPhone and iPad app.   The app is offered through the Apple 'App' store free of charge.  WPKN thanks the design services of Long Island native and friend of PKN, Patrick Serrano who volunteered countless hours of design and development time.

The WPKN custom app that allows for "live" listening and a quick tap entrance to our web site.

 

 

 

 

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