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USM Music Professor Amanda Roswick interviewed on WMPG – USM Faculty Jazz Ensemble – Sunday Night!
University of Southern Maine Music Professor Amanda Roswick was interviewed this week on WMPG by DJs Bill Audette and Rockin’ Rick on their The Night Train Show.
This Sunday night, Amanda will be performing live at the USM Jazz Ensemble at Corthell Hall in Gorham.

WMPG wins at the Maine Associations of Broadcasters Awards
2021 ended nicely for us as WMPG picked up 3 awards at the MAB’s (Maine Association of Broadcasters)
1st Place in Features
Offline – Wednesdays 7pm, Dan Bernard and Michael Townsend Listen to an episode here:

African-born radio host to pilot “Amjambo Time”
On January 14, Amjambo Africa and University of Southern Maine radio station WMPG will launch “Amjambo Time” as part of WMPG’s new Global Mainers initiative. Hosted by radio professional and Amjambo Africa News Editor Jean Damascène Hakuzimana, three pilot episodes of “Amjambo Time” will broadcast once a month in January, February, and March, on Fridays at 7 p.m.

Left of the Dial and a very punky, reggae Christmas –
DJ Shaxx wishes you a punky, reggae Christmas! Perhaps the best holiday music playlist you’ve never heard! Something eclectic on 90.9FM / wmpg.org. REQUEST LINE: (207) 780-4909.
Wanna hear the show? Go here to listen to the archive!

Angus King – guest on WMPG’s Friendly Fire
Recently, Maine’s first independent senator Angus King was a guest on WMPG’s Friendly Fire: A Voice for Veterans.
Host Don Kimball and the senator discussed the Afghanistan war. The theme of the show was “The longest war in American history – at what cost?” Missed the show – click here to listen.

WMPG broadcasts Salt’s Fall 2021 Final Show “Survival”
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies at MECA presents their 2021 Final Show, “Survival”. Salt will premiere twenty new audio stories – a debut of original short films and audio documentaries from Salt students.

Keyboard Fantasies (Film) with Kafari
Space Gallery, 538 Congress St, Portland, ME Dec 8th 2021 7pm

Robin Lynn Behl – author of Price Per Barrel, The Human Cost of Extraction – Thursday 7:30pm on WMPG
On Thursday Dec 2nd, 7:30 pm WMPG’s Community Voices For Change will interview Robin Lynn Behl whose book Price Per Barrel, The Human Cost of Extraction has just been published by North Dakota University Press. It’s about boomtowns in North America and the work that first responders do in those communities -EMT’s, Firefighters, Police, Dispatchers and other front line workers. Listen locally at 90.9fm or online at wmpg.org – miss the show, go to CVFC for archive of show.
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