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Join us for our annual WPKN Music Mash in downtown Bridgeport! ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT LISTENER-SUPPORTED WPKN! Over 50 tables of LPs, CDs, 45s & much more. Dealers from all over New England, NY/NJ and beyond. Amazing music fom WPKN DJs and other surprise guests, Beer, snacks and 30,000 LPS FOR SALE. Early admission ($15) from […]

WPKN 89.5 FM Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month Peruvian singer/songwriter Ricardo Paredes will present a performance on the traditional Peruvian charango. Proyecto Cimarron Folkloric Ensemble, Puerto Rican Bomba music and dance performance group based in New Haven, Connecticut, will follow. Our Advisory Board member Rick Reyes will close the night with his band who fuse Rock, […]

Cesar Chavez, is a 2014 Mexican-American biographical film produced and directed by Diego Luna about the life of American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who cofounded the United Farm Workers. The film stars Michael Peña as Chavez and JoBhn Malkovich co-stars as the owner of a large industrial grape farm who leads the opposition to Chavez's […]

WPKN's Hispanic Heritage Month Film Series: Vivo Vivo follows a one-of-kind kinkajou (aka a rainforest "honey bear," voiced by Lin-Manuel Miranda) who spends his days playing music to the crowds in a lively square with his beloved owner Andrés, played by Buena Vista Club's Juan de Marcos. KIDS 10 AND UNDER - FREE

WPKN's Hispanic Heritage Month Film Series: John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons In Latin History for Morons, Comic/actor John Leguizamo examines the repression of Hispanic culture throughout American history in his award-winning one-man show. “…A panoptic survey of two millenniums of oppression in the Americas, he tosses off dozens of quick character sketches that feel […]