BEGATHON is back for 2022!
WMPG invites our listeners to once again donate to WMPG. Begathon dates are March 23 – 29 Your financial support of WMPG helps us assure that we’ll be here and making live, local, real radio for you. There will be gifts for your donation. Maybe your employer will match your donation ? Donate online , in person or by phone during Begathon And thank you for supporting WMPG!
WMPG Jazz at the Movies
JAM – Jazz at the Movies. was formed by a group of WMPG Jazz DJ’s dedicated to delivering jazz and film to Southern Maine. Join JAM for a free screening of the film Anita O’Day, The Life of a Jazz Singer Date: 31st March 2022 at 7pm Where: Cove St Arts, 71 Cove St, Portland Click here for tickets – tickets limited to 50 only Masks required!
WMPG celebrates Women’s History Month
Every day in the month of March, WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential woman in history. We’ll hear women from Maine to Pakistan, whose fame ranges from actress, author to activist. You can hear them all again right here: Emily Dickinson , Marilyn Monroe , Hedy Lamarr , Edith Windsor , Lena Horn , Rose Marasco , Dahlov Ipcar , Frida Kahlo , , Wangari Maathai , Janet Mock , Emma Gonzalez , June McKenzie , Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto , K. Johnson, D. Vaughan, M Jackson , Toni Morrison , Tu Youyou , Flannery O’Connor , Ruth Badar Ginsberg , Patti Smith , Madame Curie , Rosa Parks , Jane Goodall , Rosalind Franklin , Malala Yousafzai , Harriet Tubman , Katherine Graham , Ella Fitzgerald , Eleanor Roosevelt , Nellie Bly , Margaret Chase Smith , Gloria Steinem…
The Excellence of Black Women in Music
In honor of Black History Month, WMPG reviewed the lives and contributions of Black icons to American pop culture by supplementing our usual programming with special shows, featured guest artists and additional on-air content throughout February. Now, as Black History Month comes to a close and Women’s History Month approaches, we invite our readers and listeners to look back on the excellence and influence of black women in the music industry. Ma Rainey(1886-1939): Born Gertrude…
T-Shirt Design competition
T-SHIRT DESIGN COMPETITION WMPG is looking for new design(s) for our 2022 t-shirts. Brief: Reflecting the spirit of WMPG radio, community, etc, the design can be a cartoon, line drawing, whatever style you like. Don’t worry about logo, text if you don’t have any…we will add that later. Specs: Ideally no more than 7 x 7inches (ish) and 300dpi. Preferably submit as an Illustrator or Photoshop file though jpeg/pdf works. If this means nothing to…
Black History Month- audio history stories
Everyday in the month of February WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: Billie Holiday , Leonard Cummings , Macon Bolling Allen , Harriet Tubman , Nelson Mandela , Shirley Chisholm , Marsha P. Johnson , Gordon Parks , Jackie Robinson , Mary Mcleod Bethune , Josephine Baker , Gerald Talbot , Duke Ellington , Nina Simone , Lewis Latimer , Audre Lorde , Sojourner Truth , Thurgood Marshall , Shirley Chisolm , Tarana Burke , Scott Joplin ,…
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 . In the interview Amanda discusses her influences and how she ended up teaching at USM. Amanda is a DownBeat award-winning jazz vocalist and New England native who received her BM in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire before moving cross-country…
Black History Month Highlights at WMPG
February is Black History Month , and with that in mind, WMPG will be broadcasting special shows with featured guest artists and additional on-air content throughout February. This is supplementing our usual programming with the specific focus of highlighting the art, lived experiences, and perspectives of the Black community. Some of our programming highlights for the month of February which will focus on the Black experience and music by Black artists include: Monday Morning Theatre Cruise (Show Tunes) – The Night…
