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WPFW Takoma Station - 5/26

WPFW Programmer’s Coalition members -Robyn Holden, Craig Williams, Jim Byers, Verna Avery Brown, James Funk,Captain Fly, Tom Cole, Bill Wax, Kim Bey, DJ Zee-Lion, Millie Ware, Joni Eisenberg, Arthur McCloud, Donald Temple, Bill Starr, Ron Pinchback, David Whettstone, DJ Abby and others will celebrate you at Washington DC premier jazz club Takoma Station - 6914 4th Street NW WDC. This musical tribute will take place on Sunday, May 26th from 5 until 9pm.

Jazz Artist Michael Bowie, international renowed bassist, Hope Udobi (keyboards), Charles Wilson (drums), Grace Jay and Sing Steph (vocals) and others will be featured.

Please come and join your favorite programmers for some great jazz, food, cocktails, a little dancing and a Sunday Jazz happy hour you will never forget.

You can make a minimum $50 pledge during the fund drive and there are only 100 tickets for this VIP event secure your ticket to the Jazz happy hour

Tickets are available via EventBrite.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS.

All net proceeds to benefit WPFW. We look forward to celebrating you!

Congrats to E. Ethelbert!

Congrats to E. Ethelbert an awardee of the Furious Flower award - https://mailchi.mp/jmu/furious-flower-iv-lifetime-achievement-awards-recipients-announced?e=46e96592f3

Listen to E. Ethelbert Miller Thursdays at 9am on 89.3 FM.

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Congrats To Our PD Katea Stitt!

Congratulations to WPFW's own Program Director Katea Stitt for being named 2024 Washington, DC Jazz Hero! Well deserved! More information is available at https://jjajazzawards.org/2024-jazz-heroes/.

Don't forget you can listen to Katea every Wednesday with the Beyond Borders Edition of Morning Brew from 5am to 8am right here on 89.3 FM.

Programmer Profile - Von Martin, host of Caribbeana - Saturdays 6-9pm

Vonulrick “Von” Martin has been described by his Caribbean colleagues as “another of the Caribbean’s finest exports to the broadcasting world … and his knowledge of world affairs and first-hand familiarity with the Caribbean and Latin America made him a special asset wherever he served.”

Von is celebrating 45 years as the creator and host of Caribbeana, a treasure trove of distinctly regional fare that has archived pivotal moments in Caribbean culture and history here at WPFW. Throughout a long and distinguished career in radio, one of WPFW’s first broadcasters currently spends his time researching and presenting Caribbeana and providing training, entertainment and research services through Caribbeana Communications Incorporated (CCI). He is 79 years old and married to his wife of 54 years, Brenda. He has two successful children; Rick who worked with NBC and CNN and currently is the Director of Communications for Douglas County, Georgia, and Vonetta, who is a program manager for the State of Maryland in Human Services. He also has two granddaughters, Natalie and Madeline.