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In this week's WCRI Kids Hour, your host, Jamie, plays movie music from the stars featured at RI Comic Con 2026. We will hear some great music from Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Star Wars franchise, and Back to the Future (including some Huey Lewis tunes). We hope you enjoy!

This week, Joe features Pianist Kenny Barron from his 1981 Xanadu Records recording, titled “Kenny Barron At The Piano.”

This week's program features the LaGrua Center in Stonington, CT, with Dan Brandl, Executive Director. We discuss what's been happening at the Center, upcoming events this season, and the ongoing Music Matters series. For more information, you can go to www.lagruacenter.org

This week's program features the RI Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Music Director Ruth Reinhardt. We discuss their upcoming concerts and listen to music from Saturday, January 23rd, at 7:30 PM at the Vets in Providence. For more information, you can call 401-248-7000 or go to www.riphil.org

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Vocalist Sarah Vaughn from 1995, Polygram/Verve Records compilation recording, titled “Jazz Masters 42.”

In this episode of This Old Tree, Doug introduces us to Santa María del Tule, a small town in the heart of Oaxaca, Mexico, home to a Montezuma Cypress more than 2,000 years old. Its trunk is considered the widest of any tree on Earth. For over a millennium, the Tule Tree has drawn visitors: the Zapotec, Mixe, and Mixtec peoples, who revered it; Spanish colonizers; and traders from across Mesoamerica. Today, travelers from around the world make it a tourist destination. In this episode, host Doug Still sits down in the tree's shade with the town's mayor, members of the Tule Tree Committee, and arborists from the Mexican Association of Arboriculture. A local historian shares the town's long story, and we hear the legend of King Kondoy, the hero whose planted staff became the tree. But this giant is about more than size. How does it become the community's guiding light? What is an axis mundi? And what do the people of Tule sacrifice to keep the famous tree alive?  

This week, Joe is featuring Vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater from her 1997 Polygram/Verve Records recording, titled “Dear Ella.”

Show number 1000!!! This special show celebrates Mike Maino’s many years of hosting hundreds of guests on Conducting Conversations.  As a special guest, he welcomed Eddie Dillon, Composer, Arranger, singer, and Guitarist, one of the show's original guests when it started in 2007. Joining Eddie was Bob O” Connell, composer, pianist, singer, and longtime friend of Mike. Eddie and Bob are the only people who have appeared with Mike every year the show has run. For more information, you can go to www.eddiedillon.com or www.boboconnellmusic.com