WPFW Fundraiser
This Friday, 20 December 2019, WPFW will host a year-end holiday bash and fundraiser at Bethesda Blues & Jazz, featuring multi-talented, multi-genre, genre bending vocalist Nona Hendrix and her band Mamafunk. The evening begins at 6:00 when WPFW’s own, DJ’s Lance Reynolds (House of Soul, https://www.facebook.com/wpfwhouseofsoul) and Carmen Spindiego (Sophie’s Parlor Collective, https://www.facebook.com/Sophies-Parlor-58218973701/) will warm up the house by spinning soul and R & B until 8:00, when Ms. Hendryx takes to the stage.
WPFW 89.3 FM is a 100% community supported radio station bring Jazz and Justice radio to the DMV and streaming at http://www.wpfwfm.org to the rest of the world. This fundraiser, along with the on-air, year-end, mini-drive (26-31 December 2019), will be vital in ensuring that your favorite radio station starts 2020 with sufficient money in the bank. So have fun, do some good for others, do some good for yourself, and make yourself feel all so good. Tickets available online at https://www.instantseats.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=buy.layoutSeatSelect&eventID=FB9A7815-CF4C-3C72-1ECA12F18FDA41C5&packageEventID=. Plenty of good seats available, which is good for you, but we need them all to go in the next few days to meet our important goal.
Nona Hendryx and Mamafunk
Per WPFW’s Public Service Announcements and the Bethesda Blues and Jazz website:
“Hendryx tackles social issues, love and politics with a smoky vocal palette somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere. Hendryx’s legendary career spans six decades of sound, beginning as a founding member of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles morphing into the Rock Funk Glam Diva’s Labelle. Nona Hendryx remains the Queen of Transformation. still writing music across genres with politically and socially relevant lyrics wrapped in neo-funk grooves, avant soulful vocals, and art-rock charged rhythms.”
Morning Brew – Classic Jazz Edition
This coming Thursday, 19 December 2019, The Classic Jazz Edition will a be a highly eclectic show without any given theme. Not Christmas or holiday music per se, we will dedicate some time to what I will simply call seasonally appropriate tunes. Additionally, I will preview this holiday bash and fundraiser the next evening by playing a couple-few or more tunes by Ms. Hendryx from differed periods of her nearly 6-decade career.
Stay tuned!
