07-05-26 Newport Classical Music Festival 2026 - Conducting Conversations

08-16-26 The Coast Guard house Restaurant 2026 - Conducting Conversations

In this week's episode, we talk about The Coast Guard House, a great New England restaurant and landmark. Elisa Wybraniec, Wine Director, talks about the great food, the wine menu, and the wide variety CGH offers. We listen to music by Grammy-nominated pianist Joe Parillo to set the mood. For more information, call (401) 789-0700 or go to www.TheCoastGuardHouse.com [http://www.TheCoastGuardHouse.com]

08-14-26 The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band-Live At The Village Vanguard - Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe is featuring The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band from their 2005 Blue Note Records recording, titled “Live At The Village Vanguard.”

08-08-26 New York Times Best Selling Author Luanne Rice-Until Midnight - Ocean House Author Series

Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce has a conversation with New York Times Bestselling author Luanne Rice about her new book, Until Midnight. Author Bio: Luanne Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine novels, including three YA novels, that have been translated into thirty languages. Until Midnight is her most recent. Rice’s books often center on love, family, nature, and the sea. The Beautiful Lost deals with teen depression, something Rice experienced herself.  She is an advocate for mental health awareness, a participant in McLean Hospital's Deconstructing Stigma: A Change in Thought Can Change a Life Several of Rice's novels have been adapted for television, including Crazy in Love for TNT, Blue Moon for CBS, Follow the Stars Home and Silver Bells for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Beach Girls for a mini-series on Lifetime.  Rice contributed a monologue to Motherhood Out Loud, a play that premiered at Hartford Stage Company and was performed Off-Broadway and at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. In 2002, Connecticut College awarded Rice an honorary degree.  Her papers are located in the college's Special Collections Library. A profile of Rice appeared in Connecticut College Magazine, Fall 2014. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from St. Joseph College in West Hartford, Conn.  In June 2014, she received the 2014 Connecticut Governor’s Arts Award for excellence and lifetime achievement as a literary artist.  Christopher Plummer, actor, and Tim Prentice, sculptor, were also celebrated, and Rice was thrilled to share the moment with them.  Rice, an avid environmentalist, is honored to be a creative affiliate of the Safina Center. Visit her links page to find out more about the causes and organizations that offer support and work for a better world. About the Book: Until Midnight is the thrilling new novel from the Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice (Last Night, The Shadow Box and Last Day). The Reid Brothers are back… Rhode Island’s picturesque Ocean House is the perfect setting for Kate Woodward and Conor Reid’s fairy-tale wedding weekend. But there may not be a happily ever after. When an old friend of Conor’s disrupts the rehearsal dinner and reveals a blindsiding secret—a claim that she and Conor share a child—Kate calls off the wedding, thinking things can’t get any worse. Until the next morning, when that same woman is found with her throat slashed. As investigators close in and suspicions mount, the evidence points to a mystery deeper than anyone imagined. The soundproof boat with telltale signs of something sinister. The mansion on the hill that lures in young girls and doesn’t let them go. A secret society whose members might be more familiar than not. And the truth of the dead woman’s past that draws Kate and Conor into a nightmare.   For more information about Luanne Rice, visit luannerice.com [https://luannerice.com/], and for more on Deborah Goodrich Royce and her new release, Best Boy, along with information about the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com [https://deborahgoodrichroyce.com/ocean-house-author-series/]

08-07-26 GRP All Star Big Band - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring GRP All Star Big Band from their 1992 GRP Records recording titled “GRP All Star Big Band.”

08-09-26 Colonial Theatre Westerly - Conducting Conversations

This week, the Colonial Theatre of Westerly is the subject of the program with Marion Markham, Director, and Miles Menendez, Stage Manager. We talk about their current production of “The Roommate” and the next program, “Merry Wives,” and listen to music that relates to those performances. For more information, you can go to colonialtheaterart.org [https://colonialtheaterart.org/]