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05-22-26 Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks & Anne Ross "Everybody's Boppin" Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner Joe features, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross from their 1989, Columbia Records recording, titled “Everybody’s Boppin’.”

05-15-26 Pianist Marian McPartland "Just Friends" - Jazz After Dinner

This week Joe is featuring Pianist Marian McPartland from her 1998, Concord Records recording, titled “Just Friends.”

05-24-26 Theatre by the Sea's Little Shop of Horrors - Conducting Conversations

Theatre By The Sea's opening production of the 2026 season, Little Shop of Horrors, is the subject of this week's program with Bob Richard, director and Diane Laurenson, choreographer. We talk about the musical and listen to some of the very popular songs from the show that runs May 28th to June 20th. For more information you can call (401) 782-8587 or go to www.theatrebythesea.com [http://www.theatrebythesea.com/]

05-17-26 Dr Joshua Rohde, Music Director of RI Civic Choral & Orchestra - Conducting Conversations

The RI Civic Choral and Orchestra is the subject of this week's program with Dr. Joshua Rohde, Music Director. We talk about their upcoming concert and listen to some of the music being presented on Sunday May 31st, Temple Beth El in Providence at 3 PM. For more information you can call 401-521-5670 or go to www.ricco.org [http://www.ricco.org/]

06-09-26 New York Times Bestseller Belle Burden-Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage - 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 Belle Burden about her new book, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage. Author Bio: Belle Burden is an attorney specializing in juvenile immigration cases. Her work has appeared in The New York Times. Belle attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College and received her JD from New York University School of Law. She lives in New York City with her three children.  Follow Belle on Instagram @belleburden  Book Summary: In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume. In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through it all, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was—someone nicknamed “Belle the Good”—gives way to someone braver, someone determined to use her voice. With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.   For more information about Belle Burden, belleburden.com [https://www.belleburden.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/]