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#81 of Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher

Priya Parrotta Safina Center Fellow, Bill Freese Science Policy Analyst Center for food safety, Gloria Frazee RewildLongIsland.org

-Priya Parrotta is a Senior fellow at the Safina center in Long Island NY. Priya is a historian, author, songwriter, composer, singer, and multimedia artist dedicated to furthering environmental consciousness across borders.-Bill Freese is the  Science Policy Analyst For the Center for food safety on the efforts by the pesticide industry to protect pesticide               manufacturers from lawsuits brought by those harmed by their products.-DITD regular contributor Gloria Frazee joins me to go over what is happening on Long Island this spring with RewildlongIsland.org 

WU MAN (Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso) interviewed by WPKN's Joseph Celli

Radio Host Joseph Celli interviews Grammy Award winning Chinese pipa virtuoso WU MAN prior to her performance with the New Haven Symphony. WU MAN discusses the 2,000 year old pipa tradition, the new pipa concerto (Ears of the Book) composed for her by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Du Yun.“…one of the foremost Asian musicians in North America…she has plucked her way through classical, experimental and world music, even jazz, in the process introducing the pipa’s twang to any number of concertgoers.” New York Times

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