This Week In The Neighborhood Mitch

Welcome to a new feature on NWR called “Sonic Libations”! Discover interesting interviews with friends, fans, artists, and musicians, and anyone else who has a passion for music and libations! NWR will interview guests who have selected songs for NWR to play, and also suggestions of a libation (drink, food or both ). For those tuning in who want to try the suggested food or beverage, NWR will post the details prior to the show. For this first segment, we welcome Bob O’Brien, who shares songs from memorable concerts he attended, paired with the Toronto Cocktail!

NWR had a great time interviewing author and podcaster Andy Mascola! Check out Andy’s latest novel Where Are You Now, Randy Dow? and his podcast People Are The Enemy.

This week featured a very special segment about President Trump’s dancing prowess, followed up by a phone in by the “president” himself.

This week Mark and Mitch play “What’s My Line” with a mystery guest. Also, Mark seeks to redeem himself of his cover song choices from the previous episode. It didn’t go as planned.

In this episode, Mitch and Mark interview Wally Salem of The Beautiful Music record label! We discuss Wally’s musical interests, how he became involved in starting a record label, and much more.

This Week In The Neighborhood is super pleased to welcome Aimsel Ponti to the station for a live interview! Aimsel is the Music Writer and Content Producer for the Portland Press Herald and is the host of Music from 207 on the Portland Maine radio station 98.9 WCLZ. In this interview we discuss the Portland music scene, the challenges faced due to Covid-19, and the devastating news that Port City Music Hall is closing for good. Listen in and see how you can help save the Portland and greater Maine music scene. Original Air Date: 07/31/2020