Steve Klamkin & The Saturday Am News

Loren Schoenberg, Founding Director and Senior Scholar at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem talks about the newly released Savory Collection of recently discovered recordings from the 1930's of artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller and others. For more information, go to http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

Chris Lashua is creator of Cirque Mechanics, a FirstWorks presentation October 29th at The Vets in Providence. “Pedal Punk” is described as a steampunk spectacle of stunning circus arts featuring a dazzling whirl of acrobats, cyclists and mind-blowing, one-of-a-kind machines.

General Treasurer Seth Magaziner is announcing a change in the Rhode Island pension fund's investments, including a notable reduction in the fund's allocation to hedge funds.

Dr. Bruce Corliss, Dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island talked about the recent open house aboard URI's research vessel "Endeavor". Thousands turned out to tour the ship.

Janeen Haase of the Newport, R.I. - based International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators talks about the ins and outs of travel to Antarctica

Larry Rachleff conducts his 21st and final season of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, he looks back at some of the highlights.

Novelist Raina Smith talks about her newest novel, "Divine Providence", the follow-up to "The 13th Apostle"

As Citizens Bank broke ground for its new corporate campus in Johnston, Rhode Island, President and CEO Bruce Van Saun and Governor Gina Raimondo talk about what the move means for Citizens and Rhode Island.

Dr. Maria Mileno, with University Medicine’s Infectious Diseases Division & the Miriam Hospital Travel Clinic talks about avoiding Zika virus while traveling

Bill Scorzari, Ibby Hausman and Sophia Beltz, 11, performed on the open "Museum Stage" at the 2016 Newport Folk Festival

Prof. Leo Kahane talks about #Rio, and the economics of hosting the #Olympic Games. He is an economist at Providence College who studies the impact of sports facilities.

Composer and self-styled "ringleader" Darcy James Argue brings his Secret Society big band to the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival, performing "Real Enemies", his album about conspiracy theories and much more

John Hailer, CEO of Natixis Global Asset Management talks about the firm's ongoing sponsorship of the Newport Jazz Festival

Prof. Peter Auster, Senior Research Scientist at Mystic Aquarium and Research Professor Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. The #coral canyons and #seamounts just 150 miles off the coast of New England are in need of protection

By request, my December 7, 2013 backstage interview with Donny McCaslin. The photo is from the 2016 Newport Jazz Festival

#RosemereRoad performed at the 2016 @NewportFolkFest on the "Museum Stage" They are sisters Emmery & Carson Brakke and their cousin Karen McKee, singers from #Cumberland, Rhode Island #WPRO

Newport Jazz Festival founder George Wein talks about the 2016 Festival and the future of the Festivals that he founded in 1954.

Sister Simone Campbell and the "Nuns on the Bus" arrive in Providence on Saturday for a series of events. The Catholic sisters are calling for what they call a new politics of inclusion to "mend the gaps" of income inequality and other gaps in society. Their bus tour is taking them across the country, including to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

Dr. Jill Stein, presumptive presidential nominee of the Green Party talks about the outpouring of support she's received from Bernie Sanders supporters, how the Green Party can monopolize on that support, and what the party stands for.

A mako shark dubbed Charlotte, outfitted with a transmitter, was recently noted in Rhode Island waters and is 'running a gauntlet' says URI researcher Bradley Wetherbee. He's worried Charlotte could be killed by fishermen, as it yields valuable research data.