# Danielle Ponder on her new song, 'Power'

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/connections-podcast-736335/danielle-ponder-on-her-new-song-power
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/connections-podcast-736335/danielle-ponder-on-her-new-song-power.md
Podcast: [Connections Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/connections-podcast-736335)
Published: 2026-06-18T17:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_11479_4057cc2b-a575-45e2-85af-4a114dcd69c2&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F11479%2Ffeed-rss.xml
Audio file: https://dovetail.prxu.org/11479/4057cc2b-a575-45e2-85af-4a114dcd69c2/Connections-Thursday-Hr1-6.18.26.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/connections-podcast-736335/episodes/danielle-ponder-on-her-new-song-power
Duration seconds: 3014

## Resource

International music star and Rochester native Danielle Ponder is back in town. She'll headline the Rochester Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, where she'll perform her new song, "Power." Ponder has signed to Dead Oceans, in partnership with Phoebe Bridgers. She joins us on "Connections" this hour to discuss the new song and a trip to Senegal that inspired it, her craft, songwriting in the current moment, and more. Our guest: Danielle Ponder, singer-songwriter --- Connections is supported by listeners like you. Head to our donation page to become a WXXI member today, support the show, and help us close the gap created by the rescission of federal funding. --- Connections airs every weekday from noon-2 p.m. Join the conversation with questions or comments by phone at 1-844-295-TALK (8255) or 585-263-9994, email , Facebook or Twitter . Connections is also livestreamed on the WXXI News YouTube channel each day. You can watch live or access previous episodes here . --- Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections .

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/connections-podcast-736335/episodes/danielle-ponder-on-her-new-song-power/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/connections-podcast-736335/danielle-ponder-on-her-new-song-power.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.