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Culture Crawl 1170 “Jimmy, Come Down Here!”
Miera Kim and Carey Bostian celebrate a decade at the helm of Red Cedar Chamber Music with “Return to Roots,” a concert that takes Red Cedar back to the days when it was a duo. Miera and Carey will be traveling all around the area for a variety of rural outreach shows, culminating in the …
Culture Crawl 1169 “Write Down Those Gems”
Culture Crawl 1169 “Write Down Those Gems” The Kirkwood Vocal Jazz Festival not only welcomes more than a dozen groups to campus Feb. 19 & 20, but also will feature the farewell tour of the legendary New York Voices, who will also hold a clinic with each group. Daytime shows are free, and the New …
Bobby D Opens Art Exhibit Jan 30
Bob DeForest, host of KCCK’s “da Blues” will open an exhibit of his art at a reception January 30, with music from Matt Panek and the Original Kool-Aid Trio. “Sunshine Dayglo (de) Forest” collects nearly ten years of Bob’s work, which is influenced by album covers, festival posters including the psychedelic poster artists of the …
Lisbon Student Wins 2026 Corridor Jazz Art Contests
Jordin McFarlane, a senior at Lisbon High School has been chosen as the cover design winner for the “The Corridor Jazz Project XIX”, a compilation of recordings featuring twenty-one high school jazz bands produced by Iowa’s Jazz Station. The Corridor Jazz Project features the top jazz bands from Jefferson, Kennedy, Prairie, Xavier and Washington High …
25 Live – New Years Eve Special
The results are in! We asked you to vote for your favorite KCCK concerts from our 50th anniversary year and you responded! More than 400 votes came in for 40 different shows. On New Year’s Eve beginning at 1pm, we’ll play back the eight top vote-getters (in no particular order). Here’s the broadcast schedule (times …
KCCK’s Year-End Fireworks with 25 Live and Top 88
Iowa’s Jazz Station ends 2025 the same way we spent this banner year: Giving you great music! Each during during the final week of 2025, we’re look back at the year’s best jazz releases with KCCK’s Top 88 of 2025. Listen at 11am each day for our annual countdown of the most-played CDs from this …
Holiday Music, 2025’s Best Liven Up Your Holidays on KCCK
Iowa’s Jazz Station is THE place to enjoy great music throughout the holidays. We begin Christmas Eve morning at 10, with 38 hours of uninterrupted holiday music to make your time with family and friends even more special. All commercial free, of course. Beginning December 26, we’ll look back at the year’s best jazz releases …
KCCK and Career Pathways
KCCK General Manager Dennis Green has been presenting to 6th and 7th graders about KCCK and the career of radio, as a part of Career Pathways with the Workplace Learning Connection. As a group activity, students recorded the audio to a TV commercial. Page down to hear and see the work of students from Mt. …