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Culture Crawl 806 “All The Beatles Posters On My Wall Might Indicate That”
Local favorites the Evan Stock Band and Glass Leaf Company will appear at the Ideal Theater on April 20 with the Omaha-based Kris Lager Band. Both our guests keep busy schedules outside of performing. Evan coordinates youth bands for the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy, and Adam Sines of Glass Leaf Company co-owns Up In Smoke …
Culture Crawl 805 “My Favorite Tim Hankewich Story”
Orchestra Iowa presents the next installment in its historic 100th season, “Percussive Fire,” featuring “Dreamachine,” a composition by Cedar Rapids native Michael Daugherty featuring up and coming percussion star Britton René Collins. Tim says the opening piece by Arturo Marquez will literally make you want to get up and dance, and if all this didn’t …
Just Waiting For Him To Retire – Mid-Prairie Guest Djs 2023
2023 marks the very first year that Mid-Prairie High School participated in the Corridor Jazz Project, adn they made the most of if, bringing in not just one, but two guest artists, Randy Swift, guitar, and the legendary Gary McCurdy a.k.a The Tubador, on tuba. Jacob Carillo and Emily Righter brought the heat with Big …
Culture Crawl 804 “Each Rehearsal Is Sight Reading”
The jazz unit of Iowa City’s New Horizon Band, the Silver Swing Band, presents its spring concert April 20, 7:00pm at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. You’ll hear tunes ranging from Buddy Rich to Cannonball Adderley to traditional New Orleans, as well as work featuring Silver Swing director, Adolfo Mendonca on piano. Tickets …
My Mom Hates This Song – Centerpoint-Urbana Guest Djs 2023
The Centerpoint-Urbana Jazz Band is fresh from a trip to the Iowa Jazz Championships, guest DJ Delaney Jacobi is one of them. She, Ben Heiderscheit and Jaden Patterson break down the year at CPU (and maybe tell a couple tales about Delaney’s parents, CPU directors Dan and Dorothy Jacobi).
KCCK in South Africa with Bob
Bob Wolff is a beekeeper and an alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship Reciprocal Exchange (MWFRE) Program, a US State Department funded program. Through this program, he’s been to several countries on the continent of Africa. A longtime KCCK member, Bob says that he keeps up on Eastern Iowa events and music by streaming KCCK on …
Just A Little Poisonous – West Branch Guest Djs 2023
Lynzi Dystra, Luca Hahn, Nina Torkelson, and Bailey Walker represent the West Branch Jazz Ensemble as guest Djs. We learned about expansion in the West Branch band and theatre departments, and the interests of each young women in and outside of music, particularly Lynzi’s love of all things reptile. And tunes from Duke Ellington, Billie …
Don’t Get Electrocuted – Marion Guest Djs 2023
Katie Noll, Chris Oberbroeckling, and Aaron Piper kicked off our 2023 Guest DJ season with a tasty playlist, including lots of J.J. Johnson and Art Blakey, befitting since Chris is a drummer, and both Katie and Aaron play trombone. Katie, Chris, and Aaron’s playlist