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First Friday Jazz for Thanksgiving
KCCK’s Thanksgiving Special will look back on some of our favorite First Friday Jazz performances. Tune in for the perfect soundtrack to you holiday! Performance Schedule (Times approximate) 6:00am – Rod Pierson Not-So Big Band with Craig Boche 7:45am – Koplant No 8:45am – Eddie Piccard Quartet 10:30am – Craig Erickson 12:15pm – Commons Collective …
Culture Crawl 673 “Stealing in a Copyright-Friendly Way”
Mike Conrad founded The Iowa Jazz Composers Orchestra (ICJO) to highlight the compositions of Iowans in new music and arrangements written for big band. The ensemble makes its Cedar Rapids’ debut Nov. 13 at 8pm at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids. You’ll hear the work of Chris Merz, Bob Washut, the late John Rapson, as …
“Music Is A Sturdy Container” – Nneena Freelon
KCCK’s Hollis Monroe talks to Nneena Freelon about “Georgia On My Mind,” a Ray Charles tribute show that will team the award winning singer with Take 6, saxophonist Tom Scott, and singer-actor Clint Holmes. Nov. 12 at Hoyt Sherman Place with the Des Moines Civic Music Association. Details at www.civicmusic.org/georgia.
Culture Crawl 672 “A Good Re-Actor”
Tom Milligan directs “Androcles and The Lion” at Clear Creek-Amana High School in Tiffin, Nov. 12-13. Tom knows the play well, since he first performed it as a student himself. The all-female cast will perform the play, set in Ancient Rome, as if they were a troupe of 17th-century itinerant players, it’s a bit of …
Culture Crawl 671 “I See What You Did There”
Culture Crawl 671 “I See What You Did There” “Imagine Other Worlds With Authors (I.O.W.A.) is an author organized by The Writers Rooms, a support and resource organization for current and aspiring writers based in Iowa City. The event will be virtual in 2021, with pre-events going on Nov. 1-5, and opportunities to meet and …
Culture Crawl 670 “Ninja in Training”
Family Promise of Linn County, which supports homeless and housing-insecure families, presents “Stories From The Heart – Reimagining Home,” original tales from the area’s best storytellers, sharing perspectives on the importance of home, and what home means to them. Appearing will be Darrin Crow, Randy Estes, Tim Gallenbeck, Zette St. Charles, Brooke Murphy-Fitzgerald, and even …
Culture Crawl 669 “An Argument, Not a Meditation”
Riverside Theatre presents “The Grand Inquisitor,” a (largely) one-man show starring Iowa native John William Watkins, in a soliloquy taken from the classic novel, “The Brothers Karamazov,” ion collaboration with the Iowa City Book Festival and University of Iowa Libraries’ “Dostoevsky at 200” exhibit. It’s a monologue of urgency and intensity on the nature of, …
Culture Crawl 668 “Requiem”
Culture Crawl 668 “Requiem” The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale returns to live performance, Sunday, Oct. 24 with Mozart’s towering work, “Requiem,” in tribute to all who died during the COVID pandemic. Joining the chorale will be some of the area’s top orchestra players for accompaniment, and soloists Jessica Pray, Lynn Curry, Ian Butler, and Dr. …