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Culture Crawl 572 “Dinner and a Show—at Home”
Revival Theatre presents a retrospective featuring some of the most memorable performances from their first five years called “When the Curtain Rises Again.” It’s an online concert on Sunday, May 31 at 7pm on Facebook Live. Artistic director and co-founder Brian Glick says performers from past Revival shows have sent in recordings to reprise their …
Iowa City Jazz Festival Memorial Day Broadcast
We kick off the summer of 2020 with a look back at one of 2019’s biggest jazz events, the Iowa City Jazz Festival. Listen all day for last year’s memorable performances, plus our exclusive backstage conversations with all the headliners. Our broadcast is a little bittersweet, as we learned Friday that the 2020 festival won’t take place, at …
“Little by Little, You Catch the Monkey” – Alicia Rau
Trumpeter Alicia Rau grew up in rural southwest Iowa, studied abroad in Senegal, and now makes her home in New York. She plays her trumpet each night at 7pm to join the daily tribute to New York’s essential workers, and has also recorded around 40 school songs to celebrate students whose graduations and other activities …
Culture Crawl 571 “Disinfected Tiara”
Old Creamery Theatre presents the second edition of their online cabaret, “Songs to Make You Smile: A Virtual Encore,” May 23 at 7:30pm. The show will benefit four area theatres: Old Creamery, Riverside, City Circle, and Theatre Cedar Rapids, with performances from more than a dozen of the Corridor’s favorite performers. In this show, several …
Frizell Cleaned the Tubs, Al Cleaned the Toilets
In the Seventies and Eighties, many Iowa natives found themselves on the coasts, meeting, performing, and forming lifelong friendships with some of the musicians who would go on to become the most important players of their generation. Dennis Carlson moved from Cedar Falls to Boston, where Gary Burton offered him a position teaching at Berklee. …
The Story Behind Slice of Jazz Video
Grant Lapointe is not just a talented jazz pianist, who KCCK listeners have heard at Jazz Under the Stars, Taste of Jazz, and many other events. The rising junior at Cedar Rapids Washington also recently solicited vocal tracks from all sixteen members of the Wash vocal group Slice of Jazz, and put them together for …
“When Someone is Stealing a Car” – Jazz in TV & Cinema
Author Derrick Bang has chronicled the life of pianist Vince Guaraldi and has also written dozens of articles on the Charles Schulz and the Peanuts comic strips. But he recently turned his attention to making an exhaustive survey of the role of Jazz in the music of TV and movies. His two-volume set, Crime and Spy …
Culture Crawl 570 – “Alien Possession – Just Screams Mother’s Day”
Mirrorbox Theatre continues its weekly “Out The Box” streamed series with alive reading of “Chalk” by Walt McGough. Caroline Price and Marcia Hughes star in this new play about a mother eking out an existence post-Apocalypse, when her daughter, now possessed by the aliens who have taken over the world, returns home. Like all Mirrorbox …