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Culture Crawl 578 “Different Flavors of Cuckoo”
Red Cedar Chamber Music presents the final concert in their summer series of live-streamed events, “Biber, Bach, and Beethoven,” June 24-27. The centerpiece of the concert is “Sonata Representative,” a work performed with narration written by Janet Burroway and multimedia images. Watch beginning at about 4:45 for Carey’s performance of one of the verses! Four …
Gabe Medd
Dennis Green talks with Iowa City native and New York trumpeter Gabe Medd about his personal experience with COVID-19, and how he is making music during the pandemic, including a virtual performance with Gabe in his friend Chad LB’s Big Band.
Vote for The Best of The Fest!
Even though in-person performances for the 2020 Iowa City Jazz Festival have been cancelled, we still think the airwaves should be filled with live jazz July 3-5. Since 2001, KCCK has recorded and broadcast nearly all of the mainstage performances. That’s nearly 500 hours of unforgettable shows! In addition to the online performances that Summer …
Culture Crawl 574 “Arts Fest in Your Living Room”
The Iowa Arts Festival will take place online this weekend, but will still have opportunities for you to browse and buy quality art pieces, and hear great music. Summer of the Arts Executive Director Lisa Barnes says you can go to the Artists page at www.summeroftheARTS.org to see work by the artists invited to this …
Culture Crawl 573 “Pick Up The Spare”
The Civic Music Association of Des Moines has announced it’s 2020-21 season. Jazz highlights include a concert with Jazz at Lincoln Center lead trumpeter Sean Jones, and tributes to Ray Charles (featuring Take 6), as well as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone. But first, we need to “pick up the spare” from 2019. …
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 …