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Culture Crawl 502 “The Band Takes Up The Whole Football Field”
The annual Metro Marching Band Classic is the only marching band event where you can see the award-winning marching band shows from all seven of the Cedar Rapids and Marion high schools, plus the UNI Panther Marching Band. October 14 at Kingston Stadium at 6:30pm. Rain date: Oct. 21. Tickets at www.metromarchingband.ludus.com, from any participating …
Culture Crawl 501 “Ioway, Ioway!”
“Jazzy Jamboree” is the title of the first Red Cedar Chamber Music concert of the fall season, and directors Miera Kim and Carey Bostian say that it really delivers. Guest artist Christine Bellomy takes a break from her duties as principal clarinet with Orchestra Iowa and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band to perform a program …
KCCK Transmitter Off The Air
WE’RE BACK! Thanks to everyone for their patience during our recent outage. It feels so good to be pumping out the jazz for Eastern Iowa once again!
Culture Crawl 499 “Ron on Didgeridoo”
Native American flute player Jonny Lipford welcomes indigenous performers from all over the country to Iowa each year for the Sweetgrass Flute and Nature Festival, held at Prairie Woods in Hiawatha, Sept. 27-29. KCCK’s Ron Adkins is the Festival MC, and lets us in on who he is excited to see perform. And as always, …
Culture Crawl 498 “Magic To Do”
The Iowa City Community Theatre presents the musical “Pippin,” Sept. 20-29. Known for the Broadway (and 70s-80s show Choir) standards “Magic to Do” and “Corner of the Sky,” director Josh Sazon and music director Wes Hable say this production, while staged in the intimate ICCT space at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, still boasts intricate choreography …
Culture Crawl 497 “Apples and ABBA”
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance drops by for her monthly visit, reminding us that there is a full weekend of fun stuff to do in the Corridor, highlighting theatre, music, and Art in the Alley. Details on these and hundreds of other events at www.culturalcorridor.org.
Culture Crawl 496 “Not That Kind of Carnage”
Despite its provocative title, “God of Carnage” is not a play based on a horror novel, but is actually a comedy surrounding the experience of two sets of parents brought together after a playground fight involving their sons. Director Brian Tanner and cast member Greg Stoll say that what starts out as an effort to …
Culture Crawl 495 “Comm Badge on the Outside”
Friends of Tim Hankewich know the Orchestra Iowa maestro’s good luck charm is a Star Trek comm badge, which he wears inside his tux coat. Don’t be surprised if the comm badge is proudly out and displayed on his lapel at Brucemorchestra, this Saturday, Sept. 14. It’s an all-space program, with the themes from Star …