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Culture Crawl 913 “Dust Off My Theatre Chops”
New opera, “Fierce,” is coming to Hancher Auditorium and William Menefield and Andre Perry are in the studio with exciting insights ahead of the Iowa premiere of this landmark production. Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27, 7:30pm at Hancher Auditorium. For tickets and more information visit www.hancher.uiowa.edu Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at www.kcck.org/culture …
Culture Crawl 912 “Choreographing Primordial Ooze”
Tim Hankewich pops in the studio ahead of the upcoming Orchestra Iowa Masterworks V: Essential Earth featuring Richard Scofano. Concerts will be Saturday 4/20, 7:30pm at Paramount Theatre and Sunday 4/21, 2pm at Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. The maestro also plans to reveal the orchestra’s next season! Tickets at www.artsiowa.com or www.orchestraiowa.org Subscribe …
This Week In Jazz April 15 thru February April 21
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Bessie Smith and Madeleine Peyroux, bassists Gene Cherico and Richard Davis, trombonist Bennie Green, composer Henry Mancini, flutist Herbie Mann, saxman Leo Parker, drummer Danny Gottlieb and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Stan Getz’ “Stan …
Culture Crawl 909 “Ooh, I Hope I Get to Portray You Someday”
Jonesy McElroy & Deb Kennedy with TKM Productions are in the studio ahead of the Iowa premier screening of “Stages” an original miniseries about theatre written and directed by Jonesy. Episode one introduces characters in a village of passionate theatrical enthusiasts. PG-13 rating. Stick around for a talkback after the screening with McElroy and cast …
This Week In Jazz April 7 thru February April 13
Tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of songwriter E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, composer/pianists Claude Bolling and Herbie Hancock, singers Carmen McRae, Helen Forrest and Vanessa Rubin, pianist Walter Bishop, Jr., multi-instrumentalist Joey DeFranco and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Dizzy Gillespie’s “Birk’s Works” (1957), Joe Henderson’s “In ‘N Out” (1964), …
This Week In Jazz March 30 thru February April 6
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of singers Alberta Hunter, Doris Day and Jill Scott, saxmen Harry Carney, Boomie Richman, Stanley Turrentine and Gary Smulyan, pianists Duke Jordan, drummers Stan Levey and Jake Hanna, bassists Scott LaFaro and Chuck Deardorf and more. We’ll also mark the …
Culture Crawl 905 “Just Send a Resume to Warner Bros”
Eric Freese & Scott Chrisman with The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival are on air to talk everything film. The festival takes place April 5 through 7 at the Collins Road Theatres and will feature 57 films of varying genres and types. For more information visit www.crifm.org. Subscribe to The Culture Crawl at www.kcck.org/culture or …
This Week In Jazz March 24 thru March 30
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of saxmen Ben Webster, James Moody, Michael Brecker, and Lew Tabackin, bandleaders Paul Whiteman and Matt Catingub, bassists Ike Isaacs, Larry Gales and Paul Jackson, drummer Paul Motian and Steve Fidyk, singers Sarah Vaughan, Astrud Gilberto, Stacey Kent and Ledisi …