We begin a special Culture Crawl series this week featuring the artists performing at KCCK’s Jazz Under the Stars. First up are Gail and Paul Williams of “The Jazz Standard,” a new name for this group of musicians who have performed at Ramsey’s in Marion, First Friday Jazz, and around the community. Also in the …
KCCK’s 30th anniversary edition of Jazz Under The Stars gets underway Aug. 3 with Goose Town, a jazz/funk band made up of recent graduates from the music programs at UI and UNI. This high-energy group performs regularly in both Iowa City and Cedar Falls, and headlined at Camp Euphoria earlier in the summer. Emily Snyder …
Wondering about where you can park and what you can bring to Jazz Under the Stars at McGrath Amphitheatre? Here are the answers to your questions! When should I arrive? Doors open at 6:00. What can I bring? Lawn chairs, blankets, umbrellas, coolers. Venuworks has agreed to allow hard-sided coolers for this …
It’s the rare musical series that puts an artist who is eligible for Medicare and one who is in Middle School on the same bill, but KCCK’s Jazz Under The Stars will do that very thing on Aug. 25. Legendary Eastern Iowa pianist Eddie Piccard will headline at Jazz Under The Stars, where his …
World-renown vibraphone and marimba player Dan Moore brings his trio to Noelridge Park Aug. 6 for his first-ever appearance at Jazz Under The Stars. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dan also talks about the new UI Music Building (he is percussion chair at the University of Iowa), and also why he likes to pick songs not …
