Riverside Theatre’s Free Outdoor Shakespeare series returns this summer with “Twelfth Night,” one of The Bard’s best-known comedies, spinning a tale of mistaken identity, romance, revenge and other hijinks. Adam Knight and Kathleen Johnson say make sure to come at 6:30 for the “Green Show,” kind of a condensed version of the play to help …
Dennis Green was present for the very first July 4 fireworks display in downtown Cedar Rapids, which over the past 40 years has grown into the 3-week Freedom Festival celebration. Freedom Festival celebrates its big birthday with the return of some old favorite events, plus some new ones, including Jazz on 2nd, the Festival’s first …
With Cedar Rapids Municipal Band director Steve Shanley still on vacation, Linn-Mar’s Jen Tiede is guest directing this week. Her guest is bassist and singer Blake Shaw, who took this opportunity to do his first-ever arranging for concert band, which is much larger than a jazz big band, and even more so than Blake’s usual …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of trumpeter Doc Cheatham, saxophonist Lucky Thompson, pianists Erroll Garner, Jaki Byard, and Chick Corea, bassist Chuck Berghofer, singer Dominique Eade and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of “Gene Ammons’ “All Star Sessions w/Sonny Stitt” (1955), Jimmy Smith’s …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Enrico Pieranunzi’s Exciting Piano Host Craig Kessler serves up some “delicious goodies” from the 50-year career of Italian piano virtuoso Enrico Pieranunzi. We’ll hear solos, duos, trios, quartets and more exciting jazz! The Wednesday Night Special Wednesdays …
Husband and wife art collectors Dan Shogren and Susan Meyer from the Twin Cities have spent decades building a collection of art, all surrounding urban life in the 1930s. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art hosts their first-ever exhibit, entitled “Work and Society in the 1930s: American Paintings and Photographs.” Dan and Susan, working folks …
Two exhibits are up at Gilded Pear Gallery, with a reception to see them and meet the artists on June 9 from 5-7:30pm. “Welcome: New Artists” is just what it says, debut exhibits from seven artists, most from the local area. “By Design” displays ideas from four area design firms on different ways to incorporate …
The KCCK Featured Album for June is “Time Flies” from Steve Smith and Vital Information. The disc launches the latest incarnation of the band, and marks 40 years since the recording and release of the first Vital Information album in 1983. The band emerges with a new approach as a piano trio with a wide …
