The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place June 11, 2020. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
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This Week In Jazz May 31 thru June 6
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bandleader Jimmy Lunceford, arranger/bandleader Nelson Riddle, drummers Specs Powell, Al Harewood, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes, Charlie Watts and Peter Erskine, saxophonists Red Holloway, Hal McKusick, and Oliver Nelson, singers Morgana King and Ian Shaw and more!!! We’ll also …
Special Programs for June 1 thru June 6
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Sophie Milman Canadian singer Sophie Milman was barely 20 when she made her first album in 2004. Three years later, her recording, Make Someone Happy, won a JUNO Award for the best jazz vocal …
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 …
Special Programs for May 24 thru May 30
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Alma Cogan English singer Alma Cogan, though not a chart-buster in the United States, was famous in the 1950’s for her “sunny” voice and demeanor. Cogan was the highest-paid vocal star in England at …
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 …