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, …
The Rod Pierson Quartet will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, October 4, at 5 p.m. The first set will be broadcast live on KCCK. The First Friday Jazz Series features an eclectic mix of jazz, Latin, contemporary music and more in an intimate, upscale environment. For a $12 cover, …
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 …
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.
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM The Bass Players: Charles Mingus The Short List begins a new series on outstanding jazz bass players, starting with the great Charles Mingus. Mingus was an intense, sometimes volatile performer, but he was also revered as …
Hey, Jazz fans!!! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of vocalists Bobby Short, Weslia Whitfield, Michael Franks and the great Jon Hendricks, saxophonists Cannonball Adderley, Joe Temperley, Shafi Hadi and Steve Slagle, Bluesman B.B. King, pianists Ralph Sharon and Muhal Richard Abrams, guitarist Eric Gale, organist Brother Jack McDuff …
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 …
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 …
