The KCCK Featured CD for February is “Swirl” from Michael Wolff. After a four-year battle with cancer, the pianist came out the other side completely healthy with plenty more life to live and music to make. The new disc, featuring bassist Ben Allison and drummer Allan Mednard, bears out Michael’s newfound appreciation for life’s joys …
The Corridor’s newest jazz band, the Liberty High School Jazz Ensemble, directed by Ryan Arp, makes its Corridor Jazz Project debut with Chick Corea’s “Early Afternoon Blues,” with guest artist Steve Shanley, professor of music at Coe College and director of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. Liberty students with solos include Spencer Knight, Brennan …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place February 14, 2019. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
The Bethel AME church in Cedar Rapids is the community’s 3rd eldest church. On February 9, the Church will host its 91st Allen Lincoln Douglas Banquet at the African American Museum of Iowa. Pastor Leoma Leigh-Williams and congregation member Slayton Thompson say the theme of the evening is “Building One Another Up and Tearing Down …
Today’s featured session from the 2019 Corridor Jazz recordings is the Marion High School Jazz Band One, performing “Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise.” Directed by Logan Vander Wiel with guest artist Nolan Schroeder, saxophone. Nolan, a Linn-Mar graduate, is one of only two musicians who participated in the Corridor Jazz Project as students and …
For several years now, a group of writers have been meeting at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids on a collection of memoirs. “Kaleidoscope” has just been released. It is a collection of seventeen pieces, that range from the late Carol Wohlleben’s story of how she founded Kirkwood’s Culinary Arts …
Today’s Featured Session from the 2019 Corridor Jazz Project CD Recordings is the Solon High School Jazz Orchestra, directed by Desmond Cervantez. Mr. Cervantez didn’t have to go very far to find his guest artist. Just across the hall, in fact, and asked Solon Vocal Director Joel Foreman to join the band on vocals …
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has two new exhibits. “Power and Protest” features works form the Museum’s collection depicting the behind-the-scenes work to keep people in power, and the demonstrations, marches, and rallies that speak to that power. “Power and Protest” was created as a companion to the traveling exhibit “American Visionary – John …
