The KCCK Featured CD for March is KCCK’s “Corridor Jazz Project Volume Twelve.” The disc showcases the outstanding high school jazz programs in the area, which now numbers thirteen with the addition of the brand new Liberty High School. The bands are matched with professional musicians and educators from the area who serve as guest …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturdays at 7 AM Vocal Short List 16: Denise Donatelli Denise Donatelli didn’t sing professionally until her two sons were in their teens. You may have first heard her singing on commercials or for television shows. Donatelli now boasts three …
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 …
