Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Anita Wardell This week on The Short List this week features the British singer Anita Wardell, who spent her young formative years in Australia. Though she is hardly known in the United States, …
The George Jazz Group with drummer Nick George will perform at First Friday Jazz at the Opus Concert Cafe Friday, April 6, 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. …
The Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival returns to the Collins Road Theatre April 6 & 7. Director Scott Chrisman says each film accepted into the Festival must have an Iowa connection, and the jury panel was pleased with the big selection of submissions. Full length films featured include “Ameila 2.0,” which was filmed in Cedar …
Mirrorbox Theatre stages its first production, “Exit Strategy,” April 5-7 in C Space, at CSPS in Cedar Rapids’ New Bo neighborhood. Founder Cavan Hallman says the mission of Mirrorbox is to stage new works that might not otherwise come to community. Many will be regional premieres. Alternately funny and poignant, “Exit Strategy” is the …
Summer of the Arts welcomes world-renowned jazz artists for Iowa City Jazz Festival For Immediate Release: March 19, 2018- IOWA CITY, IA An eclectic mix of top stars, genre legends, and young talents comprise the lineup for the 2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival, which will feature hours of free performances on the University of Iowa …
Short List with host Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Vocal Short List: Milton Suggs This week’s Vocal Short List highlights Milton Suggs, a singer who has been swimming upstream for recognition. He has been heralded as “Chicago’s next rising jazz star” and lauded as a …
Jamie Siefken of the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) and Cedar Ridge Distillery, stops by to talk about upcoming community arts events you can find on the newly re-designed CulturalCorridor.org. He also reminds us that changes in state law now allow Cedar Ridge to serve cocktails made from their products, and his mixologists are letting …
Orchestra Iowa and Ballet Quad Cities present the ballet “Alice in Wonderland,” one performance only in Cedar Rapids, Friday, March 16 at the Paramount Theatre. Tim Hankewich explains that the music was not written expressly for this ballet. Rather, several Tchaikovsky pieces of music written for young people were arranged for orchestra by the National …
