Summer of the Arts is the organization charged with planning pretty much every summer activity in downtown Iowa City. Their season begins May 19 with the opening of the Friday Night Concert Series, nearly every Friday (and one Wednesday) at 6:30pm at the Fountain Stage in the Pedestrian Mall. Son Volt and Elephant Revival …
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Culture Crawl 251 “Scenes From The Dawn of Film History”
Some of the earliest moving pictures ever made reside right here in the Creative Corridor. Early silent films made by William Franklin Brinton in the early 1900s have been preserved by historian Michael Zahs of Washington, Iowa. Some years ago, Red Cedar Chamber Music was asked to provide musical accompaniment to a showing of these …
Naujoks Art Featured in University of Missouri Magazine
Several drawings and watercolors by KCCK’s Bob Naujoks are featured in the latest edition of New Letters, the University of Missouri-Kansas City magazine of writing and art. Some of the drawings are illustrations that go along with his KCCK series, The Short List, such as The Trombone Section and Jazz & The Spoken Word. Others include watercolors of Billie …
Special Programs: Week of May 8 – 14
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (International Sweethearts of Rhythm) Even though they never quite got the respect they deserved, the all-female big band International Sweethearts of Rhythm continued to delighted …
Culture Crawl 249 “The Piano Should Be Rubble & Kindling By The Time We’re Finished”
Orchestra Iowa presents “1001 Arabian Nights” May 6 at the Paramount Theatre. Performing will be one of Tim Hankewich’s piano heroes, Andreas Klein, who will be featured on Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto #1, a challenging and entertaining piece. Also on the program will be Rimsk-Korsakob’s “Schererazade,” really a concerto for orchestra, as nearly every section …
KCCK’s Featured CD for May 2017
The KCCK Featured CD for May is “Wild and Free” from Mark Murphy. This previously unreleased live set was recorded in 1980 at San Francisco’s premiere jazz club, the Keystone Korner. The vocalese master was enjoying a pinnacle of acceptance at the time, much of it due to his 1978 “Stolen Moments” album, which earned …
Kirkwood Board of Trustees to meet May 11, 2017
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place May 11, 2017. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
Special Programs: Week of May 1 – 7
Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM Short List: Jazz Women – The Instrumentalists (Vi Redd) This week The Short List presents an overlooked and under-recorded jazz …