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This Week’s Shows: Week of May 23 – 30

2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival – Memorial Day Special Monday, May 30th at 6:00 AM  KCCK gives you a great way to kick-start the summer and get pumped for the 2016 Iowa City Jazz Festival (July 1-3) when we bring you all of the 2015 Iowa City Jazz Festival Main Stage performances plus our exclusive, …

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Culture Crawl 156 “11 Minutes and It’s Just One Weekend!”

KCCK’s Schoolhouse Jazz featured on CBS 2 and FOX 28

KCCK’s elementary school program Schoolhouse Jazz  was featured this week on KGAN CBS 2 and KFXA Fox 28’s Person 2 Person segment.  View the full story below:    

Culture Crawl 154 “Vacation at Your Own Risk”

Mark Yother’s “Got A Minute” Archive

For nearly 24 years our affable local curmudgeon, Mark Yother, offered us his weekday “Got A Minute” commentaries –  his sometimes skewed perspective on what everybody else is up to. Occasionally serious; always more or less reality-based. Mark wrote all of his scripts for “Got A Minute” on his typewriter.  He kept every single one filed …

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Culture Crawl 153 “Folk Songs From Around the World. And Lasagna.”

This Week’s Shows: Week of May 9 – 15

Short List with Bob Naujoks Monday – Friday at 8:35 AM and Saturday at 7 AM The Short List: Vocal Short List 14 (Carol Welsman) Over the years there have been a host of great jazz performers who came over the northern border to make a splash in the United States, including pianist Oscar Peterson, …

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Culture Crawl 152 “Winding Down Yet Speeding Up”