With another week comes another episode of the Big Mo Pod Show! This week’s helping of tunes features tracks with a variety of themes, from living on the edge to taking on the problems of the world, all of which are analyzed and mulled over by our dynamic duo! Songs featured in the episode: Corey …
Orchestra Iowa opens its 2024-25 season with “A Night on the Town,” which will also kick off the 50th anniversary celebration of Iowa’s Jazz Station. Befitting the partnership between KCCK and Orchestra Iowa, the orchestra will perform the first composition to marry jazz and classical, George Gershwin’s landmark piece “Rhapsody in Blue.” In celebration of …
Jazz Corner of the World (Encore) Mondays at 6:00pm Jaki Byard as a Sideman Craig gives us a listen to a variety of recordings by Eric Dolphy, Chris Connor, Charles Mingus, Eric Kloss, Booker Ervin, Roland Kirk, and a host of others. Each of these records feature the piano genius of John Arthur “Jaki” Byard. …
Brucemore begins a new series this fall, “Music at the Big House.” The opening performance is directed by Lincoln Ginsberg, a performer and composer who works on the Brucemore Artisan Studio team, along with Dylan Rairdin, called “Themes of the Digital Age,” which presents new arrangements of music from video games. The show will feature …
Riverside Theatre opens its 44th season with perhaps their most unique production, the operatic comedy “Scalia-Ginsburg.” It’s the tale of these two jurists, at opposite ends of the political spectrum, who came together over their love of opera. Mary Jane Knight, who sings the Ginsburg role, says that wrapping her head and lips around various …
Matthew 25 teams up with acclaimed artist Akwi Nji for the first “Storytellers of Cedar Rapids,” a new series that will feature local storytellers, some open mic slots, and music. Performing for this first event are Akwi, Matthew 25 founder Courtney Ball, Jason Edwards, Eric Gutschmidt, and Ruth Morrow on the theme of “What …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of cornetist Buddy Bolden, bassists Trigger Alpert, Lonnie Plaxico and Larry Ridley, pianists Horace Silver and Water Davis, Jr., saxmen Ernie Henry and Clifford Jordan, drummers Mickey Roker, Otis “Candy” Finch and Sherrie Mericle, singer Claire Martin and more. We’ll …
The regular meeting of the Kirkwood Board of Trustees will take place September 12, 2024. Time, place, and meeting agenda can be found at this link.
