Culture Crawl 820 “Quiet Quitting” Cedar Rapids Municipal Band director Steve Shanley opens the 2023 season by… leaving. Steve is traveling in Europe with the Coe bands for the first couple weeks of the season, so the first two concerts will be with guest director’s Aaron Nuss is up first. Aaron is a past Muni …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm Miles Davis in the 1940s Host Craig Kessler celebrates Miles Davis’s birth date anniversary with an in-depth look at Davis’s early days. We’ll hear his work with Charlie Parker, Benny Carter, Billy Eckstine, Coleman Hawkins, Tadd Dameron, and others. …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of bassists Eugene Wright and Christian McBride, pianist/composer Freddie Redd, drummers Albert “Tootie” Heath, Louis Hayes and Charlie Watts, clarinetist/bandleader Benny Goodman and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Kenny Dorham’s “Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia” …
The History Center brings back a unique piece of Eastern Iowa history with the new exhibit “Bruce & Nola Bucknell – Partners in Puppetry.” The Bucknells toured all over the United States and Canada with their marionettes, each one handmade by Bruce and costumed by Nola. The Hy-Vee slogan, “A helpful smile in every aisle” …
Cedar Rapids Children’s Theatre, better known as Playtime Poppy, presents Summer Theatre Adventure, a free summer program open to kids ages 7-14. Auditions will be June 4 at 1:15 in Whipple Auditorium at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. Participants will present “It’s Complicated: Fairy Tales from the Ukrainian Steppes,” the week of July 10. More …
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of clarinetist/bandleader Artie Shaw, pianist/bandleader Sun Ra, singers Rosemary Clooney and Peggy Lee, trumpeter Miles Davis, bassist Max Bennett, organist Charles Earland, reedman Ken Peplowski and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Sonny Rollins’ “Tenor Madness” (1956), Stan …
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays from 6:00pm to 10:00pm The Artistry of Stanley Clarke Craig invites us to join in on the fun as he spins a fine sampling from Stanley Clarke’s stellar 50-year career. We’ll hear from his many albums as a leader, as well as great work with Chick …
KCCK’s Saul Lubaroff had a chance to talk with pianist Laurence Hobgood prior to Laurence and his trio performing at the Sound Conservatory Music Academy & Shoppe in Rock Island on May 28. More information and tickets are available by calling (309)373-0790 or visiting www.polyrhythms.org.
