Katy Hneriksen gives us a preview of this week's KUAF Sunday Symphony, as well as a look at this month's Community Cinema event at the Fayetteville Public Library.
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Each April 22nd, the world unites to celebrate Earth Day to draw attention to environmental protection. Monday evening, a group will gather at the University of Arkansas Global Campus in Fayetteville for a concert for the earth.Timothy Dennis brings us the rest of the story for some of the stories we've covered over the course of the past week.
On this edition of Ozarks, the only hour of radio you'll hear today with classical flute and hip hop performed live. Brice Smith will play the flute while Smar-T-Jones provides the rhymes. Plus our weekly conversation about business and politics with Michael Tilley and more.
If a young man with a beard, wearing a t-shirt and blue plastic glasses approaches you on the street and asks “hey, do you like hip hop?’, don’t brush him off, chances are good that it is SmaR-T-Jones, and he’ll probably offer to rap for you.
Bryce Smith is also performing at the APO tomorrow night. The upstate New York native normally plays violin, but he will play flute during tomorrow night's program.
The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra will present a program of Russian concertos tomorrow night. Featured during tomorrow night's show will be "Fayetteville's Piano Man," Johnathon Story.Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Media gives us a litany of events for the weekend that even children can afford.
Michael Tilley of The City Wire says that a lower jobless rate doesn't necessarily mean a healthy overall workforce, and the latest on this week's economic developments in the Arkansas River Valley.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, August 23, 2013
On this special Roots Festival Edition of Ozarks from the Fayetteville Public Library, the Del McCourry Band, Iris DeMent and Joe Crookston play some tunes for our live studio audience. And we learn about the burgeoning craft brewery scene in NWA and more.
The Fort Smith Northside High School Jazz Band will hold a fundraising performance at UAFS’s Second-Street Live Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.. This professional-caliber show will raise funds to send these student musicians to summer band camp.
. . . Becca Martin Brown gives you something at Arts Live Theatre to lighten your mood.
Kyle Kellams spoke with SoNA director Paul Haas about Saturday’s performance, as well as what it takes to produce a master work.
"Under Pressure" written by Queen
Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway will play some Irish folksongs to get you ready for the Irish holiday. Jodi Beznoska of Walton Arts Center gives us this preview and more.
Prior to South-by-Southwest, many bands will be stopping in Fayetteville on their way to the week-long festival in the Texas cultural oasis. Katy Henriksen gives us this rundown of the line-up that can be seen locally.
