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Award-winning filmmaker Larry Foley visits the Carver Center for Public Radio to discuss his new documentary, "Cries from the Cotton Field." The film, which premieres May 8, follows Italian immigrants who move to Arkansas to work the Sunnyside cotton plantation.
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Today's "Sound Perimeter" features ballads by composers Teresa Carreno and David Del Tredici. Each with a unique voice found inspiration to use this genre and portray love, passion, innocence and even the color yellow.
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Fort Smith Symphony director and composer John Jeter visits the Carver Center for Public Radio to discuss the 100th season and its season finale, which will feature a live screening of the 2013 film "Star Trek Into Darkness" and live music performed by the symphony.
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"‘Home Sweet Home", City Session’s inaugural house show music festival will be taking place later this month. This unique event brings national artists to play alongside local musicians in several homes around the Bentonville area.
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The UARK Jazz Festival continues this week on the University of Arkansas campus. Papo Vazquez, a Grammy-nominated Trombonist and composer, will be in residency for part of the week. Last week, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams spoke with Papo over Zoom, joined by Lia Uribe, host of Sound Perimeter, and Ferndano Valencia, the director of the University of Arkansas Latin American Ensemble and percussion instructor.
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A new record featuring songs and music from Pat Ryan Key and Al Halpin, "Stick to Your Guns," is available today. The duo play together on six songs and the music is available now. Pat Ryan Key came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio this week to perform music and talk the new record.
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Becca Martin Brown of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette suggests some local happenings this weekend, like Arkansas Public Theatre's production of "Into the Woods" and music from the new John Two-Hawks CD, "Eclipse."
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Northwest Arkansas may not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of fashion. But thanks to Interform that's changing.
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Silkroad Ensemble is a musical collective dedicated to bringing together musicians. The latest version of Silkroad’s “Train Station Trio” will perform in Fayetteville this week. The musicians will also participate in the “TEACH M.E.” Music Education Conference. Daniel Abrahams, assistant professor of music education, came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the conference. They were joined on Zoom by Kaoru Wantabe, a flutist and percussionist, and Morgan Beckford, the director of Silkroad Connect.
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In the new play "Holy Waters," the goddess Lluvia searches through all four seasons to find her purpose. The play, which features both gods and humans as characters, includes original poetry, music, and storytelling from members of the LatinX Theater project. Jasper Logan, KUAF’s Community Engagement Manager, sat down with two of LatinX Theater Project’s leaders to discuss the play.
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Jake Hertzog and Susumu Watanabe are collaborating with nearly two dozen other area musicians for the premier performance of the Ozark Jazz Philharmonic on Tuesday night. Not only is the ensemble new but so is the work the musicians will be performing, Hertzog’s “Anthropesia: A Concerto for Jazz Guitar and Jazz Philharmonic.” Both men came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio recently to talk about the music and the ensemble.
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Yesterday on Ozarks at Large, we heard from Soldier Songs and Voices, a program that connects vets through music, performance and songwriting. The group will host a program at the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History tonight. And to preview, we hear more from the session with Soldier Songs and Voices' Lee Haight, Jim Hale and B.R. Lang recorded in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.