KUAF Public Radio: Music

The inaugural Ozark Music Festival will bring more than 100 musicians—some professional, some students—to northwest Arkansas for two weeks of rehearsals and public performances.

Becca Martin-Brown returns to discuss modern events with a deeper history with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams. This week, they talk about the University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum's upcoming performance, "Songs of the Stars."

City Sessions, a local concert series, combines the big and the intimate with its annual Home Sweet Home Festival. Jerad Sears is the executive director of City Sessions, and he came to the Carver Center for Public Radio to discuss the event with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams.

Fresh Grass begins on Friday, May 16. The two-day festival at The Momentary includes about two dozen performances from Rosanne Cash, Shakey Graves, Willie Carlisle and more. Will Eubanks, Director of Music and Production at the Momentary and Crystal Bridges, recently discussed this year’s FreshGrass lineup with Ozarks at Large.

Today’s Sound Perimeter features artists Rubén Darío Reina and Pepe Rivero, performing as part of the University of Arkansas Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I³R) celebrations.

With warm weather and the outdoor music season upon us, Ozarks at Large revives our weekly survey of some—but certainly not all—music opportunities in the next week.