Kyle Kellams
News Director, Host of Ozarks at Large, Acting General ManagerKyle Kellams has been the news director at KUAF for 34 years and has been producing Ozarks at Large. The show began in a weekly format, then became a daily show. Kellams first started working in radio at KTLO in Mountain Home while in high school and also spent a year as news director at KKIX in Fayetteville before working at KUAF. During his time at KUAF, Kellams served as the radio play-by-play voice for the University of Arkansas women's basketball team and, on occasion, the U of A baseball team.
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The 2022 Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” possesses a familiar dramatic ingredient. The protagonist, Juicy, is visited by his dead father at a barbecue. The ghost asks for his murder to be avenged by his son. But this isn’t a reboot of Hamlet- Juicy is very aware of the Shakespearean tragedy and wants to break the cycle of violence and trauma. The Arkansas premiere of James Ijames ‘ “Fat Ham” is taking place through May 12 at TheatreSquared. This week, Monteze Freeland, the director, came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about the production.
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On today's show, the attempt to bring voter registration to the 21st century in Arkansas. Also, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” decides to be (and not be) Hamlet. Plus, one northwest Arkansas manufacturer’s evolution.
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The national touring production of To Kill a Mockingbird is at Walton Arts Center this week. The Tony-winner features an adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer-prize-winning novel by Aaron Sorkin. Included in the cast is Mary Badham, the actor who, at 10 years old, received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Scout. For this production, she is an entirely different kind of character, the aging, bitter racist Mrs. Dubois. She spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the role.
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Grammy, Oscar and Emmy awardee Jon Batiste is bringing his 'Uneasy' tour to the Momentary in Bentonville next week. Batiste’s 2020 album “We Are” was awarded the Grammy for Album of the Year, and his soundtrack for the animated film “Soul” earned both an Oscar and a Grammy. Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams reached the composer, musician and arranger by cell phone yesterday.
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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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On today's show, preparation is underway for a city-wide clean-up day in Fayetteville. Also, a life with "To Kill a Mockingbird." Plus, the Fort Smith Symphony teams up with Captain Kirk.
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Keri Blakinger's path to journalism contains several twists. In her memoir, “Corrections in Ink," Blakinger writes about the day in Ithaca when she was arrested. Throughout the rest of the book, she gives details about her incarceration in jail, then prison, and her life before and after incarceration. Blakinger will talk about the memoir at the Fayetteville Public Library on April 22. She spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the book and event.
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On today's show, a team effort brings us the updates to Wilson Park in Fayetteville. Also, Keri Blakinger discusses her memoir about prison. Plus, life after prison. Plus, how a restaurateur decided to make pizza in Johnson.
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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 HBO documentary about the Oklahoma City bombing uses archives from the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. Randy Dixon from the Pyror Center returns to discuss extremism in Arkansas and how it could be connected to the bombing in 1995.