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We here at KUAF wish you the happiest of holidays and a peaceful and joyous New Year! The Ozarks at Large team will be taking a much-deserved break to reflect and rest at the end of the year and in its place, we're happy to offer the following specials of beautiful music, introductions to holiday celebrations from around the world and from our own community!

Beginning Friday, December 23rd to Sunday, January 8th, these specials will air weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. and on Sundays at 9 a.m.

Friday, December 23rd - The Fort Smith Chorale. Enjoy the annual recording of the chorale's famous holiday concert.

Sunday, December 25th - Ballad of the Brown King. With a libretto by Langston Hughes, this Christmas cantata focuses on Balthazar, the dark-skinned king who journeyed to Bethlehem to witness the birth of Jesus Christ. Beautifully interpreted by New York City-based The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra, soloists soprano Laquita Mitchell, mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford and tenor Noah Stewart, with Malcolm J. Merriweather at the podium.

Monday, December 26th - Sounds of Kwanza. During the aftermath of the Watts Uprisings in the 1960s, Dr. Maulana Karenga decided to create a special December holiday designed for Black people to celebrate themselves, their culture, and their future liberation. Today, Kwanzaa is still celebrated by not only Afro-Americans, but Black people around the globe.

Tuesday, December 27th - Christmas Revels 2022. A compilation of musical excerpts, plus a couple of short poetry and prose readings, selected from live Christmas/Winter Solstice Revels stage productions presented in seven cities across the United States

Wednesday, December 28th - A Mexican Christmas with Newberry Consort and EnsAmble Ad-Hoc. Featuring pieces commonly heard in both liturgical service and in the streets, organ, harp, bassoon, and a variety of Mexican traditional instruments bring this exuberant and diverse music to life.

Thursday, December 29th - The Importance of Rituals. Sasha Sagan, daughter of writer Ann Druyan and late astronomer Carl Sagan, explores the power rituals can hold, in both religious and secular houses alike.

Friday, December 30th - Reggie James Gospel Hour. Recorded live by KUAF at the Fayetteville Public Library for the 2022 Fayetteville Roots Festival.

Sunday, January 1st - An Open Gate. This special from PRX explores the repercussions of a Jewish/Christian intermarriage on faith, identity, and the family.

Monday, January 2nd - Estranged. Host Anita Rao explores two women's journeys who by choice or circumstance are estranged from their parents. The two reflect on finding belonging when your family bonds are broken and seeking support from non-traditional sources.

Tuesday, January 3rd - Humankind: Constant Emergency. A special on finding healing and meaning in an age of seemingly unrelentless chaos.

Wednesday, January 4th - KUAF Podcast Sampler. This special highlights some of the best moments of 2022 KUAF's new locally-produced podcasts, including Resilient Black Women, The R Word, Natural Election, Undisciplined and the RefleXions Music Series podcast.

Thursday, January 5th - The Lunch Hour Sampler. A special collection of live performances from KUAF's monthly concerts taking place in our own lobby, plus excerpts from the Lunch Hour conversations featuring performers and restaurant owners talking about building community through food, music and creativity.

Friday, January 6th and Sunday, January 8th - Ozarks at Large LIVE. A collection of live performances recorded for Ozarks at Large, including tracks featured on the KUAF Live Vol. 5 compilation CD and some tracks that have never aired before!

KUAF Business Members support their public radio station and their community!


KUAF is supported by contributing listeners and by Business Members –

The Ozark Society

Ozark Sunrooms (Tontitown, AR)

Build-A-Home, Inc. (Fayetteville, AR)

Holland Wildflower Farm (Elkins, AR)

Reed's Tax Service (Eureka Springs)

Arkansas Vein Clinic and Skin Care (Fort Smith)

Shupe Enterprises (Rogers)

Phil Votaw & Associates (Greenwood, AR)

Author Elle James (Rogers)

Community Counseling of Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville)


To learn more about Business Memberships and how to become one HERE.

The House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (Labor-HHS-Education) Appropriations Subcommittee unveiled its draft Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 appropriations bill, which eliminates two-year advance funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Interconnection funding. In effect, CPB funding would end beginning in FY 2026.

While many were expecting significant cuts to meet the debt ceiling law caps, this proposal to eliminate funding for CPB is deeply troubling and would overturn a 47-year-old bipartisan practice of advance funding that has been central to public media’s success and independence. And would eliminate annual funding of approximately $125,000 for KUAF - an annual loss that would be detrimental to the growth and vitality of the local, national, and international news coverage KUAF provides to hundreds of thousands in our area.

We Need Your Help

This moment necessitates a big grassroots response, and we need your help to spread the word. KUAF is asking you to work with us to Protect Public Media and to ask your representatives in Congress to oppose this bill.

What You Can Do

You can write or call Representative Steve Womack, (R-AR, 4th), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, asking for his support of public media and against the cuts to CPB.

You can also email Arkansas' other members of Congress - Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR, 1st), Rep. French Hill (R-AR, 2nd), and Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR, 4th).

You can access a template letter to a House Appropriations Committee members here and a template for other House members here.

A gallery of images from this year's Format Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas.

KUAF is celebrating Member Appreciation Week, October 9^th through the 13^th!

We want to say THANK YOU to the community that makes KUAF possible. Each day this week, we'll have be giving away prizes to those who have given us so much!

Listen to the noon edition of Ozarks at Large this week to hear if you've won a prize and listen on Wednesday to call in for your chance to win!

Monday, October 9 - we'll draw a winner from our list of newsletter subscribers!
Tuesday, October 10 - we'll draw a winner from our social media followers.
Wednesday, October 11 - we'll have an old school CALL IN giveaway!
Thursday, October 12 - Coffee at the station! join us a the station for coffee, from Rendition Coffee & Cocktails, and breakfast pastries from 7 - 10 a.m.
Drop by, meet some KUAF staff, and see what YOUR support makes possible at the station!

And on Friday, October 13, we're wrapping Member Appreciation week up with a special Trivia Night at Black Apple Hard Cider taproom in Springdale. With trivia created and hosted by News Director Kyle Kellams, we'll have awards, prizes, music and drinks, it’s free to the public, but seating is limited. Reserve your space or get a whole team together for a night of trivia, fun, and celebration of public radio in our community!

YOU are the public in this public radio station and we want to say THANK YOU for making all the news, music, and community connection you get from KUAF, possible!