Music
Arts journalist carving her own path in NWA
Some know her as the voice behind NPR affiliate KUAF’s “Of Note.” Some know her as the co-founder of the Trillium Salon Series — a concert series tearing down the
Students add to the gumbo of jazz
JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com Recruitment is open for the fourth season of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz All-Stars Youth Ensemble. The 18-piece jazz big band brings together high school musicians from regional
Northwest Arkansas musicians see their names in lights
JOCELYN MURPHY & BECCA MARTIN-BROWN jmurphy@nwadg.com bmartin@nwadg.com “I swear, I’m living in a dream world!” Jenee Fleenor enthused just days after the 53rd annual Country Music Association Awards ceremony. If
Maker, performers set the tune for Northwest Arkansas
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com “For many of us, Ed has come to represent the Ozarks of old,” Kelly Mulhollan muses. “A time before generic electronic media-driven culture swept over our regional
SoNA holiday concert ‘a beautiful gift to the community’
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com “It’s pretty hard to leave ‘A Very SoNA Christmas’ without a feeling of joy — about the mystery of Christmas and about the fellowship that a concert
‘A Christmas Story’
JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com “Christmas was on its way. Lovely, glorious, beautiful Christmas, around which the entire kid year revolved.” — Ralphie Parker, “A Christmas Story” And some adults’ year, too.
Boston Brass brings friendly, informal performance to WAC
JOCELYN MURPHY jmurphy@nwadg.com It’s a categorically Christmas performance when the world class Boston Brass brings their show “Christmas Bells Are Swingin’” to the Walton Arts Center on Dec. 8. The
Five Minutes, Five Questions for Adams Collins of Arkansauce
BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Arkansauce musicians just marked their five-year “bandiversary” in October, says banjo player Adams Collins. “We use Hillberry Music Fest as our marker,” he explains, “as the last
UA’s ‘Hansel and Gretel’ magical, director says
LARA JO HIGHTOWER lhightower@nwadg.com The University of Arkansas Opera Theatre will present the opera “Hansel and Gretel” by the 19th century composer Engelbert Humperdinck on Nov. 21 and 22 at
‘Good Music Is A Celebration’
Martha Redbone combines cultures in ‘brilliant collision’ BECCA MARTIN-BROWN bmartin@nwadg.com Growing up in the Appalachian hills of Kentucky, Martha Redbone never worried about what she was. “When you’re home, you’re just who
