The third annual Fayetteville Roots Festival adds another day to the schedule this year and brings John Prine to the Walton Arts Center stage. Bryan Hembree and Jerrmy Gawthrop, two co-founders of the festival list some of this year’s events and musicians.
Inside the interview we heard “Please Don’t Bury Me” by John Prine and “Stepping Stones” performed by MilkDrive.
For more information, visit the Fayetteville Roots Festival website at fayettevilleroots.com
Web extra: Workshops, Bicycle Rides and Other Rootsy Activities
Ozarks At Large
Miranda Lambert will be performing Friday at the Taste of Country Music Festival at the Arkansas Music Pavilion. Becca Martin Brown, Features Editor at Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us more details as well as a rundown of today's activities.
The full season for Walton Arts Center is still a few weeks away. However, Jodi Beznoski reminds us that Second City, Miranda Lambert, the final concert in the KUAF Summer Jazz Festival and the Fayetteville Roots Festival are all set for this month.
For more information, visit the Walton Arts Center website here.
The Tontitown Grape Festival continues tonight, and Weird Sisters opens at Arts Live in Fayetteville. Becca Martin Brown has the details on these stories and more.
Becca Martin Brown reminds us that the Tontitown Grape Festival is almost here and there is a new book will debut at this year's festival.
The Siloam Springs 7th Annual Heritage Festival, hosted by the Siloam Springs Museum, is this Saturday in City Park. In addition to music from bands such as Prime Time Performers and Bill acorn and Friends, there will be demonstrations in lace-making, wood carving, and a an Old West street gunfight presented by the Arkansas Lead Slingers.
More information is available at www.arkansasleadslingers.com.
The Siloam Springs 7th Annual Heritage Festival, hosted by the Siloam Springs Museum, is this Saturday in City Park. In addition to music from bands such as Prime Time Performers and Bill acorn and Friends, there will be demonstrations in lace-making, wood carving, and a an Old West street gunfight presented by the Arkansas Lead Slingers.
More information is available at www.arkansasleadslingers.com.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center tells us about the last few performances that will mark the end of the 2012 Artosphere Festival.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, a look at mineral rights in Arkansas; and a preview of the penultimate performance in the KUAF-Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival. Also on the show today, a report on the 25 percent increase in health insurance charge for University of Arkansas students this year.Festival organizer Steven Gates and trumpeter Richard Rulli recently spoke to Kyle Kellams about the fifth concert in the KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival. The performance is scheduled for 7:30 Thursday night inside the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. The concert is free and open to the public.
More information is available at http://www.fulbrightsummermusic.uark.edu
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we say good night to iconic places and events in Fayetteville. Plus, we talk with researchers at the University of Arkansas who were sent around the world by PBS for a national show, Time Scanners.
Becca Martin Brown has some last minute activity to do with your mom or do yourself or your kids if you are a mom, or not.
Still on the Hill's latest album aims to help educate northwest Arkansas residents about the history of Beaver Lake, and to promote a greater stewardship of the region's largest drinking water reservoir.
“Amazing Lover” by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
“Mama Like Roses” by Elvis Presley
Leave it to Beaver’s June Cleaver
“Key Momma” Kanye West
Birth of Royal Baby
Mr. Mom
“Momma” John Lennon
What to Expect When You’re Expecting
Brady Bunch’s Carol Brady
“Mother” Danzig
Mad Men’s Betty Draper
Bambi
“Mamma Said” The Shirelles
Exxon Mobil Corp. contributes $125,000 to the Arkansas Community Foundation to assist with long-term disaster recovery efforts in Central Arkansas. Two state legislators call for another financial impact analysis for the state's Private Option program, and postal workers across the state will collect food items Saturday for one of the larger food drives in the state.
"Big Chief" by Rebirth Brass Band
