For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from:
Pearl Brick
Cletus Got Shot
Sweetwater Gypsies
Isayah Wofford
The Riverblenders
Xcluded
Sons of Otis Malone
Finvarra's Wren
Dick Johnson
Elephant Revival
And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Ozarks At Large
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Several local improv comedy groups will be performing at show at Teatro Scarpino next Wednesday.
Our underwriting director Rhonda Dillard stops by the studio to announce the winner of our Fayetteville Roots Festival ticket giveaway.
"Untitled" by Seryn
An area school district that intended to arm teachers and other staff can no longer do so, after the board that issued a private security firm license to the Clarksville School District has revoked that license. The Arkansas State Police rolls out a fleet of new, more discreet cruisers. One of Springdale's farmers' markets closes, but could potentially reopen in the future. A non-profit aimed at serving women from disadvantaged situations gets ready to open in Rogers. And a new state law taking effect tomorrow means drivers will have to move over for more than just emergency personnel.
"Congo Mulence" by Machito
The goal of the Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is that by 2020 all students will read at grade level by the third grade.
A water trail along the Arkansas River in Fort Smith allows canoeists and kayakers a chance to experience some wilderness inside the Fort Smith city limits.
