Ozarks At Large

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, making inroads in the battle against lung cancer in Arkansas. After years of steady increases, the rate is dropping in the state. Plus shifts in the testing for a GED certificate in Arkansas, and a closer listen to one of the bands scheduled to appear at the 2014 edition of Wakarusa.
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Fayetteville residents can now pay tickets and fines online; the University of Arkansas baseball team shut out by the South Carolina Gamecocks in the College World Series in Omaha yesterday; and more – on today’s Segment A.
“Two Hours from Tulsa” by RJ Mischo
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 final concert in the Mountain Street Stage June Music Series at the Fayetteville Public Library is Sunday afternoon and will feature RJ Mischo.  RJ will have harmonica and guitar on hand to play the music he fell in love with as a teenager in Minnesota: the blues.  Recently he came by KUAF to talk with us about his career
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about all the music we can listen to over this weekend.