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.
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Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers tells us about a book talk at the Fayetteville Public Library and a movie screening at the Rogers Public Library.
Recipients of a grant from the Winthrop Rockefeller foundation plan to implement savings programs for after high school schooling and improve the state's 49th rank in the country for young adults with a post-secondary education.
The state is the first in the country to implement a smart 911 system. The adoption of the new system across the state was announced earlier this week at the state capitol by elected officials and representatives of Arkansas’ fire, police and EMS first responders. Nathan Vandiver from our content partner KUAR in Little Rock filed this report.
"Ma Baker" by Boney M
University of Arkansas researcher Dr. Susan Gauch is helping develop personalized search engines. She visited KUAF earlier this week to talk with Ozarks at Large’s Antoinette Grajeda about her research.
More of this conversation is available here
