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The B-Side -- Musings On The Iowa Music Scene
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IPR's Tony Dehner interviewed Sunny War on her recent stop by the Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City. Beyond being a great person, she also kindly spent some time explaining a whole music subgenre to us.
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New York native Caroline Rose, who's released four studio albums since 2014, visited the Englert Theatre in April, where she entertained the audience with a performance intersecting emotional and comical moods.
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This up-and-coming central Iowa festival features headliners Umphrey’s McGee, Railroad Earth, Yonder Mountain String Band and Sierra Hull as part of its 2024 lineup.
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In 2020, an old Methodist church in Story City was sold to a pair of local residents. robyn anderson saw an opportunity, and moved in to the old church. In the intervening four years, she's used the second floor sanctuary as an intimate performance venue, featuring some of Iowa's best-known musicians.
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Suzanne Vega performed at the Temple Theatre in Des Moines on Saturday, April 20. The audience for this sold-out show was blown away by Vega’s knockout performance alongside longtime guitarist Gerry Leonard.
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For the one year anniversary of Caleb Elliott’s superb sophomore album Weed, Wine & Time, we take a look back at his idyllic, sunset performance at The Cellar Winery in Madrid with Royce Johns and Alabama Shakes guitarist Heath Fogg. The Louisiana-born singer-songwriter-cellist opened up about the album’s sequencing, his own “Sister” and the "silly" demo that became the title track.
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The non-profit Iowa festival is back in a new location for 2024.
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