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(319) 364-4239329 10th Ave SE , Cedar Rapids(319) 232-62975605 Ansborough Ave , Waterloo
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Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-05-21 12:00:00 -05005/21/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
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Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-05-28 12:00:00 -05005/28/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-06-04 12:00:00 -05006/04/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-06-11 12:00:00 -05006/11/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-06-18 12:00:00 -05006/18/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Saturday Kids Open Studio
<p>We are so thrilled to have all of our creative Saturday morning kids back in the studio, painting, drawing, sculpting and creating art with us again, so be sure to pop in anytime between 10-noon on Saturdays.</p><p><strong><u>IMPORTANT BEGINNING March 26th</u></strong></p><p>Due to popularity, we are splitting open studio between our main studio and secondary location, Studio 17. The are located 2 blocks from each other.</p><p><strong>K-5 Children</strong> will be at Studio 17, located at 907 17th Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402</p><p><strong>Grades 6-12</strong> are at our main studio, 1841 E Ave NE, Cedar Rapids IA 52402. Parking is accessible through the alley.</p><p><br>Professional musicians and artists will be there to help your child explore new art supplies or instruments!</p><p>Free for all students, regardless of membership status.</p> 2022-06-25 12:00:00 -05006/25/2210:00 a.m.Eastern Iowa Arts Academy Music and Arts StudioCedar Rapids -
Chris Knight Live at the First Avenue Club in Iowa City
<p>The First Avenue Club welcomes back Chris Knight for an intimate acoustic performance on Saturday, October 8th. General Admission tickets (seats at a table with other guests) are $25. Reserved Tables are available. BBQ dinner (Pulled Pork or Pulled Chicken with Potato Salad and Cole Slaw) is available for $13/person and must be ordered with tickets. Doors for Dinner: 6:30pm. Doors for Non-Dinner guests: 7pm. Show is at 8pm.</p><p>Front Row Tables: SOLD OUT</p><p>Table for 4 with tickets: $100</p><p>Table for 6 with tickets: $150</p><p>Table for 8 with tickets: $200</p><p>General Admission (will be seated at table with other guests) : $25</p><p>BBQ Dinner: $13 (must be purchased at same time as tickets)</p><p>https://first-avenue-club.square.site/product/chris-knight/313?cs=true&cst=custom</p><p>“It’s hard to know how people are gonna react,” Chris Knight says of Almost Daylight, his ninth album and first new recording in over seven years. “I’ve written songs about a lot of different things going all the way back to my first record, and some folks still think ‘somebody kills somebody’ is all I write about. Maybe that’s why I was bound and determined to get these particular songs on this album. If people like them, then we’ll be fine. But I wasn’t gonna do it any other way.”</p><p>For the past 20 years, Chris Knight has only made music his own way. He’s released eight acclaimed albums, played thousands of electrifying live shows and built generations of fervent fans from Texas honky-tonks to Manhattan rock clubs. He’s been hailed as “the last of a dying breed…a taciturn loner with an acoustic guitar and a college degree” (The New York Times) and “a storyteller in the best traditions of Mellencamp and Springsteen” (USA Today). Bottom line, he’s hard-earned his reputation as one of America’s most uncompromising and respected singer/songwriters. And now with Almost Daylight, Knight delivers the most powerful – and unexpected – music of his career.</p><p>Almost Daylight is very much a Chris Knight album, familiarly featuring vivid pictures of rural characters, desperate men and hardscrabble survivors. At the same time it’s unlike anything Knight has done before, with formidable testaments to compassion, redemption and even straight-up love. It’s an album both tough and tender, as bare-knuckled as it is open-hearted. “I do think there’s a cohesiveness to this album,” Knight explains in his thick Kentucky rasp. “The title is key, I suppose. Through all these songs, you could find a theme about seeking shelter.”</p><p>Produced, mixed and mastered by Grammy-winner Ray Kennedy – best-known for his 30+ year creative partnership with Steve Earle as well as producing Chris’ Enough Rope (2006), Trailer II (2009) and Little Victories (2012) albums – Almost Daylight also sounds like no other Knight record, with scorching guitars by Georgia Satellites founder and two-time Knight album producer Dan Baird, rich background vocals by Chris Clark, Siobhan Kennedy and Lee Ann Womack, and deeper instrumentation than ever before. “Chris had been playing some of these songs on the road and started developing ideas before we got to the studio,” Kennedy says. “He and I talked about keeping the Appalachian factor with banjo, fiddle, harmonica and mandolin where it felt right. It was significant that Dan was involved, as he’s the man who can play guitar with the right feeling for Chris. The background vocals really brought the fire, and this lead to ideas for piano, Hammond B-3, accordion and Wurlitzer electric piano. Everything evolved from the performance of each song and I let the songs dictate what they needed in order to evolve into an album.”</p><p>“I was determined not to do any acoustic songs on this album,” Chris explains. “I wanted it all to sound edgy and raw, but to feel big at the same time. We kept trying different approaches until I felt we landed on what worked. The thing is, some of my songs might take a year of writing before I even think they’re ready for recording and I fretted about every one of these. I’ve never put a cover song on any of my records before, but there are two covers on this one. And I think it all fits together pretty good.”</p><p>The album opens with “I’m William Callahan”, a defiant roar fueled by equal parts pride, memories and searing guitar. “Crooked Mile” is classic Knight, a piercing take on outsiders bound by love, while the poignant “Send It On Down” is a plaintive plea for salvation. There are tales of small-town despair (“I Won’t Look Back”), ominous rural menace (“Trouble Up Ahead”) and melancholic break-ups (“Everybody’s Lonely Now”). Chris’ cover of Johnny Cash’s “Flesh And Blood” – which originally appeared on the Dualtone 2002 tribute album Dressed In Black – is a poignant interpretation of Cash’s ode to devotion. The plainspoken positivity of “Go On” is one of Knight’s most life-affirming songs, while “The Damn Truth” is a ferociously clear-eyed look at our current cultural divide. The title track might be the most unexpected Knight song of all, an unapologetic paean to the power of love. “That’s probably my favorite song on the album,” Chris says, “because it’s closest to the truth.” He then quickly adds with a laugh, “I’m killin’ people with love now.” The album closes with yet another surprise; a joyfully raucous duet between Knight and longtime fan John Prine on Prine’s 1973 classic “Mexican Home”. “I love that song, but it took me 15 years to find a way to do it,” Knight says. “I kept playing around, changing the vocal key and finally landed on the spot. I’ve been singing it my kitchen table for the last few years, and when we were down to the last song, I knew this should be it.”</p><p>With the release of Almost Daylight, this native son of Slaughters, Kentucky (population 238) is eager to get back on the road and perform these songs for the faithful. Meanwhile, the singer/songwriter who was originally inspired by the likes of Prine and Earle now finds himself influencing a new generation of artists who revere Knight’s idiosyncratic talent and attitude. “There’s all kinds of different ways to make music, but this is the way I chose to do it,” Chris says. “If I don’t have something worth saying I’m not opening my mouth, which is probably why I took seven years to make this album.” And for an artist who has always defied expectations, Chris Knight’s next chapter indeed feels like the dawn of a new day. “I haven’t suited everybody, but every time I get a new fan it tells me I’m doing something right,” he says. “I think my previous records have set a precedent, if only for me at the very least. I just want people to think this one stands up to everything else I’ve done.”</p><p><br></p> 2022-05-06 23:00:00 -0500
10/08/227:00 p.m.First Avenue ClubIowa City -
Be An Instrument for Change: Inside Out Reentry Community Spring Concert
<p>Inside Out Reentry Community will host a concert on May 21 to benefit people returning to our area after incarceration. To promote awareness of the many challenges people face on their return and to celebrate their successes, Inside Out will bring the community together to hear Two Bit Maniac, The Oakdale Community Choir, and Caleb “the Negro Artist” Rainey. The concert will raise funds for all aspects of reentry support that Inside Out provides its members.</p><p>Performers: Two Bit Maniac: Two Bit Maniac is an Eastern Iowa trio that has become a favorite on the wine bar and summer festival circuit over the past ten years. Featuring the powerhouse vocals of Aimee Underwood backed by Jeff Roush on guitar and Laurie Haag on everything else, they put their own unique spin on a recognizable repertoire of pop, blues, and country favorites, from Van Morrison and Maroon 5 to Johnny Cash and Pink Floyd. @TwoBitManiac</p><p>Oakdale Community Choir: founded in 2009 by UI’s Dr. Mary Cohen to enable people incarcerated at the Oakdale prison and people from the community to sing together and perform for Oakdale residents and staff and for the public, with the aim of building communities of caring inside and outside the prison. The choir will have former Inside Singers join with Outside Singers for this event.</p><p>Caleb “The Negro Artist” Rainey is an author, performer, and producer. He has published two books, Look, Black Boy and Heart Notes, is the winner of several slams across the United States, and curates a community of spoken word in Iowa City through his high school program, IC Speaks, and producing local events like the Mic Check Poetry Festival.</p> 2022-03-11 19:30:00 -0600
5/21/225:00 p.m.Riverside Festival StageIowa City