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Iowa’s Jazz
Station, KCCK-FM, along with Summer of the Arts, has launched the “Iowa City Jazz
Festival Channel.” The program stream will consist solely of artists performing
at the Iowa City Jazz Festival, July 3-5.
“We did this last
year, and got a great response,” says KCCK General Manager Dennis Green. “So,
the Jazz Fest Channel is back for another 24-7 preview of the Festival.”
The channel was
created in recognition of the fact that how people listen to music has changed
with the advent of on-demand services like Pandora and Spotify.
“We’ve always given
heavy play to Jazz Fest artists in the weeks preceding the Festival, and aired
interviews and other features,” says Green. “But today, if someone wants to
hear a particular artist or tune, they aren’t always willing to wait for it to
show up in our rotation. They want it now.
The Jazz Fest Channel is our way of making that content available whenever people
want it.”
Programming on the
Jazz Fest Channel consists of recordings of the groups performing on both the
main stage and side stages. Artist interviews and profiles, as well as schedule
information and updates, will be carried as well.
The Iowa City Jazz
Festival will take place July 3-5 on the UI Pentacrest. Headliners include Joe
Lovana, Tom Harrel and “Colors of a Dream,” Anat Cohen, Etiene Charles, Pedrito
Martinez and Jared Gold.
A variety of local
and regional bands will play on three side stages, including several high
school and college ensembles. Their music, is also be a part of the Jazz Fest
Channel.
The Iowa City Jazz
Festival Channel will pre-empt KCCK’s second program stream, The Iowa Channel,
for a little over a month. The station as a stream choice on the KCCK app for
IOS or Android, online at www.iowachannel.org or at 88.3-2 on HD Radio.
KCCK’s main
channel, 88.3 and 106.9 FM, and www.kcck.org online, will broadcast all of the
main stage performances live.
The Iowa City Jazz
Festival is presented by Iowa City’s Summer of the Arts. Information is
available at www.summerofthearts.org. There is also a Jazz Fest
Channel “button” for quick access from that site.
