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Firmin-Garner Performance Studio

  • Candy Lee has been a fixture on the local music scene for years now, but her latest musical venture aims her songwriting efforts at the region's youngest audiences.
  • Candy Lee has been a fixture on the local music scene for years now, but her latest musical venture aims her songwriting efforts at the region's youngest audiences. Candy Songs and the Backyard Bugs, which includes local musicians Kelly Mullhollan, Garrett Jones, Michael Schembre and Joe Credit, recently paid us a visit to talk about the new album and to perform a few songs for us.
  • The Austin based band Good Looks is no stranger to our program. Members of the band first visited with us back in late 2017, and they’ve stopped by a few times since. While on the way back home from a show in Missouri earlier this year, Tyler Jordan, Jake Ames, Phil Dunne and Harrison Anderson stopped by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio at KUAF to give us a taste of some new music.
  • This weekend, the duo Shore and Cockram will perform at Ozark Folkways in Winslow. In advance of that show, we catch up with Susan Shore and Michael Cockram, who give us a preview.
  • Ozark Folkways in Winslow holds a monthly open jam for musicians of all abilities and instruments each fourth Sunday of the month at 5 p.m.. After a winter hiatus, the Squirrel Jam returns this weekend, and we get a preview from some of the regular participants.
  • The local jazz band Circle of Thirds first came to our studio in early 2022. After a year of performing throughout the listening area, they return to catch us up on what they've been doing and to perform a few songs for us.
  • Best known for its community support, the group, Duo Divinas, was the only group from Arkansas to win at the Latino Music Awards in Chicago. Reporter Rachell Sanchez-Smith talked to artists Julieta Ortiz y Azucena Garcia about their journey from playing covers to winning an international contest, plus a performance of their latest release Esclavos del Pasado.
  • The Kingston Trio recently performed at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. Before that concert, two of the band's members, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton, stopped by our Firmin-Garner Performance Studio for a chat and to play a couple of songs.
  • The band Olympics recently released their first album, which is available for listening on most major streaming platforms. The band's members recently came to our Firmin-Garner Performance Studio to talk about the EP and to perform a few songs for us.
  • Fans of Ozarks at Large are certainly familiar with Pat Ryan Key. The Arkansas native recently signed with Hill Records and performed in our studio to talk about music inspriation, creating while working a 9-5, and more.