Showing posts with label musicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label musicals. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

YOUR OWN PRIVATE IOWA - Episode 44: Moonrock The Musical



"Ames artists Lyndsay Nissen (MFA 2015 Integrated Visual Arts) and Sascha Antropov, an Iowa State University senior in mechanical engineering, have written and produced “Moonrock: The Musical,” which will be presented at 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019 — timed to coincide with the total lunar eclipse — at the Ames City Auditorium, 520 6th St. A group of people wake up from a collective dream and are inspired to travel to the moon. Guided by the once-legendary Captain Rocket, the crew journeys through space, unaware of the evil that lurks among them."
- from the Iowa State University College of Design website

The creators of Moonrock: The Musical join me in the studio to discuss and promote the one time musical event happening on January 20th at the Ames City Auditorium. We talk about how the musical was conceived, how the community came to the call to help put the show on, and we talked about socks. Lyndsay and Sascha duet several of the songs from the musical.

Monday, December 4, 2017

IOWA MUSIC SHOWCASE PODCAST - Episode 57: Happy Hawkeye Holidays 2017, Part 2 of 3 - The Snowman



Ho ho ho! Welcome back to our second collection of holiday tunes for you.

Last week, we presented you with some of our fair state's more laidback holiday fair. But this week, instead of resting, we bring some tunes that are, at least, a little more feisty than the last batch. You have to wait until next week to get some with a little bite.

But these should cheer up any holiday doldrums you may have.

So Happy Holidays and enjoy!


More IMSC posts related to the holidays:
http://iowamusicshowcase.blogspot.com/search/label/holidays

To download the podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode57/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2057_.mp3


Friday, February 10, 2017

PLAYLISTS: Valentine's Day - Iowa Style

Well, back when Joe Lawler worked for Juice instead of Cityview, he put together a playlist of songs by Iowa artists for a wedding issue of Juice.

"If you go to a lot of weddings, you start to hear the same songs over and over again. “Maybe I’m Amazed” for the 14th time? How original.

"There are plenty of great songs by Iowa musicians that deserve to be on your wedding playlist. Here’s an assortment that will save your guests from having to hear “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” again."
- from Joe Lawler in the original article

I asked Joe if he wanted to add anything to what he had written before, and this is what he had to say:

"Wow, I don't remember the process that went into making this list. It was for a wedding issue of Juice, which were always a nightmare to put together. So many venues to call. I think I asked for love songs by Iowans on Facebook or Twitter. There's some solid stuff here, but I'm not sure I listened to them in order before you made this playlist. Someone should get married, use this and report back on how it went."


All the songs are the YouTube playlist unless YouTube took down my video of the Poison Control Center song! Spotify and SoundCloud are missing a few.






As a bonus, I felt this song was appropriate:


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Monday, January 25, 2016

Episode 25 - Caucus! The Musical



To download (right click and hit "Save as..."):
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode25/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2025_.mp3

I've waiting over a year, since shortly after I first started the podcast, to present this episode!

I just discovered this musical by dumb luck at my local library. When I gave it a listen, I found it humorous and thought it captured the caucus scene in Iowa so well.

And well it should, as it is written by Robert John Ford, a native son of Iowa, who has written other musicals about Iowa such "Six-On-Six", "Utopia - The Iowa Musical Revue", and "First in the Nation", as well as plays and musicals not about Iowa.

And this very musical, which we feature some selections from, is playing right now at The Stoner Theater in Des Moines! With five new songs and other songs updated!

For more information on those performances:
http://www.desmoinesperformingarts.org/events/other/489-caucus-the-musical/

For more information on "Caucus! The Musical":
http://www.robertjohnford.com/#!caucus-the-musical/c21g3

An NPR piece on "Caucus! The Musical":
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462481106/caucus-the-musical-jabs-at-political-process

For more information on Robert John Ford:
http://www.robertjohnford.com/


For more information, click on the link below the song and artists....

Opening - Iowa Music Showcase opening by Dylan Boyle
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/01/intro-and-closing-dylan-boyle.html)

Song 1 - "I Declare"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-1-i-declare.html)

Song 2 - "Anything for a Vote"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-2-anything-for-vote.html)

Song 3 - "Halliday, Goldman, Jensen, Tate"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-3-halliday-goldman-jensen.html)

Song 4 - "It's Time to Go to Iowa"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-4-its-time-to-go-to-iowa.html)

Song 5 - "One Happy Family - Reprise"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-5-one-happy-family-reprise.html)

Song 6 - "The Tough Question Sidestep"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-6-tough-question-sidestep.html)

Song 7 - "Goodbye, Good Luck, Good Riddance"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-7-goodbye-good-luck-good.html)

Song 8 - "Get Off Your Sorry Ass And Vote"
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2016/01/ep-25-song-8-get-off-your-sorry-ass-and.html)

Closing - Iowa Music Showcase closing by Dylan Boyle
(http://iowamusicshowcasesongs.blogspot.com/2015/01/intro-and-closing-dylan-boyle.html)

All rights reserved by the composers and performers. Used by their kind permission.

Next episode: At long last, our retrospective on Peace, Love, and Stuff.

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Iowa Music Showcase is also on Code Zero Radio every Tuesday and Thursday at 10pm central time:
http://codezeroradio.com/

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