Tag: music

HUMBOLDT — Around these parts, the locals like to joke that it takes two hours to drive to a big city from any direction: Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Tulsa, Joplin. If that’s true, it would…

Are you ready to rock? The Fifth Annual Traumafest returns to the Time Out Tavern with a free concert on Saturday. Nine bands will take the stage, along with a guest speaker who will talk…

On the heels of her debut music release, Iolan Marah Melvin McFadden is vying to be the opening act at Audacy’s “We Can Survive” concert at the Hollywood Bowl this fall in Los Angeles. McFadden…

HUMBOLDT — Todd Cranson grew up in New Orleans, went to college in Illinois and now works as a music professor at the University of South Dakota. But his ties to Humboldt — where he’d…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jerry Lee Lewis, the late country singer Keith Whitley and music executive Joe Galante will join the Country Music Hall of Fame. Lewis, 86, nicknamed…

Cunningham’s students, Maddie McDermeit and Piper Weilert each earned a I rating for their violin solos. Weilert also earned a I rating for her cello solo. McCollam’s students Lully Tran, Wren Clift, Parker Weilert, Piper…

There’s something special about a Steinway piano. “Just by hearing one note, you can hear a difference,” Jeffrey Anderson, music director for Allen Community College, said. They are among the finest instruments in the world,…

While the high school kids are at prom, everyone else can play. Squarefest is a first-time music and food event on the square this Saturday, offered to all ages during the Iola High School prom. …

More than 1,000 band and choir students descended on Iola Wednesday for the KSHSAA State Large Ensemble Music Festival. Students from 21 schools gave a total of 33 performances. Band students competed at Iola High…

Three Iola High School choir and orchestra students received ratings on their solos at the Regional Music Solo Competition on Saturday, April 2, at Pittsburg State University. The students were rated by a judge from…