Arts & Culture

Erin Heist recorded this video of “Downstream” on Lingít Aaní (Juneau, Alaska) during the 2022 Alaska Folk Festival. Inspired by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, KTOO’s Red Carpet Concert Series features Alaskan and regional artists. Watch this video and other Red Carpet Concerts at ktoo.org. Recorded March 27, 2022 Erin Heist – guitar, vocalsAndrew Heist – mandolin,…

Centennial Hall is once again alive with the sounds of fiddles and banjos — not just on the main stage, but in the entryways and hallways, where musicians pull up folding chairs for impromptu jam sessions.

The ALA points out that their recent surveys show that a majority of voters — on both sides of the aisle — oppose efforts to have books removed from their local public libraries.

The group is dancing this year without one of its main elders, who died recently of COVID-19.

Some groups are just beginning to dance together again after two years of the pandemic, but the village of Napaskiak remembers a longer period without the drums.

On his show last Sunday, comedian John Oliver called the Nenana Ice Classic “the single greatest ice-melting contest in the world.”

March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility. One Juneau resident is choosing to be visible in her transition. She’s writing a column about it for the Juneau Empire.

A cedar monument in the park — “Thundering Wings” by Lingít master carver Nathan Jackson — depicts an eagle taking flight.

The state board of education approved the Lower Kuskokwim School District’s request to expand Ayaprun into the extra grade levels.

His first ever broadcasts were in his hometown of Dillingham, where he announced high school basketball games as a kid.