We present Red Carpet Concert number five of 10 with Kim Beggs of Whitehorse, Yukon. Here’s her tune “Heart in a Bucket.”
Arts & Culture
Elaine Abraham, ground-breaking Tlingit elder, dead at 86
Abraham, whose Tlingit name was Chuu Shah, was the first woman and the first Native American to hold a senior position in the statewide administration of the University of Alaska system.
Red Carpet Concert: Harrison B
Our fourth of 10 Folk Fest Red Carpet Concerts is with Harrison B and Tim Pepper. Harrison B defines his sound as progressive American Soul.
Teacher turnover affecting rural schools
Residents of the Yupiit school district have gone to court to force the state to spend more resources to improve the schools. They have aggressively applied for funds to instruct their children in both the Western educational mode and in their traditional language and culture.
Red Carpet Concert: Reeb Willms and Caleb Klauder
Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms sing “The Last Time I Saw You.”
Stolen mask mysteriously returned to artist
Sheila Dyer’s alder goat mask was taken from an exhibit at the JACC.
Photographers, weaver, puppeteer win Rasmuson grants
Five Southeast Alaska artists are receiving Rasmuson Foundation grants to advance their work.
Celebrated Alaska storyteller charged with sex abuse of 14-year-old
Jack J. Dalton, 43, appeared in court Wednesday in Anchorage. He is accused of visiting the teenager’s home for sex in March and later admitting in a text message that he knew the boy was underage.
Red Carpet Concert: Whiskey Class
During this year’s Alaska Folk Festival, we filmed ten bands in a tiny hotel room at the Alaskan Hotel as part of our Red Carpet Concert series. The videos are inspired by NPR’s popular Tiny Desk Concerts. The only criteria for the short concerts are that the music is original, and that it is played on the arts room’s red carpet wherever it may be—at KTOO, in a parking garage or on a beach.
Vega String Quartet kicks off Jazz & Classics brown bag concerts
The Atlanta-based Vega String Quartet kicked off the 30th annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival’s Brown Bag Concert series Monday. Nearly 200 Juneau students attended the free performance in the State Office Building atrium.