This unique weekly show is produced and hosted by KUNI's Karen Impola. Below are the guests performing each Monday at 7:00 p.m. on Live from Studio One™. Call 1-800-772-2440 for tickets at $3 for anyone over 12 years of age.

Unless otherwise noted, each Monday evening's show is staged in our third floor studios in the Communication Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls. Come join us in the Studio One audience! If you would like to attend but need a map, look at Cedar Falls on the Iowa Map or Waterloo-Cedar Falls Metro Area Map.

Contacts: Karen Impola, Phil Maass

Sample some past Studio One shows by buying our "Best of Live from Studio One" CD online or at a store near you!

Below are the dates for each Monday's broadcast. The show is taped and excerpts are rebroadcast during Karen Impola's folk show. Rebroadcasts are also heard on KUNI on Thursdays at midnight and the following Monday at midnight. Follow the links on the names for more about the artists below.
 

May 2008:
 

Monday, May 5 - Gayla Drake Paul:

Gayla Drake Paul has been playing and writing guitar music for over a quarter of a century. One of a tiny handful of guitarists to master both fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar techniques in multiple genres and tunings, she is rarer still for her remarkable singing voice, prolific songwriting and compositional skills. After a shoulder injury made it impossible for her to play guitar for more than a few minutes at a time, followed by two bouts of cancer, she recovered completely from both conditions after treatment and surgery, and has returned to playing and writing with renewed passion, releasing two new CDs in 2005 - Restless and I Know This Road, and is currently working on a third.

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Monday, May 12 - Phil Cooper and Margaret Nelson:

Phil Cooper and Margaret Nelson are traditionally oriented folk artists from the Chicago area. They perform at folk festivals, folklore societies, house concerts and libraries throughout the Midwest, East and Canada. The duo gives you starkly beautiful songs, guitar/ percussion arrangements of lively Celtic dance tunes, the occasional lovely slow air, and the best (or worst) jokes you can imagine. Cooper and Nelson also perform as a trio with Kate Early whose latest CD is entitled Love & War.



Monday, May 19 - The Starlings:

The Starlings have captured the ears of fans both in the Northwest and beyond with their unique blend of American country and folk music. Based out of Seattle, they’ve been called one of the Northwest’s top ten bands. Led by the magnetic harmonies and songwriting of native Iowan Joy Mills and Tom Parker, the lyrics and vocals are all at once wistful and fierce, haunting and soothing. Marveling the While is the title of their new CD.
 

Monday, May 26 - LFSO Encores:

A program of LFSO encores including bonus material that only the studio audience heard the first time around.
 

April 2008:
 

Monday, April 7 - Catfish Keith:

Blues singer, songwriter and bottleneck slide guitarist Catfish Keith has established himself as one of the most exciting country blues performers of our time. Catfish's innovative style of foot-stomping, deep delta blues and American roots music has spellbound audiences the world over. A two-time W. C. Handy Award nominee for Best Acoustic Blues Album, Catfish has eleven number one independent radio chart-topping albums to his credit, and packs houses from coast-to-coast with his dynamic stage show.
 

Monday, April 14 - Lojo Russo:

Lojo Russo's band history reflects her style of music - a little bit of everything. She's played bass in a psychedelic jam band, mandolin in a Celtic group and guitar in every kind of funk, folk, jazz, and rock combination you can imagine. Through it all she combines her sense of music with her sense of humor. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes intense, always original. In her latest CD, Stoic Abandon, Lojo dares us to take a chance, to think outside the music box and believe that these words, stoic and abandon, are not opposites but merely a reflection of themselves, of life.

Monday, April 21 - Dennis Stroughmatt:

Dennis Stroughmatt, a featured speaker on the Missouri Humanities Council "Program Bureau," and a touring master artist on the Mid-America Arts Alliance Artist Tour and Illinois Artist Tour is an Illinois native who was first introduced to American French culture as a teenager near Old Mines, Missouri. It was there that he spent two and a half intensive years recording, observing, and learning many of the Creole French traditions still alive in "Upper Louisiana."  The knowledge that he gained there included a centuries old French Creole fiddling style from fiddlers Roy Boyer and Charlie Pashia, fluency in Illinois-Missouri Creole French, and a wealth of stories and songs from story tellers and singers like Rose Pratte, Annie Pashia, Kent Beaulne, and Eli Robart; all of which have been handed down generation to generation in Missouri and Illinois for nearly 300 years.
 

Monday, April 28 - Carolyn Cruso:

Carolyn Cruso is an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and composer. She has toured widely in both the United States and Europe, as well as producing seven CDs during that time. She is equally at home on hammered dulcimer, flute, guitar and vocals and performs a diverse array of original tunes and songs as well as traditional material. Her instrumental compositions are mainly for the hammered dulcimer and are inspired by her strong connection to nature as well as her extensive travel and the cultures she's encountered along the way.

 

last updated: 04/29/2008 15:57 -0500