KXCV/KRNW to broadcast live from jazz fests

Long identified with quality jazz and swing programming, KXCV/KRNW FM, the 100,000-watt public radio voice of Northwest Missouri State University, will provide its listeners with live broadcasts this summer from two important regional jazz festivals.

The station will broadcast from the Glenn Miller Festival (June 12-15) in Clarinda, Iowa, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday, June 13. Highlights will include an interview with Marvin Negley, president of the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society, along with festival organizers, participants and musicians.

For more information about this year’s Glenn Miller Festival, including a complete list of events and performances, go to www.glennmiller.org.

The second KXCV/KRNW on-location jazz broadcast will take place from noon-4 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at the Coleman Hawkins 10th Anniversary Jazz Celebration (June 20-21) at Seventh and Felix streets in downtown St. Joseph.

During the broadcast, KXCV personalities will interview festival organizers and musicians as well as Dr. Sandra Eckert-Stewart, director of outreach at Northwest. Stewart will talk about academic programs offered through the Northwest’s St. Joseph Center, which is located at 706 Felix Street.

For more information about the Coleman Hawkins 10^th Anniversary Jazz Celebration, go to www.colemanhawkins.org.

KXCV (90.5 FM) and KRNW (88.9) broadcast jazz, classical music, news, public affairs programs, variety shows and Bearcats sporting events across northern Missouri and southern Iowa. Studios for KXCV are located on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. Repeater station KRNW is located in Chillicothe.

For the KXCV/KRNW Web site, go to www.kxcv.org.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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