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"That's Our Beat!"

Prescott Area Arts Beat

Heard every Sunday at noon for the last 7 years on the KJAZZ Radio Network, Publicly Supported Radio for Northern Arizona (89.5FM, 91.3FM, 90.1FM, 90.7FM)
Recent Shows

Tsunami logo   Producer/Host
Andrew Johnson-Schmit

(photo by Rich Charpentier)

 
Missed us last Sunday? Listen online or download these recent shows in our audio archive.

 

Ronny Cox

 Actor, Singer, Raconteur

 

2012 Buckey Awards for Excellence in the Arts

Buckey Season is Upon Us! 

 

Bill Otwell

Everybody's Hometown Architect

 

 

 

Hey Thumb Butte Lightnin', Can't You Hear Me Callin'?

 

 2012 Prescott Arts Yearbook:

365 Days of Culture in Everybody's Hometown

 

"Flagstaff vs Prescott IV: The Reckoning"

JT Tannous Returns to Compare the Year in Arts Between the Two Poles of NorAZ Arts

 

"Last Minute Stocking Stuffer Bazaar"

Deb Stewart throws her famous fundraiser

 

"Blue Christmas" The King Returns, Just in Time for the Holiday Special!

  

"A Christmas Carol"

Building a Better Cash Cow Down at the PCA

 

Thanksgiving Special 2011
Giving Boredom the Bird All Year Long  

 

 Leo Gallegos Interview 

 A Dialog with The New  Lord of the Dance  

 

Mr. Boogie Woogie 

"Good Rockin' Tonight!" with the Biggest Bluesman from Nieuw Vennep!   

 

The Artist's Path 2012 

 Gail Mangham says "It's Love, Baby!" 

 

2nd Annual Prescott Film Festival

 Helen's Ready for Her Close-Up! 

 

Ronstadt Generations

Born into the Band 

 

Localism: Eating Food from Around Here

If you are what you eat, how Prescott are you?  

 

Tony Coppola Rhythm Ensemble 

Tap, Tap, Revolution! 

 

NorAZ Roller Derby- Season  3 

Badass Babes on Wheels are Back (and would like your lunch money. Now.) 

 

 

Back in the Southwest Again 

 

24th Annual Cowboy Poets Gathering

Tying Knots in the Cliche's Tail 

 

"Building a State in Apache Land"

  Face to Face with The Father of Arizona  

 

"One Man's Treasure"

Upcycling with the Artists of Prescott Creeks   

 

AZ Centennial Film Festival
Copper, Cattle, Cotton, Citrus, Climate and . . . Cinema?

 

Stacey Earl and Mark Stuart

Married to your own record company 

 

11th Annual Prescott Jazz Summit

Swingin' in the Pines 

 

Elvis Week in Northern AZ 

A-hunk, a-hunk of burnin' fun!

 

The Goddess Project

Holly Luky shakes a tail feather in the Elks Opera House  

 

Acronastix

Cody Williams'  jaw dropping mix of acrobatics and circus arts 

 

"Come for the Fry Bread, Stay for the Art"

Sandy Lynch walks us through the Prescott Indian Art Market

 

 

Cute Kids Burst into Song

Park Avenue Theatre debuts with "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!"

 

 

Flame on, Arcosanti!

Flam Chen returns to the Slab City for "Electropolis"

 

 

Tsunami on the Square

Still improbable after all these years!

 

** And now with even more butoh!

 

 

Flourish Before the Flood

Dancing outside as the Goddess Intended

 

The (Re)birth of Bellydance

Troupe Salamat is baaaack! 

 

 

The Mural Heard 'Round the World * One Year Later

R. E. Wall, of the Mural Mice, considers what was gained and what was lost

 

 

I am a Rock, I am a Tribute Band

Life on the road as a Simon and Garfunkel tribute band

 

 

Ian Russell

No radioactive spiders were injured in the telling of this origin story

 

 

Bob Booker

Exec Director - Arizona Commission on the Arts:
Why does he have to keep explaining where money comes from to state legislators?

Jonathan Best

The High Lama of Looping takes us for a walk in his garden

 

 

Dutch Holly

Swoony tunes from the indie pop perfectionists

 

 

And the Buckey Goes To . . . The 1st Annual Buckey Awards

The results are in and it turns out you love them, you really love them!!

 

 

Git Yer Chalk On, Preskit!

Sharon Nordyke explains the rise and rise again of Chalk It Up, Prescott

 

 

Elvis Has Entered the Opera House

Robert Shaw kicks it with the King

 

 

Back Down The Artist's Path

with Gail Mangham

 

 

Step Up For Kids!

Salli Maxwell explains the Importance of the Small Town Non-profit

 

Tom Agostino

Folk is in Session Every Saturday Night on KJZA.

   

Tom Chapin

Award Winning Folkie Graces the Folk Sessions Stage

 

The Man in Black

Robert Shaw walks the line with his first Elks Opera House appearance

 

 

Tumbledown House

What's a nice gritty saloon jazz band doing in a town like this?

 
Old Sage Bookshop

If Charles Dickens had moved to Prescott in 1867, this is the book store he would have shopped at. 


Switch Dance Studio Starts Their 2nd Year: 

Dance Competition with Hefty Purse Planned for June 2011


  PopRocket Magazine's
Year End
Wrap Up:
 
Pop Life with
Tena Overacker


  Debbie Stewart and the Last Minute Non-Profit Stocking Stuffer Bazaar
Bargain Hunting
on the Moral
High Ground

C.S. Fritz and His Gentle Robots
Resistance is Futile!

A Cowboy Christmas
at PFAA

The Birth of a Holiday Tradition

Glass Roots
Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle

Arts Prescott Gallery
Another Year
of Abundance  

Holly Ween
Captain, of my Captain (or)
Roller Derby
Returns to P-Town

Prescott Independent Theater
That Gang in Tights

 
Moksha Sommer

of HuDost
MiddleEastern-tinged Alt Trance Rockers
Adding Prescott to the Tour Circuit

1st Prescott Celtic Music Festival
Wailing Bagpipes on Watson Lake

Prescott Ghost Talk
Haunts the Halls
of PFAA

Haunted Prescott Ghost Tours
This Way for the Spooks Tour

PJ's and Eggs
SueAnn's Apple Pan Serves Up One for the Kids

32nd Folk Music Festival
Welcomes Over 400 Pickers to the Emerald Confines of
Sharlot Hall Museum 

ADA Art Show
New Horizons
Celebrates Equality With Art

In Short:
Fred and Mary
Sneak Peek at Centennial Play

Music for Wonder Festival
Lakeside Groovefest Benefits School Arts

Pickin' in the Pines Festival
Bluegrass in Flagstaff's Piney Green

The Artists Path
Theatre grapples with 9/11

Folks Sessions
Concert Caps 7 Years Acoustic Bliss

The Whiskey Rollers
NorAZ Roller
Derby Dames

Prescott
Tourism Study
JT Tannous puts it under the microscope

CourierWatch
Quis custodiet ipsos scriptor?

Prescott Jazz Summit
Mike Vax
takes us to the mountain top

Blue Rose Theatre
Cold Chills
Gold Fever

AZ 3D Festival
Drum, Dance and Didgeridoo - the Watson Lake Woodstock

AZ Cowboy Poets Gathering
"Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail" - live recording

Allison "AT" Turner:
Badass
Hoop Dancer

Helen Stephenson:
Grows Prescott Film Festival 3x in 2 Years

Gail Mangham:
Takes us Behind the Velvet Rope at the Elks Opera House

Sadira Conley:
Living La Vida Fashionista at
Snap! Snap!

Ginny King:
Growing Tourism with or without
City Hall

Sandy Lynch:
Come for the Fry Bread, Stay for the Art - "Ya'ah'tee!"

Tsunami on the Square 2010:
"The Little Wave That Could!"

Ginger Spaulding:
 A Tsunami Generation at
Circus Camp

Good-night,
sweet lady;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Granny J and the Genesis of Blogging in Prescott.

Barry Barbe:
The Founder of
the Feast

Blue Rose Theatre:
"Arizona's Whiskey Chaplain"

Phippen Museum:
Big Hats and Brushwork

Downtown Dog:
Curbside dining on Whiskey Row?  

John Schmit:
Taking on the
"Lake Invaders"

George Kahumoku Jr:
Hawaiian Music at the Elks Opera House
Part 1
Part 2  

Gail Mangham:
Takes us on a walk down "The Artist's Path."

The Devil Makes Three:
The best Americana  band you've never
heard of.


You Are There:
Prescott's
Art Walk
,
Still on Its Feet?

Nicole Laurenne, of The Love Me Nots:   What Its Like to Be a Rock Goddess

Helen Stephenson: Prescott Film Festival Beats the Sophmore Jinx!
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Shri :
17 Years and Still Running on Blues Power!

Bob Booker,
Exec Director - Arizona Commission on the Arts:
Keeping the Lights On During a Recession, plus An Early Outbreak of Centennial Fever

 




 

Prescott Arts Beat:
Your Friday Fix
 
So much culture, only two and a half days to enjoy.

As a public service to all you Yavapai
CultureVultures, PAB host Andrew Johnson-Schmit will be on KAWC's "The Bridge" around 7:40 am every Friday over the K-JAZZ radio network - giving you the head's up on the
weekend while you can still do something about it.

If you'd like an event to be considered for this radio show, send an email to Andrew Johnson-Schmit.

 

Everybody's Homepage 
Producer/Host
Andrew Johnson-Schmit 
Website
Email

Those clever, wonderful, good-looking people we call "our underwriters":
Framers Market & Gallery
Prescott Fine Arts Association
The Frame & I and the Art Store
Monk's Restaurant
Marriott Residence Inn - Prescott

If you see any of these folks on the street; please, shake their hand and thank them for their part in keeping publicly supported KJZA on the air!




Click here to win a free pair of tickets:    
The Manhattan Dolls: A Blast from the Past @ the Elks! 
"Carousel":  The classic musical at the PCA!

Buckey Awards at the Elks Opera House
Early Tickets on Sale Now!
Andrew Johnson-Schmit at 2010 Buckey Awards


The 2nd Annual Buckey Awards for Excellence in the Arts will light up the Elks Opera House on Saturday, March 10th.

 

This event celebrates the artists, performers and arts supporters of Yavapai County, AZ every year. 

 

The categories this year are:

 

Outstanding Visual Artist
Outstanding  Literary Artist 
Outstanding Media Artist/Broadcaster 
Outstanding Arts Educator 
Outstanding Performing Artist 
Outstanding Arts Activist/Philanthropist 
Outstanding Arts Organization 
Outstanding Arts Event
Outstanding  Musical Artist
Lifetime Contribution to the Arts of Yavapai County

 

Hosted by yours truly, the glittering night will be simulcast on Access 13 and feature performance by the dancers of Switch Academy of Performing Arts, another announcement from the head accountant at Cook, Books & Hyde and others. More information is available here.

 

You can get your ballot here.

Early reserved tickets available here.

 

 

 


Manhattan Dolls 
swing out of Gotham and into the Elks Opera House
Manhattan Dolls
Heard this Sunday on Prescott Arts Beat. 

Check it out here.




 
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14th Annual Tsunami on the Square 
set for Saturday, June 16th, 2012!
Koi and Crowd


 Tickets2
free tickets
Please note: The Cheap Date Alert is lit for all you broke, tight, stretched thin, rent fearing folk. Here's your chance to impress, enthuse and possibly win back the affections of your significant other. (A Public  Service of PAB)  


1. I have personally weaseled a free pair of tickets to see The Manhattan Dolls at the Elks Opera House  on Sunday, February 12th for someone reading this right now! 


2. I have personally weaseled a
free pair of tickets to 
 "Carousel" at the
on Feb 23 - 26, March 1 - 4, 8 - 10
for someone reading this right now!

  
 A free Date Night to beat those
Great Recession blues, courtesy of
your friends at Prescott Arts Beat!
  

Just be the 10th person to email to this email address (include the shows you are interested in) and yer goin' to the show, baby!
  
 


Congratulations to
Becky Vickstein
winner of a
free pair of
tickets to 

 John McCutcheon in concert
at the Elks Opera House Theatre
 

" Thank you so much . . . 

can't believe I actually won!!

"

 

 

 

 



Dolls Poster
 


Centennial at the Elks
 


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