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.

 

July 2008:
 

Monday, July 7 - Claudia Russell:

Claudia Russell is an outstanding singer/songwriter who has shared stages with Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer, Steve Forbert, Tish Hinojosa, Kris Kristoffersen, Bill Morrisey, and Willie Nelson, among others. She is most often seen accompanied by her trusty sidekick, Bruce Kaplan, on mandolin, guitar and vocals and Mark Petrella on bass. When the planets align, she is pleased to count Carl Byron and Wendy Sue Rosloff in her band, known as the Folk Unlimited Orchestra. Claudia's newest CD is "Live Band Tonight," a collection of live recordings from performances at the Freight and Salvage, Live from Studio One and Folkscene, the longest running folk radio show in history.


Tuesday, July 8 - The Teddy Boys:

Hailed as the "modern retro-romantic minstrels of the Cedar Valley," The Teddy Boys are a pop band playing styles from 1960's Britain and American indie Rock. They formed in Cedar Falls, Iowa in the fall of 2004, around the songwriting of Harper Sires, Joel Sires and Dylan Sires with drummer Ross Klemz and bassist Devin Ferguson, later joined by Graham Howland on drums in 2008. Their first E.P. "Songs for Swingers" was self released in the fall of 2005. They released their debut L.P. "Love After Dark" in November 2007 via Minneapolis/Cedar Falls label, Tyros. This special live performance will take place at 7:15 p.m. during Tuesday's Night Music with Al Schares.
 

Monday, July 14 - Caleb Engstrom:

Caleb Engstrom is a singer-songwriter from Iowa City who has been working hard to find his place, to speak to an audience of both visual and aural interest. Generally using an acoustic guitar to create songs that capture elements of alt. country and intelligent 60’s pop song craft, Engstrom has presented over two hundred shows in the past three years. 2007 marked the release of “A Mountain or a Bird, and”, an assemblage of songs “featuring mellow folk with heartfelt melodies, spare beauty and surprising turns” (NPR). The past few years have led him to share stages with some of his musical mentors and contemporaries, most notably, Phil Evelrum, Jose Gonzalez, Dave Bazan, and Bon Iver.

Monday, July 21 - LFSO Encore: River & the Tributaries (from Jan. 2008):

River and the Tributaries are based out of their hometown of Dubuque, Iowa, where they formed in the spring of 2005. Band members River and Jacson Breitbach, Bethann Gavin, Scott Gratton, Erin Hedley, and Griffen Harris spent their early years in classical training, and have since gained experience in many different styles. Their multi-instrumental backgrounds provide a unique touch. Between the six of them they play acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drum set, violin, hand drums, mandolin, various percussion, bass guitar, keyboards, upright bass, piano, trumpet, flute, cello, and whatever else they find sitting around. River, Scott, Bethann, Jac, Erin, and Griffen frequently switch instruments to produce an attention grabbing show that features each member’s talent vocally and instrumentally. The end result is an infectious form of estrogen doused, multi-instrumental eclectic rock that wandered off the beaten path.

 

Monday, July 28 - Michael Maas:

Producer and studio owner, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Maas is involved in every aspect of music production. After many years of songwriting, performing and studio session work, he has opened his own recording facility, "Studio 17." He has taken his music around the world with the Cedar Creek Band and the eclectic band Black Sheep. Today, with dozens of radio, television and CD production credits, Mike performs with several musical groups and has been a regular cast member and the resident songwriter at Liars Holographic Radio Theatre since the show opened in 1997.
 

June 2008:
 

Monday, June 2 - The Beggarmen:

The Beggarmen are an Iowa City-based quartet of traditional Celtic musicians made up of Brad Pouleson, Keith Reins, Tara Dutcher and Joseph Dutcher. The Beggarmen find their roots in the traditional music of Ireland and other Celtic regions. Brad Pouleson and Jose Manaligod supplement the rich variety of traditional tunes with their own original music. All of the Beggarmen lend their voices as well as their fine playing to the mix. "Newry Town" is the name of their latest release.
 

Monday, June 9 - LFSO Encore: David Wilcox (from October 2007)
 

Monday, June 16  - LFSO Encore: Susan Werner (from June 2007)

 

Monday, June 23 - Jonathan Byrd:

A native of Chapel Hill, NC Jonathan Byrd's songs are rich with imagery and textures of influences from Appalachian, country, early American balladry, modern atmospheric Mideastern, urban and old timey folk music. A stalwart of modern folk music, Jonathan is constantly evolving in new musical directions and each incarnation has proven to be masterful. For his third album, Jonathan approached his friends, the critically acclaimed world-music duo known as Dromedary, often featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. "The Sea and The Sky" was the result, a vast, poetic suite of music that weds world sounds to deeply rooted folk balladry. Their latest CD together is entitled "This Is the New That."
 

Monday, June 30 - Abi Tapia with BettySoo:

Abi Tapia happily calls Austin home, but to say she's simply a Texas songwriter wouldn't give the whole story. The daughter of musicians, Abi was born in Alabama and lived until she was fifteen in various towns around the Southeast and Texas. She has since lived in the Midwest (where she was a Sociology major at Grinnell College) and New England (where she began her professional music career). Characteristics of all of these regions inspire Abi's songwriting: The inviting warmth of the South, the expansiveness of the Midwestern Plains, and the pluck and determination of a New England Yankee are all mixed up with a nomadic restlessness. Tapia's 2005 release, "One Foot Out The Door," is a driving collection of songs about loving and leaving that has garnered rave reviews and comparisons to Austin's best songwriters.

BettySoo is a Texas singer-songwriter who grew up in Spring, just north of the Houston city limits. She was raised in a house alternately filled with Beethoven and Depeche Mode, yet she crafts songs with a clear pop-rock drive and the occasional folksy twang. Just over two years after she released her debut album "Let Me Love You," the Austin songstress has returned to the studio with producer Stephen Doster by her side to record a second, brighter album, "Little Tiny Secrets," along with "Never the Pretty Girl," a 4-song EP recorded initially as an exclusive bonus gift for her fans.

last updated: 07/07/2008 10:09 -0500