Musician Billy McLaughlin talks with Host Al Ross this week about his upcoming performance with the group SimpleGifts at the Mabel Tainter Center in Menomonie. The performance, which takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 14 called “The Young and the Rest,” is an acoustic tribute to the music of Neil Young and others of his era.
Nobuyoshi Yasuda, music director and conductor of the Chippewa Valley Symphony Orchestra, joins the show to outline “Brahms in Spring,” its upcoming performance happening this Saturday, March 14 at the Pablo Center in Eau Claire. The Symphony welcomes guest pianist Kenny Broberg, performing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2. Other featured pieces will be Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave.
B.J. Hollars returns to the show to provide a look at the 5th Writers’ Retreat, coming in June, a presentation of the Chippewa Valley Writers’ Guild. It’s the event’s second year at The Priory Conference & Retreat Center (1190 Prior Road, Eau Claire) and it will include appearances by, and tutoring from writers Nickolas Butler, Kimberly Blaeser, Tessa Fontaine and Peter Geye.
Special Correspondent Jim Oliver shares his conversation with Le’Trice Donaldson about her book “Beyond the Battlefield: African-American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship and Manhood, 1870-1920.” Donaldson is an Assistant Professor of Social Science at UW-Stout.