90.3 WCPN ideastream®: Around Noon
Around Noon
Most Recent Program:
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emma & Xanadu
Tuesday, March 9
Dee Perry welcomes members of the acclaimed folk group - The Carolina Chocolate Drops - who take the Beachland Ballroom stage this week presented by Roots of American Music. Plus, we dig into the dialects of Emma onstage at The Cleveland Play House. And Annie Golden rolls in for the new PlayhouseSquare musical - Xanadu.
About Around Noon
Courtesy: Chris Stephens, The Plain Dealer
Around Noon, ideastream’s weekday radio magazine, celebrates the visual and performing arts, explores cultural trends, and examines current events through an artistic lens. The show hosts a lively mix of regional, national, and international guests, and often invites listeners to interact with those guests in lively, thought-provoking discussions. Dee Perry hosts.
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Production of Around Noon on 90.3 WCPN is made possible by grants from:
The Cleveland Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The John P. Murphy Foundation
United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.
Thank you to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.
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Around Noon’s Open Air
Join us for a new, live, lunch time performance series from 90.3 WCPN. Around Noon’s Open Air brings musicians, storytellers, and other performers to the Smith Studio of the Idea Center®, and you’re invited! Seating begins at 11:45 AM. Bring your lunch, and show off your inner artist as part of our studio audience.
Around Noon’s Open Air Dates:
Wednesday, July 15; Wednesday, July 29; Wednesday, August 19; Wednesday, September 9; and Thursday, September 17.
This Week on Around Noon
Monday, March 8:
Katie Spotz, James Howard Kunstler and Richard Maltby Jr.
Tuesday, March 9:
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emma & Xanadu
Wednesday, March 10:
Wavy Gravy, G. Love and Tanya Tagaq
Thursday, March 11:
Jonathan Pond
Friday, March 12:
Laura Izibor
Fortitude: A Radio Drama
Taking inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, acclaimed American author Kurt Vonnegut deals with issues of life and death in his darkly comic play Fortitude.
The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this program with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
