Live from Studio One with Karen Impola

"Live from Studio One" continues to share performances by (mostly) acoustic musicians in an intimate setting. This unique weekly music program is produced and hosted each Monday evening at 7:00 PM by Iowa Public Radio's Karen Impola.

Unless otherwise noted, each show is broadcast live from KUNI's 3rd floor studios in the Communication Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus in Cedar Falls. The public is invited to be part of the live audience. Admission is $3 at the door, free for children under 12.

"Live from Studio One" is broadcast live across the state on Iowa Public Radio's Studio One network. Broadcast stations include the KUNI frequencies (KDMR, KDWI, KDUB, KUNI, KUNY, KRNI).


Upcoming "Live from Studio One" shows:
 

Beth Wood
Monday, 6/1 at 7:00 PM

Beth Wood is a modern-day troubadour with a stunning voice, poetic lyrics, and strong guitar stylings. If you ask Beth to describe her music, she might just shrug. Some have called it folk, pop, folk-pop, country-folk, Americana, etc. This Texas native prefers to say it is soulful, organic, free-range, barefoot music delivered through a high energy communicator of joy. Twelve years, thousands of shows, seven albums, three cars, and numerous awards later, Beth's exceptional musicianship, crafty songwriting, and warm stage presence have been winning over audiences from coast to coast.
 


Finders & Youngberg
Lonesome Traveler Band
Monday, 6/8 at 7:00 PM

Mike and Amy Finders describe their music as "blue folkgrass" and "frontier blues." Mike's songwriting can encompass everything from modern country jam-band sounds to an obvious love for dusty, old Carter family recordings. Amy's full singing voice, more Natalie Merchant than Emmylou Harris, is a perfect counterpart for Mike's tenor, as they blend on tales of river life, beautiful days, and why love--though sometimes bitter--is mostly just sweet. Mike and Amy now live in Colorado, mostly performing with their new group, Finders and Youngberg. Finders and Youngberg is a well-established folk/bluegrass/country musical group, a partnership between two talented couples whose paths have converged to carve a distinct mark. The Finders met The Youngbergs (from Colorado) in Chicago, 2005 while playing with other bands and sharing the billing. Their subsequent musical relationship has grown from random shows in the half-way ground of Nebraska to a Finders' family relocation, a "knock-your-socks-off" recording project, and some outstanding live performances.

Lonesome Traveler Band is an acoustic band from Colorado's front range with a bluegrass driver's license, a certificate of songwriting, and a sheriff's badge of cool. They possess the cracklin' firepower of a six-piece band, yet the grace of a dancer as they weave in and around their condenser microphones, singing, picking, and testifying to the gospel of Americana music. Their songs are squarely in the rich vein of Americana bluegrass, folk, blues, country and Celtic sounds, yet they bring in contemporary metaphors and reflections that are connecting with audiences and radio listeners all across our great nation.
 


Diva Kai
Monday, 6/15 at 7:00 PM

Diva Kai is currently working on her first album release. Diva has performed for small venues and is beginning to build an audience that appeals to the broad range of emotion and vocal stylings that make Diva's music great to listen to. As a native Iowan and frequent Chicagoan, Diva Kai's music bridges rural sensibilities with a contemporary voice.



 Mike Maas
Monday, 6/22 at 7:00 PM

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.

 

Bill Staines - Rebroadcast from February 23
Monday, 6/29 at 7:00 PM
 


Johnsmith
Monday, 7/6 at 7:00 PM

Over two decades of performing festivals, concert halls, coffeehouses, colleges, and house concerts, along with a half dozen acclaimed CDs, Johnsmith has built a solid fan base in the US and abroad. "Break Me Open," his most recent CD, features some of the finest players in acoustic music today including Darrell Scott, Tim O'Brien, Stuart Duncan, former 'Runaway' duo partner Dan Sebranek, native American chants and flute cameos by Bill Miller, harmony vocals by Suzi Ragsdale, and John's daughter Elisi Smith-Waller.