This episode of Arts@360: Writers’ Showcase is open themed and takes us from the streets of Anchorage to a snowy mountaintop and explores addiction, passion, a new relationship, and love’s tipping point.
This episode features:
Goldwing is an experimental country rock band based in Juneau, Alaska. With Ben Higdon on electric guitar, Dan Desloover on bass, and Clay Good on drums, vocalist and guitar player Dan Kirkwood writes songs drawn from personal experience in the vein of traditional American music. Goldwing’s style, once dubbed “space country,” is fit for the highway, open skies or the dark end of the bar.
These award-winning musicians showcase drum songs from the Inuit cultures of Greenland and Alaska. Pamyua’s vocalists bring “a blizzard of interlocking harmonies,” says Native People Magazine.
Award-winning musicians Ed Littlefield and Christian Fabian takes us on an intimate exploration of their unique jazz arrangements that artfully blend swing, bebop and funk with folk and native melodies.
Anna Lynch is an Alaskan songwriter who has opened for acts including Rock n Roll Hall of Famer Leon Russell, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Sea Wolf and Matt Kearney. This is pitch-perfect country songwriting, built on a bed of Alaskan bluegrass.
This episode of 360 North’s Writers’ Showcase will feature several short stories and essays with the theme of “journeys.”
Note: This program has been edited to remove strong language contained in some of the pieces performed.
Stories by:
Kevin Myers
Bobbi McCutcheon
Asha Falcon
Mariah Warren
Performed by:
Clint Farr
Roblin Gray Davis
Elizabeth Pisel-Davis
Christina Apathy
