It can be tough to quantify the economic or societal contributions of music in the state, but the Alaska Independent Musicians Initiative wanted to just that. In order to measure the scope and impact ...
A wide array of talent from across a massive state filled the Juneau Arts & Culture Center throughout Saturday as more than 75 local musicians, producers, Indigenous creators, audio engineers, ...
In Alaska, 2022 was a transition year in music in many ways. After a couple years of diminished live music due to the pandemic, last year felt much more like a return to normalcy with performers ...
Think Alaska, and the great outdoors -- soaring peaks, mile-high glaciers, native totem poles and herds of moose -- likely comes to mind. But there's more to the Last Frontier than just its ...
Elvera Voth, who spearheaded the evolution of Alaska music in several organizations in the late 20th century, is remembered as “an instigator” by the community she helped build. Voth, who died at age ...
Remember the time it started snowing in May and nobody left the music festival? How about the time you saw people dancing on the bar and crowdsurfing to bluegrass? What about when you carried your ...
Juneau’s children are speaking Lingít in hallways between classes and aisles of grocery stores, on Thunder Mountain and even in their dreams, their language teachers say. For many students, it all ...
John Gourley with Portugal. The Man, one of the bands that is now featured on the hold music for the state of Alaska. Callers to state offices in Alaska will no longer be subjected to tinny elevator ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A program connecting troops and patients at the local Department of Veterans Affairs hospital with music therapy has been so successful that it is the subject of a summit Thursday ...