So this time we’ll be at the Junior League of Little Rock building.” While Rodney Block and the Rodney Block Collective play their own brand of jazz and funk, guests will get to enjoy fare from The Pantry and a specially curated selection of beers and bourbons from O’Looney’s Wine and Liquor. “It was such a fun event that we wanted to open up the experience to a bigger group. “Last year’s event was kind of like a house party,” says KLRE/KUAR Interim General Manager Nathan Vandiver. The January 11 th event will be the second Block, Beer & Bourbon event hosted by the Friends of KLRE/KUAR.
Public radio’s history and future as a public service that informs, educates and entertains over 85,000 people each week will be celebrated at a fundraising event on January 11 th, 2018 at the Junior League of Little Rock. Known collectively as UA Little Rock Public Radio, the stations provide a unique public service for a market of our size with two stations-one for music and one for news.Ģ017 marked another milestone for public radio as it celebrates the 50 th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act that created much of the structure that makes public radio and television possible today, including establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. National shows like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk and Fresh Air and locally produced shows like Not Necessarily Nashville, 52 nd Street Jazz and Arts and Letters have been part of the cultural fabric of Central Arkansas for decades.
Today KLRE FM 90.5 carries Classical music 24/7 and KUAR FM 89.1 carries news, music and cultural programming. In 1986, after the Little Rock School District and UA Little Rock formed a partnership to co-license a new station, KUAR, the association became the Friends of KLRE/KUAR. In the years since the group’s founding, the Friends board led fundraising efforts to increase the broadcast signal power and become a member of National Public Radio. Information + images provided by Jennifer Goss, Finance Director at UA Little Rock Public Radio Ahead of the highly anticipated Block, Beer & Bourbon fundraiser, get to know a little more about the host, Friends of KLRE/KUAR, and the front man for the headlining act Rodney Block Collective, Rodney Block.įorty years ago, in 1977, a group of public radio listeners banded together to form the Friends of KLRE to support the new public radio station licensed to the Little Rock School District.