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Guitarist Nels Cline is best known for his work with the band Wilco. But one of his free-form side projects, the Radical Empathy Trio, couldn’t be more different and focuses on pure improvisation.

The Arizona Commission on the Arts has allocated more than $320,000 to more than 20 Flagstaff-based arts organizations and programs in Coconino County.

President Joe Biden has appointed Navajo Nation First Lady Phefelia Nez to serve as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

Fresh off one of her biggest album launches of her career, Taylor Swift announced a new U.S. stadium tour starting in 2023 in Glendale, Arizona.

The University of Arizona announced Thursday that its Center for Creative Photography will host the North American premiere next year of “The Linda McCartney Retrospective,” celebrating her 30-year career as a photographer.

Blues is at the very core of the music made by famed rockers Gov’t Mule. For the first time they’ve recorded an entire album of traditional blues songs. In the latest installment of KNAU’s Eats and Beats, frontman Warren Haynes talks about the band’s bluesy exploration ahead of their show in Flagstaff this weekend.

Acclaimed comedian Paula Poundstone has recently hit the road again to perform live after an extended hiatus from the stage amid the pandemic. She plays Flagstaff's Orpheum Theater Thursday night.

Last week, Raven Chacon became the first Indigenous composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The musician and educator grew up in Chinle on the Navajo Nation and was recognized for a piece called “Voiceless Mass.” He composed it specifically to be played on a pipe organ housed in a church in Milwaukee and premiered the work during Thanksgiving weekend last year. The music has an unsettling quality that, as Chacon says, reflects marginalized communities that served as the inspiration for the piece. In this installment of KNAU’s series Eats and Beats, he talks about “Voiceless Mass” and how it could serve as a touchstone for the under-heard and overlooked.

If you're looking for something to do this weekend here's just a sample of events going on around Northern Arizona in our Weekend Community Calendar for March, 25-27.

If you're looking for something to do this weekend here's just a sample of events going on around Northern Arizona in our Weekend Community Calendar for March, 18-20.