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KCCK Brings Back Jazz Age With Speakeasy Music, food, entertainment and hooch inspired by the 20s and 30s Gangsters, molls and hep cats will take over the New Bohemia District in Cedar Rapids on Oct. 1. Gatherings at Bottleworks, will transformed into a Depression-era Blind Pig, Speakeasy, a fund raiser for Jazz 88.3 KCCK that combines food, music and live theatre to recreate the Prohibition era. The Twenties and Thirties were the time when Jazz music was the hottest, newest, most cool thing in entertainment, says KCCK general manager Dennis Green. Why else did they call it The Jazz Age? We thought it would be fun to dress up a venue as a Blind Pig, and go back to that era. Well have period costumes, music and performances. There is even a possibility the joint will get raided! In Thirties parlance, a Blind Pig was a bar that by all outward appearances, was closed and shuttered, but actually continued to operate. That tradition will be carried forward in KCCKs Speakeasy, with the front doors of Gatherings locked and windows papered over. Guests will be given a password and enter through the kitchen. KCCK has recruited a troupe of local performers to recreate music and comedy from the era. Schedule to appear are WC Fields, Laurel & Hardy, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday and others. Dance music (which wont necessarily be limited to music from the time period) will be by the Rod Pierson Band featuring Craig Boche. Participants are encouraged to come dressed in their best Thirties-style glad rags, but period accessories will be available. Come prepared to be a part of the show, as audience participation will be a part of the evening. Tickets are $75 and space is limited, so early reservations are recommended. Call 319.398.5446, or buy tickets online at www.kcck.org/speakeasy. ### Jazz 88.3 KCCK-FM is a locally-programmed public radio station owned by Kirkwood Community College, broadcasting in analog FM and HD Radio at 88.3 FM. The station can also be heard via the Johnson County translator signal at 106.9 FM, and webcasting at www.kcck.org. For more information contact KCCK at (319) 398-5446. -3009/09/2011

P.O. Box 2068 Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52406 319.398.5446 Fax: 319.398.5492 www.kcck.org Member-supported, jazz public radio from Kirkwood Community College