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Front Row Center
Sundays at 9:53 a.m. Occasionally Fridays at 3 p.m. and Saturdays at 9:30 a.m.
Montana Public Radio's on-air arts and culture magazine, bringing you news of upcoming performing arts and music around western Montana.
Latest Episodes
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn sits down with Sarah Calhoun—the producer and founder of the Red Ants Pants Music Festival, owner of Red Ants Pants, and the executive director of the Red Ants Pants Foundation—to talk about 2024 festival happenings.
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‘Front Row Center’ host Lauren Korn sits down with MTPR Artist-in-Residence and Artistic Director of the Helena Symphony Allan R. Scott to talk about the 20th annual Symphony Under Stars, which will take place on Saturday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m. and will celebrate the music of Tina Turner.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Becky Garland about ‘Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild,’ which will be celebrating ten years of operation in September 2024 and is hosting concerts (Music in the Wild) every Saturday this summer.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn sits down with Larry McCloskey, the Executive Director of the Bitterroot Performing Arts Council (BPAC), to chat about their 2024 summer concert season, including Naturally 7, The Lil Smokies, Black Violin, Gaelic Storm, and more!
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On this special Monday episode of ‘Front Row Center,’ host Lauren Korn talks to James Beard Award-winning and Daytime Emmy-nominated Chef Eduardo Garcia, host of the Magnolia Network’s ‘Big Sky Kitchen with Eduardo Garcia.’
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn chats with the Executive Director of Mainstreet Uptown Butte and the Festival Director of the Montana Folk Festival, George Everett.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn sits down with David Edmonds, Artistic Director of Dolce Canto, to talk about their December concerts, “Caritas et Amor: Songs of Love and Hope.”
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Co-host Lauren Korn chats with the Myrna Loy’s new Executive Director, Benji Cosgrove (who is no stranger to the theater) about upcoming events and what audiences in Helena can expect in 2024.
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‘Front Row Center’ co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Lummi playwright and filmmaker Kendra Mylnechuk Potter about ‘Can’t Drink Salt Water,’ which is being staged and presented by the Montana Repertory Theatre on Sunday, November 19, 2023, at 4PM.
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Co-host Lauren Korn speaks with Chris La Tray, Métis storyteller and Montana’s 11th Poet Laureate.