The 2020 Iowa City Jazz Festival, a popular celebration in downtown Iowa City on Memorial Day weekend, was cancelled due to the shelter-in-place rules from COVID-19. Instead, jazz station KCCK in Cedar Rapids is broadcasting performances from the 2019 festival today from 6 a.m. today until 1:35 a.m. tomorrow Central time.
Check the full schedule on KCCK’s Iowa City Jazz Festival Memorial Day Broadcast page. Listen in by clicking the player in the top right corner of this page.
Jazz, a bronze sculpture by Gary Alsum, in downtown Iowa City, Iowa (photo by Cheryl Landes)