Grady Kirkpatrick
Program Director and Wyoming Sounds HostGrady has taken a circuitous route from his hometown of Kansas City to Wyoming. Sometime after the London Bridge had fallen down, he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University and actually graduated from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. ("He's a Lumberjack and he's OK……..!") He began his radio career in Prescott in 1982 and eventually returned to Kansas City where he continued in radio through the summer of 1991. Public Radio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky beckoned him to the bluegrass state where he worked as Operations/Program Manager at WKMS in Murray and WNKU in Highland Heights just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.
After 16 great years in Kentucky, Grady & Cheryl packed the family (2 kids, 2 cats, and a dog) and headed for Wyoming in the middle of winter to hire on as Music Director for Wyoming Public Media. He hosted Morning Music and now Wyoming Sounds and was also hired as Program Director. Besides radio, Grady has worked in construction and likes to play outdoors (camp, fish, bike, hike, ski, golf). He loves music, of course, traveling, stargazing and American history.
Email: wkirkpa1@uwyo.edu
Phone: 307-766-6624
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Rigby Summer from Oklahoma via Kansas and California arrived during winter in Wyoming to play a Studio Session on Wyoming Sounds. -
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Grady Kirkpatrick talked with project producer Carl Gustafson from Laramie about "MOJA: A Music Saga." It's the story of African-influenced music through seven generations.
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Interview with Northern Arapaho musician and artist Christian Wallowing Bull about his new video titled Wallowing Bull.Wallowing Bull explores the cultural significance of the American Bison and was filmed on the Wind River Reservation.
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Musician Jared Rogerson from Pinedale has created a song about substance abuse.
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Through an ARPA - Wyoming Arts Council grant, a music therapist led songwriting workshops with healthcare workers at the Jackson hospital to address work related stress and burnout due to the pandemic. Four groups of health care workers shared stories and processed work-related trauma to write songs about their experiences. Four songs were officially released.
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Laramie seven-piece band Ten Cent Stranger played Wyoming Public Media
