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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Wyoming Public Radio’s Grady Kirkpatrick recently moderated the Laramie County Library Foundation’s forum of Wyoming Authors. We present you with an inside look of the event.
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Dom Flemons, the former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, talked with Grady Kirkpatrick about his new album Traveling Wildfire and a Wyoming Connection.
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Volores with Nathan and Shelby Maxwell visited with Grady Kirkpatrick and played a few of their mountain goth songs live for a Wyoming Sounds Studio Session.
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Singer-songwriter Ian Jones debut album Results Not Typical is set for release April 7th. He was on a tour of radio stations throughout the West and stopped by Wyoming Public Radio to visit with Grady Kirkpatrick and play a few songs.
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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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