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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Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the “Walt Longmire Mysteries”, the basis for the hit Netflix original series, “Longmire.” He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella “Spirit of Steamboat” was the first One Book Wyoming selection - where the same book is read and discussed throughout the state. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming. Wyoming Public Radio’s Grady Kirkpatrick recently spoke with Johnson.
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With the release of the album in late 2023, a touring band hit the road to bring the songs of the project to audiences nationwide.
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Where Ya Been? The Odyssey and Elegy of Luke Bell-Trailer.
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Wolves in Cheap Clothing Howlin’ at Hyde Street on Wyoming Sounds
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Wyoming Public Media 2023 Holiday Specials
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Singer/Songwriter Quinlan Valdez on Wyoming Sounds.