Art and Culture

Conversations With Creative Waco - Chuck Jennings

KWBU | By Kateleigh Mills,

Published January 25, 2019 at 11:46 AM CST

(From left to right) Rae Jefferson, Chuck Jennings, Kennedy Sam and Fiona Bond in the KWBU Studios on Jan. 15, 2019.

This week on Conversations with Creative Waco, host Rae Jefferson speaks with local jazz musician Chuck Jennings about his time performing in large cities and how that compares to Waco. The two also discuss the Jazz Jam sessions Jennings leads every month at Cultivate 7Twelve and how the genre could use a revitalization of regionalism across the country and in smaller cities.

Jefferson also announces a career move and introduces Kennedy Sam, the new marketing and communications director atCreative Waco. The episode also includes a David and Art and Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments segments.

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Kateleigh Mills

Kateleigh joined KWBU in January 2019. She is an Oklahoma native that is making the move to Waco after working as an All Things Considered host and producer at affiliate KOSU Radio in Oklahoma City. She is a former NPR Next Generation Radio Fellow, a Society of Professional Journalists award winner, an Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame recipient for ‘Outstanding Promise in Journalism’ and the Oklahoma Collegiate Media Association’s 2017 recipient for ‘College Newspaper Journalist of the Year.’ After finishing up her journalism degree early she decided to use her first year out of college to make the transition from print media to public radio. She is very excited to have joined KWBU and she is looking forward to all the opportunities it will bring - including providing quality journalism to all Texans.

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Rae Jefferson

Rae Jefferson, host of Conversations With Creative Waco, is a creative, Netflix binger, and marketing professional, in that order.

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