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May 23, 2019 e-Newsletter

Contents: Rural health and wellbeing series Holiday weekend programs Summer movie guide CD Giveaway

NPR News Series: Life and Health in Rural America Despite a growing national economy, four in 10 rural Americans say their families have experienced problems affording medical bills, housing or food in recent years. The findings come from two surveys NPR has done recently on day-to-day life and health in rural America. Reporting on the poll and the issues it reveals began this week on Morning Edition and All Things Considered . Listen through June for more of this series. First two reports

Storme Jones, Quinton Chandler and Dick Pryor (l-r) KGOU, StateImpact Win Journalism Awards KGOU and StateImpact Oklahoma reporters won 15 awards -- eight of them First Place honors -- at the Society of Professional Journalists' state chapter awards banquet last weekend. Our election coverage project with other public media, Oklahoma Engaged, won in the Election Reporting and Live Broadcast categories for radio news reported in 2018. The excellence we strive for every day is possible because of listener support! See who won

For Memorial Weekend Listening:

Mine Enemy: German POWS In America During World War II, some 400,000 captured German soldiers were shipped across the Atlantic to prison camps across the U.S. Suddenly the enemy was hoeing the back garden, and sometimes sitting at the kitchen table. This sound-rich, hour-long special is KGOU's Sunday Radio Matinee on May 26, featuring voices of those who lived this most unusual moment in history. Read more Jazz In June 2018 Highlights The unofficial start of summer brings outdoor music festival season, so what better way to relax than an audio journey to last summer's Jazz in June festival in Norman. All afternoon long on Sunday, May 26, KGOU brings you highlights of performances by The Chebon Tiger Band, Eric Gales, Ryan & Ryan Piano Duo, Huntertones, TAUK, and the rest of last year's lineup. Tune in and prepare your ears for the 2019 festival coming up next month: Jazz in June

Summer Movie Guide At the multiplex this year, as every year, there are capes and cartoons aplenty. But the NPR movies team also took care to point you to some of the smaller, quieter, weirder movies coming to screens in the coming months. Here's a list of 27 films that piqued the interest of critics. What looks interesting

2019 Tiny Desk Contest: The Winner Is... With over 6,000 entries this year, the fifth annual Tiny Desk Contest winner is Quinn Christopherson, a singer-songwriter from Anchorage, Alaska. In his entry video, he muses about his complicated experience with privilege as a transgender man with a powerful song, 'Erase Me'. Quinn will embark on the Tiny Desk Contest On the Road tour next month. Watch the video

CD Giveaway

Kerry Kearney: Smokehouse Serenade Master of the slide guitar and dobro, Kerry Kearney's style of blues has been described as 'psychedelta.' His newly released album, Smokehouse Serenade , features 12 original compositions; we're giving away copies on CD in a drawing next week. Enter drawing

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