AC23 - Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

Original Air Date: 5/14/23 - With 60 staring her in the face, Baton Rouge marketing executive Melinda Walsh, a longtime “amateur” runner, set herself a goal - run a half marathon. She shares her insp…

Original Air Date: 5/7/23 - New Orleans bass player Peter Harris closes out our Jazz Listening Room series for 2022-23 with an intimate performance in the Virginia & John Noland Black Box Studio at t…

Original Air Date: 4/30/23 - Of Moving Colors Artistic Director Garland Goodwin Wilson joins AC23 host Pam Bordelon to talk about its upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello as well as OMC’s Dan…

Original Air Date: 4/9/23 - Baton Rouge Poet Laureate Jonathan Mayers spent several weeks working with middle schoolers at Helix Legal Academy introducing them to Kouri Vini, the Louisiana French Cre…

Original Air Date: 3/19/23 - Blues Fest, one of the nation’s fastest growing blues festivals of its kind, and Sunday in the Park, a series of five Sunday afternoon outdoor concerts, are two of Baton …

Original Air Date: 3/12/23 - This week host Pam Bordelon visits with LSU Museum of Art curator Michelle Schulte about the exciting exhibition of works by pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial, whic…

Original Air Date: 2/12/23 - This week’s AC23 touches on two topics. The Cary Saurage Community Arts Center was the site of this year’s DeBose Fine Arts Festival, whose mission is dedication to excel…

Original Air Date: 4/16/23 - Baton Rouge area artist Malaika Favorite and ACGBR Philanthropy & Grants Officer Erin Douget join host Pam Bordelon to talk about Get Ready Grants, which provides up to $…

Original Air Date: 2/19/23 - For 20 years, the Irene W. & CB Pennington Foundation has underwritten a series of concerts with the Baton Rouge Symphony featuring the likes of Itzhak Pearlman, Yo-Yo Ma…

Original Air Date: 2/5/23 - Host Pam Bordelon visits with the team behind Preserving Our Place, a photographic documentation of the effects of climate change on the native coastal communities of Chan…

Original Air Date: 1/8/2023 - On Jan. 12, the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge celebrates its 50th anniversary at its annual MPAC gala. Host Pam Bordelon is joined by co-workers Vice President Jon…

Original Air Date: 1/22/23 - This week, host Pam Bordelon visits with Baton Rouge native and current Phoenix, Arizona resident André DuBroc about his recent participation in the Magnolia Network’s Si…

Originally Aired: 1/1/23 - Baton Rouge native Johnny Palazzotto has become synonymous with discovering new talent and putting Louisiana artists on the international map, earning him Offbeat Magazine’…

Original Air Date - 1/29/23 - Mike Weary, artist in residence at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, joins host Pam Bordelon to talk about his artistic journey in this week’s AC23 on the eve of t…

Original Air Date: 3/26/23 - You might not think Renaissance Man applies to a 20-something young man, but listen in as host Pam Bordelon visits with James Linden Hogg and you’ll see why it’s an apt d…

Original Air Date: 4/23/23 - Sam Irwin’s day job might be as public relations director for the American Sugar Cane League but in his off hours you can find him playing his trumpet as front man for th…

Original Air Date: 2/26/23 - This week host Pam Bordelon visits with flautist, producer, composer and national recording artist Claudia Hayden, who delighted attendees to our March 2 Jazz Listening R…

Original Air Date: 4/2/23 - This spring’s Artsplosion! camp is unlike anything ACGBR has ever done before. Guggenheim Fellow biologist/artist Brandon Ballengée leads a week-long Bug Boot Camp turning…