Darel Snodgrass
Classical Music HostI began piano lessons at age 6, trumpet at age 9, and began teaching myself the guitar at 10. My electronics knowledge comes from my father, who had the RCA television and stereo shop in my hometown of Pocahontas, Arkansas for nearly 20 years. My dad is still fixing televisions at age 79.
I attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville as a music major, and worked weekend shifts at the U of A radio station (my first experience playing classical music on the radio). I spent a summer playing piano, guitar and bass at the defunct “L'il Abner”- based theme park Dogpatch USA, near Harrison, Arkansas. After a few years playing music professionally, I finished a BS degree in Radio/TV production at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
After another few years playing music in the Ozarks, I moved to Memphis with my wife. I’ve served as Operations Manager of WKNO-FM since 1988, and morning Classical Music host since 1994 – conducting more than 4,500 Checking on the Arts interviews along the way.
-
Dixon Gallery and Gardens hosts Here Comes the Sun Community Day on Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
-
Robert Moody Presents The Orchestra Unplugged: Tchaikovsky Comes to America at the Halloran Centre for Performing Arts and Education on Thursday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m.
-
Idlewild Presbyterian Church at 1750 Union Avenue presents Lead Us on to the Light, a program by the renowned Nebraska Wesleyan University Choir and Jazz Choir at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7. They will be joined by the Memphis Women's Chorale.
-
As the regular concert season winds down at Germantown Performing Arts Center, the warm-weather Concerts in the Grove season begins on Thursday, May 2 with Jerome Chism and the Royal Studios House Band.
-
Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents May The 4th Be With You - The Music of Star Wars on Saturday, May 4 (Star Wars Day) with performances at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, in downtown Memphis.
-
The current exhibition at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis 2024, focuses on works by 18 prominent Memphis artists, both established and up-and-coming.
-
The Memphis Symphony Orchestra Masterworks season continues on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Downtown Memphis, and Sunday, April 28 at 2:30 p.m. at the Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis.
-
Pediatric pulmonologist and bluegrass enthusiast Dr. Jonathan Finder hosts regular bluegrass house concerts at his Midtown home and also organizes a regular bluegrass jam at Crosstown Brewery.
-
For WKNO's Spring Membership campaign April 15-19 we will have a unique gift for supporters, a handmade mug created by Dr. Amy Hertz.
-
The Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes welcomes back renowned humanities and Shakespeare scholar Dr. Marjorie Garber for several events April 10 - 12, including lectures at Rhodes and the University of Memphis.