AETN Presents

AETN Presents is AETN’s arts and culture series airing Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. The series began in 2001 and highlights musicians, authors and other artists from Arkansas and beyond.

AETN Presents: On the Front Row is a music and performance program featuring a variety of musical acts that perform in AETN’s intimate 100-seat studio stage. The studio series began with local singer songwriter and Arkansas Acoustic Festival winner Kat Hood, and has since included many known and emerging (and primarily Arkansas-based) artists from various genres and backgrounds.

Just a few of the diverse featured acts have included jazz artists the piano-based Claudia Burson Trio, the guitar-centric Ted Ludwig Trio, and trumpter Rodney Block and the Rodney Block Jazz Project.

Also featured has been hip hop artists Epiphany and One Night Stand, venerable rockers The Cate Brothers and family friendly folk rock duo Trout Fishing in America, as well as the alt-rock quartet The Boondogs, the blues-rocking Shannon Boshears Band and the hip country twang of The Salty Dogs.

AETN Presents: On the Same Page is a book program which features a variety of regional and national authors, such as much-lauded McSweeny’s writer Wells Tower and best-selling author Francine Prose, former U.S. Poet Laureates Billy Collins and Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet Jo McDougall, and music critic/screenwriter Peter Guralnick.

Some of the Arkansas-based writers featured include O Henry Award winner Kevin Brockmeier, young adult writer Trenton Lee Stewart and James Beard Award-winner Crescent Dragonwagon.