KNAU update for Aug. 23 — Raptor Safe Powerlines, Area 51, and More

Relive some of last year’s Grand Canyon Music Festival this week with Arizona Encore, Sunday at noon on Classical KNAU.

This week, a unique arrangement of several dances from Terpsichore  by seminal 17^th-century German composer Michael Praetorius. Festival Artistic Director Clare Hoffman and members of the Manhattan Chamber Players offer a Mozart Flute Quartet and we’ll also have a selection of duos for violin and viola.

The 2019 Grand Canyon Music Festival, in its 37^th season, begins tonight with the first of two concerts by the guitar duo of Michael Newman and Laura Oltman.

Arizona Encore is heard on the stations of Classical KNAU and online at KNAU.org. You can also catch the repeat Tuesday evening at seven if Sunday doesn’t work for you.

Millions of birds are killed every year by electrical power lines—especially in the wide-open country of the Colorado Plateau where power lines and poles are often all that’s available for birds to nest and roost on. Learn more at KNAU.org.

‘La Bestia’, or ‘The Beast’, is the colloquial name for the freight trains that run through Mexico from Central America. Thousands of children ride atop them every year, hoping to make it to the U.S. border for asylum. The risks are great. Learn more at KNAU.org.

The Flagstaff Unified School District has notified more than 6,500 students and 319 staff members that their personal information may have been exposed during a security incident. Learn more at KNAU.org.

Officials in southern Nevada have drafted an emergency declaration and are planning in case huge crowds arrive for an event next month dubbed “Storm Area 51.” Learn more at KNAU.org.

Arizona voters may get another chance to approve recreational marijuana. Supporters have released a 2020 ballot initiative that would allow people over the age of 21 to possess up to an ounce of pot. Learn more at KNAU.org.