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Toast of the Nation New Years Eve at 9:00 P.M.

KIOS | By Mike Jacobs

Published December 30, 2019 at 10:59 AM CST

NPR rings in the New Year again with Toast of the Nation at 9:00 New Years Eve here on KIOS with live jazz until 1:00 A.M. The first broadcast was in 1977 as part of the NPR series Jazz Alive. Christian McBride is your host for the festivities.

This year features some of the best jazz collectives performing today. First up, is the Carlos Henriquez Octet in New York. At 10:00 we go to Baltimore for the Baltimore Jazz Collective. Then at 11:00 it's the SFJAZZ Collective in San Francisco and finally at midnight, the Michael Leonhart Orchestra at the Jazz Standard in New York.

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Mike Jacobs

Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.

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