Tony Dehner
Senior Music ProducerExpertise: Music! Picking and presenting the music you've loved and will love, interviewing music-makers and writing about the Iowa music scene
Education: University of Northern Iowa
Favorite Iowa Destination: Clear Lake
Experience:
- Has curated and hosted AAA programming and live performances on Studio One, bringing new artists and old favorites to Iowans' homes for over a decade
- Has interviewed national and local musicians including Sunny War, Indigo De Souza, The War & Treaty and Chicago Farmer, among others
- Selects and hosts IPR Studio One's Artist of the Month series
- Received a 2024 first place PMJA Visual Storytelling award for All Access: IPR's Music Magazine
- Has appeared as a guest on The Guitar Department with Joe Alton
My Latest Stories
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Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival held its 20th edition this year, with an eye towards changes in 2026. -
Mission Creek has announced its 2025 lineup and it’s exciting and varied as ever, with a who’s who of exciting new acts and returning favorites. -
The 80/35 music festival, held for years in downtown Des Moines, had a new location and different feel in 2024, but still had plenty to offer. And the music — and the people — were (still) amazing. -
The Des Moines blues duo Buckmiller Schwager played in Memphis earlier this year, and the experience was captured in a film that's also a love letter to the blues.
