Daniel Kruse

Dan Kruse has worked at AZPM since 2010, serving as local host for NPR’s All Things Considered from 2010-2016, and as a frequent fill-in announcer since then.

Dan was introduced to radio broadcasting while earning a degree in Radio, TV, and Film at the University of Missouri in the early 1970s and working at the University’s NPR affiliate, KBIA-FM. He also worked in commercial radio for several years, followed by a 20-year career in Corporate and Institutional Communications, primarily as a film and video writer/producer/ director, in addition to owning a communications production company, Kruse Corporate Image, for six years.

Upon moving to Tucson in the late 90s, Dan embarked on a long-awaited musical career, earning two degrees in ethnomusicology from the University of Arizona School of Music and maintaining a connection with the Fred Fox School of Music since then. Today, he pursues music-related research projects and has produced a variety of documentary works on musical topics – for AZPM, independently, and in collaboration with Fred Fox School of Music and other colleagues on the UA Campus. Since 2020, he has been a co-investigator of Lifetimes of Listening, an oral history project on the subject of Musical Memories, and produces the project’s monthly podcast. Dan is a popular lecturer on musical topics in the Tucson area. He also is a founding member of Stone Curves, one of Tucson’s three cohousing communities.

In his free time, Dan enjoys traveling, practicing percussion, attending musical events, cooking, bicycling, watching great films and exploring Tucson’s Chuck Huckelberry Loop.