Yes - the music continues to come in thick and fast. This Sunday Mark & Val bring you some of our favorites in new (to us) Celtic music. Listen for Martin de Cogain, Micheal O Heidhin. Niamh Ni Charra, Cara Dillon, Nicole Ni Dhubhshlaine & Kyle Macaulay, Ellis Kennedy, Salt...
This Easter Sunday Mark & Val continue their annual tribute to artists who have passed away during the last year. It’s not news to anyone, but 2020 was a bad year. Sadly, so many folks passed away that it’s going to take three full programs to get in just the...
To do a 2020 Christmas show or not to do a 2020 Christmas show – that is the question! And, given the pandemic, it’s a hard question. But we’re doing one (although we’re not including any songs that would encourage gathering in large groups :-)). Usually I put together a...
A man is found dead, alone and barricaded in his room in the first American adventure of Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot. Follow along with the twists and turns of a classic Agatha Christie murder mystery with Kansas City Actors Radio Theatre! Hosted by John Rensenhouse. Featuring Kathleen Warfel, Robert...
Hello Kansas City Bands! Kansas City loves its music and so does KKFI! Once a year, we auction off local bands for the good of KKFI and beyond. If you would like to be considered to be part of the KKFI Band Auction in April, please complete all the information...
In the opening episode of Forrest Attaway's “Kansas City: 1924," "The Ties That Bind,” the new and old ways go head-to-head when the Esposito mob tangles with Ma Pritchett’s cattle outfit. Meanwhile, a well-connected and mysterious stranger arrives in town, meeting a jazz singer with conflicting interests. An unmistakable message...
Saturday Sept. 12th - 4p to 10p - CMFKC.COM for all the details This year is a new thing for sure! 2020 CMF will be a Live Stream and Live Broadcast on KKFI 90.1FM. 2020 CMF Artists Calvin Arsenia | Laura Noble | We the People (feat. Eddie Moore) | Julia Othmer |...
So today we bring you a collection of music that’s come into the house recently, and we're skewing the show Celtic, because we haven’t brought you a heavily Celtic show recently. But we kick off with Playing for Change, a wonderfully named organization dedicated to the proposition that music can overpower...
For Wednesday, June 24, from 9:00-11:30pm CT on KKFI 90.1 FM or streaming at kkfi.org (and available on archive if you miss the show for two weeks afterwards on the KKFI website), The Classical Challenge presents "Black Composers Matter" hosted by Mark Andruss Most classical music lovers can name, or at least...
For Wednesday, June 10, the Classical Challenge presents “Lift Up Your Voices! – Tales of Loss, Love, and Love Lost for the Age of Pandemic.” We’ve (well, some of us have) declared war on the coronavirus. It’s a metaphor we use frequently, despite the nearly uniform national experience of wars that...
