This troupe has been entertaining KKFI's listeners since 2010. It is all local, all home grown. Writers, actors, technicians, and producers are local artists and artisans, some of whom have day jobs! They have an eclectic, if somewhat erratic, outlook on life and what you think is funny. Still, on...
The Heartland Labor Forum is produced by a group of volunteers who are labor and community activists who believe in workplace democracy, workers rights, and economic justice. We're the only show in Kansas City that focuses on working people: who is fighting on their side and who is not, what...
Born In Buffalo,New York when rotary phones and party lines were still in use, Artie McDonnell moved to Overland Park, Kansas in 1965 kicking and screaming the whole way here! I thought my parents had lost there minds and when I encountered my First 100 degree day I KNEW they...
Now in his 26th year at KKFI "Radionic Powers" ™ © continues to revive the radio airwaves as they were intended to be heard. A vivid collector of 45rpm singles since childhood, in the 1970's starting out on a lifetime career using records to create moods for the party, friends...
Voted 2011 Person of the Year by Plasticsax.com and Best Bassist by Pitch Magazine, Jeff Harshbarger has had quite an eclectic career. A prolific composer and bandleader in his own right, Jeff has recorded and performed across the globe with such varied artists as Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Bobby Watson,...
Jay Mandeville, a poet, essayist, editor, voice actor, and erstwhile jazz crooner, is a native Kansas Citian, currently resituated in Independence, Missouri. Beginning his public career as a contributor to the legendary Chouteau Review, and as an associate of the internationally recognized Art Research Center in the mid 1970's, Jay...
Dwight Frizzell is an internationally recognized artist whose interdisciplinary work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art and writing. He has been producing the “From Ark to Microchip” series with Jay Mandeville since 1984. Ark radio has been heard on KOPN, KCUR, KGNU, RESONANCE FM (London), RADIO NOVA (Paris), and...
Mark Manning is currently serving as Coordinator of the KCK Organic Teaching Gardens, an Initiative of The University of Kansas School of Medicine, Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity, Health Careers Pathways Program, K-12. Each year Mark works with 1000 to 2000 students, between K through 8th grades, with organic,...
