WMM is Spinning Records With Marion Merritt + Jennifer Roe of Folk Alliance International

Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Spinning Records With Marion Merritt + Jennifer Roe of Folk Alliance International

Marion Merritt will spin tracks from: André 3000, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Danielle Nicole, Fantasy 15, Roy Hargrove Rh Factor, Jalen Ngonda, Mary Halvorson, The Comet Is Coming, Irakere, Ty Segall, The Smile, and Dimitri from Paris. We’ll also play Lilli Lewis and The Rainbow Girls.

Mark welcomes Marion Merritt, of Records With Merritt, who joins us as “Guest Producer” to share sonic discoveries and information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion Merritt is our most frequent contributor to WMM. For nearly 20 years, Marion has been sharing her sonic discoveries and information from her musically encyclopedic brain, spinning music that is just not played on other radio stations. Marion grew up in Los Angeles & St. Louis. She went to college in Columbia, Missouri. She studied art and musical engineering. After nearly two decades of managing KC’s largest music department store, Marion left the corporate world and went Independent. Now nearly 10 years later, with her partner Ann Stewart, Marion is the proprietor of Records With Merritt, a small, independent, minority owned business, at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri. More info at: www.recordswithmerritt.com.

At 11:30, Mark will talk with Jennifer Roe, the Interim Executive Director of Folk Alliance International (FAI), a nonprofit organization established in 1989 to connect leaders in folk music and sustain the community and genre. Jennifer joined the FAI team in 2013 igniting a passion for folk music. With over a decade of private sector experience, she assumed a pivotal role in leading FAI’s staff and contractors and overseeing the day-to-day operations. She plays a key role in orchestrating the international conference, a hallmark event attracting over 2,000 attendees annually. Jennifer’s journey began in Washington, DC, where she worked on Capitol Hill for the Majority Leader of the Senate before transitioning to serve on a Presidential campaign. Jennifer channels her political background to advocate for arts and culture at both federal and state levels through her position at FAI. Folk Alliance International, the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, will present its 36th Annual Conference Feb. 21-25, 2024 at The Westin Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center 1 East Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO. www.folk.org

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