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Wednesday MidDay Medley
Wednesday MidDay Medley plays with themes and special events. The show features new releases, local artists, glam, indie, punk, funk, folk, hip hop, classic country, jazz, lo-fi, electronic, soul, latin, broadway, cuban, african, ambient, and live in-studio performances from area musicians, performers, and writers.
Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
WMM is Spinning Records With Marion Merritt + Jessica Dressler & Jen Frank Klenke of “Rennie”
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 has an empathic ability to know what music you’re seeking. For 20 years Marion has been serving as co-producer of our show. She’s our most frequent contributor to WMM. Marion grew up in Los Angeles and St. Louis and went to college in Columbia, MO. She studied art & musical engineering, and is a avid lover of classic films. She saw Talking Heads on their first tour at One Block West in 1978. Marion also writes about new releases as a contributor to The Pitch. With partner Ann Stewart, Marion is the proprietor of Records With Merritt, a minority owned business at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri. More info at: www.recordswithmerritt.com.
Marion will spin tracks from: Da Capo & King Fela, PJ Morton, SUUNS, Hermanos Gutierrez, Molchat Doma, Floating Points, Etran De L’Air, Yannis & The Yaw, Joan As Police Woman, Lijado Sisters, Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Alan Sparhawk, Julia Holter, and Lettuce.
At 11:30 Mark talks with Jessica Dressler & Jen Frank Klenke about their new film “Rennie” making its world premiere at The Folly Theater, October 11 and 12th. This voyeuristic look into a small town’s Renaissance Festival delves into the lives of a motley crew of characters and what brings them back to their comfortless corsets, ballsack hugging codpiece tights, and sweltering animal pelts year after year. Through the twists and turns of personal exploration, our heroes and heroines use this time together to fulfill the most basic desire in life: to love, be loved, and belong as one’s true self. Our beloved Rennies reveal that in a place centered around pretending to be something that you are not, everyone discovers who they are. “Rennie” will have its World Premiere at The Folly Theater on Friday, October 11, and Saturday, October 12, 2024 at The Folly Theater 300 W 12th St. Kansas City, MO. More info at www.follytheater.org
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