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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, August 26, 2020
Eliza Gilkyson + The Black Creatures + Kemet Coleman
Mark plays more New & MidCoastal releases from: Kemet Coleman, Calvin Arsenia, The Black Creatures, The Moose, Nick Siegel, Eems, Eliza Gilkyson, Bully, CHIKA, Bright Eyes, Loren North, and Nubya Garcia.
At 10:30 Folk Singer Eliza Gilkyson joins us to discuss her new album 2020, released April 10, 2020 on Red House Records. Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter who has become one of the most respected musicians in folk and Americana music circles. The daughter of legendary songwriter Terry Gilkyson, Eliza entered the music world as a teenager, recording demos for her father. Since then she has released 20 recordings of her own, and her songs have been covered by such notables as Joan Baez, Bob Geldof, Tom Rush and Rosanne Cash. More info at: www.elizagilkyson.com
At 11:00 Jade Green & Xavier Martin of The Black Creatures join us to talk about their recent album Wild Echoes originally released September 30, 2019. This album landed at #2 on WMM’s 119 Best Recordings of 2019. Recently Center Cut Records signed The Black Creatures to their label and are re-releasing a newly remixed and remastered Wild Echoes on Friday August 28, 2020. The Black Creatures play a Center Cut Records Showcase on Friday, August 28 at 7:00 PM with Kadesh Flow, and Saturday, August 29 at 7:00 PM with Calvin Arsenia, at Lemonaid(e) Park, 1628 Wyoming (NW corner of Wyoming & 17th St.), behind Voltaire. More info at: www.centercutrecords.com
At 11:30 hip hop MC extraordinaire, Kemet Coleman joins us to share his new EP, Black is Beautiful and talk about his band The Phantastics who will play, Greenline Grows KC-Benefit for The Greenline Initiative, Friday, Aug. 28, 7:00 PM, streams LIVE on Facebook & YouTube with: Radkey, The Greeting Committee, Khrystal., Danny Cox & Bob Walkenhorst, Cuee, Enrique Javier Chi of Making Movies w/ Las Hermanas Altoro, Stephonne, Krystle Warren, They Call Me Sauce, and more! The Greenline Initiative is a Black family-owned organization that uses crowdsourcing to help historically marginalized and low income populations buy and renovate the houses they rent. Based in KC’s 3rd District, the initiative builds permanent community. www.thegreenlineinitiative.com
Eliza Gilkyson photo bt Todd V Wolfson
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