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...
Yes, indeed - we heard a ton of music! Today we kick off our fourth (and final) 'What We Saw at Folk Alliance' with The Armagh Rhymers, one of Val's absolute favorites from the Conference. The Armagh Rhymers need to be seen to be believed. One of the most celebrated...
That we have a Mother’s Day in the United States is due to the tireless efforts of Anna Jarvis, who wanted to honor her mother Ann Jarvis and felt all of us should honor our mothers as the person to whom we owe the most in the world. Ann Jarvis...
Yes, indeed - Mark made it all the way through to KKFI's own Shapiro Brothers at 2:30 AM on Thursday. Valerie did not. So only Mark got to hear Ordinary Elephant, Jenna Mammina and Rolf Sturm, and Shapiro Brothers) in their private showcases, but we all get to hear them...
