The Kansas City Irish something different this year: FEST WHERE YOU ARE, a collection of activities including a concert combining live performances at Crown Center with livestream performances and interviews from local and international musicians. And we are doing something different too – a combination of folks who will be performing...
Yes, music is coming in to us thick and fast! Today we bring you Dan Boner; Shane Hennessy; Eliza Gilkyson; Mike McGoldrick, John McCusker & John Doyle; Jayme Stone; Julie Fowlis, Zoe Conway, Eamon Doorley, John McIntyre; Tom Kitchling; Anna Meike; Marie Fielding; New Leaf; Xavier Boderiou with Sylvain Barou...
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...
Created by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 as African American Music Appreciation Month and re-established annually by Presidential proclamation, in addition to celebrating Gay Pride, the month of June now celebrates the African American musical influences that comprise an essential part of our nation’s treasured cultural heritage. So today Mark...
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...
