Today we treat you to music we've recently acquired! One thing that's arrived is the 4 CD boxed set of the 'Social Power of Music', a timely collection of songs of struggle, devotion, celebration, and migration that remind us that music has the potential to change our world. From that...
Sadly, there just isn't time to hear everything you want to hear at a Folk Alliance Conference. So Mark & Val are finally (given that the Conference was in January) closing out the last part of our 5 part Folk Alliance Conference series with artists we wish we'd heard, but...
For Wednesday, September 2, from 9:00-11:30 pm CT on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio, and streaming at www.kkfi.org - then archived on that site for two weeks to suit your listening schedule - The Classical Challenge presents "Anglo/American Women". We'll hear: 1. Fantasy-Quartet - Ingrid Arauco (b. 1957) - performed by...
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...
Playing the Blues again....
Making Contact 8-20-Test Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. The issues these activists work on often impact their personal lives, and people who work in the service of others are particularly at risk of burnout and compassion...
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...
