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How We Spent Our Folk Alliance, Part 2 (Mark & Val)

The Folk Alliance Conference is the world's largest gathering of the folk music industry and community. This year it was held in Feb here in KC and, as always, we heard way more music than we could fit into one Foolkiller Folk show. We start off our second program with the...

How we spent our Folk Alliance, Part 1

Everybody who goes to the annual Folk Alliance International Conference has an individualized experience, so every KKFI DJ who was there will bring you a different show. This is Part 1 of what Mark & Val heard. This Sunday we bring you Kaia Kater, Shane Hennessey, Bon Debarras, Sara Curruchich, Le...

M&V – What We Saw at Folk Alliance, Day 4

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...

M&V – Who we heard at Folk Alliance: Late Night Day 2 + Day 3 :-)

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...

Folk Alliance Sights

Had a bit of a crazy week during the Folk Alliance so unfortunately, I wasn't able to spend as much time down there as I had hoped.  But I did make it down on Saturday evening and caught a bunch of great bands from all over the country. It was more...