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...
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...
A hundred thousand THANK YOUS to the wonderful folks who called in last week, met the Champion Matches, and pushed Foolkiller Folk over that day's fundraising goal. We are proud of how you came together to keep KKFI on the air! The entire crew is back again this week honoring KKFI's...
The entire crew - Bob & Diana, Mark & Val, Kathy - is in today honoring KKFI's 35th Anniversary Winter Pledge Drive by sampling our favorite music for you. Tune in to join the chat about the 35 years of KKFI!
Pretty much whenever Val does a calendar, she lists the Celtic sessions happening around Kansas City. And you might be wondering what, exactly, they’re about. Well, this Sunday, Jan 29th, special guests AND SO IT GOES are coming in around noon to play some session music and explain. They’ll also...
Today we bring you a round of recently acquired music not necessarily new but new to us - some of the songs and albums that made it to the finals of the FAI’s best songs and albums list, mixed in with other things that we like. We bring you folk (American,...
It’s a split show today. Mark & Val kick off with English country dance music and Matt Kirby from the Lawrence Barn Dance Association joins us around noon to talk about contra dance – what it’s like and where you can find it locally, and what you can expect at...
Tune in for a sampler of English folk. You'll be hearing selections from False Lights, Chumbawamba, Maddy Prior and the Girls, Bob Fox, Jackie Oats, Sandy Denny & the Strawbs, Davy Graham, Fotheringay, Kate Rusby, Lisa Knapp, Chris Wood, Ian Campbell Folk Group, Parchment, John Smith, Brass Monkey, Harp and...
