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...
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!
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...
Mark & Val celebrate International Worker's Day, honoring the Second International and the establishment of May Day with themes of the policy statements: the 8-hour day, general causes of the proletariat, and universal peace. The first meetings of the Second International were held in Paris, beginning on July 14, 1889, on...
Every year, Mark & Val put together a show honoring members of the folk community who have passed away the year before. Sadly, so many members of the folk community passed away in 2021 that it's taking three full shows to honor them all. This Sunday's show is Volume II,...
Nora Guthrie, daughter of America’s great folk singer, Woody Guthrie, has released a book called Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art, Words and Wisdom. This week on the Heartland Labor Forum we’ll talk to Nora about her father’s genius. Then, health care workers at University Hospital formerly known as Truman are...
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we will talk to the authors of two new books: first is Joe Burns with Class Struggle Unionism. He asks if the labor movement is losing ground or gaining traction. He clearly wants more movement in the labor movement. Then, Natasha Iskander asks,...
