Music
Are You Entertained? A Virtual Weekend Guide to Everything KC
Here’s a selection of (mostly) Kansas City-influenced works to absorb while we are stuck indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Open Sessions Builds a Community of Black Creatives in Kansas City
Breasia Hayeshas has created Open Sessions, a bi-weekly open mic night at the Buffalo Room in Westport that is focused on black artists and performers in Kansas City, Missouri.
Getting to Know Rashida Phillips, KC Jazz Museum’s New Director
Meet American Jazz Museum’s new director, Rashida Phillips.
Season of Giving: Healthcare for Musicians
KC musicians can get help with ER costs and other resources thanks to this local charity.
Season of Giving: The Gift of Music
This KC charity helps make music education accessible for all kids in the KC area.
Resurrecting Gene Clark’s Recording Legacy
The career-making moment Missouri-born Gene Clark was waiting for in 1974 may now – 45 years later and long after his death – finally be arriving with the reissue of his “No Other” album.
Bob Dylan and Me: A Kansas City Fan’s “Never Ending Tour” Odyssey
“The circus is coming to town.”
That, in a nutshell, is reason enough for Kansas City actor and comedian John Mulvey to lay his money down for a Bob Dylan ticket. It’s a passion Mulvey has pursued since he and his future wife first saw Dylan in a torrential downpour at the former Sandstone Amphitheater in 1989.
Sympathetic Vibrations | Kansas City of Music
A few quietly celebrated last fall as Kansas City was officially designated a “Creative City of Music” by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. And though the UNESCO announcement met little fanfare, that hasn’t dampened the spirits of an excited delegation from KC that traveled to Poland this week for the next phase…
Sympathetic Vibrations | The World is Your Classroom
As those who have studied any academic, cultural or musical discipline know well, immersion can be the one of the best teachers in the world. There is perhaps no better local example of that idea than Beau Bledsoe, founder and artistic director of Ensemble Iberica – a group of Kansas City musicians exploring music from…
Show Me | Jason Sudeikis
Season three of “Show Me” kicks off with actor and comedian Jason Sudeikis back in his hometown. Often wearing one of many KC hats, Sudeikis is proud to call Kansas City home. See what keeps him coming back year after year and why he thinks Kansas City may be the new hub for what’s happening…