The International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp comes to KC February 19-23. To get you geared up for the folk blowout, every day we’re posting a song we like by one of the event’s showcase artists. Bluegrass and the Beatles? Stranger things have happened. Boston’s the Lonely Heartstring Band may have started as a bluegrass band covering Fab…
Trampled Under Foot with Ben Miller Band Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City Friday, February 14, 2014 See also: Trampled Under Foot on the new band lineup and playing with passion A blues love fest took over the grounds of Knuckleheads last night. The Ben Miller Band from Joplin opened the evening with offbeat ramblings of trouble and lost love, and it was…
As part of our International Folk Alliance Conference preview series, we’re rounding up a bunch of notable acts that are coming to town and chatting about what’s happening in their world. The International Folk Alliance Conference takes place from February 19-23. Details here. It’s a given to anyone who has heard her music that Christine Lavin is a funny woman. “Sensitive…
Pope Francis he is not. This past December, the mother of Chillicothe resident Carol Parker died. Because both mother and daughter had been longtime members of St. Columban Catholic Church in Chillicothe (Carol also sang in the choir), the funeral was held in the church. But then the priest of St. Columban, the Rev. Benjamin Kneib, read in a newspaper…
Local blues legend Trampled Under Foot might not immediately make you think of candy hearts and red roses, but when it comes to spending a night with your honey, there is probably no better band to get you in the mood for a good time. And because we hadn’t talked to the TUF crew in a while, we decided to…
Dylan Jones, the 21-year-old co-owner of Scratch Bakery + Cafe at 310 West Eighth Street, moved to Kansas City several years ago to focus on Bach and Beethoven, not brownies and biscuits. “I was trained as a classical violinist,” says Jones, who moved to Kansas City to attend the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and Dance. The Arkansas…
For a classically trained chamber group, Brooklyn’s Project Trio sounds unlike anything in the world of classical music. Eric Stephenson plays the cello, Peter Seymour plays the double bass and Greg Patillo plays the flute – and beatboxes. Like, beatboxes with the flute, as he’s playing it. Really. If that takes a moment for that to sink in, don’t worry…
We’re a little less than two months away from the most anticipated golfing event in the World: the Masters at Augusta National. From April 10th to April 13th the greatest golfers in the world will descend upon Georgia and compete for golf’s greatest prize, the green jacket. Last year’s champion Adam Scott held off Angel Cabrera in a playoff, the…
Neutral Milk Hotel in slightly younger days When news broke two years ago that the elusive former frontman of Athens, Georgia’s Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Mangum, was not only out of hiding but also playing shows again, it was the sun parting through the clouds for which NMH’s cult following had waited well over 10 years. Those handful of appearances…
Perhaps you are one of the fortunate few enjoying all the perks of being in a loving and committed relationship this Valentine’s Day, and you are deciding how best to spend the night with your significant other. More likely, you are endeavoring to find something that occupies your time on this most despised of all holidays (the liquor-and-ice-cream combination you…
Yesterday, when we introduced to the world Charles Macheers, who is the Shawnee Republican who cobbled together one of the more regrettable pieces of legislation in a state that’s full of them, we figured House Bill 2453 would pass the Senate after coasting through the House. But maybe not, after all. Senate president Susan Wagle said late Thursday evening that the odious…
The International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp comes to KC February 19-23. To get you geared up for the folk blowout, every day we’re posting a song we like by one of the event’s showcase artists. Blissfully wedded life partners Ben Roberts and Emily Olson Roberts are the powerhouse duo behind Nashville’s Carolina Story. Together, they make charming,…
Country music fans, hold on to your cowboy hats: Willie Nelson and Family along with Alison Krauss and Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas will be sharing the stage at Starlight Theatre on Sunday, July 6. There are 35 North American dates in the Nelson-Krauss tour. It’s the first time that the two legends will be teaming up for a co-headlining…
