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The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival begins this weekend and while the play may be the thing, there’s live music too.During performances of The…

Black Crack Review, BCR for short, has been puzzling and thrilling audiences in Kansas City with an eccentric blend of rock, jazz and world music for…

The Bon Ton Soul Accordion Band was one of Kansas City’s preeminent party ensembles in the 1980s. The bawdy dance band recently reunited after a lengthy…

Restaurant workers in Kansas City, Mo. say they are fed up with a requirement that they must have liquor cards to serve alcohol where they work. Now they…

Democrat Kansas Sen. Laura Kelly from Topeka provides an insider perspective on the historic 2015 legislative session. You can listen to the full episode…

The past few weeks have been pretty memorable for the Joplin band Me Like Bees: they won The Deli Magazine – Kansas City’s “Emerging Artist of 2013”…

Big Joe Turner died in 1985, but the jump blues tradition he forged in Prohibition-era Kansas City nightclubs is kept alive by the Grand Marquis. The band…

William Joyce has captivated young audiences and their parents with his whimsical and imaginative characters in film, TV, and in books. The creator of…

Charlie Parker’s stature in the music world and in Kansas City wasn’t lost on his daughter . . . but for all his fame he was the man who held her hand and…

Combine a bawdy brass line-up, Fats Waller style piano, a female lead with a voice from another era, and a tap dancer as percussion...and you have New…