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  • 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…
  • Since 2009 Kantorei of Kansas City has been accentuating the region's reputation as a hotbed of superior classical vocal ensembles. Kantorei of Kansas…
  • Today guest host Brian Ellison talks with the man he's sitting in for, Steve Kraske. Steve is on assignment for The Kansas City Star at the Republican…
  • Katy Guillen and The Girls have only been together for about a year, but it hasn’t taken them long to get noticed: next January they will be representing…
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  • Patrons of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra may rethink their usual wardrobe choices before attending the big band's next concert. Instead of appearing at…
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