live music

Founder Max Popoff discovered the building on Stadium Drive in disrepair in 2018, and spent years repairing it. Now it hosts a charmingly grungy music venue, bar and coffee shop, with live concerts most weekends.

From the "Queen of the Blues" to the irreplaceable Myra Taylor, learn about the talented women who've made both jazz and Kansas City all the better for their talents.

A conversation at Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art “will feel like Sunday dinners at Grandma's, except in this instance you won’t eat, but you’ll be fed.”

Upcycle Piano Craft is the place where old pianos go for a musical makeover. Each month the shop hosts a happy hour to celebrate the instrument and the musicians who bring it to life.

The grand concert hall may not host experimental music as much as traditional performances, but musicians creating new, more avant-garde compositions are finding homes and audiences for their work.

Classical KC's Brooke Knoll speaks with Véronique Mathieu and Shah Sadikov of NAVO - the chamber music collective and interdisciplinary arts organization that strives to make great classical music accessible to all. We'll hear NAVO perform music by Ingrid Stölzel, Lili Boulanger and Franz Joseph Haydn.

This week, Michael Stern and Dan Margolies begin an exploration of pieces related to London, with music by James MacMillan, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Franz Joseph Haydn.

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s atrium project features Kansas City's salsa community and is dedicated to commissioned works by Hispanic and Latinx artists.

We take you inside Kansas City's historic Folly Theater for a recent Harriman-Jewell Series performance by renowned countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. We'll hear works by Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten, Hector Berlioz and George Gershwin. Plus, we'll hear Costanzo perform both parts to a famous Mozart duet.

In the third episode of our series featuring works that had their premieres in Paris, we'll hear music by Albéric Magnard, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Olivier Messaien. We'll also hear Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" as well as his celebrated orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Classical KC's Brooke Knoll speaks with two winning composers from the Charlotte Street Foundation's 2021 New Music Composition Competition about expanding their musical and personal palettes. Plus hear their winning compositions. Tim Harte, founder of the competition, talks about its successes and challenges alongside finding a home for experimental music in Kansas City.

Ryan Pope, drummer for the Kansas City rock band The Get Up Kids, says he's grateful to be playing live shows once again but cautious about how COVID-19 will affect next year's tour.