Local music

In spite of the pandemic, a lot of great music came out of Kansas City this year. Here are the songs music critic Bill Brownlee was especially impressed with.

From jazz to folk, Kansas City has a rich collection of music for this time of year. Music critic Bill Brownlee recommends adding these to your holiday playlist.

If you're looking for a soundtrack for the end of 2020, look no further than this playlist for the holiday season and the best new songs of the year by Kansas City artists.

It meant recording dozens of musicians one at a time — and airing out the studio for at least a day between each session — but Andrea and Marcus Lewis knew that this was the year the Christmas album had to happen.

You might know Prairie Village native Ben Bliss as an opera singer, but this Saturday he's hosting a holiday concert with a nostalgic nod to crooners of decades past.

A Kansas native is helping other transgender creators finish their films and an operatic tenor is teaming up with his family and friends for a livestream holiday variety show from Kansas City.

With themes of isolation, Kevin Morby's "Sundowner" fits this pandemic time. But the album was actually written in 2017, when Morby had just moved back to Kansas City, Kansas, from Los Angeles.

Starting businesses during a global pandemic, and Kansas City's Kevin Morby releases new album.

"It's just like the Ramones with violins."

The co-founder of a new Kansas City organization on why protesters are camped out at city hall, Missouri voters face two big issues on the November ballot, and how listening to an opera a day changed one Kansas Citian.

The U.N. has selected AY Young as one of 17 new young leaders to help achieve sustainable development goals.

Author Susan Eisenhower on her grandfather's leadership and memorial. Also, the Kansas City musician whose sustainable concerts caught the attention of the United Nations.