Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio
TEN to NOON Wednesdays – Streaming at KKFI.org

Wednesday, November 26, 2026

2025 – The Year in Music
with: Bill Brownlee, Judy Mills, Chris Haghirian, & Fally Afani

Mark welcomes four special guests who share their Favorite Musical Releases of 2025. Guests include: Bill Brownlee – writer and creator of the music blogs: Plastic Sax and There Stands The Glass, Judy Mills – owner of Mills Record Company, Chris Haghirian – Host of Eight One Sixty on 90.9 The Bridge, and Fally Afani – founder & editor of I Heart Local Music.

We’ll spin representative tracks from: Katy Guillen and the Drive, TheBabeGabe, HAILES, Land Lion, VCMN, Suzannah Johannes, Jass, Corners of the Sky, Lorna Kay, Lnrd Dstroy x Chromadadata (with Aaron Alexander, Octavio Santos, Tina Sol), Hermon Mehari and Tony Tixier, Joyce DiDonato, Brittany Davis, Mister Water Wet, Discotek Mama, SG Goodman, Pink Pantheress, Oklou, Cate LeBon, and Mereba.

AND…NEXT WEEK on Wednesday, December 3 We bring you WMM’s Favorite Singles of 2025, and in our second hour we welcome Michelle Bacon, Content Manager at 90.9 The Bridge, who will share her Favorite Musical Recordings of 2025.

In TWO WEEKS: WMM’s 120 Best Recordings of 2025. Tune into Wednesday MidDay Medley throughout December for our 4-week series on December 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st. This is our celebration of the year in music based on the playlists of this little ole radio show. In 2025 we’ve played hundreds of New & MidCoastal Releases. We conducted over 175 interviews with 159 special guests.

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