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, October 21, 2026
Betse Ellis + Eddie Moore + Mará Rose Williams + Claire Adams
Mark Plays More New & MidCoastal Releases from: FlareThaRebel, Frogpond, Snocaps, Lava Dreams, The Avalanches, Jamogi, Suzannah Johannes, Eddie Moore, Paxton Harvey, Corey Dies in The End, Claire Adams, Autosmile, The Womack Sisters, and John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig and The Angry Inch
At 11:00 Claire Adams joins us LIVE in our 90.1 FM Studios to share music from her new album CARACOLES. Musically curious and multifaceted, Claire Adams is dedicated to collaborating, recording, and songwriting to hone her melodic instincts and vision. A bassist, guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Adams has lent a discerning ear and versatility to a number of recording projects and also worked as a touring bassist and back-up vocalist for artists including Lilly Hiatt, Katy Guillen, Samantha Fish, Frogpond and Thelma & The Sleaze. // Claire Adams plays B.B.’S LAWNSIDE BBQ 1205 E 85th St, KCMO on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 at 7:00pm. // Claire Adams plays THE 1909 CLUB, 25 Southeast 3rd St., Lee’s Summit, MO, on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 at 7:00pm. // Claire Adams plays EAST FORTY BREWING 1201 W Main Street, Blue Springs, MO, on Sunday, November 8, 2026, at 7:00pm. // Claire Adams plays COMPASS POINT: HOME OF DIRTY GIRL ADVENTURES 800 North Kansas Avenue, Topeka, KS on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, 2:30pm to 6:00pm. www.claireadamsmusic.com
During the entire show: Betse Ellis, Mará Rose Williams, & Eddie Moore, join us as our Guest Co-Hosts to encourage our listeners, to donate to KKFI’s Fall On-Air-Fund Drive. Please call 888-931-0901, or visit www.kkfi.org to donate to 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio during Wednesday MidDay Medley’s Fall Fund Drive Show.
Betse Ellis is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Betse received her Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelors of Arts in English, from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. For nearly 50 years Betse has been playing the violin and fiddle professionally and also working as a teacher of music. Betse was a founding member of the acclaimed internationally known band, The Wilders who released 10 albums. Betse has released two acclaimed solo records, and multiple releases with her husband, multi-instrumentalist Clarke Wyatt, as the internationally known, Betse & Clark. The duo has toured extensively. Betse has also played and recorded with the bands: Little Miss Dynamite, The Starhaven Rounders, Beau Bledsoe, Earnest James Zydeco, Jeff Harshbarger, The Band That Fell To Earth, Howard Iceberg, Bob Walkenhorst, Rural Grit All Stars, Blue Museum and many others.
Mará Rose Williams is The Kansas City Star’s Senior Opinion Columnist. She previously was assistant managing editor for race & equity issues, a member of the Star’s Editorial Board and an award-winning columnist. She has written on all things education for The Star since 1998, including issues of inequity in education, teen suicide, universal pre-K, college costs and racism on university campuses. She was a writer on The Star’s 2020 “Truth in Black and White” project and the recipient of the 2021 Eleanor McClatchy Award for exemplary leadership skills and transformative journalism. Mará served as host and producer for three installments of the nationally award winning Voices of Kansas City series she created in collaboration with 90.1 FM KKFI.
Eddie Moore is the recipient of the 2016 Charlotte Street Generative Performance Award. Raised in Houston Texas, he began his musical journey at Texas Southern University where he later earned a Bachelors in Arts and immersed himself in the Houston music scene. Eddie relocated to KC to study under Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri-KC where he received a M.A in Jazz Studies. He was 2017’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art “Artist in Residence” in collaboration with Rashid Johnson. In 2018 his work with The Outer Circle was nominated for an Indie Music Award for “007”. His music has been featured commercially for Sprint, Netflix’s “Queer Eye”, and Morgan Cooper’s short film “Room Tone”. Moore has shared the stage and recordings with Bobby Watson, Logan Richardson, Maurice Brown, Boys II Men, Brian Blade and the Fellowship, John Baptiste, Erykah Badu, Mosdef, Bilal, Ledisi, Chantae Cann, Krystal Warren, Matt Otto, Brandon Draper, Andre Hayward, Tivon Pennicott, Various Blonde, Dominique Sanders, 77 Jefferson, Marcus Lewis Big Band.
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Show #1170
