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

Music from Folk Alliance International Conference with:
Megan Slankard + Kristen Ford + SONiA disappear fear + Betse & Clarke + Nicholas St. James

10:00

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. The Jellyman’s Daughter – “Anna”
from: The Jellyman’s Daughter / The Jellyman’s Daughter / September 24, 2014
[The debut full length album from Edinburgh, Scotland based alt.acoustic duo of Graham Coe on cello & vocals; and Emily Kelly on guitar & vocals. Written and arranged by The Jellyman’s Daughter. Mixed by Garry Boyle at The Depot, Edinburgh Mastered by Andrew Mitchell at Audio Bay.]

[The Jellyman’s Daughter play Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase, Saturday, February 20.]

[The Jellyman’s Daughter play the Kansas City Folk Fest, Sunday, February 21, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, at Westin Crown Center.]

10:06

3. Birds of Chicago – “Dim Star of the Palisades”
from: Real Midnight / Five Head Entertainment / February 19, 2016
[2nd full length release from Birds of Chicago, “This year’s biggest roots surprise” says L.A. Times. The band is a collective built around the husband and wife duo of JT Nero from Chicago, and Allison Russell from Montreal, Quebec. Since forming in 2012, they’ve toured internationally 10+ months of the year. Russell and Nero are most at home on the road, zigzagging across North America and Europe in their family band van, with their new baby daughter, Ida Maeve]

[Birds of Chicago play an Official Showcase of Folk Alliance International Conference, Thursday, February 18, at 10:15 pm in the Shawnee Mission Ballroom at The Westin Crown Center.]

4. The Matchsellers – “The Gohlis Waltz”
from: Songs We Made Up / Independent / February 12, 2016
[Julie Bates is a classically trained violinist from Kansas City. Andrew Morris is a Chicago blues guitarist from Warsaw, Indiana. They met in Leipzig, Germany. During their year of living in the former East Germany, the pair began reanalyzing the songs of their homeland, and developed a tight yet gritty bluegrass style. In the summer of 2013 they left their jobs to hit the road and haven’t looked back. In late 2014 they released their debut full length recording, “Kosciusko County,” one of Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 115 Best Recordings of 2015. The Matchsellers have toured 3 European countries and 25 US States, performing 180 shows a year, including last year for the KC Fringe Festival, Bluegrass Bazaar in Flint, Michigan, Norman Music Festival in Norman, OK, and a 1st place win at the Eddie Owen Presents songwriting competition in Atlanta, GA.]

[The Matchsellers will be playing the upcoming Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase Tonight at 12:30 am in Room 722, and The Rural Grit presents The Murder Ballad Ball Showcase Thurs night at 11:00 in Room 655, and The KC Music Collective Showcase Room 739, Thursday night at Midnight.]

Leyla McCalla at Folk Alliance International, Fridy, February 19, 2016

5. Leyla McCalla – “Heart of Gold”
from: Vari-Colored Songs / Music Maker Recordings / February 4, 2014
[Leyla Sarah McCalla was born October 3, 1985. She is a classical and folk musician. She has been a cellist with the Grammy-winning string band Carolina Chocolate Drops but left that group to focus on her solo career. Both of McCalla’s parents were born in Haiti. Her father Jocelyn McCalla was the Executive Director of the New York-based National Coalition for Haitian Rights from 1988 to 2006 and is credited as translator on Vari-Colored Songs. Her mother Régine Dupuy arrived in the United States at age 5, is the daughter of Ben Dupuy who ran Haiti Progrès, a New York based Haitian socialist newspaper. McCalla’s mother went on to found Dwa Fanm, an anti-domestic violence human rights organization. McCalla was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. She lived in Accra, Ghana for two years as a teen. After a year at Smith College, she transferred to New York University to study cello performance and chamber music. She then moved to New Orleans where she played music on the streets. Her critically acclaimed album Vari-Colored Songs is a tribute to Langston Hughes which includes adaptations of his poems, Haitian folk songs sung in Haitian Creole and original compositions. McCalla says the first song she wrote for the album was Heart of Gold because it provided “a window into Hughes’ thinking”.McCalla chose to dedicate this work to Hughes because she says “reading his work made me want to be an artist.” McCalla started working on the album 5 years prior to its release. Commentators have noted the influence of Louisiana musical traditions such as old Cajun fiddle melodies and trad-jazz banjo on the album. Members of the Carolina Chocolate Drops appear on the album.]

[Leyla McCalla plays an Official Showcase of Folk Alliance International Conference, Friday, February 19, at 8:00 pm in the Century C Ballroom at The Westin Crown Center.]

10:15

6. The Sea The Sea – “In the Altogether”
from: In the Altogether – EP / The Sea The Sea / February 26, 2016
[2nd full length album from Chuck e. Costa and Mira Stanley who met at a songwriting contest that Mira had volunteered to stage-manage. Five years they reconnected to form THE SEA THE SEA. “We had both just gone through major upheavals in our lives,” says Mira, “And we were ready to test our faith in what was possible – in our art and in the world.” They borrowed their name from Xenophon’s Anabasis, the ancient tale of Greek soldiers returning to their coastal home after a long arduous battle inland. “The Sea! The Sea!” is a cry of joy. They accompany each other with electric/acoustic guitars, the occasional banjo, piano, and percussion, but it is Chuck and Mira’s rich harmonies that provide the depth to their songwriting.]

[The Sea The Sea play an Official Showcase of Folk Alliance International Conference, Saturday, February 20, at 6:15 pm in the Brookside Ballroom at The Westin Crown Center.]

7. Violet and the Undercurrents – “Anything You Want”
from: Waves / Nation of Love / April 22, 2014
[Columbia, Missouri based, four-piece, all-female band. Violet and the Undercurrents have been described as “..Sophisticated folk-rockers ..” Members include: Violet Vonder Haar on Lead Vocals and Guitar; Linda Bott on Bass Guitar; Caitlin Lukin on Cello; Phylshawn Johnson on Drums.]

[Violet and the Undercurrents will be playing the upcoming Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase Thursday night at 2:00 am in Room 722, and The KC Music Collective Showcase Room 739, Saturday night at 1:00 am.]

8. Under The Big Oak Tree – “Stars Songs Faces (After Sandburg)”
from: Local Honey / Mudstomp Records / January 22, 2016
[Acoustic Folk – Country Roots from Saint Joseph, Missouri based band formed by: Kristin Hamilton, Doug “Sluggo” Ward, and Simon Fink. More info at: http://www.UnderTheBigOakTree.net/%5D

[Under The Big Oak Tree play multiple showcases at this year’s Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Friday, Febraury 19.]

[Under The Big Oak Tree play the Kansas City Folk Fest, Sunday, February 21, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, at Westin Crown Center.]

9. The Suitcase Junket – “Dying Star”
from: Dying Star – EP / Signature Sounds / March 4, 2016
[The Suitcase Junket is Matt Lorenz, a Vermont born musician, and visual artist. Currently based in Amherst, Massachusetts The Suitcase Junket’s artistic vision is one of salvaged and repurposed objects, images and emotions. Matt Lorenz sings, plays guitars, and plays up to four instruments including a suitcase drum, with his feet, in a lo-fi, one-man-band triumph of sound and spirit..]

[The Suitcase Junket play an Official Showcase of Folk Alliance International Conference, Friday, February 19, at 6:15 pm in the Liberty Ballroom at The Westin Crown Center.]

10:31 – Interview with Megan Slankard and Kristen Ford

Kristen Ford and Megan Slankard on the February 17, 2016 Wednesday MidDay Medley

San Francisco indie-alt-rocker Megan Slankard, has sold over 35,000 copies of her four previous independently released CDs, and she is currently touring across the US to support her fifth album, “Running on Machinery”, which was recorded with the help of Nashville producer, Alex Wong who has worked with, Vienna Teng, and Delta Rae. Megan calls “Running on Machinery”…a healthy mix of stories about the end of the world, bank robberies, prison escapes, failed relationships, and other adventures.”

Nashville based indie-folk-rocker Kristen Ford performs over 200 shows a year, fusing indie, folk, country, blues & rock and roll. Her one-woman band performance includes guitar, percussion and variety of effects pedals, creating a unique musical experience. Kristen released her Live Video album, Tighten it Up, on March 19, 2015. Her critically acclaimed album Dinosaur was released the year before on May 24, 2014.

Kristen and Megan are in KC, along with thousands of musicians from around the world, to play at Folk Alliance International Conference.

Megan Slankard began learning the guitar when she was 10 years old. At the age of 17 Megan Slankard produced and recorded her first album, “Lady is a Pirate” with her brother at home on her computer.

Slankard was nominated for the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Folk/Singer Songwriter Song of the year for her song “The Happy Birthday”. Megan Slankard won the 8th annual Independent Music Awards Vox Pop award in the Best Cover Song category for her rendering of the song “America”.

Slankard appeared on an episode of TLC’s What Not to Wear in July 2004 and in a follow up episode a year later.

10:38

10. Megan Slankard – “Best In Me “(LIVE) (4:00)

a brand new song that might be on her next release

During her childhood, Kristen Ford, moved around a lot, growing up in 6 different states. She began working as a dishwasher at 14 to save up enough money for her first guitar.

Being left-handed, she soon discovered that the south paw guitars were too expensive and went with a right handed guitar. This perhaps explains her dynamic and expressive rhythm hand, which she uses to drive her band forward and push acoustic songs into a new realm of dance, rock and reggae music.

Kristen’s parents supplied an interesting musical upbringing. Her father sang in a barbershop quartet, and now conducts vocal groups and takes Gospel solos at church. Her mother is a folkie of the 60s and 70s, playing guitar and spinning the likes of Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and Simon and Garfunkel records around the house.

Her love of touring has led her through 47 states and 6 countries, spending at least a third of each year on the road. Her solo performance of beat-boxing, playing percussion with her feet, looping guitar riffs and hushing the crowd for intimate finger-picking songs.

10:49

11. Kristen Ford – “February Song”(LIVE)

Kristen Ford plays multiple showcases at Folk Alliance International

Thursday, February 18, at Access Film Music- Blue Room
Thursday, February 18, at Bliss Happy Room
Friday, February 19, at Folk Alliance International First Timers Room
w/ Suitcase Junket, Derek…
Saturday, February 20, at Access Film Music- Blue Room
Saturday, February 20, at Access Film Music- Yellow Room

Megan Slankard’s Schedule of performances during Folk Alliance International

Wed February 17, at 10:30pm: Pushing Chain/Kingswood Records – #612
Wed February 17, at 12:30am: Momentary Love Management – #601
Wed February 17, at 1:30am: Jared Ingersol Music Management – #701
Thurs February 18 at 2:30pm: Wisconsin Room – #543
Thurs February 18 at 10:30pm: MPress – #542
Thurs February 18 at 12:30am: High Sierra Music Festival – #745
Thurs February 18 at 1:30am: ISC/Unsigned Only – #756
Friday, February 19, at 1:30am: Comboplate Booking – #652

More info at: http://www.meganslankard.com http://www.kristenfordmusic.com

10:57

12. Kristen Ford – “El Camino” (LIVE)
Also available on Dinosaur / Independent / 2014

11:00 – Station ID

13. SONiA & disappear fear – “Call me SONiA”
from: Blood, Bones & Baltimore / disappear fear records / March 9, 2010
[The album was recorded on November 11 and 12, 2009. The majority of which was mixed on December 16 and 17, 2009 at The Deep End Studio located in Baltimore, MD ]

[SONiA disappear fear plays multiple showcases at Folk Alliance International Conference.]

11:03 – Interview with Betse & Clarke and SONiA disappear fear

disappear fear is an influencial and groundbreaking indie pop-folk-Americana-world beat band formed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1987, by visual artist Sonia Rutstein with her sister Cindy Frank. The band has sold more than half a million copies of disappear fear records. In 1996 after 6 albums, Cindy stopped performing to focus on her family, and Sonia continue making and releasing 4 solo albums, touring all over the world, and performing on stages with Pete Seeger, and Bruce Springsteen. Since 2005 Sonia has been releasing her music as Sonia & disappear fear, working with a regular collective of band members, and most recently releasing 2013’s Broken Films.

Betse & Clarke seem to be everywhere… onstage at the Rural Grit Happy Hour, on Mondays at The Brick, supplying the strings for “The Band That Fell To Earth a Tribute To David Bowie “on January 31 at The Uptown,, performing in multiple showcases at this year’s Folk Alliance International Conference, including instructing at the Folk Alliance International Music Camp. The duo released their EP Bird Notes, last year on June 4, 2015.

SONiA has participated either alone or with the band in events including the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation and the Concert for Peace at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC with Peter, Paul and Mary (March 2003). Her performing destinations have taken her as far away as Jerusalem (where she toured bomb shelters), Fiji, and Australia’s Sydney Opera House.

disappear fear’s eponymous album won the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Award for Best Album in 1994. Both No Bomb Is Smart and Tango garnered multiple Grammy Award nominations for SONia Rutstein in the pop and folk categories.

In 2002, Santa Cruz Guitar Co created its “SONiA” model guitar in Rutstein’s honor.

Betse & Clarke’s schedule for the camp at Sheraton Hotel:

Thurs 18th 2:45-4:15pm in Van Horn C – Betse: Hands On Theory for Fiddlers & Friends

Thurs 18th. 2:45-4:15 Empire A – Clarke: Intermediate Old Time Banjo – Playing Melody

Fri 19th, 10:00-11:30am, Empire A – Betse: Singing with the Fiddle

Fri 19th, 2:45-4:15pm Fremont – Clarke: Intermediate Old Time Banjo – Three Shapes

Sat 20th, 10:00-11:30am, Van Horn A – Betse & Clarke – Old Time Fiddle/Banjo Duets

Betse & Clarke’s late night schedule:

Thurs 18, 10:30pm, Rm 655 Rural Grit presents Murder Ballad Ball

Fri 19, 11pm, Rm 655 Rural Grit presents Here’s to the Roots

Fri 19, 11:30pm, Rm 655 Rural Grit, a special set w/ David Amram!

Fri 19, 1:30am, Rm 739, KC Music Collective

Sat 20, 1:00pm, Rm 645 The Jean Ritchie Traditional Room hosted by Andy Cohen

Sat 20, 1:00 am, Rm 722, MudStomp Records

Sat 20, 2:30am, Rm 655, Rural Grit presents Jubilee

SUN 21, 1 pm, Foyer of Westin Square Dance! Kristin Andreassen, Brushy Creek playing

In 2016 Betse & Clarke will be performing and teaching at Montana Fiddle Camp, Earful of Fiddle Camp, and Grand Targhee Music Camp.

Both Betse & Clarke are 2015 fellows of Artist, INC.

11:10

14. SONiA disappear fear with Betse & Clarke– ” “(Live)

Rutstein’s 2006 Middle East tour led to the founding of Guitars for Peace, a non-profit foundation that delivers instruments to children in impoverished or war-torn nations.

SONiA of disappear fear’s schedule at Folk Alliance

Tonight, Wednesday, February 17, SONiA disappear fear plays Shubb Capos, Cabana Room 541, Westin Crown Centre

Friday February 19, SONiA disappear fear at Shubb Capo Cabana Room 541, Folk Alliance, Westin Crown Centre,

11:19

15. Betse & Clarke – “Shelven Rock” (LIVE)
From upcoming new release

Betse & Clarke upcoming shows:

FEB 17 WED Folk Alliance Music Camp

FEB 18 THU – Ollie’s Old Time Sessions and Beefsteak Banquet

MAR 1 TUE – Tuesday Tunes with Betse at Olathe Public Library

MAR 17 THU – Ollie’s Old Time Sessions and Beefsteak Banquet

MAR 26 SAT – Halfway To Winfield!

APR 2 SAT – Kitchen Session Fiddle Workshop, Lunch, & Jam at Culinary Center of Kansas City! Music By Betse Ellis, Overland Park, KS

More info at:
http://www.betseandclarke.com/fai-2016
http://www.soniadisappearfear.com

More info on the camp, conference, music fair at http://www.folk.org/

Betse & Clarke, SONiA disappear fear, and Nicholas St. James on the February 17, 2016, Wednesday MidDay Medley

11:33

15. Nicholas St. James – “Something Better”
from: THEATRES / Independent / February 22, 2016
[Debut album for Lawrence based vaudeville-folk-troubadour.]

11:36 – Interview with Nicholas St. James

At 11:30, Lawrence based, vaudeville-folk-troubadour, Nicholas St. James, joins us to share new music from his debut full-length album, THEATRES to be available with a special Album Release Show, Monday, February 22, at 7:30 pm at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, Kansas with the Jazz Cigarettes. The evening will also feature performances from Lawrence’s own folk-singer-songwriter, Tyler Gregory and Gadjos-Chapeaux member of the Jazz Manouche Quartet. More information at: http://www.nicholasstjames.com

From Nicholas St. James Bio:

Nicholas St. James is a folk troubadour who is more a throwback to Vaudeville than the Dust Bowl. Blogger Brian Clifton writes, “Nicholas St. James blends together old and new to create a sound as distinct as its stage show. St. James mixes folk, blues, vaudevillian drama, and country together.” Based in Lawrence, Kansas, by way of St. Louis, Missouri, Nicholas is an authentic Midwestern folk musician, and credits Tom Waits as the missing link in his own musical formation.

2016 looks to be a big year for the up-and-coming songwriter; his debut LP, Theatres, scheduled for release February 22, is just the first in a line of releases scheduled for the year. The consummate performer, 2016 also looks to be Nicholas’ busiest year on the stage with an expected 200+ live dates. No one has ever called his act or his music “traditional,” and Nicholas looks to continue to defy expectations with collaborations and projects as the year progresses.

11:43

16. Nicholas St. James – ” Misery” (LIVE)
Also available on: THEATRES / Independent / February 22, 2016

From Nicholas St. James Bio:

Nicholas St. James, joins us to share new music from his debut full-length album, THEATRES to be available with a special Album Release Show, Monday, February 22, at 7:30 pm at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, Kansas with the Jazz Cigarettes. The evening will also feature performances from Lawrence’s own folk-singer-songwriter, Tyler Gregory and Gadjos-Chapeaux member of the Jazz Manouche Quartet.

In addition to performing alongside a number of larger touring acts (Split Lip Rayfield, Old Man Markley), Nicholas is recognized as a national touring artists in his own right. His songs and electric live show have opened many doors for the full-time musician, including invites to perform at intimate house concerts, all the way up-to more public events, like SXSW and Folk Alliance International; however, it’s not always Nicholas’ own music that brings positive attention his way. In a display of true versatility, Nicholas has also written and arranged music for theatrical productions, acted on screen when called to do so, and runs a recording studio, Yellow Ribbon Studio, from his home, where he continues to record acclaimed, honest folk records for himself and other artists. Recently, Nicholas was chosen as one of five songwriters for the 2015 Kansas City Acoustic Guitar Project, again recognizing his skill as a true-born songwriter.

Ed Danger, of American Roots Magazine, took notice of Nicholas and wrote, “If Bob Dylan and Tom Waits were the same person, t

More information at: http://www.nicholasstjames.com

11:56

17. Nicholas St. James – “Sewer Service”
from: THEATRES / Independent / February 22, 2016
[Debut album for Lawrence based vaudeville-folk-troubadour.]

[Nicholas St. James plays a special Album Release Show, Monday, February 22, at 7:30 pm at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, Kansas with the Jazz Cigarettes. Tyler Gregory and Gadjos-Chapeaux member of the Jazz Manouche Quartet.]

11:59:30

18. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]


Next week, on Wednesday, February 24, members of the KC based band Be/Non join us live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Also joining is Rachel Mallin from Rachel Mallin and the Wild Type. Plus Poet Jen Harris jons us to share information about her book release, and Sondra Freeman of Midwest Music Foundation joins us to talk about the upcoming MidCoast Takeover Fundraisers.

Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org 


Show #617

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

Music from Folk Alliance International Conference
+ Betse & Clarke + Kristen Ford + Megan Slankard
+ Nicholas St. James

In celebration of, Folk Alliance International Conference, Wednesday MidDay Medley features music from: The Jellyman’s Daughter, Leyla McCalla, The Suitcase Junket, Birds of Chicago, The Sea the Sea, Megan Slankard, Kristen Ford, Betse & Clarke, The Matchsellers, Under The Big Oak Tree, and Violet & The Undercurrents. We’ll also feature brand new music from Nicholas St. James.

At 10:30 Mark welcomes San Francisco indie-alt-rocker Megan Slankard, and Nashville based indie-folk-rocker Kristen Ford to our 90.1 FM Studios. Both women are in KC, along with hundreds of musicians from around the world, to play at Folk Alliance International Conference. Megan and Kristen tour individually all over the country in support of their releases. Kristen performs over 200 shows a year, fusing indie, folk, country, blues & rock and roll. Her one-woman band performance includes guitar, percussion and variety of effects pedals, creating a unique musical experience. Megan Slankard calls her latest release “…a healthy mix of stories about the end of the world, bank robberies, prison escapes, failed relationships, and other adventures.” More info at: http://www.meganslankard.com and http://www.kristenfordmusic.com

At 11:00, Betse & Clarke join us live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Betse & Clarke will be performing at this year’s Folk Alliance International Conference, including instructing at the Folk Alliance International Music Camp. In 2016 Betse & Clarke will be performing and teaching at Montana Fiddle Camp, Earful of Fiddle Camp, and Grand Targhee Music Camp. Both Betse & Clarke are 2015 fellows of Artist, INC. The duo released their EP Bird Notes, on June 4, 2015. Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt and Brett Hodges perform on the third Thursday each month, for “Old Time at Ollie’s,” at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd. On February 18 they will welcome special guest Adam Tanner, who will be in town for the Folk Alliance Camp and Conference! More info at http://www.betseandclarke.com and http://www.folk.org

At 11:30, Lawrence based, vaudeville-folk-troubadour, Nicholas St. James, joins us to share new music from his debut full-length album, THEATRES to be available with a special Album Release Show, Monday, February 22, at 7:30 pm at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, Kansas with the Jazz Cigarettes. The evening will also feature performances from Lawrence’s own folk-singer-songwriter, Tyler Gregory and Gadjos-Chapeaux member of the Jazz Manouche Quartet. More information at: http://www.nicholasstjames.com

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Show #617

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

Music from Folk Alliance International Conference
+ The Matchsellers + Don Simon & MudStomp Records
+ My Oh My + Spinning Tree Theatre’s 13

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. Wyatt West – “On A New York Street”
from: On A New York Street – Single / Independent / May 30, 2015
[Wyatt West told us that “On A New York Street” is a love letter to one of his favorite cities in the world. It’s a jazzy collage of street sounds, voices, and instruments. It will be included on his jazz album with Voile Chatoyante) titled “A Work In Progress” to be published this fall on Enneagram Records. “On A New York Street” features a who’s who of KC jazz musicians.] [Iconoclast Wyatt West roams the wide and diverse American music landscape to create a stunning range of music and lyrics. No musical genre is off limits or taboo for his songwriting craft. “Most audiophile’s music interests are diverse and my work is a reflection of this reality in modern culture.” – Wyatt West. In addition to his single releases, and his release with Wyatt West and the Urbanites, Wyatt West has just released a new album, FALLING AND FLYING on February 9, 2016. The recordings were engineered, mixed and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording.]

With Joelle St Pierre, Wyatt West has organized: Words of Love – Benefit Concert for Musicians Health Care, Saturday, February 13, at 9:00 PM, at Coda, 1744 Broadway St, KCMO, where he will be perfoming with: Bryan Hicks, AJ Young, Amanda Fish, Nicki Scruggs, Eems, Sean McDonnell, Thomas FreightTrain Walker, Max Berry, and more. Proceeds benefit Abby’s Fund for Musicians Health Care of the Midwest Music Foundation. More info at http://www.midwestmusicfound.org

One of the bands that blew us away last year at Folk Alliance International Conference was the 6-piece Americana/roots band, based in Kyoto, Japan. The band is called Pirates Canoe and they are back again this year, for Folk Alliance, and they will also close out the MudStomp Showcase, Saturday night. From Kyoto, Japan here is Pirates Canoe.

10:08

3. Pirates Canoe – “On Being Unknown”
from: One for the Pain in My Heart / Columbia / November 18, 2014
[Kyoto, Japan based roots music loving band, hopelessly stuck somewhere between American and Japanese. Although the members come from all sorts of genres, the band focuses mainly on Americana and roots-based music. All songs are original, yet sound like they could have been around for a while, managing to create a traditional but fresh sound. Pirates Canoe is a sometimes sextet, sometimes trio who began performing in the summer of 2009. The band includes: Elizabeth Etta on vocals & guitar, Sara Kohno on mandolin & vocals, Kanako Keyaki on fiddle & vocals, Kazuhiro Iwaki on resophonic guitar, Takahe “Yossie” Yoshioka on drums & percussion, and Jun Taniguchi on bass. More info at http://piratescanoe.com/%5D

[Pirates Canoe play The MudStomp Showcase at Folk Alliance International, Saturday Night, Feb 20]

10:13

In 2008, 13 became the first, and only, Broadway musical, where everyone in the cast, and in the band, was a teenager. Tomorrow night, Spinning Tree Theatre presents the KC professional theatre premiere of 13. Here from the Original Broadway Cast Recording…

3. 13 Original Broadway Cast – “Brand New You”
from: 13 (Original Broadway Cast Recording) / Sh-K-Boom Records / November 24, 2008
[The musical opened on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on September 16, 2008 in previews, with an official opening on October 5, 2008 and closed on January 4, 2009 after 105 performances and 22 previews. Directed by Jeremy Sams and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli. There was a teen band, as in prior productions. The production received one Drama Desk Award nomination, for Outstanding Lyrics by Brown. 13 is the first and only all Teenager Cast and Band to ever hit Broadway in the history of Broadway.]

10:15 – Interview with Andrew Parkhurst and Allison Banks

Allison Banks is a sophomore at Lee’s Summit North High School where she is very active within student leadership in Student Senate, FCCLA, and Gender Equality Club. Along with her school, Alison also studies acting with Nancy Marcy at The Coterie Theatre, voice with Lauren Braton, and dance with Andrew Parkhurst. Allison has appeared in multiple professional theatre productions including: “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” at The Coterie Theatre, “A Christmas Carol” at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, “Peter Cottontail III” at Starlight Theatre, and “A Little Night Music” for Spinning Tree Theatre. Allison plays the lead female role of Patrice, in Spinning Tree Theatre’s 13, opening this week.

Andrew Parkhurst, is Managing Director of Spinning Tree Theatre, and a co-founder of Spinning Tree, with partner Michael Grayman. Andrew is also the co-director of 13. Andrew grew up in Kansas City and received his Bachelors in Fine Arts from Texas Christian University. He has been a member of Actor Equity Association since 1996. As a dancer he has worked with Roman Polanski, he was chosen and directed by Alvin Ailey at age 16 to dance Memoria. Andrew sang and danced on the 2009 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. He has been a part of five international productions of West Side Story. He has worked all over the world as an actor and dancer in shows such as: Call Me Madam, La Cage aux Folles, and Evita. He was an original cast member and dance captain of the Broadway touring production of Mamma Mia! for over 2,000 performances. He was in the touring company of Chicago. He has worked as a choreographer on Broadway, and in New York City, across the country, and in Kansas City for The Coterie, Starlight Theatre, New Theatre, and The Midland.

Andrew Parkhurst and Allison Banks are here to share information about Spinning Tree Theatre’s Kansas City professional theatre premiere of, 13, an original musical that features 13 of KC’s brightest stars-to-be, ” in an explosive and heartwarming evening of song and dance.” The show is Rated PG-13, and presented at the Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Drive, KCMO and running February 11 thru 28, Wednesdays thru Sundays. For tickets or more info: 816-569-5277 or http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

13 is an original musical with music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish & Robert Horn.

Following a move from New York City to small-town Indiana, young Evan Goldman grapples with his parents’ divorce, prepares for his impending Bar Mitzvah, and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school.

13 is the only Broadway musical ever with a cast and band entirely made of teenagers. It originally began previews on September 16, 2008 and officially opened on October 5, 2008 at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Rated PG13

Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Drive, KCMO

February 11-28, 2016 at Just Off Broadway Theatre

Thursday, February 11 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 12 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 13 at 8:00pm – Center SOLD-OUT. Side seats remain.
Sunday, February 14 at 2:00pm – Center SOLD-OUT. Side seats remain.

Wednesday, February 17 at 7:30pm
Thursday, February 18 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 19 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 20 at 8:00pm – Center SOLD-OUT. Side seats remain.
Sunday, February 21 at 2:00pm

Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30pm
Thursday, February 25 at 7:30pm
Friday, February 26 at 8:00pm
Saturday, February 27 at 8:00pm
Sunday, February 28 at 2:00pm

This is Spinning Tree Theatre’s 5th season, and perhaps the biggest season to date.

Allison was part of Spinning Tree Theatre’s 3rd season with “A Little Night Music”

Spinning Tree Sings! A Cabaret Fundraiser featuring Spinning Tree Alum
Monday, Feb 22, 2016 7:00 PM at the Just Off Broadway Theater, KCMO
conceived and directed by Gary Green, featuring: Daniel Beeman, Robert Gibby Brand, Lauren Braton, Nedra Dixon, Eboni Fondren, Megan Herrera, Kip Niven, Kenny Personett, Shon Ruffin, Jonathan Lloyd Schriock, Vanessa Severo, Julie Shaw, Mark Stauffer, Bob Wearing, and the cast of “13”, including a reveal of our 2016-17 season.

For tickets or more info: 816-569-5277 or http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

10:28 – Underwriting

10:30

5. My Oh My! – “Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way”
from: Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way / Independent / December 12, 2015
[Written by A.M. Merker, Arranged by My Oh My! My Oh My is a 3-woman, 5-man band from Kansas City, that plays “a big, bearhugging blend of Americana, classic rock and folk.” The band includes: Stephen Berry on guitars; Grant Buell on keyboards; Sarah Dolt, Stephanie Gaume & Melissa Geffert on vocals; Jason Harper on bass; Jacob Horpinjuk on drums, A.M. Merker on lead vocals. The band’s second release, the EP, Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way, was released December 12, 2015. The new music was recorded, engineered, and mixed by Joel Nanos at Element Recording,, Kansas City, MO. Mastered by Wes Martin at Firewheel Recording, Garland, TX. ]

[My Oh My plays The Brick, Saturday, February 13 with Pocket Vinyl, and 40 Watt Dream]

My Oh My is a 3-woman, 5-man band from Kansas City, that plays “a big, bearhugging blend of Americana, classic rock and folk.” My Oh My, released their debut full length, “Your Heart Not Mine,” on March 14, 2014. The critically acclaimed album was nominated for “Album of the Year” by The Pitch Music Awards. In mid December 2015, My Oh My put out their second release, the EP, “Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.” Band members include: Stephen Berry on guitars; Grant Buell on keyboards; Sarah Dolt, Stephanie Gaume & Melissa Geffert on vocals; Jason Harper on bass; Jacob Horpinjuk on drums, A.M. Merker on lead vocals. My Oh My plays The Brick, Saturday, February 13, with Pocket Vinyl, and 40 Watt Dream.

5 of the 8 members of My Oh My joined us in our 90.1 FM Studios: lead singer and songwriter A.M. Merker, guitarist Stephen Berry, keyboard player Grant Buell, and vocalists Melissa Geffert & Stephanie Gaumé, Thanks for joining us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.

My Oh My was on the show back in October of 2014.

“Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.” was recorded, engineered, and mixed by Joel Nanos at Element Recording, KCMO.

10:42

6. My Oh My! – “Marianne” (LIVE)
Also on new EP: Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way / Independent / December 12, 2015
[A.M. Merker (guitar & vocals), Stephen Berry (guitar), Grant Buell (piano), Melissa Geffert (vocals) & Stephanie Gaumé (vocals)]

My Oh My plays The Brick, Saturday, February 13 with Pocket Vinyl, and 40 Watt Dream

My Oh My plays Frank’s North Star Tavern, Lawrence, KS, Friday, April 22

The Deli Magazie KC recenty reviewed your new record and writer mary Kennedy wrote: “There’s something special about a band made up of eight talented musicians who can speak together with one unique voice.” …”While the band’s 2014 release, Your Heart Not Mine, seemed to ask questions about the unpredictability of life, the 6 tracks released in December provide some of the answers.”

10:54

7. My Oh My! – “Thief” (Live)
Also on new EP: Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way / Independent / December 12, 2015
[A.M. Merker (guitar & vocals), Stephen Berry (guitar), Grant Buell (piano), Melissa Geffert (vocals) & Stephanie Gaumé (vocals)]

More info more at: http://www.myohmy.bandcamp.com More info at: http://www.myohmykc.com

11:00 – Station ID

8. The Matchsellers – “Dirt and Beard Hair”
from: Songs We Made Up / Independent / February 12, 2016
[Classically trained violinist Julie Bates from Kansas City, and a Chicago blues guitarist from Warsaw, Indiana, Andrew Morris. Kosciusko County is a county in Indiana with a town called Warsaw as it’s county seat. Formed in 1836. It was named after the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko who served in the American Revolutionary War and then returned to Poland.]

[The Matchsellers play a CD Release on Friday, February 12, at 6:30 PM, at Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Rd, KCMO]

11:03 – Interview with The Matchsellers

Julie Bates is a classically trained violinist from Kansas City. Andrew Morris is a Chicago blues guitarist from Warsaw, Indiana. They met in Leipzig, Germany. During their year of living in the former East Germany, the pair began reanalyzing the songs of their homeland, and developed a tight yet gritty bluegrass style. In the summer of 2013 they left their jobs to hit the road and haven’t looked back. In late 2014 they released their debut full length recording, “Kosciusko County,” one of Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 115 Best Recordings of 2015. The Matchsellers have toured 3 European countries and 25 US States, performing 180 shows a year, including last year for the Kansas City Fringe Festival, Bluegrass Bazaar in Flint, Michigan, Norman Music Festival in Norman, OK, and a first place win at the Eddie Owen Presents songwriting competition in Atlanta, GA. Their new album “Songs We Made Up” is set to be released in two days. The Matchsellers play a CD Release on Friday, February 12, at 6:30 PM, at Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Rd, KCMO

Julie wrote “Dirt and Beard Hair” based on a quote by Matt Hawkins at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS.

“Songs We Made Up” was recorded live on a single microphone in Julie’s living room in Kansas City, Missouri, in October 2015.

Andrew Morris and Julie Bates wrote and performed on all tracks, Julie on her Czech-made Dvorák violin and Andrew on his 1975 Mossman Tennessee Flat Top guitar.

We were joined by Matthew Hawkins on 5-string banjo and Chris DeVictor on upright bass on some tracks.

11:08

9. The Matchsellers – “Wake Up Sally” (Live)
Also from: Songs We Made Up / Independent / February 12, 2016

The Matchsellers play a CD Release on Friday, February 12, at 6:30 PM, at Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Rd, KCMO

“Songs We Made Up”

1. Betty Sue
2. The Riverboat Song
3. Dirt and Beard Hair 02:25
4. Doktor Seltsam
5. Back Back Back Back
6. Mentone Egg Queen
7. Tootin’ My Own Kazoo
8. Wake Up Sally
9. Sometimes You Win
10. The Lights I Wanted 02:39
11. Look at Me
12. I Asked You to Leave (But You Ate All My Crackers)
13. Dandelions and Dust
14. The Gohlis Waltz

Julie Bates – Fiddle, Vocals
Chris DeVictor – Bass
Matthew Hawkins – Banjo
Andrew Morris – Guitar, Vocals

All tracks by Andrew Morris except track 3 by Julie Bates and track 12 by Bates/Morris.
Engineered by Andrew Morris

Mastered by Johnny Kenepaske in Independence, Missouri
Printed by Nuvidea in Overland Park, Kansas

11:15

10. The Matchsellers – “The Riverboat Song” (Live)
Also from: Songs We Made Up / Independent / February 12, 2016

The Matchsellers Upcoming Shows:

Feb 25 Boomtown Film & Music Festival, Beaumont, TX 10pm

11:24

11. The Matchsellers – “Look At Me” (Live)
Also from: Songs We Made Up / Independent / February 12, 2016

11:28 – Underwriting

11:30 – 5 bands playing Folk Alliance International Conference

12. We Banjo 3 – “Prettiest Little Girl in the County”
from: Gather the Good / We Banjo 3 / May 3, 2014
[We Banjo 3 is a band from Galway, Ireland that plays a blend of traditional Irish, old time, and bluegrass music they call Celt Grass. The band is composed of two sets of brothers, Enda and Fergal Scahill and Martin and David Howley. Earle Hitchner, music writer for The Wall Street Journal, described their playing as a “freshness and finesse bordering on the magical.” Their debut album Roots of the Banjo Tree was released in 2012 and was named “Traditional Music Album of the Year” by The Irish Times. This was followed by the release of Gather the Good in 2014. Siobhan Long, music critic for the Irish Times, writes “We Banjo 3 are a musical Betty Ford Clinic, almost singlehandedly rehabilitating the much maligned banjo in 4 short years.” In 2015 the band released their first live album Live in Galway. The current line-up is: Enda Scahill on banjo, mandolin, tenor guitar; Martin Howley on banjo, mandolin, tenor guitar; David Howley on banjo, vocals, guitar; and Fergal Scahill on fiddle, guitar, bodhrán.]

[We Banjo 3 will be playing the upcoming Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase, Friday, February 18.]

13. Kasey Rausch – “Crazy Heart”
from: Guitar in Hand / Mudstomp Records / November 21, 2014
[Guitar in Hand is the third solo release from KC based singer-songwriter Kasey Rausch. With Mikal Shapiro she hosts/produces RIVER TRADE RADIO Sunday mornings at 9am, on 90.1 FM. Kasey Rausch plays with The Naughty Pines every Tuesday at CODA. ]

[Kasey Rausch plays Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase, Saturday, February 20.]

14. Under The Big Oak Tree – “Tracks of the Train (after Walcott)”
from: Local Honey / Mudstomp Records / January 22, 2016
[Acoustic Folk – Country Roots from Saint Joseph, Missouri based band formed by: Kristin Hamilton, Doug “Sluggo” Ward, and Simon Fink. More info at: http://www.UnderTheBigOakTree.net/%5D

[Under The Big Oak Tree play multiple showcases at this year’s Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Friday, Febraury 19.][Under The Big Oak Tree also play the Kansas City Folk Fest, Sunday, February 21, at Westin Crown Center.]

11:38 – Interview with Don Simon

Don Simon is a lawyer, author, and educator. He spends his time volunteering to help musicians with legal and business issues. Don serves on the board of the Midwest Music Foundation. Don is also a board member of Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts providing seminars in arts law to help artists avoid common pitfalls in their professional careers. Don is the managing partner of the area music label, MudStomp Records, based in Overland Park, Kansas, with offices in Springfield and Tulsa.

Don Simon joined us to share music and information about MudStomp Records Private Showcases, February 17 through 21st, at Folk Alliance International Conference, at The Westin Crown Center.

MudStomp is also presenting, the Saturday Afternoon Stomp that Celebrates International Folk Music, Saturday, February 20, at 3:00 pm, at Coda, 1744 Broadway, KCMO, with Delaney Davidson from Christchurch, New Zealand, and The Jellyman’s Daughter from Edinburgh, Scotland.

http://www.mudstomp.com

11:46

15. The Jellyman’s Daughter – “The One You’re Leaving”
from: The Jellyman’s Daughter / Mudstomp Records / September 24, 2014
[The debut full length album from Edinburgh, Scotland based alt.acoustic duo of Graham Coe on cello & vocals; and Emily Kelly on guitar & vocals. Written and arranged by The Jellyman’s Daughter. Mixed by Garry Boyle at The Depot, Edinburgh Mastered by Andrew Mitchell at Audio Bay.]

[The Jellyman’s Daughter play Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase, Saturday, February 20.]

[The Jellyman’s Daughter play the Saturday Afternoon Stomp that Celebrates International Folk Music, Saturday, February 20, at 3:00 pm, at Coda, 1744 Broadway, KCMO, with Delaney Davidson from Christchurch, New Zealand]

11:49 – Underwriting

Home

Mudstomp Records Private Showcases, February 17 through 21st, at Folk Alliance International Conference, at The Westin Crown Center.

MudStomp is also presenting, the Saturday Afternoon Stomp that Celebrates International Folk Music, Saturday, February 20, at 3:00 pm, at Coda, 1744 Broadway, KCMO, with Delaney Davidson from Christchurch, New Zealand, and The Jellyman’s Daughter from Edinburgh, Scotland.

11:57

16. Julian Davis – “Mr Rain (Lock Your Door Song)”
from: Who Walks In, When I Walk Out / Little Class Records / December 18, 2015
[16 year old Kansas State Youth Flatpicking Champion, from Pittsburg, Kansas.]

[Julian Davis has been added to the Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender, Thurs, May 12, 2016, at Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville, Tennessee.]

[Julian Davis plays Folk Alliance International Conference, including The MudStomp Records Showcase, Saturday, February 20.]

11:59:30

17. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]


Next week, on Wednesday, February 17, we’ll feature more music from Folk Alliance International Conference, starting next Wednesday, February 17 through Sunday, February 21, at the Westin Crown Center and Sheraton Hotels. We will have live performances from Betse & Clarke, and others. Also Nicholas St. James will play live in our 90.1 FM Studios.

Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org


Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:

www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,
www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM,
http://www.kkfi.org

Show #616

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

Music from Folk Alliance International Conference
+ The Matchsellers + Don Simon & MudStomp Records
+ My Oh My + Spinning Tree Theatre’s 13

In anticipation of, Folk Alliance International Conference, Mark features music from: The Matchsellers, Under The Big Oak Tree, Kasey Rausch, Julian Davis, Pirates Canoe, We Banjo 3, and The Jellyman’s Daughter. We’ll also feature new music from: My Oh My, and Wyatt West!

Spinning Tree Theatre rehearsals for 13.

At 10:15, Mark talks with company members of Spinning Tree Theatre, about the KC professional theatre premiere of, 13, an original musical with music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish & Robert Horn. Spinning Tree Theatre’s production of 13 features 13 of KC’s brightest stars-to-be in an explosive and heartwarming evening of song and dance. The show is Rated PG-13, and presented at the Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Drive, KCMO and running February 11 thru 28, Wednesdays thru Sundays. For tickets or more info: 816-569-5277 or http://www.spinningtreetheatre.com

My Oh My

At 10:30, A.M. Merker and members of My Oh My, join us in our 90.1 FM studios. My Oh My is a 3-woman, 5-man band from Kansas City, that plays “a big, bearhugging blend of Americana, classic rock and folk.” The band includes: Stephen Berry on guitars; Grant Buell on keyboards; Sarah Dolt, Stephanie Gaume & Melissa Geffert on vocals; Jason Harper on bass; Jacob Horpinjuk on drums, A.M. Merker on lead vocals. The band’s second release, the EP, Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way, was released December 12, 2015. The new music was recorded, engineered, and mixed by Joel Nanos at Element Recording, KCMO. My Oh My plays The Brick, Saturday, February 13, with Pocket Vinyl, and 40 Watt Dream. More info more at: http://www.myohmy.bandcamp.com

At 11:00 The Matchsellers will play live in our 90.1 FM studios and share information about their new record, “Songs We Made Up” to be released Friday, February 12, 2016. The Matchsellers is a bluegrass duo that began in the streets of former East Germany and now crisscrosses the US Interstate system year-round. In 2012, Julie Bates and Andrew Morris met while working as English teachers in Leipzig, Germany. Bates is a classically trained violinist from Kansas City, Missouri, and Morris grew up playing electric blues guitar in the dive bars of Warsaw, Indiana. The Matchsellers play a special CD Release Party on Friday, February 12, at 6:30 PM, at Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Rd, KCMO. More info at: http://thematchsellers.com/

At 11:30, Don Simon, of MudStomp Records, joins us to share music and information about Mudstomp Records Private Showcases, February 17 through 21st, at Folk Alliance International Conference, at The Westin Crown Center. MudStomp is also presenting, the Saturday Afternoon Stomp Celebrates International Folk Music, Saturday, February 20, at 3:00 pm, at Coda, 1744 Broadway, KCMO, with Delaney Davidson from Christchurch, New Zealand, and The Jellyman’s Daughter from Edinburgh, Scotland. More info at http://www.mudstomp.com/ or http://www.folk.org

On your local radio dial 90.1 FM or
STREAMING LIVE at: kkfi.org

Show #616

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

“The MidCoast Sound”
Betse Ellis + Marion Merritt
+ Sondra Freeman + Rae Fitzgerald

10:00

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. David Bowie – “Rebel Rebel”
from: David Live / RCA / May 24, 1974
[Written by by David Bowie, as a single and on the album Diamond Dogs. Cited as his most-covered track, it was effectively Bowie’s farewell to the glam rock movement that he had helped pioneer. Originally written for an aborted Ziggy Stardust musical in late 1973, “Rebel Rebel” – completed in January 1974 and released the following month – was Bowie’s last single in the glam rock style that had been his trademark. It was also his first hit since 1969 not to feature lead guitarist Mick Ronson; Bowie himself played guitar on this and almost all other tracks from Diamond Dogs, producing what NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray called “a rocking dirty noise that owed as much to Keith Richards as it did to the departed Ronno”. The song is notable for its gender-bending lyrics (“You got your mother in a whirl / She’s not sure if you’re a boy or a girl”) as well as its distinctive riff, which rock journalist Kris Needs has described as “a classic stick-in-the-head like the Stones’ ‘Satisfaction’”. Bowie himself later said, “It’s a fabulous riff! Just fabulous! When I stumbled onto it, it was ‘Oh, thank you!'” Transgender rock artist and former Bowie associate Jayne County claims that “Rebel Rebel” was based in part on County’s own song “Queenage Baby”, which was recorded in January 1974 by Bowie’s Mainman Records, but not released at the time. The song later surfaced on the independent 2006 release Wayne County at the Trucks, and some critics, upon hearing the track, echoed County’s claims. I have the recording in my collection and I can honestly say they sound like two very different songs. This recording is from “David Live,” David Bowie’s first official live album, originally released by RCA Records in 1974. The album was recorded in July of that year, on the initial leg of Bowie’s US Diamond Dogs Tour, at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. (The second leg, a more soul-oriented affair following recording sessions in Philadelphia for the bulk of Young Americans, would be renamed ‘Philly Dogs’). The album catches Bowie in transition from the Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane glam-rock era of his career to the ‘plastic soul’ of Young Americans. While the cover featured a picture of Bowie in his latest soul threads – baggy trouser suit complete with shoulder pads and braces from October 1974 – the music was recorded in July of that year when he was showcasing his two most recent studio albums of original material, Diamond Dogs and Aladdin Sane, as well as selected favorites from Ziggy Stardust and earlier. The tour was Bowie’s most ambitious to date, featuring a giant set designed to evoke “Hunger City”, the post-apocalyptic setting for Diamond Dogs, and his largest band, led by Michael Kamen. For “Space Oddity” (recorded at the time but not released until the album’s 2005 reissue) Bowie sang using a radio microphone disguised as a telephone whilst being raised and lowered above the stage by a cherry picker crane.]

3. David Bowie – “Be My Wife”
from: Low / RCA / May 24, 1974
[2nd single from Low after “Sound and Vision”. The song also features a more conventional lyric which is closer to a traditional rock song than the more fragmented lyrics elsewhere on that album. Allegedly several analysts of Bowie’s career have seen the song as a last-ditch plea to Angela Bowie in the vain hope of saving his marriage. Tension apparently had arisen between the couple, and disagreements have been claimed to have arisen over the location of a new residence in Europe. Angela had shown herself to be heavily affected by his music; he had reputedly proposed to her by playing “The Prettiest Star” to her over the telephone. In the end it seems here that David would not agree to move back to Switzerland from Berlin, and the relationship finally ended in divorce in 1980. The song features a ragtime piano opening, which serves the somewhat retro lyrics some justice, although it is soon set against a backdrop of guitars and drums. The song repeats its lyrics, changing the spacing of the lyrics amongst the song’s verse. The song closes simply with a fadeout, as the song returns to the introductory ragtime riff repeating indefinitely, with the rest of the band playing behind it. “Be My Wife” was frequently played live on the various tours after its release and Bowie is said to have repeatedly announced this song during live performances as “one of my favorites,” as may be seen or heard in such concert footage or audio recordings.]

10:08 – Pledge Break #1

Betse Ellis

Betse Ellis is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelors of Arts in English from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has been playing the Violin for 40 years, with 20 plus years playing fiddle. Betse has also worked as a teacher of music for over 15 years. Betse was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed and nationally known band, The Wilders. Betse has released two solo records, and now is recording and performing with multi-instrumentalist and banjo player Clarke Wyatt, as Betse & Clarke. The duo released their EP Bird Notes, on June 4, 2015. Betse & Clarke were the string section for “The Band That Fell To Earth: A Tribute to David Bowie” that last Sunday, January 31, 2016 at The Uptown Theatre. Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt and Brett Hodges perform on the third Thursday each month, for “Old Time at Ollie’s,” at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd. On February 18 they will welcome special guest Adam Tanner, who will be in town for the Folk Alliance Camp and Conference! More info at http://www.betseandclarke.com

Marion Merritt

Marion Merritt grew up in Los Angeles, and she used to sing the lyrics to David Bowie’s “We Are The Dead,” at her family reunions when she was just a kid. She graduated from High School in St. Louis, Missouri, and went to college at The University of Missouri, in Columbia. She has studied art and musical engineering, and is a avid lover of classic films and punk rock music. Marion saw Talking Heads on their first tour when they played One Block West, in 1978. Marion has been the most frequent contributor to Wednesday MidDay Medley, for over eleven years she has been sharing her musical discoveries and information from her encyclopedic brain. Marion has joined us for every on-air fund drive of the past 10 years to help us raise money, donate money, and donate priceless photographs, and discount coupons, for use as “Thank You Gifts.” Marion is a MidCoast Radio Project Board member and has generously donated resources to 90.1 FM’s silent auctions and fundraisers. Marion is the creator of Records With Merritt, a small, independent, minority owned business, at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri. In the spirit of Anne Winter, a renegade who helped launch KKFI, and owned and operated Recycled Sounds at Main & Westport Rd. Marion Merritt, along with Judy Mills of Mills Record Company, are both keeping the tradition of —- female owned, independent record stores —- alive, on Westport Road, in Kansas City. These are Record Stores that not only feature area MidCoastal releases from independent KC music labels, but also open up their stores, on a weekly basis, for area and touring bands to play live, at special in-store performances, for all ages.

In just the last year Wednesday MidDay Medley has interviewed over 200 guests, including:

Lily Tomlin, Brodie Rush, Iris DeMent, Calvin Arsenia, Steve Tulipana, Louis Meyers, Krystle Warren, Vi Tran, Phil Neal, Rev Gusto, Bach Aria Soloists, Psychic Heat, Enrique & Diego Chi, The Blackbird Revue, Kelley Hunt, Crystal Clayton, Teri Quinn, Glenn North, Howard Iceberg, Mat Kessler, Shy Boys, Bummer, Jamie Searle, David George, Johnny Hamil, John Keck, Thom Hoskins, Judy Mills, Mat Shoare, GK Callahan, The Brannock Device and Jason Beers, Katlyn Conroy, J. Ashley Miller, Nathan Reusch, Megan Slankard, Shades of Jade, Kodascope, Gary Cloud, Bill Svoboda and KC Gay Pride, Betse Ellis, Connor Liemer, The Fog, Mike Alexander, Hank Wiedel, The Cave Girls, The Waspmen, The Electric Lungs, Not A Planet, Lisa Cordes, CS Luxem, Rolf Peterman, Sinple, Shaun Crowly, Christian Hankel, Evan Lovelace, Tara Varney, The Matchsellers, Brenton Cook, Michael McQuary, Riala, Sterling Witt, Britt Adair, HMPH!, Lauren Anderson, Bill Sundahl, Nate Allen, The Clementines, Ryan Wilks, Dedric Moore, Jonathan Bender, Camry Ivory, Ivory Black, Sondra Freeman, Chris Haghirian, Gamelan Genta Kasturi, Dustin Rapier, Emily Jones Behrman, and Spinning Tree Theatre, The Thunderclaps, Slow Motion Commotion, Scott Easterday, Alyssa Murray, Ty Herndon, Stephonne Singleton, Cheri Woods, Andrew Foshee, and more.

We’ve featured shows & segments about:

Crossroads Music Fest, Folk Alliance International, Middle of the Map Fest, KC Fringe Festival, KC Psych Fest, Out Here Now Film Fest, Center of The City Fest, SeedCo Harvest Fest, Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday, KC Gay Pride, Record Store Day!, Crossroads Summer Block Party, Johnson County Community College Performing Arts Series, Spinning Tree Theatre, Haymaker Records, The Record Machine, Mills Record Company, Records With Merritt, Midwest Music Foundation, CRAFT, Black Archives, Carnaval, and Charlotte Street Foundation.

One of our special “Thank You Gifts” is the 90.1 FM “Collaborations” CD produced by 90.1 FM Station Manager – Barry Lee

The album features 13 collaborations:

1. Betse & Clarke with Bird Fleming & John Kizilarmut;
2. Kasey Rausch Music with The Vine Street Seven;
3. Howard Iceberg with Hidden Pictures;
4. Victor & Penny with Cody Wyoming;
5. Gary Kirkland & Bill Dye;
6. Angela Hagenbach & The KKFI Jazz Band (Jeff Harshbarger, Roger Wilder, John Kizilarmut, Terry Wilkerson);
7. Jen Harris with Rich Hill;
8. Bobby Watson with Grupo Aztlan, and The T.J. Marley Trio;
9. BCR with Music by Betse Ellis and Bill Dye;
10. The Boss Toms (The Latenight Callers with Teri Quinn);
11. Enrique Chi of Making Movies with Bob Walkenhorst and Una Walkenhorst, 1
12. Cucharada with Gerald Trimble’s Celtic and World Music Sessions,
13. Freight Train Rabbit Killer with Jason Vivone.

This CD is only offered through 90.1 FM’s Winter Fund Drive!

10:15

3. Your Friend – “Heathering”
from: Gumption / Domino Recording Co / January 29, 2016
[Debut full length release from Lawrence, Kansas based Taryn Blake Miller, who grew up in Winfield, Kansas, and wrote all of the songs on the album. Taryn sang lead vocals, and played guitar, bass, Juno, drums, loops, slide, & reel-to-reel; with Christopher Luxem on guitar, vocals & loops; Nathan Dixey on flute, 12-string, piano, Juno,; Nicolas Stahl on drums; Austin Swick on bass & vocals; Gabe Ws on OP guru, beat overdubs, ; Lindsey Kinsey on vocals. “Gumption” was produced by Nicolas Vernhes at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn. Vernhes has worked on albums by Animal Collective, Deerhunter, the War on Drugs, Dirty Projectors and Spoon. Domino Records is an independent record label whose roster includes Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors and Neutral Milk Hotel.]

[Your Friend will be embark on a US Tour in March and April]

4. Betse & Clarke w/ Bird Fleming & John Kizilarmut – “Black Eyed Susie”
from: KKFI Collaborations / KKFI 90.1 FM / January 29, 2016
[Traditional. Arranged by Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Bird Fleming & John Kizilarmut. Collaborations was produced by 90.1 FM Station Manager – Barry Lee. The album features 13 collaborations: Betse & Clarke with Bird Fleming & John Kizilarmut; Kasey Rausch Music with The Vine Street Seven; Howard Iceberg with Hidden Pictures; Victor & Penny with Cody Wyoming; Gary Kirkland & Bill Dye; Angela Hagenbach & The KKFI Jazz Band (Jeff Harshbarger, Roger Wilder, John Kizilarmut, Terry Wilkerson); Jen Harris with Rich Hill; Bobby Watson with Grupo Aztlan, and The T.J. Marley Trio; BCR with Music by Betse Ellis and Bill Dye; The Boss Toms (The Latenight Callers with Teri Quinn); Enrique Chi of Making Movies with Bob Walkenhorst and Una Walkenhorst, Cucharada with Gerald Trimble’s Celtic and World Music Sessions, Freight Train Rabbit Killer with Jason Vivone. Only available through 90.1 FM’s Winter Fund Drive!]

10:23 – Pledge Break #2

If you are a regular listener and benefit from the entertainment and information offered each week, now is your time to help keep this radio show alive. In the last year we played nearly 1000 songs on the show. Over half of these songs are from MidCoastal artists. We spin new vinyl and releases from area music labels: High Dive Records, Haymaker Records, MudStomp Records, The Record Machine, Little Class Records, and from hundreds of independently produced, artist released recordings.

We like to mix area recordings with critically acclaimed “national” releases. We like to mix different genres of music: Psychedelic, Jazz, Indie Rock, Folk, Classical, Hip Hop, Country, Blues, Pop, Electronic, Latin, and more.

We believe we present an integrated, multi-cultural, collage of really good music and insightful and informational interviews. We are more than just a radio show, we are part of the area music community. For two years we have hosted the Wednesday MidDay Medley – 90.1 FM Showcase at Middle of The Map Fest, we have co-emceed Apocalypse Meow at Knuckleheads, we have documented with live photographs and interviews the MidCoast Music Scene through our radio show, our Facebook, SoundCloud, Twitter, You Tube, and WordPress media.

10:30

6. Rae Fitzgerald – “Tower”
from: Popular Songs For Wholesome Families / Independent / March 14, 2015
[Written by Rae Fitzgerald. Composed by Lucas Oswald and Rae Fitzgerald. Album preview from the upcoming album POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES, to be released in early 2016. This will be the third album from Columbia, Missouri based singer songwriter. This is an electronic version of an acoustic version of this song.]

[Rae Fitzgerald plays Kansas City at Record With Merritt, 1614 Westport Rd. on Wednesday, February 10, at 7:00 pm, with Oh Dear Oh My, and Casey Benefield.]

Rae Fitzgerald

10:36 – Interview with Rae Fitzgerald

We just heard Rae Fitzgerald performing her song, Tower, from her upcoming album POPULAR SONGS FOR WHOLESOME FAMILIES, to be released in the late spring of 2016. This will be the third album from the Columbia, Missouri based singer songwriter. For the past 9 to 10 months Rae Fitzgerald has been living in Austin, Texas.

“Tower” was written with Lucas Oswald

Rae Fitzgerald is coming back to Kansas City next week at Records With Merritt, 1614 Westport Rd. on Wednesday, February 10, at 7:00 pm, with Oh Dear Oh My, and Casey Benefield.

To listen to her music or for more information you can visit: https://raefitzgerald.bandcamp.com/

10:45 – Underwriting

10:47 – Pledge Break #3

90.1 FM is “100,000 Watts of Community!!!” 90.1 FM is a grassroots movement, a radio station created by the people in the village. 38 years ago those people created a not-for-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization called, The MidCoast Radio Project and for over ten years volunteers worked to raise the funds to buy a signal, a tower, and create a physical station with studios and offices, to serve the community. In February of 1988, KKFI began broadcasting over the airwaves…

We are a rare breed. A community radio station with 100,000 watts of power sending our crystal clear signal as far 40 miles away. Our engineers tell us that when our music is playing we have about the best sounding signal you will find in the area. With recent upgrades, our new transmitter, we are sounding better as we grow, towards the future.

Barry Lee is the Station Manager of 90.1 FM KKFI.

Bill Sundahl is the Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator at 90.1 FM KKFI

Paste named KKFI one of “10 Public Radio Stations You Wish Were in Your Town.” (6/4)

90.1 FM has added some fantastic new shows to our schedule:
River Trade Radio, The Boogie Bridge, ARTSPEAK Radio, Groove Juice, Radioactivity

We’ve come a long way since 1988, when those first radio shows were pre-recorded on reel to reel tape in the basement of Tom Crane’s house, and delivered to the tower site and transmitter, to be played.

Anne Winter aka Little Orphan Annie Kansas City’s first Punk show on the airwaves. KKFI still celebrates PUNK music with one of the best music shows around DIY KC Monday nights at midnight.

On Wednesday MidDay Medley we regularly feature punk, as well as electronic, folk, indie rick, alternative, jazz, classical, soul, blues, country, hip hop.

Programs on 90.1 FM have been recognized for excellence from The Federation of Community Broadcasters, GLAAD, International Labor Communications Association, The Pitch Kansas City, Hear Me Out Toastmasters, KC Star, and many others.

90.1 FM is telling the story of the Kansas City Metropolitan region with our organic and locally produced programming. Hundreds of guests are interviewed every month on 90.1 FM Public Affairs and Music Shows

So many bands and musicains got their first radio airplay on 90.1 FM.
This station has been Playing More Local Music Then Anyone Else for 27 Years! In one week of programming you will hear over 2000 different songs.

90.1 FM offers: Jazz – Mondays thru Fridays, Blues – 6 days a week, Reggae – Saturdays & Sundays, Hip Hop, Latin Music, Americana, Fusion, Rockabilly, Chamber Music, Metal, Punk, Freeform, Soul, Folk, World, Native American, Psychedelic, Rock, and Local Music.

10:54

7. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – “Dreams”
from: Dreams – Single / Glassnote Entertainment Group / January 22, 2016
[New Single release from Singer songwriters, Madisen Ward and Ruth Ward, both play guitar, and sing harmonizing as son and mom. In the past 16 months they have garnered national acclaimed after an appearance at the 2014 Americana Music Fest, they signed with Glassnote Records and recorded their debut full-length album in Nashville with acclaimed producer Jim Abbiss. They released their first single, “Silent Movies,” the same night they performed the song on The Late Show with David Letterman on CBS Television. They launched a big tour across the United States and traveled to Europe for multiple shows in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, and ten did it all again. They sang and played on the influential British television show, “Later With Jools Holland” They were featured on CBS Sunday Morning, and visited many radio stations. They performed on tour with Sufjan Stevens, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, played Bonnaroo, Pilgramage, and the Newport Folk Festival, and others. In 2015 they have been representing KC all over the world, and recently joined us on WMM to talk about their appearance on NBC Today Show, on Nov 23. ]

11:00 – Station ID

8. Organized Crimes – “Bel Ray Flats”
from: Bel Ray Flats – Single b/w You Knew It Already / High Dive Records / January 29, 2016
[Combining distorted synthesizers and beat machines with crystal clear modulated guitar and sharp-panning auxiliary rhythms, Organized Crimes shows are sweaty and loud. Performances for their new 7″ ‘Bel-Ray Flats’ (due out 1/29/16 on High Dive Records) are well structured and heavily involve visual production. By using projectors and fastened video monitors, every song in the set is expressed in both sound and scene.
Cortland Gibson has been releasing noise-pop material under the moniker ‘Organized Crimes‘ since 2011. This will be the Kansas City native’s 3rd studio EP and his first release on High Dive. Cortland Gibson, is joined by Kyle Little, Ian Dobyns & Zach Hames for a slew of tour dates to not only release the 7″ but to promote a new full-length record due out this summer.]

[Organized Crimes play The Taproom In Lawrence ons Feb. 4th with CS Luxem & Real Adults] [Organized Crimes play Mills Record Company Kansas City, MO on Feb. 5th with Yes You Are]

11:04 – Interview with Sondra Freeman

Sondra Freeman is Director of Promotions and Artist Relations for Midwest Music Foundation, a nonprofit created to support music and musicians in Kansas City and the surrounding areas, founded in 2008 by a collective of musicians and music lovers. The Midwest Music Foundation (MMF) unites and empowers the greater Kansas City music community by providing programs and resources to area musicians through outreach, support, education, and health care opportunities. Sondra is instrumental in MMF’s annual events: Apocalypse Meow, MidCoast Takeover and the MidCoast Takeover fundraiser shows, as well as many other collaborative musical events and fundraisers.

MidCoast Takeover Fundraisers:

Saturday, February 6 at Knuckleheads Saloon, with The HillBenders, The Hardship Letters, Nicholas St. James, & The Brad Cunningham Band.

February 27, at The Tank Room, with Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds, Berwanger, Violet & the Undercurrents, and TBA.

March 12, at The Brick with Amy Farrand & The Like, Kangaroo Knife Fight, Kodascope, and The Invisible World.

Sondra Freeman is also the Host & Producer of Busker’s Banquet, Tuesday nights, 8:00 pm to Midnight, at The Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Rd. (Located in the back, south entrance of The Westport Flea Market.) The weekly show features “two open mic sessions snuggled around a featured artist.” Email: sistrumenterprises@gmail.com

More info at http://www.midwestmusicfound.org

11:13

9. The HillBenders – “Go To the Mirror”
from: Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry / Compass Records / June 2, 2015
[Springfield, MO 5-piece Bluegrass band. Jim Rea on guitar, Gary Rea on bass, Chad ‘Gravyboat’ Graves on dobro, Nolan Lawrence on mandolin, and Mark Cassidy on banjo. 45 years after its original release, this classic rock album has been fully realized as a full length bluegrass tribute. Conceived and produced by SXSW co-founder and longtime musician/producer Louis Jay Meyers, this Bluegrass Opry brings a new perspective to Tommy. Originally composed by guitarist Pete Townshend as a rock opera that tells the story about a deaf, dumb and blind boy. The original album has sold 20 million copies and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for “historical, artistic and significant value”. Meyers had been looking for the right band to pull off this high wire bluegrass approach for several decades and The HillBenders are the right band.]

[The HillBenders play the MidCoast Takeover Fundraisers, Saturday, February 6 at Knuckleheads Saloon, with The Hardship Letters, Nicholas St. James, & The Brad Cunningham Band]

10. Victor & Penny with Cody Wyoming – “Incident At Fine Creek”
from: KKFI Collaborations / KKFI 90.1 FM / January 29, 2016
[Written by Erin McGrane and Cody Wyoming. Collaborations was produced by 90.1 FM Station Manager – Barry Lee. The album features 13 collaborations: Betse & Clarke with Bird Fleming & John Kizilarmut; Kasey Rausch Music with The Vine Street Seven; Howard Iceberg with Hidden Pictures; Victor & Penny with Cody Wyoming; Gary Kirkland & Bill Dye; Angela Hagenbach & The KKFI Jazz Band (Jeff Harshbarger, Roger Wilder, John Kizilarmut, Terry Wilkerson); Jen Harris with Rich Hill; Bobby Watson with Grupo Aztlan, and The T.J. Marley Trio; BCR with Music by Betse Ellis and Bill Dye; The Boss Toms (The Latenight Callers with Teri Quinn); Enrique Chi of Making Movies with Bob Walkenhorst and Una Walkenhorst, Cucharada with Gerald Trimble’s Celtic and World Music Sessions, Freight Train Rabbit Killer with Jason Vivone. Only available through 90.1 FM’s Winter Fund Drive!]

[Victor & Penny play The Buffalo Room, TONIGHT, Wednesday 10 with Danelle Ate the Sandwhich]

11:20 – Pledge Break #4

Just remember what you don’t have to hear when you are tuned to 90.1 FM KKFI!

We do not play commercials. No automated robot playing the same 40 to 100 songs in a “rotation” based on a formula of one person, who programs the robot.

90.1 offers nearly 100 different radio programs. 80 of those programs are locally produced, and hosted and engineered by over 100 different people, who create content, and personally handcraft each show. There are over 135 hours each week of locally produced handcrafted programs. You we not find this anywhere else on your radio dial. It is very special. Not only do we bring the most diverse and unfiltered news and information, but our musical playlist is so very much deeper, and more comprehensive, than any other radio station in town. In one week you will hear over 2000 different songs played, as well as voices from the hundreds of KKFI volunteers and the hundreds of guests who visit out midtown studios to share their stories. How much is this worth to you?

11:27

11. Golden Groves – “Ideas”
from: Golden Groves / Independent / April 20, 2013
[Debut EP fron Kansas City baed 5-piece: Isaac Hodges on vocals & guitar, Dylan Nelson on lead guitar, Max Kmeck on bass, Andrew Lewis on drums. Recorded in Lawrence, KS with Jim Barnes producing and engineering the project. Additional mixing done by Ryan Cork. Mastering done by John McCaig of Panic Studios, Seattle, WA. More info at: http://www.goldengrovesmusic.com%5D

[Golden Groves plays an “Albun Release Party” on Friday, February 26, at 6:00 PM, at The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway St, KCMO. with Lauren Anderson Band, and Mime Game.]

12. The Buhs – “Can’t Let Go”
from: Can’t Let Go – unreleased single track / January 13, 2016
[The Buhs includes: singers Julia Haile, Lee Langston, and Anthony Saunders along with emcees Reach and Les Izmore., and Ryan J. Lee, Hermon Mehari, Ben Leifer, Tim Braun, Brad Williams and Kinyon Price. In November the band shot a music video in Paris. More info at: http://www.thebuhs.com%5D

[The Buhs play the Hello Art, 6th Anniversary, Friday, February 5, at The Hotel Phillips.]

11:35 – Underwriting

90.1 FM KKFI offers 24-7 programming. YOU (the listener), basically get all of this amazing programming for “free.” I, for one, love that I can turn on my radio, or computer device, and tune into the 90.1 FM’s 100,000 watt, crystal-clear signal, and hear the music, information, news, entertainment, events, and stories, that I really cannot find anywhere else. 90.1 is my comfort, my special companion, my diverse friend, introducing me to all kinds of new & local music, as well as the news & information without the intrusion of commercials. It is radio brought to YOU by real people, who create these shows out of love, and are guided by KKFI’s noble mission that “seeks to stimulate, educate and entertain our audience, to reflect the diversity of the local and world community, and to provide a channel for individuals and groups, issues and music that have been overlooked, suppressed or under-represented by other media.”
Driving in your car, at the office, at the gym, in your garage, in your cubicle, in your art space, on your Ipod, at your construction site, in your kitchen, in your barn, YOU can take 90.1 with you, as your companion. 90.1 FM is generally a good date. Good for a few laughs, fun to dance with, always interested in good conversation. Isn’t 90.1 FM KKFI worth a few dollars a day, or a week? So many people tune in to kkfi.org everyday, but studies show, that less than 10 percent actually donate to keep this miracle of broadcasting alive. Your support means that you will help bring this programming to folks who could not donate at this time, for whatever the reason.

This is your chance to put your money where your ears are. Please help keep, at least this part of our public airwaves, alive for our public to enjoy, free from commercials, free from religious sermonizing, free from extremely conservative and slanted right wing “talk radio” and free from corporately “owned and cloned” robotic affiliates that play the same 15 songs everyday at the same time. YOU deserve better. YOU deserve radio that really reflects our great city, and tells the story of our great music scene, and performing arts scene, and labor rights, and women’s issues, and LBGT information, and programming specifically produced for Latinos and African Americans, working people, Jazz lovers. Support the free-form spirit that is 90.1 FM KKFI!

11:44

13. AJ Young – “Into The Wild”
from: Into The Wild / Datura Records / October 24, 2015
[AJ Young is a singer songwriter, guitarist based in Kansas City. “Into The Wild” is the first of four EP’s to be released. “The goal was to make something that reflected my life over the past year with this EP….. It seems as though we created something that connected with other peoples lives as well, and that is more then I could ask for.” With Matt Magerkurth on bass & cello, Armond Nelson on organ & drums & keyboards, Jordan Stephens on drums, Brandon Butler on bass & keys, Jimmie Hill on bass, Russell Johnson on slide guitar, and AJ Young on acoustic/electric guitar & lead vocals. All song written by AJ Young. Produced by AJ Young. Recorded at BRC Studio—Chapman Recording & Mastering—- AJs Living Room. Mixing: Samuel Thomas, Robert Rebeck. Mastering: Eric Conn .]

[AJ Young plays Words Of Love Benefit Concert for Midwest Music Foundation, at Coda, 1744 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday, February 13, at 9:00 pm with Wyatt West with Tom Hall, Bryan Hicks, Amanda Fish, Nicki Scruggs, Eems. Sean Mc Donnell, Thomas FreightTrain Walker, Max Berry and more.]

[AJ Young plays Prohibition Hall, 1118 McGee St, KCMO, Saturday, March 5, at 7:00 pm.]

11:48 – Pledge Break #6

Who will tell our stories?

90.1 FM KKFI will tell our stories. We will tell your story too.

We will share our voices to help make a better world, to remind someone that they are not alone. To give someone a smile or a laugh. To be honest. To be real. To represent the world that we live in, with programs created by, and for, our diverse listening audience.

From the multitude of programs offered 24 – 7, seven days a week, for 27 years, by over 100 people who give of their time, and talents and resources, to not only create programming, but to work to build an audience, to share the secret.

Our Blues programs are huge: The Blues Kitchen, The Boogie Bridge, VooDoo Kittens Road Trippin’ Blues.

Our Monday through Friday Jazz shows live up to the promise of Kansas City, and give jazz a place on the airwaves unlike any other radio or television station in the area.

Our Latino Programming, and Native American programming, and Folk Music and Chamber Music, and Reggae, and Rock, and Fusion, and Rockabilly, and Women’s Music, and World Music, and Hip Hop programs, and Old Soul – R & B, and Americana, and Southern Soul, and British Rock, and Punk, and Electronica are unmatched on the radio dial!!!.

KKFI is the most diverse station on the airwaves of the Kansas City metro region, without a doubt.

Our locally produced programs: Urban Connections, and Eco Radio, and ArtSpeak Radio, and Arts Magazine, and Heartland Labor Forum, and All Souls Forum, and LGBT Public Affairs, and The Tenth Voice, Jaw’s of Justice, and Women’s Programming, and Children’s Programming, are also unmatched in the Kansas City Metro region!

The sheer number of local – MidCoastal musical releases, the we play, day after day, is unmatched in the Kansas City Metro region.

And we never ask you to pay, except a few times a year, when we have to interrupt our programming to ask you to help us. To help us continue. To keep the dream alive!

We need YOU! Your contribution sends energy through our signal to world. You help us keep this special station on the air.

Thank you to everyone who called in!

11:55

14. Vigil and Thieves – “Haunting”
from: Haunting – Single / Independent / January 23, 2016
[Sarah Storm on vocals & guitar & keys, Steph Castor on guitar, Matthew Muckenthaler on bass, Andrew Flaherty on drums. Recorded in Kansas City, MO. All lyrics by Sarah Storm.]

[Vigil & Thieves play Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, on Thursday, February 4, with Vehicles.]


11:59:30

15. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]


Next week, on Wednesday, February 10, – Spinning Tree Theatre joins us to share information about their latest production, 13, running February 11- 28, at the Just Off Broadway Theatre. Also AM Merker and members of the Kansas City band, My Oh My join us to share music and information about their new EP, “I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way” recorded with Joel nanos at Element Recording. We will also be joined by The Matchsellers who will play live in our 90.1 FM studios and talk about their new record, “Songs We Made Up” to be released February 12, 2016. And Don Simon, of Mudstomp Records joins us to share music and information about Mudstomp Tecords Private showcases for the upcoming Folk Alliance International Conference, February 17 through the 21st.

Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org


Wednesday MidDay Medley in on the web:

www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org,

www.facebook.com/WednesdayMidDayMedleyon90.1FM,
http://www.kkfi.org

Show #615

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

Michelle Bacon & The Band That Fell to Earth + Wendy J. Scott
+ Doby Watson & Margo May + Pink Royal

10:00

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. David Bowie – “Big Brother”
from: Diamond Dogs / RCA / May 24, 1974

3. David Bowie – “Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family”
from: Diamond Dogs / RCA / May 24, 1974

“Big Brother” was written by David Bowie in 1973 and intended for his never-produced musical, based on George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bowie had wanted to make a theatrical production of Orwell’s book, and began writing material after completing sessions for his album Pin Ups, but the Orwell estate denied Bowie the rights.

The song was released on the album Diamond Dogs, on May 24, 1974. Lyrically, the song reflects the ending of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the novel, where Winston Smith’s brainwashing is complete, and he now loves Big Brother. The song transitions into the final track on the record, “Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family”.

Diamond Dogs was the 8th studio album from Bowie, released after the ‘retirement’ of Bowies’s Ziggy Stardust, character. Diamond Dogs featured a new lead character named Halloween Jack, “a real cool cat,” who lives in the decaying “Hunger City”. Bowie, however, still wore the Ziggy haircut on the cover of Diamond Dogs, and the first single, “Rebel Rebel” continues his glam rock sound.

However, with the rest of the album, music writers noticed a new Bowie. For his song “Sweet Thing” / “Candidate”/ “Sweet Thing (Reprise)” Bowie first used the William S. Burroughs’ cut-up style of writing. The song “1984” reflected the “plastic soul” sound of Bowie’s next release, Young Americans, from 1975.

The Diamond Dogs Tour of 1974 was one of the first huge Rock and Roll, bus and truck tours. Bowie produced the show with a giant set, like a big Broadway production.

Bowie played all of the album’s songs on the Diamond Dogs Tour, except “We Are the Dead.” The Diamond Dogs Tour was recorded and released as David Live. The song “Rebel Rebel” has been featured on almost every Bowie tour since. The song, “Diamond Dogs” was performed for the 1976 Station to Station Tour, and the 1995–96 Outside Tour and 2003-04 Reality Tous which I saw at Starlight Theatre, on May 10, 2004

I was able to see Bowie perform “Big Brother/Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family” live, on his 1987, Glass Spider Tour, which played Kemper Arena, October 4, 1987.
On March 2 we will devote our entire show to David Bowie, his life as a Rock & Roll God, a producer, an artist, and we’ll hear from guests who will share stories about Bowie.

Here is one of Michelle Bacon’s favorite songs from Davie Bowie…

10:11

3. David Bowie – “Moonage Daydream”
from: Nothing Has Changed / Columbia / November 18, 2014
[The first compilation to showcase Bowie’s entire career. The album includes the new composition “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)”, which was later re-recorded for the 2016 album Blackstar. The album was released in four formats: a triple CD version (sequenced in reverse chronological order), a double CD version (sequenced in chronological order), a double LP version, and a single CD version released exclusive to select countries]

[“Moonage Daydream” was written by David Bowie in 1971 and first released as a single with the band Arnold Corns. A re-recorded version, featuring Bowie and his backing band The Spiders from Mars, was released on the 1972 Bowie album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.]

10:15 – Interview with Michelle Bacon

Musician and writer, Michelle Bacon, is Editor of the Deli Magazine KC, where she helps shine a light on our area music scene. Michelle is a freelance writer and has written for The Kansas City Star, The Bridge, Folk Alliance International, and many others. Michelle is the Social Media Assistant for Midwest Music Foundation where she also volunteers for events that raise funds and awareness for this important not-for-profit service organization. Michelle is part of the backbone of the bands: The Philistines where she plays bass, and Chris Meck and The Guilty Birds where she plays drums. She has also played with Freight Train Rabbit Killer, Deco Auto, Dolls on Fire, and Drew Black and Dirty Electric, to name a few.

Michelle Bacon joins us to share information about: The Band That Fell To Earth – a Tribute to David Bowie, at The Uptown Theatre on Sunday, January 31, at 8:00 PM

This event, The Band That Fell To Earth – a Tribute to David Bowie, has in the works for quite some time, and the band was in rehearsals, when we were all shocked by the news on January 10, that David Bowie had died, just two days after his 69th birthday, and the release of his 27th studio album, Blackstar. Michelle talked about Bowie’s death, and how that effected the rehearsals and planning of this event.

The Band That Fell To Earth – a Tribute to David Bowie
features:

Steve Tulipana, Nathan Corsi,

Michelle Bacon, Kyle Dahlquist, Alex Alexander, Stephanie Williams,

Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Rich Wheeler,

Lauren Krum, Rachel Christia, and Andre Tudhope,

performing the music of David Bowie live on stage.

More info at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com/

Presented by The Deli Kansas City.

Proceeds from this event with benefit Midwest Music Foundation.

The Uptown Theatre on Sunday, January 31, at 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00)

More info at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com/

10:27

5. David Bowie – “Young Americans”
from: Young Americans / RCA / March 7, 1975
[Because of the strong influence of black music on the album, Bowie used the term “plastic soul” (originally coined by an unknown black musician in the 1960s) to describe the sound of Young Americans. The song was the first studio result of Bowie’s mid-1970s obsession with soul music. “Young Americans” was a breakthrough hit for the artist in the United States. The song makes references to McCarthyism, black repression via Rosa Parks, Richard Nixon (who had resigned the U.S. Presidency two days before the recording session), as well as a near-direct lift from The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life” with the line “I heard the news today oh boy!” (John Lennon, who originally authored the line, appeared twice on the Young Americans album, providing background vocals and guitar on his own “Across The Universe” and “Fame”, for which he also received a co-writing credit.) The backing vocal arrangement came at the suggestion of Luther Vandross. who was a big part of this album, writing and co-writing songs for the album, as well as helping in the recording and production. The album’s song “Fame” hit the No. 1 in the US, the same year the album was released.]

10:32

6. Iggy Pop – “Gardenia”
from: Post Pop Depression / IGHO – Loma Vista – Concord / March 18, 2016
[Post Pop Depression is the upcoming 17th studio album by Iggy Pop. Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy. Pop and Homme began working on the album in January 2015. Pop reached out to Homme by text message to ask if he was interested in writing music together. After they spoke by phone, Pop sent Homme some lyrics by mail, along with notes about Pop’s time working with David Bowie. Three months later, Homme sent lyrics to Pop, and they agreed to work together on recording songs in a studio. The album, consists of nine songs, recorded at Homme’s home studio in Joshua Tree, California, over the course of two weeks, and another week in his studio in Burbank, California. Pop and Homme self-financed the album.]

Wendy J. Scott and Michelle Bacon, on the January 27, 2016 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

10:36 – Interview with Wendy J. Scott

Wendy Scott, is a Kansas based artist. She is a scenic painter for area theater companies and is the recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Award for scenic artistry. She also teaches painting classes, and has been recently featured as a painting teacher in a promotional piece for KSHB 41 News. 25 years ago Wendy’s pursuit of work as a painter motivated her to move New York City and later to France. When Wendy came back to Kansas City she had had her son, who is now 17 years old. While facing the challenges of being a working artist and being a single mom, Wendy created her own home-based-company called, Kitschup Creations, that produce unique candles, magnets, coasters and more.

She has also created a one-of-a-kind candle for Wednesday MidDay Medley that we will offer next week as one of our “Thank you Gifts” for those of you who donate to our station during Wednesday MidDay Medley’s Winter Fund Drive Show.

Wendy J. Scott started out as a commercial artist and quickly realized that was not for her. she wanted to get her hands dirty, not sit behind a computer all day, so she moved to New York and then to France for six years.

After living out of two suitcases and a carry on for so long Wendy found herself missing the states. and home, so she returned and started painting for theatre companies and tattooing in shops around the country.

A year after Wendy returned to the US from France, she had her son, who was diagnosed with Autism. Wendy shared her story of parenting a child with autism, as her son is now a 17-year old honors student.

Wendy does scenic painting Kansas City Kansas Community College Theatre Department.

More info at: http://www.KitschupCreations.Etsy.com/

10:55 – Underwriting

10:57

7. Appropriate Grammar – “Catastrophe”
from: Golden Child / Independent / August 24, 2013
[Appropriate Grammar’s final record. All songs written by Nick McKenna. Performed and arranged by Appropriate Grammar. Recorded, mixed and produced by Shaun Hamontree at Hamontree Manor, KCMO. Mastering by Joel Nanos at Element Recording, KCMO. includes: Nick McKenna – Guitar/Vocals, Alex Dunsford – Lead Guitar, Claire Adams – Bass/Vocals, and Steve Gardels – Drums.]

[Appropriate Grammar plays The Brick Fridy, January 29, with The B’Dinas.]

11:00 – Station ID

Doby Watson & Margo May on the January 27, 2016 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.

11:00 – Interview with Doby Watson and Margo May

8. Doby Watson – “Everything is the Same As Before” (LIVE PERFORMANCE)

Margo May grew up in Kansas City. She has been writing songs since she was 15. She has worked as an actor at The Coterie Theatre. She Studied Liberal Arts and English at University of Missouri – Kansas City. Margo made her national network television debut in the 2010 season of American Idol. Her Debut recording “Summerof” was one of our favorite recordings of 2010 and has received critical acclaim. She was the winner of the 2010 Pitch Music Award for Best Emerging Act. Since then Margo has played all over Kansas City, Portland, Oregon, Austin, Texas. Margo has released several albums af her own original music as well as several collaborations and remixes. Margo’s most recentl release, I’m Not Coming Home, was released July 19, 2015 on Double Shift Music.

Margo May went to high school with Doby Watson, who played on most of the tracks for Margo’s recent album. Doby originally released his music under the moniker Boo Hiss. A champion of the DIY music scene, Doby has toured extensively, supported many other independent DIY musicians, and worked to create alternative venues and shows for other bands.

In October 2014 Doby released his solo record “Live-In Son” in Ross Brown’s basement in KCMO and released on Double Shift Music.

Doby Watson will be playing a handful of Midwest shows in February to support an upcoming EP, a collaboration with Austin Swearengin and Margo May. The EP, simply titled Swearengin, Watson & May, was recorded by Cory Schulz in his living room in Milwaukee, WI while the three songwriters had some time off during a recent tour. It will be available in February from Double Shift Music. Doby Watson will play shows in Lawrence, at The Raven Bookstore, on February 16, and Kansas City at Davey’s Uptown, on February 17.

11:10

9. Margo May – “The Way I’m Going” (LIVE PERFORMANCE)

Doby is playing a house show on Friday in Midtown KCMO with Margo, Teri Quinn and Chase The Horseman. For more info: email – dobywatson@gmail.com.

Doby Watson’s upcoming tour –

2/16 Lawrence, KS @ The Raven Bookstore
2/17 Kansas City, MO @ Davey’s Uptown
2/18 Champaign, IL @ Mike N Molly’s*
2/19 Milwaukee, WI @ Riverwest Public House*
2/20 Chicago, IL @ house show*
2/21 Springfield, IL @ Black Sheep Cafe*

The out of town shows will be with Atom Lax, a finger-style guitar player from Dover, OH https://www.youtube.com/user/adamlaxmusic https://atomlax.bandcamp.com/

11:20

10. Doby Watson – We Don’t Kiss Goodnight” (LIVE PERFORMANCE)

From Doby’s own words: “When I was a kid I played guitar in some hardcore bands. When I found myself without a band, at the end of high school, I started trying to sing and write songs. Falling on the moniker “Boo Hiss” (something a class mate of mine said in place of swear words). I put some songs online and got asked to be on a small DIY label from Ohio called Tract Records. Around that time, I befriended touring DIY artists’ such as Viking Moses, Real Live Tigers, Manipulator Alligator and a young man named Joseph Murphy (who was in tons of bands), as well. Through these connections I was encouraged to tour and became involved in the Midwest’s various DIY communities, making countless friends.”

“Around this same time, Margo, who I went to high school with, began to play in some of the same circles. Rather than go to college, I chose to focus solely on DIY touring and releasing music (for much of it taking my good friend, then KC native, and amazing songwriter, Austin Swearengin with me for most of these tours). ”

“Margo went to college but stayed focused on music, as well. As our early 20’s went on, Margo moved to Portland, was on American Idol, had a deal with MTV’s Hive Music and did some small acting roles. Around that same time, I made an attempt to be taken more “seriously”, dropped my moniker and unsuccessfully released a mini-album under my own name. After some rather chaotic and unorganized tours for the album, I became depressed and disillusioned with music. I set music aside as a priority, moved to Lawrence, KS and tried to assimilate to what I thought was a ‘normal’ life. ”

“I went to college, got a day job, and wound up generally hating life. This new ‘normal’ path inevitably didn’t work out for me – I moved back in with my parents and held various dead end jobs and sank deeper into a depression, completely ceasing to make any music.”

“Around that same time, Margo had moved back to Kansas City. We ran into each other at some shows, and got to talking about collaborating again (we had done a split back in my Boo Hiss days). We attempted to co-write some songs to sell to MTV, they were rejected, and then we restructured them and recorded what became Watson & May with Lennon Bone. ”

“The process coincided with a batch of songs I had written about my time spent depressed, living with my parents and drinking my time away, and I recorded them as “Live-In Son” in Ross Brown’s basement in KCMO with contributions from Jerad Tomasino, Grant Buell, Ryan Brewer, Richard Gintowt and Cory Schulz.”

“I performed the songs live, while being recorded, in Ross Brown’s basement in Kansas City, MO. The next day, also in Brown’s basement, Grant Buell (Rhodes), Jerad Tomasino (vocals) and Hannah Jensen (viola), having never practiced with each other or Watson, improvised their parts over the live recordings of Watson. Richard Gintowt added additional vocals at his home in San Francisco, CA. The songs sat for some time until they were picked up by Ryan Brewer, who added electric guitar, field recordings and auxiliary percussion while he mixed the songs in Champaign, IL. The results were mastered by Cory Schulz in Milwaukee, WI. ”

“While trying to figure out what to do with the songs, I was contacted by Cameron Matthews, an old friend from my early DIY days who had become a music journalist. He founded Double Shift Music on my behalf, in order to easier release my new album, and it grew into an online collective and digital label, next releasing Margo’s latest album, “I’m Not Coming Home” (recorded by Time J Harte in KCMO), which I played guitar on. During the tour for that album, we were joined by my old touring mate, Austin Swearengin, who had long since moved to Minneapolis and become a sculptor, who was himself, too reinvigorated to write music again. Over the course of a couple afternoons, we recorded what became Swearengin, Watson & May in Cory Schulz’s living room in Milwaukee, WI. Austin, Margo and I are now the flagship artists of Double Shift Music, and this EP serves as a sort of symbol of our mutual return to music and friendship.”

Doby is almost finished with a new solo EP and almost done writing a new full length. It may be important to note that a local musician, Adam Brumback, has become an integral part of my live performances and touring. He is heavily featured on my upcoming EP.”

The EP, Swearengin, Watson & May will be out in February from Double Shift Music.

11:28 – Underwriting

11:30

11. Pink Royal – “Give Me Something Real”
from: Taps / Silly Goose Records / April 11, 2015

[Pink Royal play The Riot Room, Friday, January 29, with Jessica Paige, Dream Girl, and Via Luna.]

11:34 – Interview with Dylan James Guthrie, Josh Dorrell, and Alex Hartmann of Pink Royal

12. Pink Royal – “Please Please Please”
from: Taps / Silly Goose Records / April 11, 2015
[Alt-electro-rock-pop from Lawrence, Kansas, with Dylan James Guthrie on vocals, Steven LaCour on guitar, Josh Dorrell on guitar, Alex Hartmann on drums, Nick Carswell on bass guitar & keyboards, and Zak Pischnotte on Saxophones. Originally founded by Henry Burling (drums), Steve LaCour and John Killeen (bass) and the addition of Chad “Mustard” Smith of the band Dumptruck Butterlips on vocals. When Henry returned to England, and Chad Smith went on the road with his other musical projects, Pink Royal journeyed through various concoctions, eventually settling on the current line up.]

[Pink Royal play The Riot Room, Friday, January 29, with Jessica Paige, Dream Girl, and Via Luna.]

13. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]

Next week, on Wednesday, February 3, Betse Ellis and Marion Merritt join us as co-hosts for the entire show for our Winter On Air Fund Drive. Plus Sondra Freeman joins us to share info on several MidCoast Takeover Fundraiser shows.

Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org


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Show #614

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

Michelle Bacon & The Band That Fell to Earth + Wendy J. Scott
+ Doby Watson & Margo May + Pink Royal

Mark plays music from: David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Appropriate Grammar, Doby Watson & Margo May, and Pink Royal.

At 10:15, Michelle Bacon, Editor to The Deli Magazine – Kansas City, joins us to share information about: The Band That Fell To Earth, a tribute to David Bowie, at Knuckleheads Saloon, in the Garage, on Sunday, January 31, at 8:00 PM (Doors at 7:00), presented by The Deli Kansas City, featuring: Steve Tulipana, Nathan Corsi, Michelle Bacon, Kyle Dahlquist, Alex Alexander, Stephanie Williams, Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Rich Wheeler, Lauren Krum, Rachel Christia, and Andre Tudhope, performing the music of David Bowie live on stage. More info at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com/

At 10:30 we’ll talk with artist, designer, entrepreneur, single mom, Wendy J. Scott, who joins us to talk about her theatrical scenic painting and design, and her work as an art and painting teacher. We’ll also talk with Wendy about her self-created company, Kitschup Creations, that produce unique candles, magnets, coasters and more. Wendy will share her story of how she started her own home business, her work at Kansas City Kansas Community College Theatre Department, and her story of parenting a child with autism, as her son is now a 17-year old honors student. More info at: http://www.KitschupCreations.Etsy.com/

At 11:00 singer songwriters, Doby Watson and Margo May join us to play live in our 90.1 FM studios. Doby Watson will be playing a handful of Midwest shows in February to support an upcoming EP, a collaboration with Austin Swearengin and Margo May. The EP, simply titled Swearengin, Watson & May, was recorded by Cory Schulz in his living room in Milwaukee, WI while the three songwriters had some time off during a recent tour. It will be available in February from Double Shift Music. Doby Watson will play shows in Lawrence, at The Raven Bookstore, on February 16, and Kansas City at Davey’s Uptown, on February 17. More info at: http://www.doubleshiftmusic.com/

And at 11:30 we’ll talk with members of the Lawrence, Kansas based, “experimental groove-pop” band, Pink Royal. Lead singer Dylan James Guthrie, guitarist Josh Dorrell, and drummer Alex Hartmann join us in our 90.1 FM Studios. (The band also includes founding member: Steven LaCour on guitar, Nick Carswell on bass, and Zak Pischnotte on saxophone.) Pink Royal released their debut album, Taps, in April 1015, and it was in the Top Ten of Wednesday MidDay Medley’s “The 115 Best Recordings of 2015.” Pink Royal play The Riot Room, Friday, January 29, with Jessica Paige, Dream Girl, and Via Luna. More info at http://www.pinkroyalmusic.com/

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Show #614

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

Mike Alexander &of Hipshot Killer + “Pontypool”
+ Sara Glass & C Woods + Kianna Alarid of Yes You Are

Yes You Are, Pontypool, Hiphot Killer, and Sara Glass


1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
[WMM’s theme song]

2. David Bowie – “Lazarus”
from: Blackstar / ISO Records – Columbia / January 8, 2016

Lazarus features David Bowie on vocals, acoustic guitar, and Fender guitar; Donny McCaslin on saxophone, flute, and woodwind; Jason Linder on piano, Wurlitzer organ and keyboards; Tim Lefebvre on bass; Mark Guiliana on drums. McCaslin and the rest of the jazz group recorded their parts in the studio over a period of about one week a month from January to March 2015, and until later in recording were unaware of Bowie’s declining health. The song “Lazarus” is part of Bowie’s Off-Broadway musical of the same name.

The album has received universal critical acclaim and commercial success, reaching the number one spot in a number of countries in the wake of Bowie’s death and becoming his first album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 album chart in the U.S.

Blackstar is the twenty-fifth and final studio album by musician, writer, actor, chameleon, David Bowie. It is the 27th when you count the Tin Machine records, which you should. The album was released worldwide on January 8, 2016, on Bowie’s 69th birthday, and just two days later David Robert Jones passed away at home surrounded by his wife Iman, and his son Duncan Jones from his marriage to Angela Bowie, and daughter Alexandria from his marriage to Iman. Bowie’s death comes as a shock to all of us who have been fans of his every musical release, his original groundbreaking music videos, his work in feature films, his wild array of television appearances, his legendary concert tours, and theatrical events.

So much of my journey as a queer kid in small town Nebraska, trying to finding myself and my way out and my way in the world, was influenced by Bowie. First the great music of Bowie, the sounds, the lyrics, the delivery, but also the way he adapted, the way he was always looking forward, always an artist, always reinventing, always writing songs for those of us who felt left out, estranged, or alien in a world we needed to escape. Studying his life and music and his influences was my gateway to The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Andy Warhol and The Factory, Iggy Pop, Glam Rock, Electronica, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, William S. Burroughs, Mick Ronson, Luther Vandross, Tony Visconti, Carlos Alomar, Robert Fripp, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, Bauhaus, Bisexuality,

On March 2 we will devote our entire show to David Bowie, his life as a Rock & Roll God, a producer, an artist, and we’ll hear from special guests who will share their favorite songs and personal stories about Bowie.

10:10 – Underwriting

10:12

3. Hipshot Killer – They Will Try To Kill Us All
from: They Will Try To Kill Us All / Throwing Things / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. For the recording: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects), on Guitar & Vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol) on Bass & Vocals, Thomas Becker (Beautiful Bodies), on Drums. The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011, and are currently working on their new release.]

10:15 – Interview with Mike Alexander

Mike Alexander is a very busy guy. He is a guitarist and singer in the power punk trio, Hipshot Killer. Mike has been a part of the Center of the City Fest for the past 4 years and is also one of this year’s organizers of the Fest. Mike is also a much sought after guitar player and he regularly performs live and records with John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons, and The Starhaven Rounders. Mike has also played with Revovers and The Architects. Mike returns to Wednesday MidDay Medley to share all the new music from the band’s brand new album, They Will Try to Kill Us All, released on vinyl on January 16, 2016. Hipshot Killer will play an album release show on Saturday, January 23, at 9:00pm, at minibar, 3810 Broadway, with The Big Iron and Super Thief.

Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects), on Guitar & Vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol) on Bass & Vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in The Big Iron.

“They Will Try To Kill Us All” features: Thomas Becker, of Beautiful Bodies, on Drums.

“They Will Try To Kill Us All” was recorded by Michael Stout and Chris Wagner at:
The Uptown Theatre on Broadway and Valentine
The Becker Residence in Hyde Park
The Sandbox at Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street West
Dumit’s Rug Shop on 79th Street

Mastered at Weights and Measures studio by Duane Trower.

All songs written by Mike Alexander

Released on Throwing Things Records, 6819 Minnesota Ave, St. Louis, Missouri

Hipshot Killer will play an album release show on Saturday, January 23, at 9:00pm, at minibar, 3810 Broadway, with The Big Iron, and Super Thief.

The Big Iron released We Will Fall on May 30, 2014. The band’s 3rd full-length was produced & mixed by Joel Nanos of Element Recording. It’s the band’s follow-up to 2008’s “Thanks for the Therapy,” and their 2001 debut recording, “Bury My Mistakes.” Ricky Reyes on guitar; Jon Paul on drums; Jeff Pendergraft on vocals, PK on guitar; and Mike Farren on bass. More info at: thebigiron.bandcamp.com

Super Thief is from Austin Texas

With bandmate Chris Wagner Mike plays with John Velghe & The Prodigal Sons.

Mike Alexander grew up in KCK?

Mike Alexander wrote all the songs on “They Will Try To Kill Us All.”

Hipshot Killer will play an album release show on Saturday, January 23, at 9:00pm, at minibar, 3810 Broadway, with The Big Iron. (and Super Thief).

More info at https://www.facebook.com/hipshotkiller

10:28

4. Hipshot Killer – “Alone on The Airwaves”
from: They Will Try To Kill Us All / Throwing Things / January 16, 2016
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. For the recording: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects), on Guitar & Vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol) on Bass & Vocals, Thomas Becker (Beautiful Bodies), on Drums. The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011, and are currently working on their new release.]

John Rensenhouse, Kimmie Queen, Mike Alexander of Hipshot Killer, and Cody Wyoming

10:32 – Interview with John Rensenhouse, Cody Wyoming & Kimmie Queen

Most of our radio audience know Cody Wyoming & Kimmie Queen for their work in the KC based 6-piece band, The Philistines. However this rock and roll dynamic duo have also collaborated in multiple theatrical productions with Late Night Theatre, Charlotte Street Foundation, in David Wayne Reed’s “Mother Trucker II – Ride On.” In 2002, Cody Wyoming directed Mitch Brian’s adaptation of Roger Corman’s Bucket of Blood in a production that featured Kimmie Queen in the cast, and as a designer for the show, produced with The Living Room Theatre. Kimmie and Cody are collaborating again with The Living Room for the premiere of the new play, “Pontypool,” adapted by Kimmie Queen and Cody Wyoming, from a radio play written by by Canadian writer Tony Burgess, which was an adaptation of his screenplay, for the 2008 horror movie “Pontypool.” The play runs through January 31, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday nights, at 8:00 pm, at the Living Room, 1818 McGee. For more information call 816-533-5857 or go to http://www.thelivingroomkc.com.

“Pontypool,” is a town in north Ontario

Written by Tony Burgess

Directed by Cody Wyoming

Starring: John Rensenhouse (recently voted KC’s best actor by KC Magazine)
Katie Gilchrist (Recently voted Best Local Actress by The Pitch)
Regina Weller and Bradley J. Thomas.

Shock jock Grant Mazzy (Rensenhouse) has been kicked ­off the airwaves and now works at a small ­town morning show. Another mundane day on the job quickly turns deadly when reports pile in of people developing strange speech patterns and evoking brutal acts of violence. Before long, Mazzy discovers that the behavior is actually a deadly virus being spread through language. Does he stay on the air in hopes of being rescued or, is he providing the virus with its ultimate leap over the airwaves and into the world? This production contains Adult Language and Violence.

The Set of Pontypool

The set of Pontypool

The Set of Pontypool

Opening night was January 16, at 8:00 pm.

All Performances will be at 8pm Thursday through Sunday.
Closing Performance January 31st with reception to immediately follow.

Pontypool is receiving positive reviews in The KC Star, Pitch, and Examiner.

Cody Wyoming is a part of 90.1 FM & Barry Lee’s Collaborations project.

“Pontypool” runs through January 31, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, at 8:00 pm, at the Living Room, 1818 McGee. For more information call 816-533-5857 or go to http://www.thelivingroomkc.com.

10:53

5. The Philistines – “Twitch of the Death Nerve”
from: Single from forthcoming debut LP that The Philistines will be releasing in 2016.
[KC based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Michelle Bacon on bass; Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums. Recorded & mixed with Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound, mastered by Dave Gaume.]

11:00 – Station ID

6. Hinds – “Garden”
from: Leave Me Alone / Mom + Pop / January 8, 2016
[Debut album from Spanish indie rock band from Madrid, formed in 2011, consisting of Carlotta Cosials (vocals, guitar), Ana Perrote (vocals, guitar), Ade Martin (bass) and Amber Grimbergen (drums).[2] The original name of the band was Deers, but they were forced to change it at the end of 2014, due to the threat of legal action from a similarly named band. The group chose “Hinds” (female deer) as the new name.]

11:00 – Interview with Sara Nicole Glass and C Woods

Sara Glass aka Miss Conception & C Wood

11:04 – C. Woods live performance

Kansas City based poet & performance artist – Sara Nicole Glass, also known as “Miss Conception” ]received her journalism degree from Kansas University, with a focus on communications and Public Relations. Over the past several years her creative performance work has involved hip hop, emceeing, and DJ performances. Sara is a lover of dancing with fire and the circus arts, and she incorporates all kinds of imagery and live theatrics into any type of show she presents. Since 2008, Sara Glass also has written and co-produced four musical releases including: Miss Conception, Ostentation, Saraswati, and most recently Sara-Tonin.

C Woods is a constant contributor to the Rural Grit Happy Hour on Monday Nights at The Brick, and has performed consistently with the Rural Grit All Stars, and at multiple musical events, Folk Alliance International, and her lyrics and voice are part of Howard Iceberg’s 7-CD set “Welcome Aboard” of over 100 songs. C Woods organic and musical poetry performance are one-of-a-kind and unlike any other spoken word artist in KC.

Sara Glass and C Woods, joined us to share information about Sara’s her first book, a collection of poetry titled “Class Action,” part of Prosperos Books and Spartan Press’ Pop Poetry #12poetsin12months book releases. — Book Release Performance on January 23, at 8:00 pm, at Prospero’s Books Upstairs.

C Woods, is one of several poet performers who will be contributing to Sara’s book release show.

11:14

C. Woods live performance

Since 2008, Sara Glass has written and co-produced four musical releases including: Miss Conception, Ostentation, Saraswati, and most recently Sara-Tonin.

Miss Conception Upcoming Gigs:
Absinthe and Poetry Show at Uptown Arts Bar, Friday, Jan 22, 10:00 pm
Book Release at Prosperos Books upstairs, February 23, 8:00 pm
Johnny Depp burlesque show on February 13
(somewhat of a) Disney Burlesque Show at Uptown Arts Bar Saturday, Feb 20

11:20

Sara Glass read a poem

Sara Nicole Glass, also known by pen name “Miss Conception” is a poet and performance artist. While she calls Kansas City her home, she has made it her goal to travel and explore the country and world as much as possible.

More information at: http://www.themissconception.com.

11:25

C. Woods Live performance

Sara’s “Class Action” — Book Release Performance on January 23, at 8:00 pm, at Prospero’s Books Upstairs. More information at: http://www.themissconception.com.

11:25 – Underwriting

11:27

7. Yes You Are – “HGX”
from: A Dream [EP] / Independent / November 8, 2015
[Yes You Are is: Jared White – songwriter, rhythm guitar, backup vocals; Kianna Alarid – songwriter, lead vocals; Jacob Temeyer – lead guitar, keyboards, backup vocals; Joseph Wilner – drums ; and Willie Jordan – bass guitar, back up vocals. Yes You Are lead singer Kianna Alarid was also lead singer and bassist for the critical acclaimed band, Tilly and the Wall, who released 4 albums on Saddle Creek Records, toured the world, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. After Tilly and the Wall ended, Yes You Are was formed in 2014. This past summer they toured nationally with Neon Trees and released their first music video. The band is currently working on their debut full length album.]

[Yes You Are play The Riot Room, Friday, January 22, at 8:00 pm with High Up, and Drugs + Attics.]

Kianna Alarid of Yes You Are with Sara Glass aka Miss Conception & C Woods

11:31 – Interview with Kianna Alarid

Yes You Are is: Jared White – songwriter, rhythm guitar, backup vocals; Kianna Alarid – songwriter, lead vocals; Jacob Temeyer – lead guitar, keyboards, backup vocals; Joseph Wilner – drums ; and Willie Jordan – bass guitar, back up vocals. Yes You Are lead singer Kianna Alarid was also lead singer and bassist for the critical acclaimed band, Tilly and the Wall, who released 4 albums on Saddle Creek Records, toured the world, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. After Tilly and the Wall ended, Yes You Are was formed in 2014. This past summer they toured nationally with Neon Trees and released their first music video. The band is currently working on their debut full length album

Kianna Alarid joined us to talk about her new band and their show at The Riot Room, Friday, January 22, at 8:00 pm with High Up, and Drugs + Attics. We’ll also talk about Kianna’s previous band, Tilly and the Wall.

Yes You Are’s bassist Willie Jordan’s other band, Drugs + Attics, is also playing Friday night at The Riot Room.

Kianna Alarid’s friend Orenda Fink, from Omaha, who was in the band Azure Ray, started a new band called High Up (also from Omaha) and they are coming down to KC play a show with Yes You Are, on Friday at Riot Room.

Kianna say’s “They’re rad, they sound like a punk Alabama Shakes!”

11:40

8. High Up – “Two Weeks”
from: Two Weeks – Single / Independent / Octoner 7. 2015
[Debut single from High Up, recorded by Ben Brodin (Bright Eyes, First Aid Kit) at ARC Studios in Omaha, Nebraska. High Up is: Christine Fink, Orenda Fink, Greg Elsasser, Josh Soto, and Eric Ohlsson. Taking cues from classic soul and the indie rock roots of the members, High Up blends the genres to create a frenetic live show and sound that is at once old and new.]

Orenda Fink was also part of the band Azure Ray, label mates of Kianna Alarid, when she was part of the band Tilly and the wall on Team Love Records.

Tilly and The Wall released 4 albums and one EP and multiple singles on Taem Love Records (a record label founded by their friend Connor Oberst. The band toured the world, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, and Sesame Street.

More information at: http://www.weareyesyouare.com/

11:50

9. Yes You Are – “World Without End”
from: A Dream [EP] / Independent / November 8, 2015
[Yes You Are is: Jared White – songwriter, rhythm guitar, backup vocals; Kianna Alarid – songwriter, lead vocals; Jacob Temeyer – lead guitar, keyboards, backup vocals; Joseph Wilner – drums ; and Willie Jordan – bass guitar, back up vocals. Yes You Are lead singer Kianna Alarid was also lead singer and bassist for the critical acclaimed band, Tilly and the Wall, who released 4 albums on Saddle Creek Records, toured the world, and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman. After Tilly and the Wall ended, Yes You Are was formed in 2014. This past summer they toured nationally with Neon Trees and released their first music video. The band is currently working on their debut full length album.]

[Yes You Are play The Riot Room, Friday, January 22, at 8:00 pm with High Up, and Drugs + Attics.]

11:56

10. Under The Big Oak Tree – “Local Honey”
from: Rock Bird / Mudstomp Records / January 22, 2016
[Acoustic Folk – Country Roots from Saint Joseph, Missouri based band formed by: Kristin Hamilton, Doug “Sluggo” Ward, and Simon Fink. More info at: http://www.UnderTheBigOakTree.net%5D

[Under The Big Oak Tree play CD Release Party, Night II at Uptown Arts Bar in KCMO, Friday, January 29, at Uptown Arts Bar.]

11. Noel Coward – “The Party’s Over Now”
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003 [orig. 1957]


Next week, on Wed, January 27…

Michelle Bacon joins us to share information about: The Band That Fell To Earth, a tribute to David Bowie, at Knuckleheads Saloon, Sunday, January 31, at 8:00 PM featuring: Steve Tulipana, Nathan Corsi, Michelle Bacon, Kyle Dahlquist, Alex Alexander, Stephanie Williams, Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Rich Wheeler, Lauren Krum, Rachel Christia, and Andre Tudhope, performing the music of David Bowie live on stage.

At 10:30 we’ll talk with, artist, designer, entrepreneur, single mom, Wendy Scott of Kitshup Productions who joins us to talk about her candles, magnets, coasters and more; how she started her own unique home business, her theatrical design work at Kansas City Kansas Community College Theatre Department, her work as an art teacher.

At 11:00 singer songwriters, Doby Watson and Margo May join us to play live in our 90.1 FM studios.

And at 11:30 we’ll talk with members of the band Pink Royal.

Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org 


Show #613

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

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Yes You Are, Pontypool, Hiphot Killer, and Sara Glass

Mike Alexander & Hipshot Killer + Cody Wyoming & “Pontypool”
+ Sara Glass & C Woods + Kianna Alarid & Yes You Are

Mark plays new music from David Bowie, Hipshot Killer, Yes You Are, High Up, and more!

At 10:15 Mark talks with Mike Alexander of the KC based punk trio, Hipshot Killer. We’ll play music from the band’s brand new album, They Will Try to Kill Us All, released on vinyl on January 16, 2016. Hipshot Killer will play an album release show on Saturday, January 23, at 9:00pm, at minibar, 3810 Broadway, with The Big Iron, and Super Thief.

At 10:35 Cody Wyoming & John Rensenhouse join us to share information about “Pontypool,” an adaptation by Kimmie Queen and Cody Wyoming of a radio play by Canadian writer Tony Burgess which was an adaptation of his screenplay for the 2008 horror movie “Pontypool.” The play runs through January 31, at the Living Room, 1818 McGee. For more information call 816-533-5857 or go to http://www.thelivingroomkc.com.