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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Salty + Jamie Rich, Austin Williams & David Weeda
+ Out Here Now Kansas City LGBT Film Festival

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

2. RIDE – “All I Want”
from: Weather Diaries / Wichita Recordings / June 16, 2017
[5th album, and the band’s first new studio album in 21 years. Ride are a British rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence “Loz” Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the “shoegazing” scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other projects, most notably Bell who became the bassist for Oasis. In 2001, the band briefly reunited for a one-off performance for a television show. Ride announced their second reunion in November 2014. Their debut album Nowhere has been named one of the greatest albums of the shoegazing genre. “Much like their contemporaries My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, the 2010s see the return of these innovative juggernauts, who appear just as much in shape as ever. Mark Gardener’s vocals are steeped in palpable emotion, reinforced in tonality by echoed guitars and washy, lofty drumming, and an underlying bed of synthesizers provides a rich foundation for expansive solos. While Ride may have only recently reunited, their influence on music is undeniable, and it’s truly special to see the trailblazers of a genre continue to prove why they’re so influential in the first place.” – Terrorbird]

3. Slights – “Why Cats Purr”
from: Rough Mixes For Demo / Independent / February 7, 2017
[Slights is a collaboration band between Ben Parks and Matthew Dunehoo. In late January, 2017 the band recorded an album in San Francisco with Ryan Kleeman and their friend Andrew Skikne on bass. Their new music was recorded at Ghost Cat Studios in San Francisco.]

[Slights, play miniBar, Saturday June 24, with Head of Femur, Varma Cross, and Kids and Chemicals.]

4. Wonderface – “Tokyo”
from: Tokyo – Single / Powerhouse Music / June 16, 2017
[Wonderface is DJ’s Stevie Appels & Fritz Nijman from Amsterdam, Netherlands ]

5. Joe Jackson – “Fit”
from: Beat Crazy / Universal / October, 1980
[David Ian “Joe” Jackson was born August 11, 1954. He is an English musician and singer-songwriter. After years of studying music and playing clubs, Jackson’s first release, “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” became a hit in 1979. This was followed by a number of new wave singles before he moved to more jazz-inflected pop music and had a Top 10 hit in 1982 with “Steppin’ Out”. He has also composed classical music. He has recorded 19 studio albums and won 5 Grammy Award nominations throughout the course of his career.]

[Joe Jackson plays Kansas City at The Uptown Theatre, on Friday, June 23, at 8:00 PM.]

6. Black Stacey – “Electric Woman”
from: Electric Chariot / Sharaden Staten / June 2 2017
[Black Stacey is Sharaden Staten, a Missouri native, whose music brings the spirit of “Electric Church” to the Midwest. Sharaden, a 25-year-old, having grown up in the back woods of central Missouri, and couch surfed his way into the KC metro, pairs subtle notes of R&B, funk, soul, and rock; dramatically blending it into a raw eclectic mix. In 2015 Sharaden began writing, recording and producing Black Stacey’s debut, “Electric Chariot”. A project that has given him a solid foundation in the KC music scene, gaining him spots on local radio and the opportunity to work with producer Joel Nanos (Madisen Ward and The Mama Bear, Radkey, Sly/Robbie & the Taxi Gang). More infor at http://www.blackstacey.com.]

7. Old Sound – “Weight On Our Minds”
from: Rain Follows The Plow / Independent / February 2014
[Greg Herrenbruck on bass & vocals; Grady Keller on mandolin, acoustic guitar & vocals; Chad Brothers on acoustic guitar & vocals. Recorded and produced by Phil Wade at his studio: Alluvial Fan Studios.]

[Old Sound plays Jazz on West 39th, Thursday, June 22, at 7:00 PM]
[Old Sound plays Stockyards Brewing Company, Sunday, June 25, at 3:00 PM]

8. The Sluts – “On The Radio
from: Only One / The Sluts / May 25, 2017
[New 5 song EP from the Lawrence Kansas based band The Sluts formed by Ryan Wise & Kristoffer Dover in 2011.]

[The Sluts play The Riot Room Patio on Saturday, July 15, at 8:00 PM]

[Anderson East play Union Station, 30 West Pershing Rd, Saturday,June 24, at 6:00 PM as part of the 7th Annual Maker Faire, with Chris Meck & The Guilty Birds.]

10:30 – Underwriting

10. Salty – “Damaged Glandz”
from: Preservation Blues / Independent / February 8, 2017
[Salty is formerly know as Lil Toughies. Formed in early 2016 with Jonathan “JB” Brokaw on guitar & vocals, Zach Turner on synthesizers & sound terror, Andy Erdrich on bass, Ethan “macho man” Savage on drums. Recorded by Jonathan Brokaw. Mixed by Tim Harte and Jonathan Brokaw. Mastered by Tim Harte. all lyrics by Jonathan Brokaw. The current line up includes: Jonathan “JB” Brokaw on guitar & vocals, Zach Turner on synth & sound terror, Ethan “macho man” Savage on drums, Jesslay Huh on bass & texture. ]

10:35 – Interview w/ Salty: Jonathan “JB” Brokaw, Ethan Savage, Jesslay Huh.

Jesslay Huh, Jonathan Brokaw, and Ethan Savage of Salty

Salty is Jonathan Brokaw (JB) on guitar and vocals, Zach Turner on synthesizers, Ethan Eckert on drums, and Jesslay Huh on bass. Salty plays The Blind Tiger, 3945 Main Street, on Thursday, June 22, with Radioactivity, Bad Sports, and The Whiffs at 9:00 PM.

Jonathan “JB” Brokaw, Ethan Savage, Jesslay Huh, thanks for being on WMM.

Zach Turner couldn’t be with us as he was working in the kitchen at Eden Alley.

Salty – The band was formed from a retooling of Lil Toughies. Lil Toughies was a built from Jonathan’s need to have a band to exorcise the weird ideas that were building up in his head after the collapse of All Blood. All Blood is the moniker of Jonathan Brokaw’s solo project that was at one time a collaborative effort with Zach Turner, Zach Campbell and Justin Baird. Jonathan recently made available All Blood songs in a new release on Bandcamp.

Preservation Blues was Mixed by Tim Harte and Jonathan Brokaw. Mastered by Tim Harte. All lyrics by Jonathan Brokaw.

Jonathan explains, “Our misanthropy comes from a place of love, we all enjoy food and water and we’re excited to find our music in the future dustbins of history.”

Misanthropy is the general hatred, dislike, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. The word’s origin is from the Greek words μῖσος (misos, “hatred”) and ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos, “man, human”).

11. Salty – “0% Survival Rate”
from: Preservation Blues / Independent / February 8, 2017

More info at http://www.saltykcmo.bandcamp.com

Salty plays The Blind Tiger, 3945 Main Street, on Thursday, June 22, with Radioactivity, Bad Sports, and The Whiffs at 9:00 PM.

12. Salty – “High Tension”
from: Preservation Blues / Independent / February 8, 2017

12. Todd Allbright – “My Money Never Runs Out”
from: Detroit Twelve String Blues & Rags / Third Man Records / March 10, 2017
[Todd Albright is a Country Blues, finger-style guitar player and singer living in Detroit, Michigan. Playing on 6 and 12 string guitars, Todd brings to life an era composed of, among others—Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sylvester Weaver, Blind Blake, and Big Bill Broonzy, throwing in the occasional John Fahey number for good measure. Todd’s history playing the Blues reaches 23 years, though he does not remember a time that a guitar wasn’t in his hands. He first heard the Country Blues at the age of thirteen, thanks to a gifted John Lee Hooker record from his sister. The experience was a profound one—the Blues felt right, and he immediately became a self-taught student of the genre aiming solely to interpret the sounds of the masters. Todd has performed across the Midwest both as a solo musician and alongside his band of 20 years, The Staving Chain, which specializes in the Delta Blues.]

[Todd Albright plays Records With Merritt, 1614 Westport Rd, 8PM w/ Mikal Shapiro]

11:01 – Station ID

13. The Housemartins – “Think For A Minute”
from: London 0 Hull 4 / Go! Discs / October 1986
[Debut album from The Housemartins, an English jangle pop band formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s. Many of the Housemartins’ lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton’s beliefs at the time (the back cover of London 0 Hull 4 contained the message, “Take Jesus – Take Marx – Take Hope”). The group’s cover version of the Isley Brothers’ “Caravan of Love” was a UK Number 1 single in December 1986. Norman Cook on bass & vocals; Hugh Whitaker on drums & vocals; P.d. Heaton on lead vocals, guitar, harmonica & melodica; Stan Cullimore on guitar & vocals]

[From the soundtrack of the film Handsome Devil playing the OUT HERE NOW KC LGBT Film Fest. Thursday, June 29 at Tivoli Cinema]

11:04 – Interview with Jamie Rich, Austin Williams and David Weeda

The annual Out Here Now: Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, begins tomorrow June 22 and runs through June 29 at Tivoli Cinemas in Westport.

For the past eighteen years, Jamie Rich has served as the festival director for the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, the city’s oldest and best-attended community film program. He coordinates the marketing and special screenings at the Tivoli Cinema in Westport, including the popular Open Circle Spiritual Cinema Series. Through his consulting company, Rich Relations, he has assisted numerous individuals, community groups and businesses with all facets of event production, marketing and organizational development. He was one of the the founding organizers of The Westport Center for the Arts, and the Cornerstone Foundation at Unity Temple on the Plaza. Jamie served for five years as the Center Director for the Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Kansas City, and was also the founding president of the Heart of Westport Neighborhood Association.

Also with us is Austin Williams, a UMKC doctoral student seeking an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in American History and Educational Leadership, Policy, and Foundations. Austin is collaborating with UMKC’s Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid America (GLAMA) and the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, he is currently working on an oral history project, Responding to AIDS: Kansas City (1981-1995), and a documentary film, The Ordinance. His research focuses on the Kansas City activists and politicians who supported and opposed a series of ordinances introduced in the early 1990s designed to protect gays, lesbians, and people with HIV/AIDS from experiencing discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

Also with us, is one of the real life people, who’ll be featured in Austin’s new documentary. 25 years ago David Weeda was on the front lines of the struggle to pass The Human Rights Ordinance. David was influencial in motivating the LGBT community, allies, and helping to build a political base and political action effort for equality. David Weeda was the Director of Jon Barnett’s political campaign for City Council in 1991. He was co-founder and former director of The Human Rights Ordinance Project. David Weeda was named “Civil Libertarian of the Year” in 1994 by the Western Missouri/Eastern Kansas chapter of the ACLU. And The Missouri House of Representatives issues a resolution citing his work as an activist. since 2003 David Weeda has lived in Bucksport, Maine. Last year David was a National Delegate for Bernie Sanders at the DNC in Philadelphia. David is back in Kansas City for opening night of the KC LGBT Film Festival, and a special reception tomorrow night, Thursday, June 22 at 6:00 pm in the Tivoli Cinema lobby in support of The Ordinance Project, where you can meet Austin, David, Jamie, and others.

Also joining us was Actor, Playwright, Director, Dramaturg, Radio Host/Producer of The Tenth Voice (Saturdays at 1:00 PM on 90.1 FM KKFI), and volunteer with the Out Here Now KC LGBT Film Festival, Mr. Philip ‘blue owl’ Hooser

This is the 18th year of the Festival. The KC LGBT Film Festival hosts a reception Thursday, June 22 at 6:00pm in the Tivoli lobby where you can meet Austin, and David, and unite with community. Just after that at 7:00pm, director Josh Howard will introduce the Film Festival’s opening night screening of the, award-winning documentary, THE LAVENDER SCARE.

Thursday, June 22
The Lavendar Scare – GLAMA / KC Human Rights Commission – 7:00PM
“In a Heartbeat” animated short film

Friday, June 23:
Before Homosexuals at 1:30 PM
Man Love Matinee at 4:15 PM
Signature Move – Legacies of Lesbian Literature – 7:00 PM (Chicago)

14. Fawzia Mirza – “Signature Move” (2:04)

Saturday, June 24
Forbidden: Undocumented & Queer in Rural America – KS/MO Dream Alliance 11:00 AM

15. Moises Serrano – “Forbidden” (1:21)

The Untold Tales of Kansas City – Joel Barrett 1:00 PM
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin 2:45 PM
Friends & Lovers 4:45 PM
Something Like Summer – Jay Bell & Ben Baur in attendance – 7:30

Sunday, June 25
Global Voices 1:00 PM
Apricot Groves – KC Film Fest – 3:00 PM
A Million Happy Nows 5:00 PM
The Orinthologist 7:00 PM

Monday June 26
Laughing Out Loud 5:45 PM
Hello Again 7:45 PM

Tuesday, June 27
Truth Is 5:45

16. Jake Graf – “Short Film” (1:11)

A Date For Mad Mary – KC Center For Inclusion – 7:45 PM

Wednesday June 28
Queer Youth Rising – KC Passages – 5:45 PM
Center of My World 7:45

Thursday June 29
Shorts Competition 5:45
Handsome Devil 7:45

Eight Days of Films – Tivoli Cinemas at 4050 Pennsylvania, KCMO
More info on all the films in the festival at: http://www.outherenow.com

11:30 – Underwriting

11:23 – Interview with Jamie Rich, Austin Williams and David Weeda

The following information is taken from Austin’s bio and from http://www.theordinanceproject.com

UMKC doctoral candidate, Austin Williams shared plans to produce and direct an upcoming documentary film, THE ORDINANCE, telling the story of KCMO Ordinance 65430, to prohibit discrimination based on HIV-status and sexual orientation in Kansas City.

Austin has spent the last year and a half studying Kansas City’s efforts to pass anti-discrimination legislation for members of the LGBT community. With the help of Stuart Hinds and the staff at The Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA), Austin has pored through thousands of primary sources and digitized dozens of hours of VHS footage.

Austin has been blessed to meet many of the activists and politicians directly involved in Kansas City’s fight for civil rights. People have invited me into their homes and shared their stories over cups of coffee. THE ORDINANCE PROJECT is our collective effort to capture their memories on film.

Collaborating with UMKC’s Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid America (GLAMA) and the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival, he is currently working on an oral history project, Responding to AIDS: Kansas City (1981-1995), and a documentary film, The Ordinance.

His research focuses on the Kansas City activists and politicians who supported and opposed a series of ordinances introduced in the early 1990s designed to protect gays, lesbians, and people with HIV/AIDS from experiencing discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

As Austin writes, “it was one of the most highly contested pieces of legislation in Kansas City history. It marked a turning point, after which discrimination against gays and lesbians could no longer be ignored, and it demonstrated how homophobia and the fear of AIDS were not only intertwined — they were inseparable.” Next year marks the 25th Anniversary of “sexual orientation” being added to Kansas City’s Civil Rights Ordinance. More information at http://www.theordinanceproject.com

At the height of the AIDS crisis, the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri debated whether or not to amend its Civil Rights Ordinance to prevent discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and people with HIV/AIDS.

It quickly became the most highly contested piece of legislation in KC’s history, galvanizing both supporters and opponents while exposing a social divide that is still felt today. This is a story that must be told, and the time to tell it is now.

Who is already involved with the project?

Jon D. Barnett: Co-founder of ACT UP/KC & Human Rights Ordinance Project
Michael Bates: Former Director of the Kansas City Human Relations Department
Joanne Collins: Former Kansas City Council Member
Jim Giles: Community Volunteer & Co-founder of UMKC G & L Student Alliance
Stuart Hinds: Curator of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America
Carl Hippensteel: Member of Pink Triangle Political Coalition and ACT UP/KC
Lea Hopkins: Christopher Street Association
Jim Hull: Co-Founder of ACT UP/KC
Carolyn MacDonald: Longtime LGBT Community Ally
Kay Madden: Co-founder of Pink Triangle Political Coalition
Mark Manning: Co-founder of the Big Bang Buffet
Linda May: Co-Chair of Mayor Cleaver’s Commission on Lesbian and Gay Concerns
Steve Pierce: Gay Talk & Committee Member of The Greater Kansas City AIDS Council
Bill Pryor: Noted Kansas City Filmmaker
Keith Spare: Longtime LGBT Community Activist
Jamie Rich: Director of the Kansas City LGBT Film Festival
David Weeda: Co-founder of the Human Rights Ordinance Project (HROP)

David Weeda was on the front lines of the struggle to pass The Human Rights Ordinance. David motivating and organized the LGBT community, allies, and helped to build a political base and political action effort for equality, where there had not been one. (The following information was from David’s own biographical notes he shared with us.)

David Weeda graduated from Leavenworth Senior High School in 1977, graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education, Voice Concentration with a Choral Conducting Emphasis, from Emporia State University in 1981. David began working for the Endowment Association at Emporia State. He traveled all over Kansas establishing community scholarship funds.

David moved to Kansas City in 1983 and started Highland Bagpipe lessons. David also started at Johnson County Community College for a Hospitality Management AA. He immediately became affiliated with Kansas City Nuclear Freeze later renamed Peace Works, with Lynn and Chris Cheatum and others. David also volunteered with the Choice Coalition of Greater Kansas City, doing “counter-picketing” every Saturday morning at Planned Parenthood of Greater Kansas City.

In 1988 David went through Good Samaritan Project volunteer training. it was at this training where he met Jon Barnett. He and Jon also became involved in helping to start an ACT UP/KC group in Kansas City.

In 1989, Mike Bates, Director of KCMO Human Relations Department, invited Jon and david to provide testimony before the Finance Committee in support of an ordinance which would provide non-discrimination protection based on HIV-status. Following our testimony, Mike asked us about pursuing adding sexual orientation as a protected class to the same ordinance.

Human Rights Ordinance Project was born and initially operated as an affinity group of ACT UP/KC. Both Jon and David co-directed HROP and simultaneously took jobs with Lesbian & Gay News-Telegraph — and opened the Kansas City office of the News-Telegraph. David served as the executive director of Human Rights Project through the passage of 3 municipal ordinances, and ultimately the defeat of the Amendment Coalitions state-wide Constitutional initiative campaign.

David Weeda was a volunteer for Jon Barnett’s political campaign for City Council in 1991.
He was co-founder and former director of The Human Rights Ordinance Project.

David was named “Civil Libertarian of the Year” in 1994 by the Western Missouri/Eastern Kansas chapter of the ACLU. The Missouri House of Representatives issued a resolution citing his work as an activist.

In April 1999, David turned 40, and what was supposed to be a year-long, cross-country journey changed, when David found love and ended up living in Provincetown from 1999 to 2003 working for the Center For Coastal Studies. In 2003 David moved to Maine to pursue developing his Bed & Breakfast.

Last Summer David was a National Delegate for Bernie Sanders at the DNC in Philadelphia. He playing his bagpipes for Bernie after he spoke at our group breakfast with the Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine delegations.

David wrote on facebook: “I am so proud and thrilled that historian/filmmaker Austin Williams is putting together a book and documentary project that will impart the important story of our work in Kansas City 25 years ago which resulted in municipal laws which prohibit discrimination based on HIV-status and sexual orientation.”

“We mobilized, energized and activated our community. We developed coalitions, educated the electorate, campaigned for equality, justice and truth. . . and changed our city and many lives. As the co-founder and former executive director of Kansas City’s Human Rights Project I was privileged to join hands, link arms and share tears, laughter and success with so many wonderful allies in this work! This is an important story from our past; and chronicling it through a documentary film will ensure its impact on future generations!”

“In nearly every speech I made, op-ed piece I wrote, and live interview I gave, I tried to acknowledge the motivation for our work; the next generation of LGBT youth should not have to struggle to love who they are in a society that oppresses their self-esteem, questions their dignity, demeans their worth and crushes their humanity. Our world has come a long way — yet we all know that this work is never over!”

The public can help with The Ordinance Project – visit http://www.theordinanceproject.com

17. Grant Davis – “Us”
from: Something Like Summer Motion Picture Soundtrack / Independent / 2017
[Grant Davis is 18 years old and is a native of Carson City, Nevada. He now lives in San Diego. He has packed a lot of experience into his young life, and it showed in the multiple auditions he had to undertake for the role of Ben Bentley in the film Somethng Like Summer.]

[Something Like Summer at Out Here Now KC LGBT Film Fest, Sat, June 24, 7:30 at Tivoli Cinemas.]

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

Next week, on June 28 Bill Sundahl joins us to talk about COLLABORATIONS, the big 90.1 FM Fundraiser at the Folly Theatre on June 30. Plus we welcome members of Soul Revival. Ivory Black joins us live in our 90.1 FM Studios, and Anna Selle joins us to share information about her new print + digital publication called HearQueer featuring interviews, reviews, stories about queer identifying musicians and a portion of our proceeds will be going to local organizations working to protect and advocate for the queer community. HearQueer launches June 30, at Mills Record Company featuring Erica Joy and Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type.

Our Script/Playlist is a “cut and paste” of information.
Sources for notes: artist’s websites, bios, wikipedia.org

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