Wednesday MidDay Medley
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Iris DeMent
+ Local & New Releases + Apocalypse Meow 4

1. Deer Tick – “Main Street”
from: Divine Providence / Partisan Records / October 24, 2011
[from Providence, Rhode Island led by guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley]

2. tUnE- yArDs – “Gangsta”
from: W H O K I L L / 4AD Records / April 19, 2011
[the second studio release by Merrill Garbus’ experimental solo-project tUnE-yArDs. When performing live, Garbus creates drum loops on the spot, and layers these with ukulele, voice, and electric bass (played by Nate Brenner). tUnE-yArDs play the jackpot Lounge in Lawrence on Monday, November 7.]

3. Sterling Witt – “Broken Heart”
from: Shadows & Secrets / Bright Orange Records / 2010
[Sterling Witt will be in concert with his band The Evolution this Saturday Night, October 29, at Californo’s in Westport and then he embarks on a Southwest tour of Oklahoma, Texaz, New Mexico, and California throu November and most of December. More info at sterlingwitt.com]

10:13 – Underwriting

4. Gauntlet Hair – “Top Bunk”
from: Gauntlet Hair / Dead Oceans /Oct 18, 2011
[Gauntlet Hair out of Colorado, along with the KC bands: Minden and Beard Crazy with Les Izmore of Heart of Darkness. will open for Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Record Bar, on Sunday, October 30 at 8:00 PM, presented by Sonic Spectrum.]

5. David George – “Forever More”
from: Love / Life / Independent / August 3, 2010
[David George plays The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday Night, November 5, as part of Apocalypse Meow 4.]

6. The Caves – “Weekend Blues”
from: a track from the bands upcoming release; Duplexiaville / Independent / 2011
[Andrew Ashby of The Caves, performs a solo set on Friday, November 4, in a show featuring Knife Crime at the Midwestern Musical Company, 1830 Locust, KCMO, as part of Apocalypse Meow 4, an annual Benefit for the Midwest Music Foundation’s Musician’s Emergency Health Care Fund.]

10:30 – Interview with Sondra Freeman & David George

Sondra Freeman one of the organizers of Apocalypse Meow 4, an annual Benefit for the Midwest Music Foundation’s Musician’s Emergency Health Care Fund. David George is one of the musicians who will be performing on saturday Night at the benefit at the Riot Room.

Apocalypse Meow 4 – A Benefit for the Midwest Music Foundation’s Musician’s Emergency Health Care Fund

Friday November 4, 2011, from 7pm to 11pm at Midwestern Musical Co.
Saturday November 5, 2011, from 6pm to 2am at The Riot Room

Live music, music-inspired artwork, raffles & auctions

The weekend kicks off Friday, November 5th, 7pm, at Midwestern Musical Company (1830 Locust KCMO) with music by Andrew Ashby and Knife Crime. This First Friday event will also showcase music-inspired posters, photography and artwork by local Artists. This event is all ages and free, but donations are encouraged. A list of participating artists can be found at http://www.apocalypsemeow.net. A guitar donated by Tito’s Vodka is currently on display at Midwestern Musical Company and $1 raffle tickets can be purchased there prior to the drawing on November 5. Tickets will be available at Riot Room the night of the event. The Magical Meatball Tour will also be on hand with meatballs.

Saturday night, the festivities continue at The Riot Room (4048 Broadway, KCMO). The lineup includes Everyday/Everynight, White Girl, Appropriate Grammar, David George Band, Them Damned Young Livers, a special acoustic set by Maps for Travelers and more TBA. Hosted by Cody Wyoming and Bill Sundahl, the event will include raffles, auctions, and a spectacular bake sale. Jenny Kratz will be spinning tunes on the patio as well.

Apocalypse Meow is an annual fundraiser for the Musician’s Emergency Health Care Fund which hopes to help Kansas City’s uninsured working Musicians. Funds are now available to musicians in need. Grant applications and info: apocalypsemeow.net.

This year’s event is dedicated in memory of John McClure. John was an avid supporter of MMF and the Kansas City music community. He generously donated his amazing food each year for Apocalypse Meow musicians and volunteers, as well as several other events including a trek to Austin to feed over 30 area bands participating in the first MidCoast Takeover. He will be greatly missed.

Midwest Music Foundation was founded in 2008 as a non-profit dedicated to supporting the music community in KC and throughout the Midwest. More information can be found online regarding services and programming at: midwestmusicfound.org. More info at: apocalypsemeow.net or contact Rhonda Lyne at rhonda@midwestmusicfound.org or 816.830.0382

10:45

7. Everyday/Everynight –“Breathe Deep”
from: Etc. / Golden Sound Records / May 3, 2011 [Nominated for a Pitch Music Award for “Best Emerging Act.” Evan Ashby on Guitar, Mat Shoare on Guitar/Keyboard/Vocals, Austin Lyon on Drums, and Jerad Colton Tomasino on Guitar/Keyboard/Vocals The band includes three members who sing and write songs. Golden Sounds Records is a new local recording company who also release the music of Oriole Post and The Empty Spaces, as well as the solo works of Jerad Colton Tomasina and Mat Shoare. KC band, Everyday/Everynight play The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday Night, November 5, as part of Apocalypse Meow 4.]

8. The Latenight Callers – “The Tease”
from: The Latenight Callers / Independent / July 8, 2009
[The Late Night Callers who won a Pitch Music Award for best Emerging Act. The Latenight Callers are in concert tomorrow night, Thursday, October 27, at 11:45 pm, at the Record Bar 1020 Westport Rd, KCMO]

9. Paul Simon – “So Beautiful or So What”
from: So Beautiful or So What / Star con – Hear Music / April 12, 2011 [Paul Simon plays Thge Midland Theatre on Tuesday, November 8, at 7:30 PM.]

11:00

10. Atlantic Fadeout – “Traveling Girl”
from: Better Run of Bad Luck / Flyover Records / May 23, 2011 [Abigail Henderson: Vox, Guitar, Chris Meck: Guitar, Steel Guitar, Vox, Dutch Humphrey: Bass, Vox, Amy Farrand: Drums. ]

11. Kasey Rausch – “Grassroots”
from: Born Near Water / Independent / January 25, 2005
[Congratulations to Kasey Rausch and Travis Huffines, of The Buttermilk Boys, who were married in private ceremony over the weekend. ]

12. Betse Ellis – “Bear Ceek Sally Goodin’”
from: Don’t You Want To Go / Free Dirt / April 21, 2009
[Originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Betse Ellis is one of the founding members of Kansas City’s The Wilders, an internationally touring acoustic honky-tonk band, have been together for nearly 15 years. More information at wilderscountry.com. Betse recieved her BA Music from the University of Missouri -KC]

13. Iris DeMent – “Sweet is The Melody”
from: My Life / Warner Brothers / 1994
[Iris Dement will be in concert in a rare KC performance with her husband Greg Brown, on 11-11-11 at The Folly Theatre to honor and benefit United Inner City Services home of St. Mark Child and Family Development Center. For more info you can call the Folly Theatre Box Office at 816-474-4444 or visit: TicketMaster.com]

11:15 – Interview with Iris DeMent

Grammy Nominated Iris DeMent has performed at all over the world, at Carnegie Hall, Late Night with Conan Obrien, The Late Show with David Letterman, and the Grand Ole Opry. She was born in rural Paragould, AR, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her family moved to California, where she grew up singing gospel musicl. Upon graduating high school, she relocated to Kansas City to attend college.

After a series of jobs waitressing and typing, Dement first began composing songs at the age of 25. Honing her skills at open-mic nights, in 1988 she moved to Nashville, where she contacted producer Jim Rooney, who helped her land a record contract. She made her recording debut until 1992, with her release: Infamous Angel. Iris DeMent has collaborated with John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Nanci Griffith, John McCutcheon, Randy Scruggs, Tom Russell and Kansas City bus driver Gary Kirkland. Iris married singer-songwriter Greg Brown on November 21, 2002. They now both live together in Iowa. Dement will be in concert in a rare KC performance with her husband Greg Brown, on 11-11-11 at The Folly Theatre to honor and benefit United Inner City Services home of St. Mark Child and Family Development Center. For more info you can call the Folly Theatre Box Office at 816-474-4444 or visit: TicketMaster.com.

In the 2002 Iris DeMent performed in a benefit concert for The Friends of Community Radio and invited Greg Brown to open the concert at Unity Temple, later that year Iris and Greg were married in a private ceremony in the office of Rev. Sam Mann of St. Mark Church here in KC.

Iris first hear Sam Mann speak, in a broadcast on KKFI in association with the anti-war rallies beanbag held at the fountains near 47th and Broadway near the Country Club Plaza.

Sam Mann is the longtime pastor (now retired) from St. Mark Church and he is raising money to retire the mortgage on the St. Mark Child and Family Development Center.

This year Iris DeMent’s recording of “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” was included in the soundtrack, during the closing credits, of the Coen Brothers film, “True Grit.”

Kansas City is where Iris started her musical career. Singing in coffeehouses. She traveled to Nashville with encouragement form fellow musician friend, Jeff Black, to start her recording career.

One of Iris Dement’s early supporters and friends was Anne Winter, who even went out on the road with Iris.

For several years Iris has toured with John Prine and recorded three songs with him for his recording, “In Spite of Ourselves.”

Iris now lives in Iowa with husband Greg Brown.

Iris DeMent’s song, “He Reached Down” was inspired by a sermon delivered by Rev. Sam Mann.

Iris Dement will be in concert in a rare KC performance with her husband Greg Brown, on 11-11-11 at The Folly Theatre to honor and benefit United Inner City Services home of St. Mark Child and Family Development Center. For more info you can call the Folly Theatre Box Office at 816-474-4444 or visit: TicketMaster.com.

11:35

14. Iris DeMent – “He Reached Down”
from: Lifeline / Flariella / 2004
[Iris Dement will be in concert in a rare KC performance with her husband Greg Brown, on 11-11-11 at The Folly Theatre to honor and benefit United Inner City Services home of St. Mark Child and Family Development Center. For more info you can call the Folly Theatre Box Office at 816-474-4444 or visit: TicketMaster.com]

15. American Catastrophe – “Iron Horse”
from: Oxblood Records: First Blood Compilation / Oxblood Records / 2007
[Shaun Hamontree – Guitars, Vocals Terrence Moore – Guitars, Harmonica, Banjo, Backing Vocals Amy Farrand- Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals Eric Bessenbacher – Percussion. Amy Farrand of American Catastrophe will be featured in Sonic Spectrum’s singer/songwriter showcase at The Union on November 2 at 10:30 PM]

11:45

16. BCR – “Space Junk”
from: Speck of Dust / Sparkling Beatnik / December 31, 2004
[Black Crack Revue, the legendary Afro Nuclear Wavabilly Funk Swing Reggae Turska Band, will present their HALLOWEEN HULLABALOO at the R Bar & Restaurant, 1617 Genessee St, Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday, October 29, 2011 from 10:00 PM until 1:00 AM. The event will feature a Cosmo-Myth Costume Contest. The award-winning categories―Best Off-World (Sci-Fi, Steam-Punk, Cyber-Fetish), Best Crypto Mundo (Monsters, Dinosauroids, De-Evolution), Best Tantric-Liscious (Eroto-Fashionistas), Best Polyamorous Group (Come Maxi-dressed or as-you-are). The Black Crack Revue will feature original members since 1982 (Allaudin Ottinger, drums; Thomas Aber, reeds; Dwight Frizzell, reeds) with their inter-galactic bandmates (Julia Thro, guitar; Pat Conway, reeds and percussion; and Mark Thies, bass).]

17. Hearts of Darkness – “Space Age”
from: Hearts of Darkness / Shipshape Music / July 10, 2010
[KC’s very own: funk/soul/rock/hip-hop ensemble featuring: Les Izmore: Vox & Perc, Brandy Gordon, Rachel Robinson & Erica Townsend: Voices / Sean P Branagan: Drum Kit, Mikael Spears: Congas, Perc, Phil Keegan: Shakere, Aux Perc, Brad “Bad Brad” Williams: Percussion, Kit / Pete Leibert: Bass Guitar, Josh Mobley: Rhodes, Hammond, Clavinet, Mark Vick: Guitar 1, Jeff Harshbarger: Guitar 2 / Jolan Smith: Tenor Sax, Vox, Perc, Shawn Hansen: Alto Sax, Vox, Perc, Alex Smith: Alto Sax, Vox, Perc, Sam Hughes: Baritone Sax, Vox, Perc / Andrew Ford: Slide Trombone, Vox, Perc, Ken Walker: Valve Trombone, Vox, Perc, Bob Asher: Trumpet, Vox, Claves, High Kicks.]

[Hearts of Darkness is in Concert Saturday, October 29, at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, 3204 Main St KCMO.]

11:59:30

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

Sources for Notes: Artist’s websites noted above and wikipedia.org

Show #392