Wednesday MidDay Medley
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Calvin Arsenia in Concert on the Radio!
+ Writer & Journalist C.J. Janovy

10:00 – Station ID

1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Universal / Dec. 20, 1979
[WMM’s theme]

2. Jefferson Airplane – “White Rabbit”
from: Surrealistic Pillow / RCA – Victor / February, 1967
[Marty Balin – vocals, guitar, album design, Jack Casady – bass guitar, fuzz bass, rhythm guitar, Spencer Dryden – drums, percussion, Paul Kantner – rhythm guitar, vocals, Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar, vocals, Grace Slick – vocals, piano, organ, recorder. Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of counterculture-era psychedelic rock, the group was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve international mainstream success. They performed at the three most famous American rock festivals of the 1960s—Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969) and Altamont (1969) —as well as headlining the first Isle of Wight Festival (1968). Their 1967 record Surrealistic Pillow is regarded as one of the key recordings of the “Summer of Love”. Two hits from that album, “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit”, are listed in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.

10:05 – Interview with Bill Sundahl

14th Annual Crossroads Music Fest is September 8, 2018

Bill Sundahl is founder of Crossroads Music Festival and has been coming on this radio program for the last 14 years to share information about the music and venues and collaborations associated with Crossroads Music Festival – one of the longest running music festivals in Kansas City. Bill is also 90.1 FM KKFI’s Development Director, where he is constantly in motion, working to keep Community Radio alive! Bill joins us as to share details about participating artists, and special features, of this year’s CMF, on Saturday, September 8.

Bill Sundahl thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley

Since it’s inception in 2005, CMF has featured over hundreds of bands and attracted thousands of people to the Crossroads Arts District in Kansas City.

THE 2018 CMF LINEUP INCLUDES:

RADKEY & QUIXOTIC PERFORMERS – HEMBREE – HI LUX – BRANDON PHILLIPS & THE CONDITION – CUBANISMS – EEMS – GAMELAN GENTA KASTURI – GRAND MARQUIS – TAYLOR SMITH BAND – BCR – MY OH MY! – VOGTS SISTERS – VOLKER BROTHERS – FOUR SCORE – SUMMER OSBOURNE – COWTOWN COUNTRY CLUB – SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES – CADILLAC FLAMBE – VI TRAN BAND – CHAD ELLIOTT !!! MORE TO BE ADDED SOON !!!

The 14th annual Crossroads Music Fest is Saturday, September 8.

For more information you can go to: http://www.cmfkc.com or http://www.kkfi.org

10:10 – Underwriting

10:12 – Interview with Calvin Arsenia

Since 2014 we have been celebrating the music of Calvin Arsenia who came home to KC after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and released the EPs, Moments, Prose. Last year Calvin released his full length debut, Catastrophe, and a LIVE recording from Greenwood Social Hall. This year he released the EP Caviar to special guests who attended his show at Wickstock West in West Bottoms. Standing at 6 foot 6 inches, Arsenia’s powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, while playing piano, banjo, guitar and harp. Calvin has played Folk Alliance International, Kansas City Fringe Fest, Apocalypse Meow, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts, The Middle of the Map Fest., The Folly Theatre. Last year he undertook a three month US/European Outlyre Tour where he has played San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Edinburgh, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Lyon and Paris. Calvin Arsenia plays plays a special Album Release Show for his new album Cantaloupe, at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with special guest Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records.

Calvin Arsenia, thanks for being with us on WMM.

Calvin was our most played artist of 2017, and his release Castastrophe was in our Top Three of WMM’s The 117 Best Recordings of 2017.

Calvin has been traveling a lot this year. He participated in Escape to Create in Seaside Florida during the month of January. He has traveled to Australia, Gothenburg Sweden, Edinburgh Scotland. Calvin has spent time in Los Angeles recording songs for a new vinyl EP called “The L.A. Sessions,” that will be coming out on Bullseye Records sometime next year.

Calvin has also been working on his new full length album, Cantaloupe, and a special KC Release on September 15.

And Calvin And Simon Huntley are getting ready to go back on tour to Edinburgh, to Fringe By the Sea.

This year Calvin Arsenia was signed to the new Kansas City based music label, Bullseye Records started by Jim Andrews and Patrick Sprehe.

10:16

3. Calvin Arsenia – “Bleu” (LIVE)
also available on Calvin Arsenia’s EP Moments, released April 9, 2014

[Calvin Arsenia plays plays a special Album Release Show for his new album Cantaloupe, at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with special guest Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records.]

10:22

4. Calvin Arsenia – “Dance in The Rain”
from: “Dance in The Rain” – Single / (Unreleased Track) / from 2007
[Self recorded by 17 year old Calvin Arsenia who got his start making worship music for his church in Olathe, Kansas.]

5. Calvin Arsenia – “Jesus Loves Me”
from: “Jesus Loves Me” – Single / (Unreleased Track) / from 2007
[Self recorded by 17 year old Calvin Arsenia who got his start making worship music for his church in Olathe, Kansas.]

10:33

6. Calvin Arsenia – “Lullaby” w/ Sara Morgan
from: “Lullaby – Single / (Unreleased Track) / from February 22, 2006
[16 year old Calvin Arsenia & 17 year old Sara Morgan collaborated on music in the same church.]

10:37

7. Calvin Arsenia – “86”
from: Moments [EP] / Independent / April 9, 2014
[Calvin Arsenia was 24 when he released this EP after returning home to Kansas City after living and performing in Edinburgh, Scotland. Calvin works as a songwriter, composer, lyricist, producer, and engineer. Calvin Arsenia played live on Wednesday MidDay Medley on October 22. 2014.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays a special Album Release Show for his new album Cantaloupe, at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with special guest Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records.]

10:46

8. Calvin Arsenia – “Reflection #3” (LIVE)
Calvin Arsenia performing a harp instrumental of a piece that was originally improvised from a show in Edinburg that Calvin recorded o his cell phone and later transposed for a friend this year who asked him to recreate the piece for a performance.

Calvin Arsenia recently performed in a staged musical called “After Persephone” that was part of the KC Fringe Festival and was performed at Arts Asylum. All of the performances were sold out.

10:56

One of Calvin’s influences is Bjork

9. Bjork – “Generous Palmstroke”
from: Vespertine Live / One Little Indian / June 1, 2004

11:00 – Station ID

11:00 – Interview with C.J. Janovy

Writer and journalist C.J. Janovy joins us to discuss her new book, No Place Like Home – Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas, from University Press of Kansas. C.J. Janovy currently oversees digital content for 89.3 FM KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR affiliate, where C.J, has also reported on arts and culture. C.J. Janovy also served as Editor of The Pitch Weekly for over a decade. C.J. Janovy received her English Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and her Masters Degree in creative writing from Boston University.

C.J. Janovy shares her new book in a discussion that examines the evolution of LGBTQIA equality in Kansas on Wednesday, August 8, at 6:30 pm, at the Kansas City Public Library – Central Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City Missouri. You can RSVP at http://www.kclibrary.org

C.J. Janovy thanks for being with us on WMM.

Full disclosure: I’ve known C.J, Janovy since 1990 when she wrote a piece about Big Bang Buffet and The Spoken Word at Cafe Lulu for The New Times, one of Kansas City’s weekly newspapers of the 1990s. Many of the writers of The New Times migrated to The Pitch Weekly where C.J. served as Editor for over a decade. At one point The Pitch was owned by The Village Voice Media, and specialized in advocacy journalism.

C.J. transitioned from print media to radio when she began reporting for KCUR 89.3 FM. C.J. reported on arts and now oversees digital content at http://www.kcur.org

This book, No Place Like Home – Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas, is a gift. A gift to all of the people who have fought for equality in Kansas.

C.J. Janovy writes that this project began on June 26, 2013. The day of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.

C.J. Janovy spent over 3 years doing research for this book.

In her forward, C.J. mentions other books written about struggles for LGBTQIA Equality, in other states, realizing that the story of Kansas LGBTQIA activists needed to be told.

C.J. also refers to Frank L. Baum’s the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. The 1939 film version, starring Judy Garland has become a huge metaphor and symbolic piece for Gay folk everywhere.

Traveling through the story of LGBTQIA Equality in Kansas, C.J. shares the story of how Kansas has become more socially conservative from the mid 1970s to today.

This book comes out the same year as the Austin Williams documentary film, The Ordinance Project, which tells the story of how, “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 Kansas City’s history, galvanizing both supporters and opponents while exposing a social divide that is still felt today.” It eventually passed in 1993, after a three year struggle. That story parallels the stories in No Place Like Home, with similar ordinances eventually passing in Manhattan, Salina and Hutchinson, Kansas.

You can find more information at: http://www.cjjanovy.com where C.J. has posted a piece about Lea Hopkins, who is featured in The Ordinance Project.

No Place Like Home – Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas deals with Marriage Equality, housing and employment discrimination, Transgender rights, The Christian Right.

No Place Like Home – Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas features profiles of: Tiffany Muller, Sandra Stenzel, Diane Silver, Bruce Ney, Christopher Renner, Tom Witt, Bruce McKinney, Pat Munz, Kristi Parker, Stephanie Mott, LuAnn Kahl, Anne Mitchell, Lindy Duree, Tanya Jantz, Kristie Stremel, Isaac Unruh, Charlie Snook, Alley Stoughton, Cora Holt, Jonathan Mertz, Lukus Ebert, Sandra Meade, Kevin Stilley, and many others. These profiles are part of the action of this book, these activists all continually standing up for a more equal and fair world in which to live.

In her book, No Place Like Home – Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas, author C.J. Janovy gives special thanks to librarians: Tami Albin of The University of Kansas’s Under the Rainbow: Oral Histories of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Intersex and Queer People in Kansas, and Stuart Hinds of GLAMA The Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America at The University of Missouri-Kansas City

C.J. Janovy shares her new book in a discussion that examines the evolution of LGBTQIA equality in Kansas on Wednesday, August 8, at 6:30 pm at the Kansas City Public Library – Central Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City Missouri. You can RSVP at http://www.kclibrary.org

11:24 – Underwriting

11:26 – Interview with Calvin Arsenia & Simon Huntley

Calvin Arsenia plays an album release show at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records. More information at: http://www.calvinarsenia.com

Also with us is: Simon Huntley who is a lighting designer, drummer, percussionist, engineer. He works as head percussionist with Quixotic. He serves as head lighting technician at The Folly Theatre. Simon will be traveling again with Calvin throughout Europe on an upcoming tour, starting tomorrow.

Calvin Arsenia, Simon Huntley, thanks for being with us on WMM.

11:28

J. Ashley Miller and Simon Huntley are the producers of Calvin’s new album, Cantaloupe, recorded at various recording studios around Kansas City

10. Jametatone – “Shadow Projecting”
from: Frog In The Pot / J. Ashley Miller / December 21, 2017
[New 10-song album from Jametatone, the solo project of J. Ashley Miller who also records with his band as Metatone. J. Ashley Miller is the 2016 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award Fellow. He is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. His genre-bending trans-modern work has been performed everywhere from YJ’s to the Kauffman Performing Arts Center, to the MoMa PS1 in NYC. Ashley utilizes a diverse range of technologies, techniques, and collaborators to access obscure facets of the human emotional landscape. You can view more of Ashley’s work at http://www.jametatone.com.]

11:32

11. Calvin Arsenia – ” Poseidon” (Live)
Calvin Arsenia on harp and vocals, Simon Huntey on percussion
also available on Cantaloupe / Bullseye Records / September 15, 2018 (KC Release)

11:40

Calvin was recently signed by Bullseye Records a new record label formed in Kansas City by Jim Andrews and Patrick Sprehe.

12. Calvin Arsenia – “Don’t Explain”
from: L.A. Sessions / Bullseye Records / expected Spring 2019
[Written by jazz singer Billie Holiday & Arthur Herzog Jr. Billie wrote “Don’t Explain” after her husband, Jimmy Monroe, came home one night with lipstick traces on his collar. Recorded by Holiday in 1944.]

11:45

13. Calvin Arsenia – “Equally”
from: Cantaloupe / Bullseye Records / September 15, 2018 (KC Release)

[Calvin Arsenia plays a special Album Release Show for his new album Cantaloupe, at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with special guest Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records.]

Calvin Arsenia also plays The Mark Music Show 2.6 An Evening With Calvin Arsenia, hosted by The MARK and St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran, Saturday, September 29 at 7:30 PM at St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran, 3800 Troost Ave, KCMO

11:48

14. Calvin Arsenia – “Headlights”
from: Cantaloupe / Bullseye Records / September 15, 2018 (KC Release)
[First single from Cantaloupe]

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

11:56:30

15. Calvin Arsenia – “Tip Toe (Radio Edit)”
from: Caviar EP/ Calvin Arsenia / December 5, 2017
[Produced for attendees at Calvin’s “Secret Show,” Tuesday, December 5, at Wickstock West, 1324 West 12th Street, in The West Bottoms, and for supporters of his Outlyre Tour. Words and Music by Calvin Arsenia. Produced by Jametatone, Simon Huntley and Calvin Arsenia. Recorded at The Infoaming Vertex. Since Calvin Arsenia came home to KC after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, he has released his EP, Moments, in 2014, and his EP Prose in 2015, and his Folk Alliance exclusive EP Catastrophe in 2016. On February 14, 2017 Calvin released his critically acclaimed full length debut, Catastrophe. Calvin Arsenia premiered these songs in a live show at recordBar in November 2016 in a stage show that involved a company of 50 people, dancers, stilt walkers, special lighting, back up singers, guest artists. Calvin released Live at Greenwood Social Hall from his June 11, 2017 live performance at Greenwood Social Hall, 1760 Bellevue. In the late Summer and Fall Calvin went on a three month US/European Outlyre Tour where he has played San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Edinburgh, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Lyon and Paris, in over 40 shows, with musician and friend Simon Huntley who plays with Quixotic. Since 2014 we have been celebrating the music of Calvin Arsenia. Calvin is a graduate of Artist INC.]

[Calvin Arsenia plays plays a special Album Release Show for his new album Cantaloupe, at The Gem Theatre, 1615 East 18th Street, KCMO, on Saturday, September 15 with special guest Krystle Warren and others, presented by Bullseye Records.]

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

Next week, on August 8, Marion Merritt returns as our Special Guest Producer. Marion will share tracks from: R+R Now, Kamasi Washington, Bernice, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Super Elcados, Ty Segall and White Fence, J.M. Black and more. Also next week, we’ll talk with Kansas City based singer songwriter, Una Walkenhorst who plays Songs For Justice: A Benefit for the Midwest Innocence Project, Monday, August 20 at 7:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO with Instant Karma, and Blue False Indigo.

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

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C.J. Janovy photo by: John Janovy, Jr.