Eight One Sixty

We’ve got a stack of new releases to share with you. But before we do that, we’ll dig into the hard drive and play some music from The Grisly Hand. Yesterday they announced, that after 15 years of being a highly celebrated band in Kansas City, they’re going to ride off into the sunset with one final show at The Ship on May 11. This will sell out fast, so go grab your tix now, I just bought four.

After that we’ll hear brand new releases from Danny Santell, The Creepy Jingles, The Phantastics, The Highwater, SiiR TRIP (featuring Love, Mae C.), Craig Smith (featuring Irv Da Phenom), Emiel Cleaver (featuring T. Blaze), cxrrxnt, Foxlin, and Timbers.

We’ll also hear a new one from The Village Prairie as they get ready to celebrate their album release show on Friday, March 15 at The RINO.

We’ll dive into a stack of new releases. Everything we’re playing came out in the last 4 weeks! We’ll also start the show with a brief recap of our time at the Folk Alliance International Conference this past weekend.

Tune in on Tuesday at 6PM via your radio dial or stream us live and hear new music from The Greeting Committee, Jo MacKenzie, IVORY BLUE, Honeybee (a new project with members of Blue False Indigo and Mess), Say That Again, Code Red teaming up with Shun Ann and NoLimit TC, Jeremy Nathan, Bquyet, Wizard Fan Club, yuzboy, Draper Family Band, and Copper Threading.

With special programming over the last two weeks, our pile of new releases is growing and we’re excited to share new music with you. Find us every Tuesday at 6PM on your radio dial at 90.9FM, steam us online, or via The Bridge app. If you miss the live broadcast, stream it from our archive on The Bridge site or app, or find us on Spotify - thanks!

We’ll sit down with Nick Carswell, an area musician that wears many hats. This week he is one of the organizers of a showcase of musicians playing at the Folk Alliance International Conference. This week, WED-SAT, thousands of musicians, music industry folks, and fans alike will visit Kansas City and watch hundreds of musicians from very literally all around the world play music at The Westin at Crown Center. In the evenings from 6-11PM the hotel ballrooms become concert halls and from 11PM-3AM the individual hotel rooms become tiny, intimate venues.

We’ll talk about and play music from some of the acts that are traveling to KC this week like Strange Boy from Ireland, Moneka Arabic Jazz from Toronto, Crys Matthews from Nashville, and Rainbow Girls from Portland. We’ll also hear new and recent releases from some KC area acts that are part of the event, Christena Graves, The Swallowtails featuring Miki P, and Bad Alaskan.

We’ll also hear a brand new song from a musician who visited KC last summer for Crossroads Music Fest, Elizabeth Moen - she’s back in KC this week playing at The Ship on Thursday.

At the start of the show, we’ll turn our attention to the tragedy and huge loss that Kansas City and the Kansas City music community suffered last week, Lisa Lopez-Galvan. We’ll talk about the radio show she co-hosted, A Taste of Tejano on KKFI 90.1 FM. Also, I would encourage you to tune into that show tonight at 8PM on your radio at 90.1FM or stream through their site. From their Facebook page about tonight's show, “we will reflect on the joy that our family member and friend brought to the world.” All of us at The Bridge love our radio friends at KKFI and can’t imagine what you’re going through. 

We’re celebrating KC’s back-to-back Super Bowl wins! The show will be a little different than normal, offering up an hour of great music for pre and post-parade gatherings. There will be way less of me talking and we’ll squeeze in music from 25 acts from the KC area and beyond.

Hear from these acts with upcoming gigs:

• Kemet Coleman of The Phantastics + Vine Street Brewing Co. popup at Nighthawk on Thursday, FEB 22 at 9PM

• Hembree on MARCH 8 at The Ship

• Six Percent with The Urge on APRIL 12 at The Madrid Theatre

• The Uncouth on APRIL 27 at miniBar

• Tech N9ne with The Kansas City Symphony on MAY 4 at The The Midland Theatre

We’ll also feature brand new celebratory releases from Broderick Jones and Martay, plus music from about 20 more acts.

We’ll dive into another pile of new and recent releases.

Hear from JK The Kid (a new project from Kate Cosentino), Apatunity, Front Porch, Tanner Agpoon, Ashley Ray, Phoebe Fray, corey dies in the end, M!SFIT, Elexa Dawson, The Whips, and The Highwater.