Eight One Sixty

This time on the Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge we become Kansas City Folk Festival Radio! The 5th annual fest is happening in Washington Square Park (near Crown Center) on Saturday, May 30. It’s a FREE, family-friendly event from 11AM-7PM featuring 20+ acts on 3 stages.
On the show we’ll have special guests, some of the fest producers, Mikal Shapiro, Les Izmore, and Rachel Christia - some fine folks! We’ll talk about the fest, some logistics, and acts on the lineup.

Tune in and you’ll hear music from these acts on the lineup:
• Sisterbot at 11AM on the People’s Stage
•  Flutienastiness at Noon on the KC Stage
• Julia Haile at 1:00PM on the KC Stage
• Adeta Marie at 2:30 PM on the People’s Stage
• The Freedom Affair at 3PM on the KC Stage
• Melissa Ferrer Civil at 3:30PM on the People’s Stage
• Kaia Kater at 4:45PM on the KC Stage
• Jamogi at 5PM on the Grassroots Stage
• Trevor Turla at 6:00 PM on the Grassroots Stage
• Reach at 6:00 PM on the KC Stage

We’re hanging out with our friends from Manor Records talking all about Manor Fest 8 . Manor Fest is celebrating their eighth year as a fest. The fest features 60 bands, in 20 venues, over eight days, May 20-23 and May 27-30.

The founder of the fest, Shaun Crowley, and other fest organizers James Miller and Dorian Allen, will also join us. Musician, Aige Rue, who has brand new music to share and is playing Manor Fest on May 22 will also join us. It should be a good time and the love of KC music will be immense.

During the show, we’ll talk about the fest, logistics, where to go and when, and we’ll hear music from these acts on the lineup:
• Lauren Lovelle, MAY 20 The Greenwood Social Hall at 9PM
• toasterbath, MAY 22 Blip Roasters at 5:45PM
• Hailes, MAY 22 The Black Box at 9PM
•  Aige Rue, MAY 22 The Ship at 10PM
•  Field Daze, MAY 23 at Pitchside Coffee 4:30PM
• Natalie Prauser, MAY 23 Brewery Emperial at 5:45PM    
• Paris Williams, MAY 28 at J. Rieger & Co 9PM  
• Jazlyn Epps MAY 29 at Vine Street Brewing Co. at 10PM
• FlareThaRebel, MAY 30 at Kemper Museum at 2:30PM
• Fritz Hutchison, MAY 30 at Downtown Library 4:25PM
• The Greeting Committee, MAY 30 at Current Landing 9PM

We sit down with The Royal Chief, he put out one of our favorite EPs last year and has followed it up with more great music. He's got a big show on Saturday, May 9 at recordBar with a group of acts playing together under the name, The Coalition (The Royal Chief, NOLIMIT TC, Shay Lyriq, Scorpio SZN). We'll talk about that show and hear music from those acts.
We'll also talk about The Royal Chief's collab with the KC Streetcar and KC Current. He's part of the upcoming celebration on May 18 with the extension of the Streetcar to the Riverfront.

After that, we'll try and squeeze in a couple of new releases from Bobcat Attack, OkCasheyy x BabyKayy, and Savanna Chestnut & Dallas Pryor. 

It's a very full show and it should be a good time.

We welcome in special guest Lava Dreams who is part of a great lineup on a fundraiser show for Band Of Angels at Vine Street Brewery on Saturday, May 16. Also on the lineup are Jass, Shay Lyriq, and DJ CQUENCE.

We’ll talk about that fundraiser event, play music from those acts, and hear about other projects that Lava Dreams has been working on lately.

After that we’ll hear some new releases and three of them have upcoming gigs:
• Solohawk, April 30 at Lansing Correctional Facility, May 1 at Hillsiders, May 2 at Northside Social
• WRKER, May 1 at Lemonade Park for Lemonade Social Weekend, May 1 and 2
• The Royal Chief, May 9 at recordbar
And we’ll hear a brand new one from Saadia Siddiqua.

I’m really excited about this one. Tuesday at 6PM on the Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge we sit down with FlareThaRebel aka Jeffrey Shafer. He’s got a brand new album coming out on May 1 called Dear City. On the show he’ll share most of the new album with us and the stories behind the songs. Folks, I’ve listened through the album three times, it’s so good!

Everyone in this promo artwork is part of the album or the upcoming album release show on May 1 at recordBar. Eddie Moore and Black Light Animals will open the show and I’m guessing a "who’s who" list of special guests will be on stage that night.
Depending on how much we talk, we’ll hopefully play most of the album, as well as hear music from Eddie Moore and Black Light Animals. And since it’s Flare’s first visit to the show, we’ll do a 7 Questions segment.

Today at 6PM on the Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge we’ll work our way through a stack of brand new music.

 
We’ll hear from these acts with upcoming gigs:
• The Country Duo, April 17 at MOD Gallery in The Crossroads
• The Shandies, May 15 at The Greenwood Social Hall
• Jack Summers, May 23 for Manor Fest 8  at Brewery Emperial

And we’ll also hear brand new selections from Field Daze, HAOO x BodaciousThang, OLIVIA FOX, Kate Cosentino, Grant Klein, Joshua James and The First Aid Kit, Asia Tsion, and Stik Figa x Heather Gray.

 
We’ll also talk about some other upcoming shows and probably chat about what we saw on the Coachella livestream from this past weekend.

We dive into a stack of new releases. And as a bonus, several of those acts have upcoming gigs:

Creepy Jingles - April 10 at The Brick w/ Hello Biplane (album release show) and KC Bear Fighters
Brandon Draper - April 10 at Jazz Walk in Lindsborg, KS
Back Alley Brass Band - April 11 (album release show) at The RINO
Miss Kush - April 14 at Black Charlie’s (Raytown)
Josephine Eve - April 17 at Twisters Grill and Bar (Bonner Springs)
Danny McGaw - April 29 at The Early Show at BLVD Beer Hall and just announced at KC Irish Fest on SEPT 4-6
Paris Williams - May 20–23 and May 27–30 as part of Manor Fest
Danielle Nicole - June 20 at Knuckleheads

We’ll also hear new music from You Monster You, Ty Faizon, and a new collaboration featuring Waxahatchee with Brennan Wedl.

We’ll kick the show off with a classic from Mates of State, who are back in KC this week playing a FREE show at Uptown Theater on April 9, along with Owen - you should go!

We welcome in special guest and guest DJ, Krystle Warren. She’s one of our absolute favorite musicians and she’s back in America for three upcoming performances at Union Station Kansas City of And Wonder with Krystle Warren with Owen/Cox Dance Group on April 10, 11, and 12.

As I was preparing for this show I asked Krystle if she wanted to guest DJ and she said YES! As she was stuck in an airport with delayed flights, I sent her these questions and she made a playlist:
• what are you listening to right now that you love, that might be newer?
• what are your go to songs/albums when you have a moment of free time, and want to listen to again?
• when you need motivation/inspiration, what do you turn to?
• a song from an act that you saw in concert and it was an amazing night
• and maybe flip that, what musicians/bands are still bucket list acts for you to see live?

And of course we’ll play a couple songs from Krystle Warren’s catalog, too!

I’m so excited to see where the radio show goes on Tuesday at 6PM. And I’m also excited to see Krystle back on stage in KC on April 10, 11, and 12 at Union Station.

We welcome in special guest, Neill Smith from Warehouse On Broadway. This
weekend marks their 1 Year Anniversary, the year flew by!

To celebrate their first anniversary they’ve got two big shows this weekend:
• Friday, March 27 Band of Skulls with Ghostwoman
• Saturday, March 28 Roman Numerals with support from Emmaline Twist,
The Sluts, and Pimp Magic Guts - Warehouse On Broadway's 1st
Anniversary Party w/ Roman Numerals + More!!
We’ll dive into those shows, talk about them, and hear music from acts
on those lineups. We’ll also preview some other upcoming shows on
their calendar:
• Friday, March 27 Spring Reggae Jam (in Sound Bite at WOB) Featuring
Inity, Joe McGuire, and House of Dub
• Friday, April 3 Vandoliers
• Tuesday, April 7 The Menzingers with I Am the Avalanche

We’ll also talk about our favorite shows from the first year of the
venue and hear music from one that blew us away and maybe we’ll get
some secret insight into upcoming show announcements.
 

We welcome Natalie Prauser. Into the studio We’ll talk about her new album, hear a couple songs from it, we’ll preview The Early Show at BLVD Beer Hall that she is playing on Wednesday, and we’ll also wish her a Happy Birthday! (Tuesday is her actual birthday!)

On the show we’ll also hear music from The Swallowtails and Lauran Prauser, who along with Natalie Prauser, and others are part of the lineup of the free concert happening at BLVD Beer Hall every Wednesday at 6PM, now through the end of April - it’s called The Early Show:
03/18/26 Natalie Prauser
03/25/26 The Swallowtails
04/01/26 Dames of the Dead
04/08/26 Womanish Girl
04/15/26 Found A Job
04/22/26 Lauren Lovelle
04/29/26 Danny McGaw

On the show we will also be honoring Women’s History Month, we’re playing an all-femme playlist. We’ll hear new and recent recordings from Kate Cosentino, Kirstie Lynn, Lava Dreams, and Charmaine. We’ll also hear one from Samantha Fish who has a show at Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino on May 8.