Eight One Sixty

This time on the show we focus on Kansas City Folk Festival, coming up this Sunday, February 18 at the Westin Crown Center.  Americana/Roots/Folk musician Kelly Hunt (Kelly without the e) joins us in-studio and we hear three gorgeous studio tracks and a live performance.  Plus, hear music from others playing the fest, including Mary Chapin Carpenter, Crystal Rose, Olivia Fox, Grassfed and more!

On this show we sit down with special guest David George and preview his brand new album, "Lesson of Love". The album comes out on Friday, February 23 and he’s playing an album release show at recordBar that night. We talk about his new album, touring with John Fogerty, going on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Bruce Willis, Michael Jackson, Barbara Walters and more. It should be a good time. Also, hear new music from The MGDs, Y God Y, and Lily DeTaeye Music.

It is that time of year again!!! This show is all about Folk Alliance International. The event is FEBRUARY 14-18 and brings 3000 people from all around the world to see musicians from all around the world, and it all happens right in downtown KC at The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center. This is the 5th year the event has been hosted in KC and ask anyone that’s been, they’ll give you 5-star glowing reviews about their experience. It’s called FOLK but that’s a broad term and will be a topic for the show as we feature hip hop, electronica, world music, experimental guitar, soul music, Australian Aboriginal music and for good measure we play a couple “folk” songs too. We also talk logistics, give study tips and talk about our past experiences at the event. Hear music from these acts from all over the globe: Radio Free Honduras, Delhi 2 Dublin, Steve Poltz, Ali Holder, Yirrmal, Boogát, The War and Treaty, Disraeli, Daniel Champagne and Jeremy Dutcher. 

Hear music from several bands with upcoming gigs: The Grisly Hand, Foshee,Westside Royal, Payge Turner Music and The Kemps. Also hear brand new music from these bands who have upcoming gigs: Hi-Lux, Dusty Rust, Dreamgirl and Club Beverly. Folk Alliance International is Feb 14-17 and the Kansas City Folk Festival is Feb 18. We’ll hear from two acts playing that week: a 13-year-old from Nashville and a young man from Canada: EmiSunshine and Dylan Menzie.

It’s all about new music on this episode of the Eight One Sixty!  Sara Morgan will be stopping by with her with her guitar in hand and brand new album, “Average Jane”. We get a sneak peek of her brand new album that comes out this Friday at her album release show at Knuckleheads Saloon. We also hear brand new music from Momma's Boy (at The Riot Room on Friday), Mene Mene (at The Brick on Saturday) and Electric Orchids (at Uptown Arts Bar on Feb 17).

This time on the show we sit down with our special guest, RUBEO. Rubeo’s a KC based electronic music producer and he’ll share some new music with us. Hear some new music from X.WILSON, Dogteeth, Yanna and Sheven - who are part of a very cool show, My Posse In Effect: Beastie Boys Tribute live in KC 1/26/18 at VooDoo Lounge. We also play one of Chris' favorite electronic songs of 2017 from shallou.

For our first show of 2018 we sit down with special guest and band leader, Michelle Bacon to talk about the third annual David Bowie tribute show, by The Band That Fell To Earth. The big show is this Saturday night at recordBar and tickets are moving quickly. After the Bowie segment, we hear new music from Making Movies, The Phantastics, OLIVIA FOX, FACEFACE, Larsen, The Country Duo and Hot Suede.

We’ve invited three guests onto the show that Chris always see at concerts and who are great fans of The Bridge too! We sit down with Amber, who won volunteer of the year for The Bridge and KCPT – Kansas City PBS. We talk to Jen, who is a big concert goer and volunteer around town, and also Scott “front row Joe” Rohr, who is constantly leaning on the stage, right up front at SO many concerts. Our guests are picking the playlist AND answering our 7 QUESTIONS!

Chris' wraps up his "Best Of 2017" as we talk more amazing shows and music! Hear songs from Hembree, Katy Guillen and the Girls, Eems, Hermon Mehari, Berwanger, Momma's Boy, Making Movies, The Sluts, Alicia Solo, KD Kuro , Mess and Olivia Fox.

"Best of 2017" season continues this week on the EIGHT ONE SIXTY (Tuesday's at 6PM on 90.9 The Bridge). Chris plays some of his favorite songs of 2017 over the next two shows. Also, we’ll work our way back through the calendar and talk about our favorite shows of 2017 - maybe your favorite show is on our list too. It was a great year in music, hope you can tune in and catch the show. This week we’ll hear music from:Lennon Bone, Joseph Warren & the Wanderlust Revival, Golden Groves, Second Hand King, Fathers, Adam Scott York, Krystle Warren, Chase The Horseman, Emmaline Twist, Black Stacey and Run With It.