The Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge is broadcasting LIVE from the Beer Hall at Boulevard Brewery with special guests, Back Alley Brass Band.

We’re a month out from Boulevardia and tonight is a pre-party for the big fest happening on June 14 and 15 at Crown Center featuring over 60 acts, on 5 stages, over the 2-day event.

Back Alley Brass Band has been busy gigging and releasing a brand new EP and we’re going to play the entire album on show tonight and talk about it.

We’ll be up on the 4th floor, for the FREE all-ages show. Doors open at 5PM, we’re on live from 6-7PM and then catch a free concert from Back Alley Brass Band at 7PM. Beers, NA drinks, sodas, great food, and snacks are available in The Beer Hall and the building is surrounded by free parking.

We’ll focus on two upcoming events happening in Kansas City and hear music from acts on those lineups.

First up, we’ll talk about and play music from acts on the annual 2-day event, Lemonade Social, happening this Friday and Saturday at Lemonade Park in The West Bottoms. Friday and Saturday will each feature four acts as well as a day party on Saturday called Sabados. We’ll hear music from EBONY TUSKS, Monta at Odds, Black Light Animals, and a brand new song from Hotel Leo that releases this Friday.

Then we’ll take a look at and dive into the annual 2024 KC Folk Fest, happening on Saturday, May 18 at Washington Square Park in downtown KC. The event features live music, art, a market, poetry, dance performances, and so much more. We’ll hear music from these acts on the lineup: Arquesta Del SolSoul, Madisen Ward, Elexa Dawson of Weda Skirts, and Love, Mae C.

Then we’ll wrap up and hear a song from Arson Class, as featured in the 11th release from the Too Much Rock series of singles. This project is all made possible by the great Sid Crowder as he’s an amazing supporter of KC music and has been curating this series of releases for years.

We will sit down LIVE with The Grisly Hand, play some of our favorites from their catalog, and talk about their FINAL show coming up on May 11 at The Ship. It’s called The Grisly Hand Jubilee: Celebrating 15 Years of Music & Friendship. It should be a good and emotional show, also Sarah Bradshaw will be part of the broadcast.

Today at 6PM on the Eight One Sixty radio show on 90.9 The Bridge, once again we’re diving into a stack of new releases from Kansas City area musicians and bands.

We’ll hear new music from these acts with upcoming gigs:

• Kadesh Flow on Saturday, May 4 as part of Hip-Hop & Hot Wings at Vine Street Brewing Co.

• Little Miss Dynamite on Saturday, May 4 at Tall Trellis Brew Co. in Olathe at 25600 W Valley Parkway

• Critterz on Sunday, May 5 at Theis Park (across from The Nelson) along with Papa Huey and The Utilitarians

• Danny McGaw on Friday, June 7 at Blind Box BBQ at Village West

• The Greeting Committee on August 17 at The Midland

We’ll also hear from a couple of non-KC acts playing big shows in KC very soon:

• William Elliott Whitmore on THIS Friday at recordBar - don’t miss this show!

• Paul Cauthen collaborating with Sierra Ferrell and Diplo - catch Paul Cauthen at Boulevardia on June 15 and catch Diplo at Kelce Jam on May 18 at Azura Amphitheater

Also on the roster for today’s show is music from Clearfight, Jo MacKenzie Music, Claire Adams, and Chris Canipe.

We’re diving into a stack of new releases. We’re just over 100 days into 2024 and we’ve already logged 400+ releases from KC musicians and bands and we love that we get to share that music with you on the show.

On the show, we’ll hear new releases from these acts with upcoming shows:

• Monta on Wednesday, April 17 along with AL1CE, Moon17, and DJ Proof at The Bottleneck

• Waxahatchee on Thursday, April 18 at Uptown Theater

• Lonnie Fisher on Friday, April 19 at The Nest on Ninth at The Oread in Lawrence

• Schwem on Saturday, April 20 at Throwback in Westport

• IVORY BLUE on May 10 at Englewood Arts in Independence

We’ll also hear new music from Run With It featuring The Royal Chief, Roxi Jane, Monogram featuring Paris Williams and Ty Faizon of Blackstarkids, and Jeremy Nathan.

We’ll also hear new music from Chase Horseman and their work on creating the score for the film, Head Count. And as the lineup for Kansas City Irish Fest was announced last week, we’ll hear from Elias Alexander, who just won over new fans at Folk Alliance International back in February, and he’ll return in August for this year’s KCIF.

We’ll dive into a stack of new releases by Kansas City musicians and bands. We’ll swim across several genres and play 11 songs during the broadcast.

We’ll hear music from Kate Cosentino, cxrrxnt, Doubledrag, The Highwater, Dizzy Wright and Irv Da Phenom, Eddie Moore, Kadesh Flow x Gr3ys0n x Shwabadi, Treanne, Honeybee, Glass Bandit and The Distant Note.