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.