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September 20, 2019

Bring on the (Native) Funk – The Mother Earth Ship Has Landed

It was the 1970s. George Clinton’s Funkadelic blistered the airwaves. Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love” had hit Billboard’s top 5, a first for a Native American band. Like thousands of other American teenagers, Preston Singletary dreamed of life on the stage making music — until a detour in the mid-’80s led him down a new path.

September 20, 2019

Winston Holmes: Kansas City’s Unsung Entrepeneur

The legacy of local entrepreneurs in Kansas City goes as far back as Francois Chouteau, who established a trading post at present-day Kansas City in..

September 20, 2019

Gallery Glance: Aretha Aoki & Ryan MacDonald: “Wind in the Pines” at KCAI Crossroads Gallery

Beginning in mid-October, the Center for Contemporary Practice program at the KCAI Crossroads Gallery presents husband and wife artists Ryan MacDonald, a KCAI alum, and..

September 18, 2019

From Page to Stage

We chatted with Steven C. Kemp, the set designer for our first opera of the season, Mozart’s comedy The Abduction from the Seraglio. This new-to-Kansas City production comes to the Kauffman Center September 21-29 and was first seen at New Orleans Opera in April 2019.

September 18, 2019

Call For Entry: Helping Artists and Art Venues Find Each Other

Last February, artist Mike Lyon agreed to co-curate “Look Me in the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City,” which is scheduled to run Sept. 15 through..

September 18, 2019

Kansas City Jazz Orchestra – Cotton Club Revisited, October 11th at Helzberg Hall

Cab Calloway. Bessie Smith. Lena Horne. Duke Ellington. For a couple decades starting in the 1920s, these legendary performers put on some of their greatest..

September 17, 2019

Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company Presents “Southern Exposure”

This fall, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company restages its 2010 work “Southern Exposure” with the help of a $10,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. “With all of these things that have happened in the past few years...I thought it was time to revisit it again, in a slightly different perspective,” said Mary Pat Henry.

September 16, 2019

Arts News | Midwest Chamber Ensemble’s Third Album: A Francophile Delight

This summer, Midwest Chamber Ensemble released its third album: “Vieux Amis-Nouveaux Costumes” (Old Friends in New Clothes). It’s a Francophile delight. The album features works..

September 16, 2019

Fine Performances Elevate KC Rep’s Take on a Hot-House Classic

Well, now. Kansas City Repertory Theatre dishes up a gleaming Cadillac production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” deftly directed, elegantly designed and festooned..