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Megan Leong, Featured Artist for Summit Art Festival
Each year, the Art Festival Director chooses a featured artist to create a piece of artwork to use in promotional material for the Art Festival. Leong was chosen this year because of her artistic talent, her creative piece of artwork she chose to make for the feature, and her love of Lee’s Summit. “I grew up in Lee’s Summit, so it is where many [of my] memories and growing experiences took place,” said Leong. “It is a place that I feel very cared for and supported.”
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As the American Jazz Museum turns 20, ‘The Legacy Plays On’
Before the American Jazz Museum opened in 1997, it could be difficult for jazz lovers to connect with the golden era of Kansas City jazz in the 1920s and 1930s. In the late 1990s, outstanding local musicians performed regularly at clubs around town — just as they do today — providing proof plenty of how lively the jazz scene is here for a metropolitan area as small as ours.
