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August 3, 2022

Bird Fleming: The joy and power of drumming

Bird Fleming has a message, which he expounds as a musician and as founder and artistic director of the Traditional Music Society: Drumming represents civilization itself.
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July 19, 2022

Tosin Morohunfola: Telling Our Stories

As he embarks on the most ambitious project of his career, L.A.-based actor and filmmaker Tosin Morohunfola remains true to his Kansas City roots.
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May 19, 2022

Noted Composer Brings Fresh Ears to Hospital Noise

The ability of music to relax and soothe is well documented. No one explores and exemplifies that more than Paul Rudy, composer and music professor at UMKC.
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April 28, 2022

‘Coffee Intertwined with Conversation’ – The Vietnamese Way

Actress, activist, former barista, and soon to be the proprietor of the first Vietnamese coffee shop in the Midwest, Jackie Nguyen landed in Kansas City after she lost her starring role in “Miss Saigon” when the production’s Broadway tour was cancelled due to COVID-19.
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April 4, 2022

Honors: Victoria Botero

A soprano hits the high notes. The highest. Victoria Botero has been doing that since she settled here in 2002.
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March 31, 2022

Arts News: Heartland Arts KC Fuses Art and Social Change

Logan Myles Stacer has big hopes and plans for Kansas City and the Midwest, all revolving around the intersection of art and public policy.
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March 3, 2022

New Opera Showcases its Promise at the Blue Room with Funding from Opera America

The $12,500 OPERA America IDEA award made possible a workshop reading of "God • Sib’s Tale: A Folk Opera" on Saturday, Jan. 8, at The Blue Room by Nedra Dixon and Pamela Baskin-Watson.
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January 11, 2022

Arts News: UMKC Conservatory Launches Music Program at Lansing Correctional Facility

Musicambia, a non-profit that works with universities and prisons all over the country to bring music into correctional facilities, launched its first program in Sing Sing in New York in 2017 serving 32 inmates.
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December 1, 2021

Artist to Watch: Vanessa A. Davis

She shone in Kansas City Actors Theatre’s reading of “The Women.” She’s done music videos for Making Movies, Grizzly Bear and Not a Planet, as well as corporate videos, including one during the pandemic for UMB’s education department.
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