Author: Robert Trussell
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Folk Alliance International Celebrates Musical Activism
The timing couldn’t have been better. Months before we knew how the 2016 presidential election would play out, organizers at Folk Alliance International had chosen a theme for the annual conference this year in Kansas City — “Forbidden Folk – Celebrating Activism in Art.” Billy Bragg will be the keynote speaker as well as the headliner at the Kansas City Folk Festival on the final day of the public/private conference.
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Forrest Attaway: A Rebel Deserving Applause
Rogue. Nomad. Rebel. These labels describe the slightly larger-than-life persona of Forrest Attaway, an itinerant actor who drifted into town back in 2007. But they also describe many of the roles he’s played on Kansas City stages in the last nine years — by which he established himself as one of the city’s best actors.