The new year brings positive thoughts as the country prepares to welcome a new president, and a vaccine promises an end to the cultural depredations of the pandemic.
Arts News: Jazz Age Lives on at Lonnie’s Reno Club
In an interview with “Feast” magazine, the club namesake and accomplished musician, Lonnie McFadden, said, “I decided to name it after the Reno Club, a place in Kansas City where Count Basie made a name for himself...”
“London Williams & Izsys Archer: In Truth, Black Angels,” Haw Contemporary
The riveting installation “London Williams & Izsys Archer: In Truth, Black Angels” at Haw Contemporary in the West Bottoms is angelic by virtue of its emotional accessibility and vulnerability.
Singer-Songwriter Karrin Allyson Headlines Rescheduled 40th Folly Jazz Series
Jazz instrumentalists are known for taking a melody and running with it — and often taking the listener to places far more mesmerizing and memorable than the source material.
The Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography’s annual “Current Works” exhibition is now on view on the lower level of the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.
William Baker Festival Singers in “Candlelight, Carols & Cathedral”
Honoring the event of the birth of Jesus Christ, William Baker Festival Singers offered their annual holiday service in these mixed-up times, a hybrid of tradition, technology and making do.
