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As spring weather kicks in, live music calendars in Kansas City are filling up faster than they have in a year. Here, a crowd watches the jazz and hip hop group Brass and Boujee perform outside Union Station.
Many cautiously optimistic music lovers are venturing out for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic put the live music industry in critical condition.
As afternoon turned to evening on Friday, Shenya Robinson and two friends sat in lawn chairs under the skybridge in the shadow of Union Station.
It was Robinson’s birthday, and she celebrated with her first live concert since the COVID-19 pandemic changed nearly everything for everybody.