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WTJU Feb 14th, 2021 | By Nathan Moore
Musical Diversity, Music Discovery
Imagine a small city where literally every man, woman, and child is a folk musician.
That’s how many artists we’ve played in WTJU’s folk department. Over the last decade, WTJU’s folk & roots shows have played music from more than
14,000 different artists.
From those artists, we’ve played more nearly 77,000 unique tracks from more than 47,000 different albums.
Whatever the opposite of “Top 40 Radio” is, that’s us.
That’s because WTJU is about eclectic music and adventurous listening. WTJU’s dozens of volunteer hosts have a passion for this music. They follow it down rabbit holes, finding old favorites, deep cuts, and new sounds to share with our community.
“I sing their names . . .,” writes Kansas City poet Glenn North.
His words are one of several contemporary voices joined in a new, 44-page book that collects the more than 70 biographies that the Kansas City Black History Project team has researched and shared with the Kansas City community since 2010.
“I sing of… Langston and Parker, Ms. Bluford and Mary Lou, Old Buck, Leon Jordan, Horace and Bruce . . .”
Every year, the project told the stories behind seven or eight of the names hidden by time. It gathered them in booklets and posters that were given to schools, libraries and other public spaces used by teachers, librarians, mentors and parents to raise up a neglected history.
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