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KCUR 89.3 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.
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$16 Billion in the balance Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: Wick and The Tricks at Lemonad(e) Park (Courtesy | Todd Zimmer)
On a Friday night in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, comfortably distanced members of the crowd at Lemonad(e) Park tapped their toes and took in an evening of in-person live music.
Then, the skies opened up.
The night’s headliner, a local group called True Lions, didn’t even hit the stage. But if you asked a member of the medium-sized crowd shuffling to the exit in the downpour, they likely would have been happy to have seen any live music at all.
/ A stroll though Ewing and Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden is a fun, whimsical outing for the Kansas City introvert.
Cautious Kansas Citians can happily reconnect with the city they ve missed on their own terms. Here s how.
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I was in my early 20s when I hit my stride at parties.
As a pre-teen on the school cafeteria dance scene, all I had to do was bust a move like Young MC told me. But after that, small talk and mingling became prerequisites for having a social life, and it took a while to find my people and get the hang of it. Point being, these skills were learned and not quickly.