Today we bring you 2024 Folk Alliance International Conference performers from the US, Wales, England, Sweden, Australia, Norway, and Canada, including: Louisa Stancioff, The Trials of Cato, Northern Resonance, The Weeping Willows, The Langan Band, Julie Alapnes, Julie Alapnes and Fotefar, Rant (with Julie Alapnes), Rakish, Maggie's Wake, and Rachael...
The Folk Alliance Conference is the world's largest gathering of the folk music industry and community. This year it was held in Feb here in KC and, as always, we heard way more music than we could fit into one Foolkiller Folk show. We start off our second program with the...
Everybody who goes to the annual Folk Alliance International Conference has an individualized experience, so every KKFI DJ who was there will bring you a different show. This is Part 1 of what Mark & Val heard. This Sunday we bring you Kaia Kater, Shane Hennessey, Bon Debarras, Sara Curruchich, Le...
Sadly, there just isn't time to hear everything you want to hear at a Folk Alliance Conference. So Mark & Val are finally (given that the Conference was in January) closing out the last part of our 5 part Folk Alliance Conference series with artists we wish we'd heard, but...
Yes, indeed - we heard a ton of music! Today we kick off our fourth (and final) 'What We Saw at Folk Alliance' with The Armagh Rhymers, one of Val's absolute favorites from the Conference. The Armagh Rhymers need to be seen to be believed. One of the most celebrated...
Yes, indeed - Mark made it all the way through to KKFI's own Shapiro Brothers at 2:30 AM on Thursday. Valerie did not. So only Mark got to hear Ordinary Elephant, Jenna Mammina and Rolf Sturm, and Shapiro Brothers) in their private showcases, but we all get to hear them...
Had a bit of a crazy week during the Folk Alliance so unfortunately, I wasn't able to spend as much time down there as I had hoped. But I did make it down on Saturday evening and caught a bunch of great bands from all over the country. It was more...
