Ahead of its star-studded three-hour 50th anniversary special on Sunday night, SNL kicked off the celebration with a special concert featuring top pop stars on Friday evening. In celebration of ...

Tipitina’s hosts “Freedia Gras” starring New Orleans’ Queen of Bounce, Big Freedia. The bill also features Robin Barnes x ...

Longtime local talent buyer Neill Smith and partner J.C. Cirese are opening Warehouse on Broadway, a 650-capacity club at ...

For the first time, organizers offered classes for competitors on Saturday afternoon. Judges for tomorrow’s competition taught the dancers some choreography ahead of the big event. The opportunity ...

Have any experiences changed the way you saw performing? One of my favourite gigs was when I was go-go dancing for SOPHIE & Friends back in 2019 at the Art School. Also [working with] people like ...

Neill Smith has served as talent buyer for just about every major music venue in Kansas City over the past 15 years: Riot Room, Czar Bar, RecordBar, the Midland, KC Live!, the Truman.

including recent Grammy-winning group Tank and the Bangas and headliner Big Freedia. The night of pride opened with the Beyjorettes – a Beyoncé-inspired dance and parade Krewe based in New Orleans.

finished his introduction, the Southern University Human Jukebox Marching Band paraded around the field to “Explode” by Big Freedia in the Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow and green ...

American music, in all its rich diversity, owes its very foundation to Black artists. From jazz and blues to rock, disco, hip-hop, and house, Black musicians have been the architects of the sounds ...