KC Cafe Radio Featured Presenter At Opening Night Extravaganza

January 26, 2014 – KC Cafe Radio will host one of the 9 music venues opening the 26th Annual Folk Alliance International Conference and Music Camp, on Wednesday, February 19.  The conference runs through February 24th, at the Westin Crown Center hotel in Kansas City, Missouri.  Performances begin at 8 PM (Central Time) in the Roanoke room, featuring the music of Kasey Rausch (8:00), Jonathan Fleig (8:20), Jefferson Fox (8:40), Mick Byrd (9:00), Conner Leimer (9:20), Dylan Russel (9:40), Brendan MacNaughton (10:00), Sky Smeed (10:20), Andrew Foshee (10:40), The Buttermilk Boys (11:00), Brody Buster Trio (11:20), and Molly Gene (11:40).

In addition to the KC Extravaganza Showcase on Wednesday night, public showcase events will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights during the conference.  A total of 200 juried performances will be available across 4 evenings.

The Showcase is a charity fundraiser and all ticket purchases are 100% donations to the Folk Alliance Scholarship Fund, Midwest Music Foundation, and the Casey Bill Weldon Headstone Fund.  A limited number of tickets are available, ranging from $25 for a single night, to $85 for all four nights of performances.  Tickets may be purchased from Eventbrite here.

The Folk Alliance Music Showcase is part of the annual International Folk Alliance Conference and Winter Music Camp taking place that week at the Westin and Sheraton Hotels in downtown Kansas City.  This is the first year that Kansas City is hosting the conference and camp, since Folk Alliance International moved its headquarters last summer from Memphis, Tennessee. to Kansas City, Missouri.