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The Tasty Brew
“The Tasty Brew” is an eclectic mix of roots music formed by the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical melting pot.
Who knew so many songs in one Itunes Library could be about early mornings and coffee? Diana Linn was surprised to find more than enough to make a fine playlist to start your day. Includes will be tunes from the likes of Greg Brown, Claude “Butch” Morgan, Glenn Tillbrook, Prince, Steve Earle, Suzy Bogguss, Joe Diffie, Eva Cassidy, Grant Peeples, The Honey Island Swamp Band, Jamey Johnson, Parker Millsap and many many more.
Also joining Diana Linn in the studio will be fellow KKFI Programmer Mark Manning to share information about an upcoming fundraising event in support of KKFI – Black Sheep Rising…Formed by Mark Manning, Ron Megee, and Janice Woolery in 1990 to provide venue for original works in performance art, spoken work, theatre, satire, music, and visual arts, Big Bang Buffet performers met during Monday night performances of The Spoken Word at Cafe Lulu on West 39th Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
The first Big Bang Buffet show was September 17, 1990. It was a benefit for ACT UP/KC on the night of a national ACT UP demonstration against the American Medical Association, at the Downtown Barney Allis Hotel (now Marriott). ACT UP members from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, came to KC to protest and many were arrested. Big Bang Buffet’s “post demonstration-performance art party” was staged at The Cabaret, on Main Street, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Between 1990 through 2005, Big Bang Buffet created over 100 different productions including; “Birmingham’s Book Burnin’ Barbeque” and “The Fired Up Fruitcake Bake-Off” for Culture Under Fire Week; “The Stan and Fran Fundy Show,” and “Every Gay People,” at The Club Cabaret; “Nasty Sally Seersucker” at Lou Jane Temple’s loft space in Columbus Park; “Voodoo Annie,” and “Slightly Effeminate Men,” at Quality Hill Playhouse; “Upstage Downtown” at The Midland Theatre; and “The Children of Karen Carpenter” for The Kansas City Fringe Festival.
Big Bang Buffet has performed on the stages of The Unicorn, The American Heartland, Mel’s Art Space, The Hobbs Building, The Writer’s Place, Phoenix Books, Harling’s Upstairs, The Farm, Just Off Broadway Theatre, Southmoreland Park, The Franklin Center, The Crossroads, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Unity Temple on The Plaza, Drexel Hall, and 90.1 FM KKFI. Big Bang Buffet shows were produced to benefit organizations like: ACT- UP/KC, The Human Rights Project, Good Samaritan Project, KC Free Speech Coalition, SAVE Inc., Passages, Planned Parenthood, Missouri NARAL, KC Free Health Clinic, ACLU, and other AIDS service, human rights, and equality organizations.
Core contributors of Big Bang Buffet include: Ron Megee who in 1995 created Late Night Theater; Beth Marshall who moved to Orlando, Florida in 1995 and became Producing/Artistic Director of Orlando Fringe Festival and is now celebrating 10 years as Producing Artistic Director of her own theatre company, Beth Marshall Presents; Lisa Cordes currently serves as Director of Artist Inc.; Mark Manning created and coordinates The KCK Organic Teaching Gardens, and Janice Woolery who left performance, has studied with the seminary and also became a marathon runner.
Big Bang Buffet, presents, “Black Sheep Rising,” Tuesday, April 11, at The Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Rd, KCMO. (KC Flea Market – Enter from back, parking area.)
