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Wednesday MidDay Medley
Wednesday MidDay Medley plays with themes and special events. The show features new releases, local artists, glam, indie, punk, funk, folk, hip hop, classic country, jazz, lo-fi, electronic, soul, latin, broadway, cuban, african, ambient, and live in-studio performances from area musicians, performers, and writers.
Wednesday MidDay Medley
Produced and Hosted by Mark Manning
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Spinning Records With Merritt
+ Vi Tran’s THE BUTCHER’S SON
Mark welcomes Marion Merritt, of Records With Merritt, who joins us as Guest Producer and Guest Co-Host, to share information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Marion will spin tracks from: The Acid, Viet Cong, Curtis Harding, Cassandra Wilson, me’shell ndegeocello, Hercules and Love Affair, Officer!, Timber Timbre, Chicago Underground Duo, Carrots, Ex-Hex, Caribou, and more.
At 11:15 we’ll talk with Vi Tran and Mackenzie Goodwin about, THE BUTCHER’S SON – A Refugee Play & Performance Memoir by Vi Tran, and directed by Mackenzie Goodwin. Vi Tran uses drama, spoken word, slam poetry, and folk music to tell the harrowing autobiographical account of his family’s escape from Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, through Khmer Rouge-controlled Cambodia, the refugee camps of Thailand and The Philippines, to their eventual arrival and new life in America. Performed in The Buffalo Room at Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd., August 6-11, 14, 15, 17, 18, with evening performances at 8:00 pm, Sunday matinees at 2:00 pm. For more info: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/758209
After 18 years as Manager of the Music Department at Barnes & Noble on The Plaza, Marion Merritt, left to pursue a dream and this year she became the owner of Records With Merritt, 1614 Westport Road, Kansas City, Missouri 64111. More info at: www.recordswithmerritt.com
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