Chuck Haddix

Musicians Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt started playing as Betse & Clarke, a fiddle and banjo duo, in late 2014. Their latest album is called River Still…

The Hammond B-3 organ is one of the most recognizable sounds in American music. Kansas City musician Chris Hazelton plays that instrument on his new…

Blues musician Patrick Recob has played with lots of touring bands, and recorded with some of them, over the last 25 years. And, for nearly a decade, he…

For three decades, Kansas City singer/songwriter Mark Montgomery has played guitar, bass, and harmonica in blues and jazz bands — and he’s also a…

Kansas City trumpeter and tap dancer Lonnie McFadden has been performing since he was in grade school.He’s known as half of the act called The McFadden…

Kansas City blues and soul singer Danielle Nicole has a new release, her second solo album, called “Cry No More.” For this latest recording, Nicole said…

Kansas City songwriter Amanda Fish has just proclaimed herself “Free.” That’s the title song on her newly released sophomore album, after 2015’s “Down in…

Trumpeter Hermon Mehari, 31, is a Missouri native, who’s now based in Paris.In 2010, Mehari graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City…

“Winter Soulstice” includes an almost all-Kansas City cast of musicians, including saxophonist Todd Wilkinson, singers Allena Ross and Wanda Jae, and trumpeter Chris Van Leeuwen.

D.C. Bellamy, a popular band leader on Kansas City blues stages, grew up in Chicago listening to his half-brother, Curtis Mayfield, rehearse with the Impressions in their living room. Bellamy’s own songs were recorded by stars such as Coco Montoya and Otis Clay, and he toured with the Chi-Lites, the Staple Singers, Bob Seger and others.