Fifty years ago, a musical group called the Les Humphries Singers was having huge success with the song “Kansas City.” It had reached No. 2 on the German charts and No. 1 in Switzerland, and the ...

Ten years ago on a cold dark night of the soul, Freight Train Rabbit Killer began its life as a scary band/opera/near-death experience for Kansas City music fans. This Halloween season, there's a ...

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Morgan Freeman and the Kansas City Symphony are getting ready to bring the Blues to the Kauffman Center of the Performing Arts. It’s “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues Experience.” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — June is Black Music Month ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KMBC) — It’s more than just blues music. It’s a story of struggle, soul and historic sound. And an iconic actor is helping to tell that story across the country. He played the voice ...

Samantha Fish, a blues guitarist originally from Kansas City, poses in front of a mural of her on Frenchman Street in New Orleans on Thursday, Jan. 30. Hannah Ruhoff Sun Herald Chiefs in the Big Easy: ...