Folk Alliance International hosts their huge annual conference in Kansas City and it’s coming right up next week Wed – Sun ( 17-21) and I’m doing it up in style. I’ve got an official showcase (whoop dee do) and I’m producing a Private Showcase Room Extravaganza. I’ll be hosting a bunch of wonderful artists and doing sets myself with Eric Andersen, Bill Kirchen, David Olney, Freebo, Happy Traum and a few surprise guests. FAI takes over the whole dang Crown Center – The Westin and The Sheraton and the place is crawling and resounding with folk music folk. Agents, Promotors, DJ’s, Publicists, Managers, and …. Artists …. lots and lots of artists… all looking to enhance their careers.
The Official Showcases are held in the meeting rooms and ballrooms on the Mezzanine floor and 1st floor and the Private Showcases (sometimes called guerrilla showcases) are held in the hotel rooms on the three floors reserved for this menagerie. My room “Banana From The Youngbloods Presents” will be Room #749. So here’s my little ode to FAI.