Center Cuts Episode 31: 2021 Retrospective

Center Cuts

Please join hosts Patrick Sprehe and Michelle Bacon along with producer Chris Mowry as they reflect on the year that was 2021. For this retrospective episode, each of them brought one area for improvement in the Kansas City music industry to the forefront as they discussed the need for change and ways to address the issue.

Center Cuts produced 22 episodes in 2021 (the goal is 2 per month on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month) which included Michelle Bacon's Station To Station. S2S goes behind the stages, venues and studios of Kansas City's musical landscape as Michelle chats with fellow music professionals about their passions, careers and experiences in an ever-evolving industry. We have included some music from each of her guests:

Khrystal - "Her Eyes"

Julia Haile - "Revolution" from Hi-Lux

Nan Turner - "Truth Teller" from Schwervon!

Heidi Phillips - "I Did" from Frogpond

Addie Sartino - "Ada" from The Greeting Committee

Each of the Center Cut episodes was packed full of conversation and information, and here we have included the segments which focused on the guests' thoughts about areas of improvement for the Kansas City music industry:

Diana Ennis - Heartland Song Network/90.1 KKFI

Jennifer Roe - Folk Alliance International

Judy Mills - Mills Record Company/Wise Blood Booksellers

Jackie Becker - Eleven Productions/Mammoth Productions

James McGee - Mutual Musicians Foundation/American Jazz Museum

Chris Haghirian - 90.9 The Bridge/Middle Of The Map

Jenna Rae - Lost Cowgirl Records

Eddie Moore - Tribe Studios

Aaron Rhodes - Shuttlecock Music Magazine

Skylar Rochelle - 90.9 The Bridge/Manor Records

Chris Mowry - recordBar/Lemonade Park/Party Invite/Look Who's Talking Mow

Bill Sundahl - 90.1 KKFI/Crossroads Music Fest

Calvin Arsenia

Shaun Crowley - Manor Records

Amber "Flutienastiness" Underwood

Thank you to all of our beautiful guests for sharing your lives, words, and art in 2021!

Each episode will focus on the guest's life, career in the music industry, great things about the Kansas City music community, and areas of need in the KC music industry with suggested courses of action for improvement.

Hope you can join us!