… in which Michael Byars plays selections from his top ten albums as heard on The Mailbox.  The list of artists is below – in alphabetical order.  To find out where they ranked, you’re just going to have to listen. Next week: Concert Chris Haghirian’s top ten musical highlights of the year.  Back-to-back high-quality stuff. [...]

In 2008 a few people got together to form the Midwest Music Foundation. Why? Because we saw a lot of organizations here which promote & support the arts such as painting, sculpture, dance, theatre .. but not a whole lot for the music that happens here, in all genres. And, the music here can compete [...]

The Pitch names Midwest Music Foundation 2009 Kansas City Best Nonprofit!! Yeah us!! Now we really got to live up to the hype! Here are some of the other Pitch Best of Kansas City 2009 we thought should be noted here … Arts & Entertainment Best Free Music – First Fridays at Midwestern Musical Co. [...]