Mike Meyer of KC’s Meyer Music talks about his family’s music enterprise and giving back

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Mike Meyer’s life has always been grounded in music. After school, the bus would drop Mike and his two siblings off in front of his family’s downtown Blue Springs music shop, and the Meyer clan would hang out, helping with customers and doing homework, before heading home for the evening. Mike’s parents, Ted and Betty… Continue reading Mike Meyer of KC’s Meyer Music talks about his family’s music enterprise and giving back

Willie Cole, the artist behind KCI’s “Ornithology” installation, now sells sculpture miniatures

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Artist Willie Cole has been captivated by the sounds of bebop saxophonist and Kansas City icon Charlie “Bird” Parker since he was a child.  “My grandmother was a jazz fan, so before rock ‘n’ roll took over my life, I was a little kid listening to jazz,” Cole says. Cole is the artist behind “Ornithology,”… Continue reading Willie Cole, the artist behind KCI’s “Ornithology” installation, now sells sculpture miniatures