HeyJaredDivas, Ingénues & Vixens Podcast
This show will serve both the casual music lover as well as the avid expert fan as I blend my knowledge as a former music professor with my passion for all genres of music, but especially when women and the marginalized take center stage.
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While She's Still Becoming (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to build a creative life—and keep choosing it before you know exactly where it will lead? In While She’s Still Becoming, six Kansas City singer-songwriters get personal about the part of an artist’s life we don’t always see: the work behind the song, the people who help us believe, the patience to grow at our own pace, and the rest, space, support, and freedom that keep creativity alive. Amity sits down with Brooke Mertz, Haley Burke, Miki P., Kristin Hamilton, Lucy Gr
A Room with an Open Door (opens the original)
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Divas, Ingénues & Vixens® — S2E19: A Room with an Open Door Twenty-five years after September 11, Come From Away reminds us that sometimes the story we leave behind begins with the simplest question: What can I offer? In A Room with an Open Door, Amity Bryson explores the extraordinary response of the people of Gander, Newfoundland—and the music, stories, and acts of ordinary kindness that continue to carry their legacy forward. Inspired by KC Rep’s exceptional production of Come From Away and J
The Song Is Never Finished (opens the original)
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The Song Is Never Finished A songwriter creates it. A singer steps inside it. And somewhere between the first note and the last, a song can become something no one quite expected. Inspired by R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Celebration of the Music of Aretha Franklin at The Ruby Room in Kansas City, Amity follows a musical thread from Otis Redding to Aretha Franklin, from Dolly Parton to Whitney Houston, asking what happens when interpretation becomes discovery—and sometimes transformation. But there’s one mor
Why Not Here? - Middle of Everywhere Festival (opens the original)
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What happens when someone looks at a small Kansas town and thinks: Why not here? In Humboldt, Kansas, singer-songwriter and community builder Damaris Kunkler dreamed up the Middle of Everywhere Music Festival—a gathering built not only around great music, but around extraordinary hospitality, creative possibility, and the belief that artists deserve to be valued. Damaris knows both sides of that equation. A grant writer and community development manager who once wrote songs almost in secret, she
Imagine who She might become (opens the original)
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Nearly fifty years ago, two Kansas City women imagined a stage where women in jazz could be heard—and then they built it. Author, educator, and musician Carolyn Glenn Brewer joins Amity to share the remarkable history behind her book: Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival, 1978–1985 and the vision of founders Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg. Then musicians Eboni Fondren and Alyssa Bell Jackson help bring that legacy into the present—and ask us to imagine what might be possible fo
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