Tag: Matt Baysinger

Choir Bar Swell Spark

Watch: Choir Bar debuts ‘One Day’ video from its first reverse karaoke singalong event

By Tommy Felts / June 20, 2018

The excitement was palpable Saturday as Choir Bar launched into song for the first time in River Market, said Matt Baysinger. Now organizers are ready to share the singalong experience with the world. “People are so dang impressive,” said Baysinger, co-founder of Swell Spark, which debuted the Choir Bar concept in hopes of it becoming…

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Choir Bar

Calling songbirds, good and bad: Choir Bar harmonizes with group singalongs

By Tommy Felts / June 2, 2018

Kansas City’s new “Choir Bar” only works with a packed crowd, admits Matt Baysinger, but professional vocal talent isn’t required. “There’s no sheet music, no judgement, no solos, and no pressure,” he said of the “reverse karaoke”-style event wherein the masses — not an individual — belt out a popular tune. “We’re here to sing…

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Blade & Timber

Coming to Leawood: Blade & Timber hopes to stick another win with second axe throwing space

By Tommy Felts / March 20, 2018

Kansas City comes first, said Matt Baysinger. And that means providing cutting-edge experiences like Blade & Timber to folks across the metro. “As we were looking at expansion — and obviously we’re looking at cities outside of the metro and outside of Kansas — it made so much sense for us to say, ‘This is…

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Matt Baysinger and Ryan Henrich, Swell Spark

Axing the status quo: Swell Spark builds experiences from West Bottoms HQ

By Tommy Felts / March 8, 2018

Human interaction is about more than texting and social media posts, said Matt Baysinger, co-founder and CEO of Swell Spark. “One of the best things in life is sharing a meal together, but sharing a meal together is only as good as the conversation you get to have over that meal,” Baysinger said. “If you…

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Sharice Davids, Starty Pants Podcast

Starty Pants podcast host Sharice Davids making bid to unseat Rep. Kevin Yoder

By Tommy Felts / February 22, 2018

Americans have an intergenerational responsibility to leave society and the country better than they found it, Sharice Davids said. The startup founders she interviews for her Starty Pants podcast understand that duty, she said. “When I think about entrepreneurship, I think of the risk taking and forward thinking of people who are trying to address…

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