Tag: PorchFestKC

‘This one felt pretty epic’: PorchFestKC saturates neighbors with six hours of music, 135 artists

By Tommy Felts / October 19, 2023

Returning to the steps for PorchFestKC four years later — albeit on a different porch and in a new neighborhood — Erica McKenzie was wowed by the walk-up audience’s reaction to her performance Saturday at the resurrected Midtown music festival. “I’ve always had a lovely turnout the past few years but this one felt pretty epic,”…

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PorchFestKC set to transform these Midtown neighborhoods into a one-day, walk-up music festival

By Tommy Felts / September 28, 2023

After a three-year hiatus, the original PorchFestKC — a music festival Kathryn Golden likens to stumbling on a neighborhood block party and being allowed to stay — is returning. And it’ll play out with a digital upgrade this year, said Golden. Launched in 2015, PorchFestKC — the city’s trend-setting, porch-packed community music celebration — will…

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Music no, murals a go: Your fall events calendar won’t look the same as festivals grapple with COVID reality

By Tommy Felts / August 21, 2020

With summer winding to an anticlimactic end amid COVID-19 restrictions, outdoor festivals aren’t immune to the pandemic’s impact, organizers said, noting high-profile changes and cancelations for Kansas City’s annual fall events lineup. Among the 2020 festivals going silent: the original PorchFestKC. “I dragged my feet saying it out loud just because I hated that it…

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Union Hill, PorchFestKC 2019

Photos: PorchFestKC activates Midtown neighborhoods with stoop-to-street music 

By Tommy Felts / October 15, 2019

More than 100 onlookers — some neighbors, others just passing through — gathered in the street, along the sidewalk, and on lawns Saturday afternoon outside Ruben Alonso’s Union Hill home. “It was the perfect spot,” said Alonso, president at AltCap and one of dozens of homeowners who offered up their porches, stoops and front yards…

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The Woodsmiths

Playing for tips and contacts: Artist-entrepreneurs travel across Midwest to fill PorchFestKC with music

By Tommy Felts / October 10, 2019

Kansas City is a world-class destination for entrepreneurial musicians and artists hoping to hit high notes in business, said Dominic Roy. “I’m a singer-songwriter who’s trying to make it. I don’t want fame or glory or anything like that. I just want people to relate and I want people to feel what I’m trying to…

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