Kansas City favorites Lonnie and Ronald McFadden will bring their high spirited vocal and dancing talents to Prairie Village this fall as headliners of the 2015 Prairie Village Jazz Festival. The
Village Presbyterian church is again opening its sanctuary to the community for a free concert. Singer/songwriter Sam Burchfield will play 7 p.m. Friday at the church. Burchfield got his start
Music is a big part of SM East junior Bhavish Dinakar’s life. He and his brother are violin virtuosos, and at various points in his young life he’s played the
On Tuesday, the band Organized Mess played a show at Harmon Park in Prairie Village to celebrate the release of their second album, Topography. Next week, Organized Mess’s four SM
[pullquote]Akshay Dinakar plays an original composition Click the arrow to hear “Bridge,” part of Akshay Dinakar’s original composition, the “Missouri River Suite.” [/pullquote] SM East students Akshay and Bhavish Dinakar
SM East’s jazz program got a big pat on the back earlier this month at the 37th Annual KU Jazz Festival in Lawrence. Both of SM East’s jazz bands, the
From our better much, much too late than never desk… We recently learned that Leawood resident and Cure’ of Ars eighth grader Matthew Roxas was named a third-place winner in
You can consider the release of this year’s Kansas Music Educators Association All State Music Groups a validation of the high regard northeast Johnson Countians have for SM East’s music
MainStream Coalition will host a Kansas Voices United Concert this Sunday, featuring Chicago musician David Roth and local singer/songwriter Joy Zimmerman who lives in Fairway. During September, house concerts and
Some of the hottest temperatures of the summer couldn’t dissuade Kansas City jazz fans from congregating on the Harmon Park hill Saturday for the fourth installment of the Prairie Village
You may recall that back in April we told you about the burgeoning stardom of 2007 Shawnee Mission East graduate Johnny McGuire, who has attracted considerable attention for the music
“He is the greatest living bass player in the world easily, and arguably the greatest for all time.” That’s how Johnny Hamil describes Francois Rabbath, the Syrian-born Parisian who is
SM East sophomore Akshay Dinakar was a bit frazzled that February afternoon. It was 7th hour, the end of the school day, and he’d just finished a challenging chemistry exam.
You crazy web kids out there probably think you invented the concept of self-referencial “meta-ness,” don’t you? Don’t you! Wellsirs, I invite you to visit SM East starting this Thursday
For many high schoolers, summer is a time to laze away long, hot days. But for two incoming SM East seniors, this summer provided an opportunity to hone — and show
