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Knuckleheads is a music venue in Kansas City, Missouri.The facility is a complex of four stages: a large outdoor stage with a converted caboose to one side as a VIP seating area; an indoor stage; a large indoor stage known as Knuckleheads Garage and a lounge, the "Gospel Lounge" for Wednesday-evening blues-oriented church services.
Kansas City jazz is a riff-based and blues-influenced sound developed in jam sessions in the crowded clubs of the 18th and Vine neighborhood. Many jazz musicians of the 1930s and 1940s lived or got started here, including Charlie Parker, [ 6 ] Count Basie , and Lester Young .
Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind Blake: 1896 1934 Florida Piedmont blues [15] Lucille Bogan: 1897 1948 Mississippi Classic female blues [16] Ted Bogan: 1909 1990 South Carolina Country blues [17] Son Bonds: 1909 1947 Tennessee Country blues ...
A former Vegas nightclub singer got this advice: “When you go someplace else and experience something that interests you, figure out a way to bring it home.” She’s doing it, every Friday night.
Location: 600 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Kansas. Year founded: 1934 Best known for : Combo sandwiches (choice of two meats: ham, turkey, sliced or pulled pork, burnt ends, sausage, pulled ...
The 18th and Vine neighborhood includes the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the Gem Theater, the long-time offices of African-American newspaper The Call, the Blue Room jazz club, the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Smaxx Restaurant, a restaurant inside the Juke House and Blues Club, and several apartments and condos. The ...
Both the Blues and the Monarchs moved to the new and nearby Muehlebach Field in July 1923. The ballpark hosted various local activities during the next couple of years, and then was demolished in June and July of 1925.[Kansas City Journal, July 7, 1925, p.2] The lot was eventually converted into a public playground, called Blues Park.
The Kansas City Blues were a minor league baseball team located in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Midwestern United States. The team was one of the eight founding members of the American Association. [1] The Blues did not field particularly competitive teams until 1918, when they won the AA pennant. The team won again in 1923, and again in 1929.