FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Scott Easterday, Host
The Love Hangover
(816) 471-1680
Easterday.scott@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/thelovehangover
THE “LOVE HANGOVER” SHOWCASE CELEBRATES
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY IN FOUR U.S. CITIES
Lovelorn, Love Sworn, Love Torn? Take the cure: handpicked duos of musicians perform
songs about the beauty, pain, indifference and humor of love, locally at The recordBar in Kansas City
Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 7:00 p.m. | The recordBar | 1020 Westport Rd. | Kansas City, MO 64111.
The Love Hangover showcase celebrates its 10th anniversary locally at The recordBar in Kansas City. Local
luminaries of the music scene come two by two to hold forth on love in all of its many guises. This year’s lineup
includes exceptional talent in a variety of styles.
Find a sympathetic soul during this evening of duets about love. The Love Hangover is an annual event held on
February 15th. On this evening every year, the world weary and the true believers alike huddle in pairs playing
songs to heal broken hearts and break whole ones. Paired and selected by the hosts in each city, some duos
have never played with each other before, while others are raising children together. A simple idea conceived in
2000 by Richard Alwyn in Raleigh, North Carolina, the event continued there after he moved to New York, where he
has been hosting Love Hangover showcases since 2005. For the 10th anniversary, there will be four cities with
Love Hangovers: New York, Raleigh, Kansas City and Ann Arbor.
Show time for The Love Hangover at The recordBar is 7:00 p.m.; admission is $10.00. Contact The recordBar
directly at (816-753-5207) or steve.tulipana@gmail.com. The recordBar: Offers a wide variety of music performance
and regular features. The full gourmet menu will be offered and seating is available for The Love Hangover.
The recordBar: www.therecordbar.com Eat! Hear! Enjoy!
Showcase Participants:
Valery Price & Nathan Granner w/ piano by Jeffrey Ruckman | Valery is an acclaimed jazz vocalist Nathan is one of The Three American Tenors Jeffery is a jazz composer and instrumentalist |
Sara Swenson & Barclay Martin | Sara is an up and coming singer/songwriter Barclay fronts the Barclay Martin Ensemble |
Amy Farrand & Howard Iceberg | Amy is an accomplished songwriter and also plays bass in American Catastrophe Howard is a revered songwriter on par w/ Bob Dylan |
Bev Weidner & Aaron Weidner | Together they are The New Tragedies |
Scott Easterday, of Expassionates, will be your host for the evening.
For more information please contact Scott Easterday
(816) 471-1680 | EMAIL: Easterday.scott@yahoo.com | WEB: www.myspace.com/thelovehangover
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News from City Hall
City Communications Office
City of Kansas City, Mo.
http://www.kcmo.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 23, 2007
Music Hall rededication hits all the right notes
City of Kansas City, Mo., officials celebrated the rededication of Music Hall at Municipal Auditorium and the
completion of its $13 million renovation effort Feb. 23.
Mayor Kay Barnes, City Manager Wayne A. Cauthen, and Councilman Chuck Eddy, 6th District, led the
festivities, which included a grand unveiling of the remodeled stage and a jazz performance by Kansas City's
Valery Price Quartet.
These renovations were completed to optimize the theater-going experience:
-- Music Hall's seats were replaced
-- The house auditorium seating was reconfigured to give audiences an unobstructed view of the stage
-- Lobby restrooms were updated
-- Additional handicap accessible space was added in the auditorium
-- An ADA accessibility ramp was reconfigured in the main lobby
-- The stage was expanded significantly to better accommodate shows with larger set equipment
-- The back wall of the stage was pushed back an additional 15 feet
-- A new penthouse was constructed
-- Stage curtains, set rigging systems and stage fly galleries were replaced
-- Electrical upgrades were made to the theatre's back-of-house rooms.
These improvements are expected to help attract nationally touring performances and musical acts and
make the Music Hall an attractive entertainment option for downtown visitors and conventioneers.
The theater upgrades will make Music Hall more competitive with regional performing arts venues and draw
more shows like "Stomp!" and "Monty Python's Spamalot," which open at Music Hall Feb. 27 and in August
2007, respectively.
"Music Hall's improved amenities will help to make the Kansas City convention district an appealing site to
potential convention planners, ultimately making Kansas City a top convention destination," Eddy said.
This project is an example of the City working with private industry to ensure efficient project delivery. The
estimated completion cost of the Music Hall renovations has come in under the $13.4 million initial projection.
"The completion of this renovation has been anticipated by many in the arts community as performance space
in Kansas City is currently at a premium," Cauthen said. "Due to the diligence of all parties involved, this project
has come in on time and under budget."
Holzman Moss Architecture of New York and Helix Architecture + Design of Kansas City redesigned Music Hall.
The Konrath Group performed overall oversight and local Taylor Kelly Construction Company completed
construction. The City's Capital Improvements Management Office managed the design and construction.
Media inquiries and other requests for more information about these issues should be directed to Marny Burke, communications specialist in the Capital Improvements Management Office, (816) 513-2749.