Westin Hotel Kansas City
This was our fourth Folk Alliance and it was as wild as ever, with over 2500 attendees, daytime panels and meetings, and thousands of showcases between the hours of 6pm and 3am. Sleep is at a premium and you’re lucky if you get any, especially after a transatlantic flight and a reaaranged body clock. However, we’re not complaining, it was a joyous experience to be around people from around the world all with the same love of live music.
We saw some really amazing performances there, met up with a bunch of people from across the world as well as here in the UK and have come home with lots of new ideas for artists to bring to TLR in the coming years. We’ll be sharing these with you as soon as we can.
Here is a selection of photos of our trip, we hope you enjoy them
Union Station, across the road from the venue and our regular breakfast cafe!
Day 1, Wednesday
The Henhouse Prowlers; Bassett; and Michele Stodardt
Day 2, Thursday
Skerryvore
El Pony Pisador
The Accidentals
John Smith
Willie Watson
Night time over Kansas City from the 20th floor
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante
Joachim Cooder
Day 3, Friday
Billow Wood
Dimpker Brothers
Northern Resonance
Humbird
Mirja Klippel
Julia Alapnes
Grainne Hunt
Alice Howe & Freebo
Puuluup
Okan
Moneka Arabic Jazz
Day 4, Saturday
Hilary by the almost invisible lifts!
Rosier
Musique a Bouches
Dean Owens & The Sinners
Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly
Ensemble Sangineto
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Robbie Cavanagh
Barbara Lica
……and some final shots of the hotel during the conference….
