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Tasty Brew Music
Conversations and musical interludes with artists, industry professionals and supporters of the Americana/Global Roots Music scene. This podcast is curated by Diana Linn, Member of Folk Alliance International and the Americana Music Association, Host of the Tasty Brew Music Radio Show and Siren Song...
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Tica Felise - Unapologetic Ukulele Goddess
To commemorate and celebrate 15 years of the Tasty BrewMusic Radio Show on KKFI, I partnered with the Heartland Song Network in the summer of 2025 to...
Los Texmaniacs! The Past, Present and Future of Conjunto Music!
My friend Beau Bledsoe, Artistic Director of the amazing nonprofit Ensemble Iberica, recently messaged me that Max and Josh Baca of Los Texmaniacs wer...
Kristin Hamilton - Country Folk with a Tinge of Bluegrass!
I have known songwriter Kristin Hamilton for 8 years now….Beginning with her membership in an amazing Americana band called Under the Big Oak Tree and...
Stefan Prigmore - An East Texas Treasure of a Troubadour
East Texas Songwriter Stefan Prigmore is another artist thatcame to me from multiple streams of connection as you’ll hear in the Summer 2025 conversat...
Jack Barksdale - A Voice for Everyone
I’ve been around of while. I’ve seen and heard hundreds, if not thousands, of live music performances. Everything from my first concert in 1965 for...
Jesse Jack Sample - King of the Plains from Toronto, KS
Danielle Anderson aka Danielle Ate the Sandwich is a very talented artist. She recently filled in as host for the Heartland Song Network’s monthly son...
Flanner, Laycock and Schrock - aka FLS Band with Postcards from Gehenna, MO
One of many great joys in hosting shows on community radiois giving a voice to local musicians who, despite their amazing talent and songwriting abili...
Rick Gibson - The Book of Ozark (from The Ozark Anthology)
My connection with songwriting guitarist Rick Gibson goesback to about 2012 when he spearheaded a project with his “Peacemakers” band that featured my...
Christian Dixon - It's All About Genetics!!!
Welcome to the 101st episode of the Tasty Brew Music Podcast!
I first met Christian Dixon at a Sunday Heartland SongNetwork Song S...
Kris Schultz - From Merch Slinger to Bonafide Singer!
To the best of my knowledge, Kris Schultz is the second“merch slinger” I’ve met that went on to pursue a lyrical life as a troubadour in her own right...
Cameron Keeling and The Runaway Train debuts "Kill Creek!"
Cameron Keeling, one of the hardest working and accomplished musicians from the Heartland, learned to play and write songs around his hometown Kansas...
Terra Spencer - Nova Scotia comes to the Heartland!
In this episode of the Tasty Brew Music Podcast, I welcome Terra Spencer, a gifted songwriter from Windsor, Nova Scotia. Howard Dolginoff, presenter o...
Max Cooper III - The Overthinker
In this episode of the Tasty Brew Music Podcast, I’m thrilled to bring you a conversation with a young artist from Lenexa, Kansas. His name is Max Co...
Abbie Gardner - Dobrosinger Extraordinaire!!!
Abbie Gardner is a renowned dobro player, solo artist, and a key member of the acclaimed Americana trio, Red Molly. With her exceptional mastery of th...
Jack Summers - Weston Missouri's Song Farmer
You’ll hear my origin story with Missouri’s native son Jack
Summers in this episode of the Tasty Brew Music podcast… a story with a familiar pat...
Deanna Ray - Americana with an Operatic Twist
Deanna Ray Eberhart Von Fange – what a regal sounding
moniker! Deanna Ray, her “roots” music name, barely in her mid-20’s, presents as a fully...
Gullywasher (of Kansas City) - Rust Belt Revelations Part 1
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Memories can be tricky…especially when you attain a certain
vintage. While preparing this epi...
Jennifer Roe - Folk Alliance International Executive Director
There is the classic movie or theater story line where the
understudy of a lead role, or the staff employee at a company, gets the opportunity t...
Crow and Gazelle - Deconstructing Separateness
As has happened quite often in the past 10 years or so, my
curation of private showcase rooms at the Folk Alliance International Conference has...
Cory Jackson - Classic Country with a Modern Flair
Although it has been decades, I DO remember how challenging and isolating it can be to move away during your 20’s from your hometown to accompany and...
Kate McDonnell - Flying High on a Lyrical "Trapeze"
Kate McDonnell has captivated audiences all over
the world with her award-winning songwriting, her unusual upside down and backwards guitar styl...
Kiely Connell - Becoming Her Own Best Company
I am honored to be on Radio Promotor Angela Backstrom’s contact list for new music being released by the amazing cadre of Americana/Roots Artists she...
Savanna Chestnut - Flower in a Ditch
Savanna, daughter of the Heartland’s Flint Hills, returns to
share with me new music making its radio debut on my turn as host of MidCoast Live!...
Zachary Scott Kline - Football to Punk to Songwriter
Zachary Scott Kline came into my consciousness thanks to an email from Nashville songwriter, Henry Conlon, a former guest on my Tasty Brew Music Radio...
Jesse Thomas Harris - Restart, Reboot, Refresh
I love hosting songwriters on the radio and when it is an artist I have a personal kinship and history with…even better. I was introduced to Jesse Ha...
Heather Pierson - Rootsy Jazz from the White Mountains
Like so many musical discoveries in my Tasty Brew orbit,
Heather Pierson came to my attention from Mike Paget, Director behind the Green Guitar...
Gracie Caggiano - Living a Lyrical Life with a Disability
I met Gracie Caggiano when she participated in one of the
very first monthly Songwriters’ Sanctuary events presented by the Heartland Song Netwo...
Giulia Millanta - Smart, Pensive and Cool in Four Languages
What does a Florence, Italy transplant in Austin, Texas have in common with a community radio dj in Kansas City? Turns out a connection to the first m...
Liz and Nilko/Tipps and Obermiller - Folk Alliance 2024 Takeover Episode 3
The final installment of the 2024 Folk Alliance
International Conference Takeover of the Tasty Brew Music Radio Show spotlights two musical and...
Backyard Betties and Colin Cutler - Folk Alliance 2024 Takeover Episode 2
Collaboration and networking are instrumental in whatever success I enjoyed in my former corporate work life and now in my post career volunteer world...
Folk Alliance 2024 Takeover Episode 1 - Genevieve Racette and Remi Goode
It always lovely to welcome Montreal’s Genevieve Racette back to the KKFI studios whenever she can make it to Kansas City; this visit was facilitated...
Erin Eades - Twang, Angst and Blues!
Originally from the mountain state of West Virginia, Eades began making music at the age of 12, when out of boredom her father handed her a 1950's Gib...
Ben Gage - You Could Use His Company
I am so honored when a friend and artist such as songwriter Kelly Hunt recommends a fellow musician to me for consideration. In the case of songwrite...
Emma Jo - The Heartland's "Girl Bandit"
I met Emma Jo via other songwriting friends in Kansas City and it has been interesting, even instructive, to witness her evolution as a young woman wh...
Chilean Folk and Gypsy Jazz with Medicentuna and Daniela Conejero
In the Fall of 2023, a contingent of folk and jazz artists from Frutilla, Chile (fru-tee-ya Chill-ay) came to Kansas City as part of a cultural exchan...
Alicia Stockman - Utah based Folk meets Americana!
Alicia Stockman was in Kansas City to play an intimate house concert for the Labyrinth Listening Room Series curated and hosted by fellow music lover...
Sarah Lee Guthrie - A Legacy Lyrical Life
I’ve been fortunate to see Sarah Lee Guthrie perform on
multiple occasions with her family at the annual Woody Guthrie Festival aka Woody fest i...
Tommy Prine - Searching for his Own Safe Harbor
I seem to be experiencing “full circle” type moments fast and furious these days. Case in point... a brief encounter at Americanafest years ago with r...
Rick Dodderidge - Bangin' the Concert Gong for 50 Years
Rick Dodderidge is one of THE most dedicated music
enthusiasts I’ve ever encountered in 70+ years on this planet.
I kept running into Rick...
Beth Watts Nelson - Little Miss Dynamite!
I love listening to my DJ Brother Scott Stanton’s River Trade Radio Show on KKFI on Sunday Mornings. Not too long ago I heard an amazing voice on his...