Johnson County Library’s Listen Local Project: An Update

by Bryan Voell

Since its inception in January 2015, Johnson County Library’s Listen Local project has featured more than fifty of the Kansas City area’s finest songwriters, composers and musical noisemakers. As I wrote back in March 2015, the overarching goal of Listen Local is to help educate our community on the breadth of talent in our collective backyards – everything from rock, pop, folk and blues to contemporary classical, experimental, electronic, hip-hop and jazz – and to do this in...