Westport Saloon

Formed in 1998, Grand Marquis has since become solidly rooted in the Kansas City music scene as one of the hardest-working bands in the region, playing over 100 shows per year! The group has performed from coast to coast, released 8 albums, including a 7" 45 rpm vinyl record/CD combo recorded at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, TN. With their own versatile and thoroughly entertaining brand of American Roots, Blues and Prohibition-Era Jazz, the Grand Marquis are consistently finding…

Dane Talley holds a deep respect for classic country music and themes.

Group Therapy. I tell Stories from the inevitable book of the Dirty Sunshine Club. So far its a convoluted mess of notebooks but someday will be a convoluted mess of binded book. In The mean time you can purchase a short cd version called 'I Fuck Up A Lot"

Hailing from the rolling hills of Kansas, Tyler Gregory can regularly be found performing 260+ shows a year. With his steam-powered melodies, Gregory's mix of blues and roots music howls with a sense of passion and freedom. This songcrafter takes the cues and lifestyle from blues bellowers and drives full force on his guitar/banjo/stomp-box live performance arrangements.

Unfit Wives brings their hard-driving bluegrass originals to Kansas City and surrounding areas with hot licks, lyrics, and feisty four-part harmonies. Band Members: Kahlen Ryba (Upright Bass) Shannon O'Shea (Fiddle) Monica Greenwood (Mandolin) Jenna Rae (Guitar)

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Tyler Sanford Coalition fuses elements of hip-hop, jazz, and rock to create a unique listening experience.

Sulu Moon was founded in late 2018 by vocalist and trombonist, Trevor Turla. It is a powerhouse soul/rock band with an informed jazz influence. Trevor Turla’s ancestors, have been using the moon and stars to navigate the Sulu Sea for centuries. Just as they used the Sulu moon to find their way, Turla and a tribe of Kansas City’s best musicians uses Sulu Moon to find their way in the musical world.

You've heard of a one-man band? Well Bones Jugs is a two-man orchestra. With quirky songwriting, blazing fast xylophone, banjos galore, and countless other noise makers, they conjure up an eclectic acoustic sound. As fans of Spike Jones, The Memphis Jug Band, Bob Wills, and Scott Joplin, Bones Jugs creates something new and unique, but deeply rooted in generations of American music. Whether playing for a dancing crowd in a large room, attentive listeners in a small club, or acoustic…

Recalling the songsters of the early 20th century, songwriter and music maker Brad Fielder presents a program of original and traditional material. Inspired by old time, country blues, ragtime, and bluegrass, the songs are brought to life on acoustic guitar, banjo and resonator guitar. The occasional melodic augmentation is realized on kazoo, harmonica, or mouth horn. It is the music of the people, for the people--folksy, country, and bluesy. Sometimes accompanied by one to three players, the instrumentation is rounded…

Like all good teenage madmen dreamer poets who fell in love with the beat generation, I found a guitar and saw it as my ticket out of nowhere, and it’s painful banality. Started playing in bands to get lost in the beat, scream and sing my piece, and go places. My head was a muddling of the different music I heard growing up, from everything big in the 90s (Punk, Ska, Industrial, old 80s Thrash Metal, 60s and 70s rock…

Johnny Lawhorn and the Pentagram String Band The hobo drifter, son of a grifter, Johnny Lawhorn, makes his way through speakeasies and gutters across the underbelly of America. While in Kansas City, Missouri, he forges the bluegrass group, The Pentagram String Band. With a lineup of banjo, mandolin, stand-up bass, washboard, and hillbilly harmonies, their live shows are intense and lovesick. A tug-of-war between carnage and consequence. Their first full length album, Buskers’ Boneyard (2019) features Liz Sloan (Urban Pioneers)…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Dane Talley holds a deep respect for classic country music and themes.

"This is the first album release in 6 years..(not counting the live album) and it might be 6 years till the next one. It would mean alot if you were there to celebrate it with me." - AJ Gaither Everything is better when it’s home-made. And it don’t get more down home or DIY than AJ Gaither. From the building of the instruments to the writing of the songs and making of the albums, everything about this “one man junk…

The Cosmic Western Duo of Jenna & Martin combine classic country sounds, bluegrass techniques, gospel harmonies, and rock rhythms to make their unique sounding Cosmic Western music. The duo brings their vintage vibes wherever they go and deliver a high-spirited performance every time. Both Jenna & Martin are multi-instrumentalists, and their live show incorporates a wide range of different instruments including guitar, pedal steel, banjo, foot pedals and saxophone. They most often play their original music, but try requesting songs…

New-novelty & cartoon-country music. Every Opera Bell Show is different than the last, featuring homemade props, vibrant costumes, tricks, schticks, and, most importantly, their befuddled and beloved host, Butternut the Pilot. The Opera Bell Band is an experimental musical-comedy revue whose music rings with the sounds of cajun, country-western, tin pan alley, sea shanty, calypso, and 1930s cartoon music. The novelty and charisma of the band leads to energetic live performances that feature DIY costumes, props, games, and on occasion,…

Founded in the cruel winter of 2007, The Kansas City Bear Fighters first took shape as one lonely man's homage to music as a salve for the soul. Originally, the group performed under the nom de plume "The Denver Broncos" which many considered to be the product of one man's struggling and genius search for a fire that could crack the deep cavernous walls of his soul. Quinn, the band's leader and sole songwriter, took up music after a failed…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Rooted in the tradition of classic Americana & Folk storytelling with a tip of the hat to Blues & Southern Soul, Jeff Krause pairs lyric-forward songs with a guitar style that moves from Acoustic coffee house strums to dusty bar Blues. ​ Jeff Krause got his start in the midwest as a lead guitar player in the vast and ever growing songwriting culture of the Twin Cities. He says “I'm constantly inspired by the seemingly endless talent harbored in Minneapolis…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…

Coyote Bill Blues Jam Gutbucket Blues and House Rockin’ Boogie with enough raunchy slide guitar to overflow a landfill. Every Tuesday night at The Westport Saloon, enjoy Kansas City’s finest Blues Jam hosted by Coyote Bill. Get in on the action, or sit back and enjoy. You never know who will stop in and jam!!! Every week brings new jammers and some very special guests, stop by you won’t regret it! About Coyote Bill -“Listen to us and decide for…