Weekend Two - Night Four (KC Streetcar Day)

Kansas City Public Library (Downtown) featuring. :

Kirstie Lynn - 3:30-4:10 PM

Fritz & Sons - 4:25-5:05 PM

Calvin Arsenia - 5:20-6:00 PM

Free / All Ages

14 W. 10th Street Kansas City, MO

CALVIN ARSENIA with BANDITS ON THE RUN Doors: 7PM Show: 8PM $30

Gaining widespread recognition for his soulful vocals and virtuosic classical-harp playing, Calvin Arsenia is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist hailing from Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to his solo work, Arsenia has collaborated with a variety of artists across different media, including film and television, and has performed at numerous festivals and venues around the world. He is known for his heartfelt and introspective lyrics that often touch on themes of love, loss, and personal growth. Arsenia’s music has been described as a blend of folk, pop, and R&B, and he continues to use his gift of music to draw bridges between communities separated by race, class, gender, sex, and/or religious beliefs.

Joining Calvin is Bandits on the Run, an indie-folk-pop-americana outfit consisting of three lead singers, a guitar, a cello, a suitcase drum, an accordion, and various toy instruments. They hail from Brooklyn, NY and are known for their vivacious performance style, genre-defying sound, soaring harmonies, and ability to make music-magic happen everywhere from subway platforms to concert halls to Kansas City rooftops.

We can’t wait to share this whimisical evening with you!

All that fine print here: Doors for the show will open at 7pm – performances start at 8pm. Please proceed to the elevators located behind the hotel front desk and go all the way up. Seating for each show is first come, first served. Percheron offers a full food and beverage menu and all offerings will be available during the show. Valet parking is available for $20. All ticket sales are final and non-refundable. In the case of rain or inclement weather we will communicate a cancellation and rain date for a makeup show. If you are unable to attend the rain date we will issue a full refund at that time.

See you at Percheron!

Be a part of the live radio audience as Mountain Stage records a fresh episode for NPR Music with guest host David Mayfield!

GUEST ARTISTS: Chris Smither, Joan Shelley, HuDost, Calvin Arsenia, and Yarn (click each artist name to learn more)

Tickets: $30-$35 All tickets to this show are e-tickets and will be emailed to you upon purchase. Open up the pdf and the QR code on your ticket will be scanned at the door. This event will also be offered as a livestream.

Watch the livestream! Mountain Stage livestreams are free, however, there are some incredible folks out there who’d like to show their support through a donation-based, pay-what-you-want “ticket” for the livestream. This is a donation-based “ticket” to show some love for the program and is not a ticket to the live event.

You’ll be able to catch the show from the comfort of your home (or wherever you wish) Sunday, May 3, 2026 – at 7 PM ET at mountainstage.org.

Rock Orchestra of Kansas City Presents: Jukebox Heroes: Tribute to the 60s-80s! Doors: 6:00 PM Show: 7:00 PM

Rock Orchestra Kansas City is excited to team up with Feed Lee's Summit to present a benefit concert paying tribute to the music of the 60's-80’s featuring custom arrangements from artists including The Beatles, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, and more!

Calvin Arsenia will be one of the featured vocalists and will play his harp for a couple of tunes!

Calvin Arsenia Live at eTown Doors: 6:00pm Music: 7:00pm-9:30pm 1535 Spruce St Boulder, CO 80302, USA

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Singer, harpist, and author Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. Voted Kansas City's Best Musician 2018 - present (The Pitch), and featured on Billboard.com, NPR.org, NEWNOWNEXT, Pride.com, and GRAMMY.com, Arsenia’s angelic stylings on voice and harp create rare harmonies and arrangements that look past the boundaries of his traditional gospel and classical upbringing. Known for his elaborate and ceremonious sensory concert experiences that merge jazz and electronic influences, “Calvin has consistently deliver(s) genre-bending (and gender-bending) shows that tackle sexuality, religion, and race in a stunningly unorthodox manner - somewhere between sacred and sacrilege." - Fally Afani.

The music is just one part of his prodigious performances, for Calvin believes the art is in crafting the perfect moment. His music is best served live, with sensational performances and high fashion from the visually striking performer who stands at 6’6”.

Alongside his best friend and co-host New York based comedian Justin Randall, Arsenia explores the ups and downs of being a queer person raised in the Evangelical Church in the 2020-2021 podcast We Were Christian Kids.

In 2021, Arsenia released a book of poems and stories called Every Good Boy Does Fine; Both a journey of individual healing and a call for action, these poems show that, with a little love and acceptance, anyone can flourish.

Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. While the harp has allowed this Kansas City native to become a man of the world (gaining followings in Paris, Edinburgh, and at the Outlyre Harpist Festival in Austria), it’s his unique ability to craft a stimulating setting at his live shows that has all eyes fixed on this conspicuous musician and his breathtaking approach to harp music.

Janie Price aka “BIRD” is an award-winning half English, half Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is based between London UK and Tuscany Italy. At 15 she was the youngest ever female drummer to perform a headline show at the legendary Marquee Club in London UK. At18 she started her professional career as a session musician which has seen her play for the likes of Vanessa Mae, Emeli Sande, Roachford and Just Jack to name a few and performing on national tv and radio and touring globally including performances at renowned festivals such as Glastonbury, Roskilde and Marktock.

Cera Impala creates songs that feel instantly familiar. Her whiskey-honeyed voice takes intimately crafted pieces to another time and place, one of dreams and magic -sensual as they are savage. `Armed with a sound like an audio-hug' this multi-instrumentalist has been heard all over the world; toured internationally with her handpicked band, The New Prohibition. She is in currently recording a double album with Tim Lane, 'Persephone' out in Fall 2025

Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. While the harp has allowed this Kansas City native to become a man of the world (gaining followings in Paris, Edinburgh, and at the Outlyre Harpist Festival in Austria), it’s his unique ability to craft a stimulating setting at his live shows that has all eyes fixed on this conspicuous musician and his breathtaking approach to harp music.

Janie Price aka “BIRD” is an award-winning half English, half Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She is based between London UK and Tuscany Italy. At 15 she was the youngest ever female drummer to perform a headline show at the legendary Marquee Club in London UK. At18 she started her professional career as a session musician which has seen her play for the likes of Vanessa Mae, Emeli Sande, Roachford and Just Jack to name a few and performing on national tv and radio and touring globally including performances at renowned festivals such as Glastonbury, Roskilde and Marktock.

Cera Impala creates songs that feel instantly familiar. Her whiskey-honeyed voice takes intimately crafted pieces to another time and place, one of dreams and magic -sensual as they are savage. `Armed with a sound like an audio-hug' this multi-instrumentalist has been heard all over the world; toured internationally with her handpicked band, The New Prohibition. She is in currently recording a double album with Tim Lane, 'Persephone' out in Fall 2025

Singer, harpist and author Calvin Arsenia brings a live concert experience built around voice and harp, blending jazz and electronic influences. The concert is free and open to the public.

Voted Kansas City’s Best Musician from 2018 to 2023 by The Pitch, Arsenia has also been featured on Billboard.com, NPR.org, NEWNOWNEXT, Pride.com and GRAMMY.com. His work draws from a gospel and classical upbringing while pushing past genre boundaries, pairing rare harmonies with a show that is intentional, sensory and visually striking.

Alongside comedian Justin Randall, Arsenia co-hosted the 2020-2021 podcast We Were Christian Kids, exploring the experience of being a queer person raised in the Evangelical Church. In 2021, he released Every Good Boy Does Fine, a book of poems and stories centered on healing and the power of love and acceptance.

Sam Clam's Disco (Ft Dr. Dream and Calvin Arsenia) Doors 8:00PM Music 9:00PM DJ Dancing: 11:00PM Toast 12:00AM Done 2:00AM

This New Year’s Eve you are invited to step into Sam Clam’s Disco.

An intimate New Year’s Ball experience inspired by 1920s art deco elegance, vintage disco decadence, underwater fantasy, pearls, holiday shimmer, and the playful acceptance of hellish decadence, Sam Clam's Disco is the ideal location to set the pace for the incoming year. Expect glamour with a wink, dancing, table games, and great vibes all night!

The evening will feature music tasty jams curated and sporadically performed by me, Calvin Arsenia, throughout the night alongside a DJ dance set by the incredible Dr. Dream. We will raise our glasses together at midnight with a champagne toast and welcome the new year.

Tickets are intentionally limited to 40 guests to preserve the intimacy of the night.

Details • $50 per person • Doors at 8:00 PM • DJ dance set by Dr. Dream: 11:00 PM–1:00 AM • Champagne toast at midnight • Snacks and sweets provided • Evening gently concludes at 2:00 AM

Dress as though you are stepping into Sam Clam’s Disco—pearls, art deco glamour, underwater fantasy, celestial or infernal elegance all welcome.

After all, heaven will still be there tomorrow... if you’re into that.

Refreshments provided by House of Outlyre. Donations never necessary, always accepted.

Sam Clam's Disco is located on the second level of a historical building that does not have an ADA entrance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Doors at 7:00pm Music at 8:00pm

the1994project returns after a year of sold-out shows with a one night only tribute to Florence + The Machine.

Featuring a collective of Kansas City’s finest music and theatre veterans—Katie Gilchrist, Mark Johnson, Felix Dukes, Grant Klinksick, Adee Dancy, Ahafia Jurkiewcz-Miles, and Calvin Arsenia—this show blends powerful vocals, electric energy, and theatricality into a live experience, equal parts magic and mayhem. Special Guests to be announced. Come cause a scene. #onlyifforanight #cosmicloveKC

Grab your loved ones and come celebrate the sounds of the season during this intimate Christmas concert in Kansas City’s Second Presbyterian Church with renowned vocalist/harpist Calvin Arsenia! This beautiful family friendly program of traditional holiday classics and cherished carols will warm your heart and fill your soul with peace, joy & hope. A sing-along, as well as a very special candlelit ceremony rounds out this not-to-be-missed evening of holiday cheer.

Last time we sold out, so get your tickets now!

~Calvin Arsenia~ Voted Kansas City’s Best Musician eight years in a row (2018-2025~PitchKC), featured on NPR’s World Cafe, NEWNOWNEXT, & Billboard, Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. Arsenia’s angelic, classically-trained voice soars over audiences, while his multi-instrumental skills, particularly that of the Celtic harp, shocks & enchants them as he flirts between genres. While the harp has allowed this Kansas City native to become a man of the world (gaining followings in Paris, Edinburgh, and at the Outlyre festival in Austria), it’s his unique ability to craft a stimulating setting at his live shows that has all eyes fixed on this conspicuous musician and his breathtaking approach to harp music.

“Jeff Buckley meets Nina Simone with this soul of Sam Cooke, and the sparkle of Bjork.” But the music is just part of his prodigious performance, for Calvin believes the art is in crafting the perfect moment. His music is best served live, with sensational vocals and avant-garde fashion from the visually striking performer who stands at 6’6”. Arsenia’s height, energy, and curated environments fill the often intimate spaces he performs in. Brought into 9 countries through public and private grants in less than a decade, Arsenia builds a scene for his audience packed with beauty and lasting delight.

"While everyone else is feeling crushed by the weight of the world, Calvin is out chasing beauty… and he’s taking us all along for the ride." -IHEARTLOCALMUSIC https://calvinarsenia.com

Adults: Presale $30/$40 at door Children 16 & under: $10/$20 at door DOORS AT 5:30/ PERFORMANCE AT 6:00

Grab your loved ones and come celebrate the sounds of the season during this intimate Christmas concert in Kansas City’s Second Presbyterian Church with renowned vocalist/harpist Calvin Arsenia! This beautiful family friendly program of traditional holiday classics and cherished carols will warm your heart and fill your soul with peace, joy & hope. A sing-along, as well as a very special candlelit ceremony rounds out this not-to-be-missed evening of holiday cheer.

Last time we sold out, so get your tickets now!

~Calvin Arsenia~ Voted Kansas City’s Best Musician eight years in a row (2018-2025~PitchKC), featured on NPR’s World Cafe, NEWNOWNEXT, & Billboard, Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. Arsenia’s angelic, classically-trained voice soars over audiences, while his multi-instrumental skills, particularly that of the Celtic harp, shocks & enchants them as he flirts between genres. While the harp has allowed this Kansas City native to become a man of the world (gaining followings in Paris, Edinburgh, and at the Outlyre festival in Austria), it’s his unique ability to craft a stimulating setting at his live shows that has all eyes fixed on this conspicuous musician and his breathtaking approach to harp music.

“Jeff Buckley meets Nina Simone with this soul of Sam Cooke, and the sparkle of Bjork.” But the music is just part of his prodigious performance, for Calvin believes the art is in crafting the perfect moment. His music is best served live, with sensational vocals and avant-garde fashion from the visually striking performer who stands at 6’6”. Arsenia’s height, energy, and curated environments fill the often intimate spaces he performs in. Brought into 9 countries through public and private grants in less than a decade, Arsenia builds a scene for his audience packed with beauty and lasting delight.

"While everyone else is feeling crushed by the weight of the world, Calvin is out chasing beauty… and he’s taking us all along for the ride." -IHEARTLOCALMUSIC https://calvinarsenia.com

Adults: Presale $30/$40 at door Children 16 & under: $10/$20 at door DOORS AT 5:30/ PERFORMANCE AT 6:00

Calvin Arsenia and Kirstie Lynn Details TBA

5:00 pm - Gates Open Find your favorite eats from a variety of food trucks. 6:00 pm - Holiday Stage Show featuring

The cast of the Quality Hill Playhouse Christmas in Song1065_TheWolf_pos_rgb.png Soul Harpist Calvin Arsenia The arrival of Santa Claus and 100 talented singers and dancers from Monica's School of Dance in Lee's Summit 8:00 pm - Amazing Fireworks choreographed to your favorite holiday soundtrack simulcast on 99.7 The Point 8:20 pm - Drive thru the 37th Annual Christmas in the Park!

The Scoop: Trevor + Fritz + Calvin

Greenwood Social Hall Proudly Presents Trevor Turla, Fritz Hutchison, and Calvin Arsenia in Trio Form plus Ice Cream Social

Doors at 6:30 pm Music at 7:00 pm Ice Cream Social to follow

Trevor Turla

Trevor Turla is a Filipino-American trombonist, vocalist, and songwriter whose music reflects the rich tapestry of American sound—from jazz and soul to rock and beyond. Blending the textured warmth of his trombone with a soulful voice and heartfelt storytelling, Trevor delivers performances that are both dazzling and deeply authentic. His latest EP, And We Continue, was praised by The Pitch for evoking “an array of sentiments, from poignant and introspective moments to growling, thundering, and funky.” With a stage presence that bridges tradition and innovation, Trevor is quickly emerging as a powerful new voice on the global music scene.

Fritz Hutchison

Fritz Hutchison is a Kansas City–based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and bandleader whose music blends rock, folk, jazz, and Americana with sharp lyricism and playful spirit. A drummer by training and a storyteller at heart, he gained acclaim with his debut album Wide Wild Acres (2020), praised for its inventive arrangements and heartfelt narratives. Known for his charismatic stage presence and collaborative energy, Fritz continues to expand his reach beyond the Midwest, sharing songs that balance humor, sincerity, and a deep love of musical exploration.

Calvin Arsenia

Calvin Arsenia is a Kansas City–based harpist, vocalist, and performance artist whose genre‑defying music blends soul, folk, gospel, and electronic influences with striking theatricality. Known for his soaring voice, virtuosic harp playing, and immersive live shows, he has been hailed by outlets like Billboard and NPR as a visionary artist who transforms concerts into multi‑sensory experiences. With albums such as 'Catastrophe' and 'Cantaloupe,' along with his poetry collection 'Every Good Boy Does Fine,' Arsenia continues to expand his reputation as one of the most innovative and captivating voices in contemporary music.

Ice Cream and Refreshments provided at no-cost by House of Outlyre. Donations accepted.

Greenwood Social Hall is located on the second floor of a historical building and does not currently have an ADA accessible entrance. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

We Were Christian Kids: LIVE! Friday, November 14th Greenwood Social Hall Doors at 6:30 PM Event starts at 7:00 PM

Hosts Calvin Arsenia and Justin Randall invite you to an in-person gathering inspired by their podcast We Were Christian Kids. This event is a space for people who grew up in evangelical or fundamentalist communities to share their experiences and hear from others with similar backgrounds.

The evening will center on open conversation, personal storytelling, music, and the chance to connect with others who understand the unique challenges of leaving or rethinking faith traditions. Calvin and Justin will guide the discussion, but the focus is on the voices of those in the room.

This is not a performance or a lecture—it’s a community space. Come ready to listen, reflect, and, if you choose, share your own story.

Refreshments provided by the House of Outlyre. Donations appreciated.

The event is free.

Greenwood Social Hall is located on the second floor of a historical building and does not currently have an ADA accessible entrance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

At TEDxBentonville 2025, we'll explore the elements that create a full life: creative expression, meaningful connection, physical wellbeing, and purposeful work. Beyond mere survival, we seek the spark that makes existence vibrant.

We'll bring together innovators, artists, scientists and community builders who are reimagining health, redefining success, and reconnecting us to our essential humanity.

From the air we breathe to the communities we build, from the art we create to the technologies we design—Vitalis invites us to discover what it means to be fully alive in today's world.

The future belongs to those who understand that true vitality flows when we flourish together.

Patrick Wolf today announces the release of his long-awaited seventh album Crying The Neck due out 25th April via APPORT / Virgin Music and available to pre-order here. The album features guest appearances from Zola Jesus, Serafina Steer, drummer Seb Rochford and Wolf’s sister Jo Apps. Alongside news of an extensive UK, European and US tour, the dates of which are listed below, Wolf has shared first single “Dies Irae”, an anthemic “affirmation of life” set in the days before the passing of his mother. Click HERE to listen.

“Dies Irae” comes from the Latin Requiem Mass and translates to “the day of wrath” or, as Wolf puts it, “the day of separation from the living”. He wanted to write a response to that idea, seeing it instead as a “an affirmation of life in the last days of knowing you are about to lose someone you love, and a courageous - almost rebellious - choice against the misery to use the time remaining to deepen your love or joy with each other.” He wrote it “to give myself another day I didn't have with my mother during her rapid descent in illness” and hopes that this might also help others who have been through the same process. The string arrangement at the end of the song is based on the Medieval Gregorian chant ‘Dies Irae’ from the Latin mass. The song, Wolf says, completed the narrative arc of the album, connecting the opening tracks with the “death suite” of pieces in tribute to his mother. “I finished the lyrics as an imaginary last conversation with my mother in her art studio and out to the garden as the evening falls,” he says. “My sister Jo Apps came in the last days of mixing to sing the backing vocals, and in a way, it meant that we could both share a last dance in the kitchen with our ma together.”

The aftermath of addiction, crisis, bankruptcy, recovery and survival shaped The Night Safari, Patrick Wolf’s 2023 return to music after ten years lost to creative impasse and personal upheaval. Now, with seventh studio album Crying The Neck, the 41-year-old has created a confident and hopeful record inspired by the transfiguring power of grief at the death of his mother, rehabilitation, local folklore and the East Kentish landscape.

Crying The Neck, his first new album in thirteen years and the first in a planned four album series, was written and recorded in the Kent coastal town of Ramsgate that Wolf now calls home. Here, he has a peaceful studio in the garden, the place in which he was able to find his voice again. In a period of rebuilding, Crying The Neck was entirely written, composed, produced and arranged by Wolf himself, with Brendan Cox brought in as co-producer and engineer in the last three years to help finish an album a decade in the making.

In this quiet space, Wolf went back to the origins of his music making, taking inspiration from the techniques and tools he had at the time, and thus was able to move forward. He wanted to return to instruments including the viola, the Appalachian dulcimer, baritone ukulele, kantale, and the Atari he used to programme as a teenager, with a spirit of “let's go really into all the things I've returned to with my hands and use the muscle memory to develop my craft.”

Yet this is the first Patrick Wolf record that doesn’t travel back, or yearn for, a state of boyhood. Instead, Wolf revisited some of his earliest unreleased material to recontextualise it for his present. Album opener ‘Reculver’ is a song that Wolf began to write when he was just 16. He’d always wanted to finish it, and when he started looking for houses in Kent and passing the Reculver towers on the way there and back to London, the song kept demanding to be relocated there. The beats on the fresh incarnation of the song, the start of Wolf’s new future, are the very ones he made back then.

The Reculver towers were on a list of words, landmarks, people and local places that had to be on the album. This geographic specificity is an expression of Wolf’s gratitude to East Kent for being a place of nurturing as he returned to his craft, a reflection of, as he puts it, “the sense of immediate wonder and fluency that came back to my writing when I got here.” He spent hours researching local history, working to achieve a level of detail that you’d normally associate with researching a literary work, rather than an album.

As well as Crying The Neck being fixed in the Kentish landscape, there’s a temporal specificity, related to folklore, that also involved deep research. The planned four album cycle will follow the seasons as set out by a pagan wheel of the year, bought in a Rochester print shop. Consulting the wheel, Wolf realized that the events that he was writing about all came within the Lúnasa and Mabon sections of the wheel – July, August and September, the time of fruitfulness and harvest. The passing of Wolf’s mother Imelda Apps from angiosarcoma cancer in 2018 happened then, just a week from her birthday, and shapes what he describes as a “death suite of songs” that are the core of the record, as well as providing the title. When Wolf first encountered the phrase “crying the neck”, he interpreted it as being “the primal cry that you make in grief”. It turned out that it was a harvest ritual chant uttered when the final neck of corn is cut, traditionally associated with the West Country, but also followed in East Kent. His mother’s passing around the time of the ritual provided the connection of harvest as a metaphor for death and started to appear more frequently in his writing.

Wolf wanted to ensure this wasn’t mere window dressing. “Exploration of folklore can just be listing the ritual, and it's very rare that people go deeper and ask, ‘well, what did it mean?’ he says. The hooden horse, referenced on ‘Better Or Worse’, is a ritual and performance in which a wooden hobby horse dies and returns with magical powers. “For me, this was a beautiful metaphor of grief and how somebody gets resurrected within your life, that they do actually come back with magic powers, they become a supernatural guide,” Wolf explains. As well as the grief at death, for Wolf the song also referred to his craft too. “It's grief for who you were, a period of death and coming back,” he says, “I don't know if it's supernatural powers, but I'm definitely stronger than I was before.”

Crying The Neck weaves these intensely personal songs with events Wolf saw around him in East Kent. He found it jarring that this place that “gave me a lot of sense of wonder and overwhelming beauty” was often discussed in terms of various crises – a border crisis, an economic crisis or a migrant crisis. Then an incident that inspired the completion of ‘Hymn Of The Haar’ came one morning at a favourite remote swimming and writing spot, where Wolf saw the body of a migrant drowned the night before. “It was harrowing, just me and this boy all morning, I had thought they were asleep in the sun for hours as I wrote” he recalls, “the next day, there was nothing, no mention in the press, the body was just taken away. It was like this ghost. I saw the arrival and disposal of his existence as being incredibly dehumanizing”. Yet to Patrick the negativity that surrounded national perceptions of East Kent wasn’t the whole picture, and he felt a duty to paint a more nuanced and positive portrait of the area that he had fallen in love with, highlighting the beauty found in its landscape, people and folklore. ‘The Last Of England’, named after the film Derek Jarman shot on the shingle of Dungeness is, while not a political song, “a national anthem that I wrote for myself – England is beautiful and rotten at the same time, and I am a part of it.”

The complexity of nationhood, personhood and grief that Crying The Neck embraces is summed up by the appearance on the album of a the recording of the writer Vita Sackville-West reading the line “faith, doubt, perplexity, grief, hope, despair”, from her poem ‘The Land’. “The quote is important because it’s acceptance and acknowledgement,” says Wolf. Crying The Neck finishes on the Foreland peninsula, looking out over the North Sea, reflecting on the transience of life, but also progress. “I wanted a song of experience at the end, a preparation for a shift into a more urgent mortality,” Patrick Wolf explains. “I do feel like I have a certain amount of time left, to do the work that I want to do, and a certain amount of time left to not do the work as well, and to live.”

Calvin Arsenia opens the show.

“Jeff Buckley meets Nina Simone with this soul of Sam Cooke, and the sparkle of Bjork.” - Peregrine Honig, Artist

Singer, harpist, and author Calvin Arsenia has built a reputation for turning the arts world on its head. Voted Kansas City's Best Musician 2018 - 2023 (The Pitch), and featured on Billboard.com, NPR.org, NEWNOWNEXT, Pride.com, and GRAMMY.com, Arsenia’s angelic stylings on voice and harp create rare harmonies and arrangements that look past the boundaries of his traditional gospel and classical upbringing. Known for his elaborate and ceremonious sensory concert experiences that merge jazz and electronic influences, “Calvin has consistently deliver(s) genre-bending (and gender-bending) shows that tackle sexuality, religion, and race in a stunningly unorthodox manner - somewhere between sacred and sacrilege." - Fally Afani.