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ShowcaseSTL Returns To The Grove This Weekend With Over 100 Local Musical Acts

From left, Joe Hess and Daniel Hill joined Friday's talk show.
Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Joe Hess and Daniel Hill joined Friday's talk show.
From left, Joe Hess and Daniel Hill joined Friday's talk show.
Credit Evie Hemphill | St. Louis Public Radio
From left, Joe Hess and Daniel Hill joined Friday's talk show.

St. Louis’ biggest local music festival gets underway Friday evening and all day Saturday with a lineup that the Riverfront Times has billed as its best yet. Featuring more than 100 performances by St. Louis-based bands across 11 venues, ShowcaseSTL 2019 aims to match that quantity with quality, and organizers have taken a collaborative, input-heavy approach to planning.

On Friday’s St. Louis on the Air, guest host Jim Kirchherr of the Nine Network talked with RFT music editor Daniel Hill and with Joe Hess, who has spearheaded the curation of the lineup.

This year’s theme is the idea of discovery. The festival presents both long-established artists and emerging ones, in all sorts of musical genres, for concertgoers.

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What: ShowcaseSTL 2019

When: Kickoff party Friday, June 21, and all day Saturday, June 22, 2019

Where: Various venues throughout St. Louis’ Grove neighborhood

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St. Louis on the Air” brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region. The show is produced by Alex Heuer, Evie Hemphill and Lara Hamdan. The engineer is Aaron Doerr and production assistance is provided by Charlie McDonald.

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Evie Hemphill joined the St. Louis on the Air team in February 2018. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 2005, she started her career as a reporter for the Westminster Window in Colorado. Several years later she went on to pursue graduate work in creative writing at the University of Wyoming and moved to St. Louis upon earning an MFA in the spring of 2010. She worked as writer and editor for Washington University Libraries until 2014 and then spent several more years in public relations for the University of Missouri–St. Louis before making the shift to St. Louis Public Radio.