ARTSPEAK RADIO+ Neil Anderson, Alex Sons, and Musicians For Molly

Wednesday July 10, 2019 noon - 1pm CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio www.kkfi.org Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with poet Neil Anderson, musician Alex Sons, and organizers for the Musicians For Molly. NEIL MICHAEL ANDERSON is a poet, writer, singer-songwriter, and a multi-instrumentalist with an emphasis on 12-string guitar, as well as the Indian Esraj, and the Hebrew Lyre. Neil was first published by Jack Hirschman, the two-time Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Neil recently published his first collection of verse, titled ARDOR. Many of the poems in ARDOR are songs that he sings, accompanied by 12-string guitar. He was formally trained in music as a youth, and is a self-taught guitar and lyre player. He later studied Classical Indian Music at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music. His first studio album is currently in production. His background includes: entrepreneurship, native-plant gardening, cross-modal healing arts, videography, photography, and various community building and advocacy projects, both in San Francisco, and in Kansas City (his native home). An advocate for orphanages, he loves finding creative ways to benefit others. http://www.ardor.org https://www.instagram.com/neilmichaelanderson/ ALEX SONS is a singer-songwriter from Kansas City Missouri with a unique musical blend of pop, soul, and…