Make Music Day KC - Harmonica Experience for Beginners

Sun Jun 21 2026 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm UTC-05:00

Lakeside Nature Center | Kansas City

Kansas City Parks and Recreation
Publisher/HostKansas City Parks and Recreation
Make Music Day KC - Harmonica Experience for Beginners
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Make Music Day KC: An Intro to Harmonica for Beginners
About this Event

presents the Harmonica Experience for Beginners. It's happening on Sunday, June 21st from 12:00-1:00 PM at Lakeside Nature Center located at 4701 East Gregory Blvd., Kansas City, MO 6413.
Local musician Russ ‘KidMan’ Schenke will be demonstrating basic technics and other insights on the harmonica. This clinic is open to all ages and no experience is necessary. Learn a little bit and take some music with you! Join us!
A limited number of harmonicas will be provided courtesy of Easttop Harmonica so be sure to sign up today!


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Russ "KidMan" Schenke presents the Harmonica Experience for Beginners in a casual and informative setting. Participants are provided a harmonica from Easttop Harmonica when they register for the Make Music Day event. This is a really great introduction to an instrument you can take with you anywhere!


Event Photos

Tuning up for the Make Music Kansas City Harmonica Experience! With Russ "KidMan" Schenke on harmonica accompanied by Patrick Recob on guitar they were demonstrating some blues riffs for the local news station.

Originally from Chicago, instructor Russ Schenke played and recorded with several American Roots and Blues bands before moving to Kansas City and becoming part of Blues scene. He has focused for over a decade on blues harmonica, learning tone, style and skill from local Blues legend Lee McBee, Jimmie Meade of LeVee Town and other KC harmonica greats.



Here's an impromptu jam between Russ "KidMan" Schenke and Howard Mahan to kickoff the inaugural Make Music Day Kansas City in Lemonade Park in 2021.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Lakeside Nature Center, 4701 East Gregory Boulevard, Kansas City, United States

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