This Weekend at the Blue Room — The Band Oasis, Homage, The Taylorized Show Band & Eboni Fondren
Homage headlines Friday, the Taylorized Show Band (Johnnie Taylor's son TJ Hooker-Taylor) brings soul Saturday, and Eboni Fondren leads Monday's jam. The Band Oasis opens Indigo.
This Weekend at the Blue Room
June 26–29, 2026
A big Friday and a standout Monday on the Blue Room bandstand. Here’s what’s on June 26–29.
This Weekend’s Lineup
Friday, June 26
Indigo Hour: The Band Oasis — 5:30 pm (free)
Homage — 8:30 pm & 10 pm
Saturday, June 27
The Taylorized Show Band — 8:30 pm & 10 pm
Monday, June 29
Monday Night Jam Session: Eboni Fondren Trio — 7 pm ($5 cover)
Indigo Hour: The Band Oasis — Friday, 5:30 pm
The Band Oasis opens the weekend at Indigo Hour — free, this Friday, June 26. They’re one of the Blue Room’s most reliable regulars: a sharp, road-tested Kansas City combo with years of appearances on this bandstand, playing the kind of warm, easy-grooving soul-and-jazz set built for a Friday happy hour. Come early, grab a drink, and let the weekend officially begin.
Free admission. Doors at 5 pm.
Homage — Friday, 8:30 pm & 10 pm
Homage headlines Friday night with two full sets on the Blue Room stage — the perfect way to kick off the weekend. There's nothing like a Friday night in this room: an intimate space, a band locked in, and music made to get you up and grooving. Grab a drink, find your spot, and let the night take over. Two sets, two chances to catch it — come start your weekend off right at 18th & Vine.
$10 for one show, $15 for both.
The Taylorized Show Band — Saturday, 8:30 pm & 10 pm
Soul runs in the blood. The Taylorized Show Band is led by TJ Hooker-Taylor — the son of soul-blues giant Johnnie Taylor, the voice behind “Who’s Making Love,” “Disco Lady,” and “Cheaper to Keep Her.” A Kansas City singer raised in the church, Hooker-Taylor came up leading the Young Golden Voices and founded the funk outfit the Grand Jury Band, sharing stages with the Bar-Kays, Cameo, and Slave. He spent roughly a decade opening for his father, and he’s carried that catalog forward ever since alongside his own Southern soul originals. Saturday he headlines two sets of soul, blues, and R&B the way it’s meant to be heard.
$10 for one show, $15 for both.
Monday Night Jam Session: Eboni Fondren Trio — Monday, 7 pm
This one’s the anchor of the week. Eboni Fondren has been named Favorite Jazz Vocalist by the KC Jazz Ambassadors three years running — 2021, 2022, and 2023 — and Favorite Vocalist in The Pitch Best 2024. In 2023 she was selected to represent the United States as a jazz ambassador at the G20 Summit in Varanasi, India. Last year she released two albums: “The Journey: To Kansas City with Love” in July, and “An American in Paris,” recorded with the Laurent Marode Orchestra in Paris, in October.
Monday night she brings her trio for the featured set, then the Blue Room bandstand opens up. Bring your instrument, your voice, or just your ears. The Monday Night Jam is where Kansas City’s players come to stretch out, and there’s no finer artist to set the tone.
$5 cover. Featured set starts at 7 pm; sign up at the door to sit in.
Come See Us
The Blue Room is the American Jazz Museum’s living jazz club — the music never stopped at 18th & Vine.
The Blue Room 1600 E 18th St, Kansas City, MO 64108
Full calendar and tickets: americanjazzmuseum.org/blue-room