{"id":1951,"date":"2021-11-22T16:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/independentvenueweek.com\/us\/2021\/11\/22\/rudy-love-jr-and-wave-on-independent-venue-speak\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:27:35","slug":"rudy-love-jr-and-wave-on-independent-venue-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/independentvenueweek.com\/us\/2021\/11\/22\/rudy-love-jr-and-wave-on-independent-venue-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudy Love Jr. and WAVE on &#8216;Independent Venue Speak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s almost Thanksgiving, and we&#8217;re especially grateful to release a brand new episode of Independent Venue Speak! Hosted by R&amp;B luminary<strong>&nbsp;Rudy Love Jr.<\/strong>, this&nbsp;episode&nbsp;covers the development of the Wichita music scene, the aspiration to grow beyond the &#8220;tertiary market&#8221; category, and the formation of Wichita&#8217;s iconic venue:&nbsp;<strong>WAVE.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Rudy Love Jr.<\/strong>&nbsp;is a music artist from Wichita, KS, who combines the styles of R&amp;B, soul, funk, rock and pop. He has a focus on live music and has shared the stage with artists like&nbsp;<strong>Moonchild<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;SIR<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>D Smoke<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Snoop Dogg<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Kansas<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;Anderson .Paak<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>George Clinton<\/strong>&nbsp;to name a few. He is also the son of iconic musician&nbsp;<strong>Rudy Love, Sr.<\/strong>&nbsp;and is featured, alongside his family, in &ldquo;This Is Love&rdquo; the acclaimed documentary about the adventures of his musical family.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p>Rudy Jr. is joined by venue owners and community organizers&nbsp;<strong>Adam<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Jessie Hartke<\/strong>, whose work to champion the music scene locally has been utterly transformative for Wichita.&nbsp;<strong>Adam Hartke<\/strong>&nbsp;is also co-chair of the&nbsp;<strong>NIVA Advocacy Committee<\/strong>, and represented&nbsp;<strong>NIVA<\/strong>&nbsp;in a Congressional hearing last December in support of the landmark&nbsp;<strong>Save Our Stages<\/strong>&nbsp;legislation.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seetickets.us\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/independentvenueweek.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23147\" width=\"300\"><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p>&lsquo;Independent Venue Speak&rsquo; is produced by&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/marauder.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"marauder.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marauder<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in partnership with&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seetickets.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See Tickets<\/a><\/strong>. 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