Kranzberg Arts Foundation

An estimated 17,000 people attended this year's Music at the Intersection festival, as the event debuted a new footprint and featured the performances at new venue the Sovereign.

John Medeski’s Mad Skillet will make its only U.S. appearance of the year on Saturday at Music at the Intersection, the three-day festival set to take over Grand Center.

Grammy-nominated musician Keyon Harrold loves to come home to St. Louis for MATI every year.

This year’s MATI festival will include an additional main stage and an expanded conference.

New festival Free 4 All will take over 10 venues in Grand Center the weekend before Music At The Intersection. Organizers of the new festival say it’s a sort of opening act for MATI, featuring St. Louis artists.

The fifth iteration of the Music at the Intersection festival will include headliners Common, Patti LaBelle, De La Soul and Branford Marsalis, plus pop-up presentations and performances around Midtown.

The Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis will soon be home to a new arts and entertainment facility owned by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation. Logic Systems Holdings, a St. Louis County-based audio and video production company, will lease the space.

Several local musicians were disappointed in lack of accommodations such as access to meals and greenroom space.

A quintet of jazz players assembled for Music at the Intersection will pay tribute to the indelible contribution of jazz musicians and educators from the east side of the river.

Headliners at Music at the Intersection include genre-busting jazz phenom Esperanza Spalding. The festival will take over Grand Center this weekend.