From youth rock bands to funk, hip-hop, reggae, and blues, Beats on Bates has turned a humble alley into the soundtrack of Kalamazoo’s summer Wednesdays. Latin, funk, blues, reggae, country, rock — BoB has had it, or will have it. Mayor David Anderson has called her “the Mayor of Downtown Entertainment,” Guess says, but her official title is Coordinator of Downtown Kalamazoo Events and Programming. Kim Guess, the “Mayor of Downtown Entertainment,” on Bates Alley. “This is Kalamazoo,” Guess says.