10,000 Fresh Voices

Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis

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Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


948 Pieces

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Quatrefoil Library is a GLBT lending library in St. Paul, founded by Dick Hewetson and David Irwin. It was named after the 1950 James Barr novel, Q...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 07:18
Caption: Eric Howell, Credit: Michael Cannon
Mounds View resident Eric Howell is a film-industry stunt man who also acts, writes and directs. But Howell does more than leap from buildings and ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 10:10
Caption: Discovering wild mushrooms.
Most people have probably never cooked with fiddle ferns and cattails, but each year at the Wild Food Summit, food enthusiasts gather to forage and...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Peterson talks mushrooms at the St. Paul farmers market.
Tom Peterson is known to many as "the mushroom man." For years he has been hunting and gathering fungi, and teaching people about the multiple, hea...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Think of Nye's Polonaise Room in Northeast Minneapolis and you're likely to conjure up a swanky supper club, piano bar and polka lounge. Opened in ...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:12
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Ruth Adams had been the accordionist for The World's Most Dangerous Polka Band at Nye's Polonaise Room for 35 years, when she passed away in March ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Beginning in September, Minneapolis’ Mixed Blood Theatre is taking an unusual approach to ticket pricing by offering free admission to patrons on a...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
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The slogan for the Minneapolis-based Zenon Dance Company is "Company. School. Outreach." The Company and School continue to receive both local and ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:51
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Exotik-a-GoGo is the house band at Psycho Suzi's Motor Lounge. Every Friday and Saturday the sextet sets the mood in the upstairs bar with tiki, lo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 1
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What could be better than brewing beer with your closest friends? Selling it as a wildly successful microbrew! One of the Twin Cities' up-and-comin...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:07
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If you're a painter, you can go to the store and buy oils or watercolors. But what if you're an artist obsessed with materials you can't buy at a s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 2
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Innova Recordings was founded in 1982 as a contemporary record label. Located in St. Paul, it is part of the American Composers Forum and represent...

  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:57