Twin Cities Weekend
Series produced by KBEM
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5 to 8-minute, highly produced heads-ups highlighting great musical activities in the Twin Cities broadly conceived. The pieces feature the musicians, their music, club owners, fans, in short all of those responsible for creating musical experiences.
The Twin Cities is home to many musical forms, including jazz, folk, Latin, gospel and bluegrass to name a few. Each week on Twin Cities weekend, we select an upcoming performance and in 5 to 8 highly produced minutes, give it context. The shows are entertaining and informative. Producer is Phil Nusbaum of KBEM-FM, Minneapolis, and funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Paul Barry, Twin Cities Blues Harp Player Combines blues band influences from Chicago and West Coast in his live shows with the Ace Tones. Check ou...
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 08:00
In an old bluegrass band there was a leader with sidemen. But today there are many other arrangements, and the name No Man’s String Band reflects t...
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Billy McLaughlin has carved out a career as a tap style guitar stylist. Catch his act in Minneapolis at the Aster Café, Tuesday July 17 at 8pm. The...
- Added: Jul 12, 2018
- Length: 08:00
This year is the 75th anniversary of Bound for Glory, the book written by depression era folksinger Woody Guthrie. To celebrate the occasion, Pop W...
- Added: Jul 05, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Dan Schwartz of Minneapolis plays the harp guitar. It looks a lot like a regular acoustic guitar, but with heavy, range-extending bass strings adde...
- Added: Jul 02, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Over the years, Phil Heywood has written a steady stream of guitar music. He also performs songs written by others, but re-worked to fit his style ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. It’s a production focused on inspiring jazz singer Billie Holiday. A local actress and singer, Thomasina Petru...
- Added: Jun 28, 2018
- Length: 08:00
When you spend some time with Pavielle you find out that her musical career got started as a child. She sings, plays the keyboards, composes, and b...
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 08:00
What does a jazz orchestra want to do? It wants to play for dancers, that’s what. We go on location next to one of the Minnesota Jazz Orchestra’s m...
- Added: Jun 01, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Sawtooth Bros band members are in their young 20s, and have been playing together half their lives. They play in the Hilde Performance Center i...
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Minneapolis Jazz singer Rhonda Laurie is all about emotion. And she’s singing at Vieux Carre in Saint Paul on Wednesday Aug 30 from 8 till 11. In a...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 08:00
This coming Saturday marks the return of the Loring Park Music Festival, staged by the Citizens for a Loring Park Community. The Festival runs from...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 08:00
You expect pop songs to relate to romance. But not so with City Counselor. The group plays at the Walker Arts center in Minneapolis during the eve...
- Added: May 27, 2018
- Length: 08:00
After Minneapolis cellists Jacqueline Ultey and Michelle Kinney met after having heard of each other for years, they discovered musical similaritie...
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Saxophonist Nathan Hanson and drummer JT Bates are a couple of old friends. But for some reason they’ve hardly performed together. That situation i...
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Cities jazz Fest takes place Thurs-Sat June 21-23. There is a lot of local jazz at the event, much of it at the Black Dog in Lowertown Sai...
- Added: May 22, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Ciites Jazz Festival is coming, and The Black Dog in Lowertown stages a lot of local jazz. It starts at the Black Dog this Thurs evening. ...
- Added: May 20, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Mother Banjo—Ellen Stanley-- is well known to acoustic music audiences in Minnesota and beyond. You can catch the act Thurs May 24, 7pm, at the Hoo...
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 08:00
When it comes to modern finger-style guitar, every player seems to have a special stylistic niche. This Saturday, the Icehouse presents three of th...
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Erica West is a local singer who comes from a musical family. Her mother is a singer, too. Erica combines jazz, r and b and pop in front of a band ...
- Added: May 13, 2018
- Length: 08:00
