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When you listen to Jon Pemberton, the feeling that he has much to offer grows and grows. He is best known as a piano player, and you’ll see him as ...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The Twin Cities Latin Jazz orchestra is a 19-piece group playing in the 21st century. The size of the band might seem incongruous in an era of stri...
- Added: Feb 19, 2017
- Length: 06:59
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
The New Primitives. The group is a 4-time winner of the Minnesota Music Academy award winners for best reggae and world band. And the group perform...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 05:01
Nick Jordan is a contemporary rhythm and blues and pop artist who has a handle on all phases of his act, including songwriting, singing, and dancin...
- Added: Jan 09, 2017
- Length: 07:06
Everybody loves the pop music of 1920-1955, but it takes commitment to research and present it. But that’s the mission of Kate Lynch and Her Most E...
- Added: Dec 23, 2016
- Length: 06:58
Sonny Knight. He’s Mississippi born, but has lived in Minnesota since childhood. He talked with Phil Nusbaum about music in general, and about his ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Kate Lynch and Her Most Excellent Fellows started out almost by accident. But Kate fell in love with old jazz, took off with it and met some top-n...
- Added: Dec 03, 2016
- Length: 04:59
Rick Carlson. All by himself he puts on quite a show playing American songbook classics. But if you ask him, his peak moments might just be in his ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 09:29
When you think of any kind of Celtic traditional music, you do not think of horn arrangements. But that’s just what Laura MacKenzie has added to tr...
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 04:59
The Chinese cultural activity has become popular with breast cancer survivors as a way to build community and regain strength.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXXI Rochester, WBFO, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 7
Douglas Collier is a life-term inmate at San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9'x4' foot cell with his friend Tony, a fellow inmate -- u...
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 17:52
When you see a Roseville Big Band show, you get a complete package: Great arrangements, a polished vocal quartet, old songs that everybody loves, a...
- Added: Sep 21, 2016
- Length: 07:59
To many, the Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis serves as the exclamation point at the end of a Twin Cities summe...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 05:00
There’s a very robust debate going on right now as to exactly how much sea level rise we’re in for, and the Cliffs Notes version is that it’s betwe...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
Old Traditional folk songs. Without any promotion from the commercial world, the songs last for centuries. Sherry Minnick of St Paul sings old song...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 10:46
When Debbie Duncan sings and lets her imagination run on a song melody, you are in the presence of someone who is a master of her craft. Debbie’s i...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 07:58
The Bend in the Big River Big Band is named for 2 Mississippi River bends. One is in Saint Peter, where the group was formed. And the other bend is...
- Added: Jun 24, 2016
- Length: 08:44
Joe Cruz. He’s got his feet planted in traditional styles. Perhaps that is why when he plays, it all seems so right, even though he does a lot of m...
- Added: Jun 19, 2016
- Length: 08:58
- Added: Jun 11, 2016
- Length: 15:45
Vice Admiral James Stockdale was a Vietnam War POW for more than seven years. His son, Jim, recalls the family’s difficult wait for his father’s re...
Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 2
For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
Jennifer Grimm playing with players who know her, because the greater the experience, the more fun they have. And the more fun they have challengin...
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 07:16
Marcus Wise is a devoted tabla player. The tabla is a hand drum that provides a signature sound in east Indian music. He talks about his musical pr...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 07:37
We talk about National Poetry Month with Nathan Bergstedt of the Uncommon Loons and the Grand Rapids Players. Nathan is a writer, poet, and teacher...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 14:23
