Live from Studio A
Series produced by WDSE

Interviews and live performances from local, regional, and national musicians on KUMD in Duluth, MN. "Live from Studio A" is produced at KUMD by Christine Dean and Chris Harwood with funding provided by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
KUMD is pleased to share "Live from Studio A." Interviews and live performances from local, regional, and national musicians on KUMD in Duluth, MN. "Live from Studio A" is produced at KUMD by Christine Dean and Chris Harwood with funding provided by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Listen to audio archives at kumd.org
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In his more than 30-year career, this Minnesota native has played guitar with a wide array of performers in a wide array of genres on stages across...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 38:26
This Cloquet native was on tour in Europe with his band The Social Animals when the pandemic shut everything down. Now based in Nashville, Clark ha...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 18:31
This Minneapolis musician was the youngest ever winner of the Hibbing Dylan Days Singer/Songwriter competition in 2009 at age 13. He joined us for ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 33:52
Recent UMD graduate Hattie Peach and her sister Grace (a recent high school graduate) recently released an EP, also featuring their dad John on dru...
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 27:02
This year's Duluth Homegrown Music Festival guide documents how this musician went from being an ensemble player in the six-piece band NorShore Sum...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 18:29
Cloquet native Tony Petersen was on the road with The Social Animals when the pandemic hit in 2020 and their tour came to an abrupt end. Since then...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 30:42
This Duluth musician released his debut solo album, Canvas and Color, back in November. Coffman's history in the local music scene includes progres...
- Added: Jun 11, 2021
- Length: 36:01
This Duluth-based singer/songwriter/guitarist was born here but grew up in Iowa. A few years back he returned to Duluth and began performing regula...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 26:16
This Twin Cities Americana musician released an album in February of 2020, just before the pandemic shut down most live performances for a year. Wh...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 35:45
Duluth musician Sarah Krueger joined us on March 5, 2021 to talk about her first album since 2014. To reflect the evolution of her creative vision,...
- Added: Jun 18, 2021
- Length: 38:55
Duluth roots-rock band The Slamming Doors has released two EPs during the pandemic, Brown Bears Volumes 1 and 2, the latter of which came out on Va...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 30:09
After 11 months, we at KUMD were excited to host our first live, in-person Live from Studio A since last March. COVID protocols were in full effec...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 30:11
Folk duo Storyhill was in the midst of a 30th anniversary tour when the pandemic hit, putting an end to live performances for the time being. They ...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 41:50
Twin Cities trio the New Standards features seasoned musicians Chan Poling (The Suburbs), John Munson (Trip Shakespeare, Semisonic) and Steve Roehm...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 44:14
The Minnesota musician joins the long list of artists releasing their work during a pandemic. She joined us via the internet on August 21st to chat...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 33:50
This Minneapolis folk singer/songwriter recently released her tenth full-length album, Ordinary Love, with a virtual release show. We heard some so...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 35:28
Rachael Kilgour and Sara Pajunen make up this duo that combines Rachael’s singer/songwriter/guitaristbackground with violinist Sara’s classical and...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 30:53
This native of Michigan's U.P. is now based in Minneapolis, where he recently recorded a fourth album, The Fire and the Medicine, due out this spri...
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 30:13
This Twin Cities singer, songwriter, and guitarist was last in our studios as part of The Big Wu. This time around he has a new solo blues album to...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 30:54
A native of England, this singer/songwriter has lived in the Twin Cities for several years now, performing in bands including The Camdens before re...
- Added: Jun 29, 2020
- Length: 24:19