10,000 Fresh Voices
Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis
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.
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Minnesota is home to a lot of inventions. KFAI's Matthew Schneeman digs into the surprising history behind the invention of the paper bag with hand...
- Added: Jun 21, 2024
- Length: 07:27
Two Minnesota family bands, the Steeles and the Nunns, talk about making music with family members.
- Added: Jun 11, 2024
- Length: 06:58
Minnesota is home to the only all-owl education center in the United States.
Why an owl center in Minnesota? Well, it started with an owl named Al...
- Added: Jun 06, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Heid Erdrich is Minneapolis' first poet laureate for the year 2024. She is Ojibwe, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain band.
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 05:08
The sound of ice underlays a new music project called Estuary, named after the place where a river converges with other waters. Musician player Zac...
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 05:08
Next year, Carrol Henderson has a memoir coming out from Afton Press about his 41 years as the Minnesota DNR's first Nongame Wildlife Program Super...
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Do you have a charger that doesn't charge anymore? Vacuum clogged somewhere you can’t reach? Instead of tossing it out, you could bring it to a fix...
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 07:04
Legendary musician Spider John Koerner recently gifted one of his customized Gretsch guitars to musician Charlie Parr — a way of passing the torch ...
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 07:45
Minneapolis-based artist Alondra Garza has been adding a little crunch to her recent body of work. And that crunch comes in the form of hot cheetos.
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 06:13
Bagpipes arrived in Minnesota in the 1850’s, brought by Scottish immigrants to what is now Blue Earth county, as settlers moved in, occupying Dakot...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 06:32
The Upper Midwest Flute Association offers places for flutists to perform, to learn, to compete and to borrow music and instruments.
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Since 2017, the Federal Government has been exploring way to promote the Monarch Butterfly habitat along interstate 35.
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 06:19
It's been 40 years since Prince released Purple Rain. The film and soundtrack made Prince a superstar and turned First Avenue, featured in the Purp...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 05:01
In the wake of the police killing of Philando Castile, North Minneapolis native Geoffrey Lamar Wilson turned to music as an act of protest and reme...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 05:39
For years, there were only two in the nation, but in 2011, Minnesota got its first with US Bicycle Route-43, the 600-mile Mississippi River Trail f...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 05:21
Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes and maybe more specifically, for its canoe culture through the pristine lakes of the Boundary Waters. Over ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 06:00
One particularly boisterous and sonorous spring, podcaster and long-distance hiker Alison Young chose to walk the entirety of the Superior Hiking T...
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- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 07:02
Nestled in the Rondo community of St. Paul, among the burgeoning business district of a revitalized neighborhood, is a publishing entity ready and ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 05:34
In the 1970s, Cynthia Johnson was a working musician who got hired to sing on a couple of demos. Then, out of nowhere, one of those demos became th...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 07:26
