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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The Kronick Quintett plays frequently at the Public Kitchen and Bar, which faces the north side of Mears Park in Saint Paul. The group’s next perf...
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Jon Pemberton loves solo piano shows because it allows him to explore a lot of interesting music. He says, too, that Vieux Carré, where he plays on...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 05:00
A few years ago, Jeff Senn and Mac Santiago, experienced Minnesota jazz players, noticed a lack of a Latin Jazz Orchestra locally. So they recruite...
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 05:00
Mid February heats up with a weekend of hot string band performances at the Cedar Cultural Center. Kevin and Nate of Pert Near Sandstone told Phil ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 05:00
By mid- February in the North Star state, folks need a concert held in warm air. And that’s what they get at Edinborough Park in Edina on Feb 12, a...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 05:00
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
We live in an era where most people have multiple music styles available to them. On top of that, there is so much travel, that players representin...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 04:59
The Cedar Cultural Center hosts Blackout, a concert featuring local artists. The intents are to entertain, but also to serve to get people together...
- Added: Dec 29, 2016
- Length: 05:00
The Scottie Miller Band. The group has been around a long time, and it has always been a creative and evolving unit playing original music. And the...
- Added: Dec 16, 2016
- Length: 04:59
It’ll be familiar Christmas songs, but not the same old way as Cedric Fuller leads Global Sound into the Black Dog in Saint Paul. Cedric told Phil ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 05:00
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
Dan Newton is playing seemingly all the time and seemingly every musical genre. It all adds up to entertaining accordion-based shows with a great c...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 05:00
For variety, you can’t top vaudeville. Carrying the torch for this venerable concept is Patty and the Buttons who lead a troupe of seasoned pros in...
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Dakota Dave Hull plays many musical forms, all with understanding and sensitivity. Plus, his commentaries on music contain a lot of the fun factor....
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:00
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
With Pop and Bob, it’s not only a night of old-time songs. The two have a way of keeping their act fresh with wit. While they have performed togeth...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Connie Evingson is one of the leading jazz vocalists in Minnesota. And she’s presenting a show of great songs that figure prominently in the histor...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Lori Dokken leads a group of musical multi-stylists in Painting Joni. The group gives fresh spins to the multi-style offerings of Joni Mitchell, co...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 05:00
