Minnesota Music Profiles
Series produced by KBEM
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Each item in the series tells how a musicians is inspired, how s/he works, their goals and intents for their work; in general, how each gets motivation and follows through with a creative project.
Each Minnesota Music Profile focuses on a musician or group. Listeners learn some of the behind-the-scenes stuff related to the creative process. Programs in the series are under 10 minutes in length. They can be run anytime because they are not time sensitive. These pieces are especially appropriate when subjects perform in the areas served by given radio stations.
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Cory Healy is a local composer and drummer with a Great Melodic Sense whose jazz Mission is to Integrate Wide Influences into the style of his band...
- Added: Aug 09, 2018
- Length: 08:00
A few decades ago in his Detroit home, Don combined playing the blues with an auto parts business, but the business had trouble with crime. So Don ...
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Aug 12, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
The West Wind Swing Band specializes in the big band music of the 1930s and 1940s, and especially with Artie Shaw arrangements. In a conversation ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Molly Maher is a singer, guitarist and bandleader in touch with multiple musical genres. In her singing, playing and composing, she tends to find t...
- Added: Aug 29, 2018
- Length: 08:00
When Mary Louise Knutson performs, it’s the result of deep thought, personal relationships and having fun. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Mar...
- Added: Sep 13, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Cities Brass Band plays a wide variety of works, some written for brass and some adapted for brass. Adam Hille is the director. In a conve...
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The band Wilkinson James has had quite an evolution over it’s 10 years together, both as a duet and as a full band. Phil Nusbaum talked with foundi...
- Added: Oct 03, 2018
- Length: 08:00
You might think the lyrics would be the most important thing to a songwriter. But when Sarah talked to Phil Nusbaum, she said when she writes a son...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The roster of the Adam Meckler Orchestra has been remarkably consistent since it was formed in 2011. But how do you keep 18 members engaged so they...
- Added: Oct 14, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Kat Perkins. She’s a small-town kid from a musical family who started writes and sings rock music. The trail led through the television show The Vo...
- Added: Oct 18, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Selby Avenue Big Band. The group is out of St Paul, MN. Members of the band support each other’s musical expertise and preferences, and as a re...
- Added: Oct 18, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Siama is a Congolese singer and player guy who has been living in the United States for decades. He’s played many styles but in recent years, he ha...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
Nathan Hanson is a saxophonist with international credits who is based in Saint Paul, MN. , in 2006, not long after returning to Minnesota after 8 ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 12:40
David Harland performs and composes finger-style guitar music. David’s style today is the result of a gradual evolution. He talked about it with Ph...
- Added: Oct 29, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Pianist Larry McDonough and guitarist Joel Shapira specialize in interpreting the piano and guitar duet from decades back, Bill Evans and Jim Hall....
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Give-Get Sistet is so named because it is an all-woman singing group. The group pulls songs from many world cultures when it performs. Phil Nus...
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Arna Rennan is one of a small group of artists who respond to both traditional style and the cutting edges of Nordic traditional music. In her musi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Jazz singer Sophia Shorai is a great song interpreter, who enjoys singing in front of small instrumental groups. When Sophia got together with Int...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Hoaxer is a band made up of Edmund Catlin, Peter Goggin, Will Kjeer and Charlie Lincoln. The band formed when all the players were Twin Cities high...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Maurice Jacox and Steve Clark are Minnesota music legends in a new collaboration called Blue Book. Maurice is a much awarded vocalist known for his...
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 08:00
