KRPR

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Classic Rock Without The Talk.

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80 Pieces

a series of short, fun and engaging stories exploring the history of Rochester and the surrounding area.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Feb 10, 2020
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32 Pieces

Bits of art history centered around the greater Rochester Minnesota area

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 08, 2023
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52 Pieces

Rochester Music History in 90 Seconds

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 09, 2021
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72 Pieces

Weekly series from KRPR radio, about the people and happenings around town in Rochester, MN and surrounding areas.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: Jun 24, 2019
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52 Pieces

Veterans' Voices is a radio series exploring the knowledge, experience and leadership of Rochester service members.

  • From: KRPR
  • Updated: May 10, 2022

Latest Pieces

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In 1999, four kids from Rochester formed a punk band, Mister Completely. High school graduates, they changed their band name to the F-Ups, recorded...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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It was 1987 and Bon Jovi, the biggest rock band around, was touring on the strength of its new album Slippery When Wet. For a spring jaunt through ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Lea Thompson, born in Rochester in 1961, thought she’d follow her brother into dance—until Mikhail Baryshnikov told her she was too “stocky.” That ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Growing up in Rochester, Joe Sun soaked up the sounds of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. When Dylan and the Beatles arrived, he loved their records ...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1970, students from both Mayo and John Marshall High School started jamming together. They decided to form a band. Britt Aamodt spins songs from...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1939, twin brothers Jose and Ivan Arguelles were born in Rochester. Ivan, the one with the enormous record collection, became a poet. Jose, afte...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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In 1930, Harold Cooke founded the Rochester Male Chorus. Forty-three years later, the Chorus, still under the directorship of Cooke, traveled to Wa...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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For over 20 years, Lloyd Ketterling was choral director at John Marshall High School in Rochester. And if students had a will to sing, he knew they...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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Since 1954, Earl and Peg Welhaven had been running a music store in Rochester. But in 1966, the store purchased a record cutter and opened a side b...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
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The Plummer Building was slated to be the newest addition to the Mayo Clinic campus. But the design was altered slightly before its opening in 1928...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:30