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Joel Nelson talks about how he grew to love poetry and how he writes and recites poetry, as well as growing up on a ranch and his love of horses, a...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 27:00
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Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:50
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The Oberlin Conservatory of Music won the 2009 National Medal of Arts, the highest award bestowed on an artist or organization by the federal gover...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 28:08
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In 2008, Kay Ryan was appointed the 16th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. And today, you'll hear why.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 21:52
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A world without Mary Poppins? No way. The two-time Oscar winner and 2008 National Medal winner lets us in on how great show tunes get written.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:58
Caption: Susie Ibarra
“I understand Filipino Kulintang, it's melodic phrasing, how it moves linearly, very similar to how perhaps bebop moves in jazz…there’s a lot of si...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, 90.5 WSNC, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sisters Radhika and Ritwika Mitra, founders of Renaissance Now in Fremont, CA.
Sisters Ritwika and Radhika Mitra are 16 and 18 years old. They started a nonprofit called “Renaissance Now,” based in their Fremont home, and they...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
Caption: Percussionist Mary Ellen Donald
When Mary Ellen Donald was eight years old, she fell in love with the piano. Around that same time, she was also diagnosed with macular degeneratio...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 07:12
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Poetry is an art form in itself and today we have a local authority on it. Ken McCullough is Winona's Poet Laureate. Throughout Ken's career he ha...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 24:29
Caption: Daniel Grimslid, Credit: Anna Flores
On this week’s edition of Art Beat, our very own Lisa Ostrander meets with lithographer, Daniel Grimslid. While he has dabbled in abstract prints, ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 22:15
Caption: Comanchero - Boston-based Americana Jam Band
The Americana music scene is thriving in New England, with a growing fan base and musicians alike. Boston has been a particular hot spot, with a g...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Velocities In Music and new tracks from Deerhoof and Destroyer.

Bought by WTIP, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 57:11
  • Purchases: 3
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"BlackMaled by Toki Wright" by Doug MacRostie. Toki Wright is a hip-hop artist out of Minneapolis. Raised in a Buddhist household, and immersing hi...

Bought by KSRQ and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:28
  • Purchases: 2
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"Love and Loneliness with Pieta Brown," by Doug MacRostie. Pieta Brown is a striking Poet-songwriter with a haunting voice and unmistakable style. ...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 23:47
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Wahwahtay Benais: The Thunderbird Within the Northern Lights by Doug MacRostie. The oppression, hardship and discrimination that Native Americans...

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 42:17
  • Purchases: 1
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By Centerstage MN host Doug MacRostie. I could sit and talk with Mary LaPlant all day; she's one of those positive people that is just fun to be ar...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 31:34
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Arts & Cultural Heritage Reporter Jeff Carmack visits with SCSU Professor Rex Veeder about the Head Water Blues Basement Riff Fundraiser for Take H...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 29:49
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By Doug MacRostie. Something about an emerging performer from a small town really appeals to me, and Katie Corning from Bagley is just starting to...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 31:52
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By Doug MacRostie. Everyone once in a while you hear something that truly stands out; it'll get into your head and make your inner-animal instinc...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2010
  • Length: 32:44
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On this edition of Art Beat, KQAL's Anna Flores visits with Winona State University professor and painter Vittorio Colaizzi, who recently had his w...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 20:36
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Have you ever wanted to get into the creation of art but don't know how? Have you ever wanted to learn the finer points of painting from a master ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 31:03
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What is it with kids today? It’s rhetorical, but everyone’s got an answer, including the innovative group of SCSU students who form the Art Studen...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wura-Natasah Ogunji
Artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji sat down with producer Rebecca McInroy to discuss her inspirations, goals and life as an artist.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 08:12

  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 57:08
  • Purchases: 5
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From "Warrior Writers" 8/20/2010: War News Radio reports on the Warrior Writers program, which helps US veterans channel their feelings and experie...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:52