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Shlomo Avni devoted the last few years of his life to a fight to be buried the way he wanted. Although, buried isn't quite the word - he wanted his...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2018
- Length: 22:00
- Purchases: 1
Minneapolis Cellists Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney had heard of each other for years. When they finally met, they discovered musical similar...
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 08:00
After Minneapolis cellists Jacqueline Ultey and Michelle Kinney met after having heard of each other for years, they discovered musical similaritie...
- Added: May 25, 2018
- Length: 08:00
In the old days of lumbering, much of the work was done by immigrants who brought old country music with Brian Miller of the group talked with Phil...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 08:00
In the old days of lumbering, much of the work was done by immigrants who brought old country music with them to the lumber camps. A duet known as ...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Skruffians is a group of experienced Twin Cities players that combine Jamaican reggae and ska with jazz chops. It’s always a playful combinatio...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Skruffians is a group of experienced Twin Cities players that combine Jamaican reggae and ska with jazz chops. Creating musical surprises is th...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 04:19
- Purchases: 1
Larry Long of Minneapolis has travelled the world singing about hard working people. Larry also creates performances of the American Roots Revue, w...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 20:52
- Purchases: 1
The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League calls what it does Prohibition Swing. It’s a collection of
styles nearly a century old with a lot of cool. ...
- Added: Nov 03, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as Monroe Crossing proved a few years ago when they performed a bluegrass mass created by compose...
- Added: Nov 02, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as composer Carol Barnett and lyricist Marisha Chamberlain proved a few years ago when they creat...
- Added: Nov 02, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Many StoryCorps conversations touch on love, work, and death. But when Lynne Houston and her husband, Greg, sat down for their interview, they cove...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 2
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 02:19
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...
Bought by WVBI-LP
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 02:46
- Purchases: 1
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. And t...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:59
One night, in October 2015, Asma Jama went out for dinner with her family at an Applebee’s restaurant in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. Asma, who is Somal...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Marfa Public Radio, and WEZU
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 3
Every once in a while you learn of a group that really is different than all others. Such is the case with Captain Gravitone and the String Theory ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2017
- Length: 07:21
When bee season in New York City begins in early spring, that means retired police detective (and unofficial NYPD beekeeper) Anthony “Tony Bees” Pl...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Today there are so many instrument combinations and influences coming in that would not have happened a few decades ago. Like matra, with its combi...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 08:12
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
Pop Wagner is a multi-talented singer and player specializing in different strains of traditional music. He’s been doing it all for about 40 years....
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 08:51
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
Chris Ladd was raised as a fundamentalist Christian in East Texas, believing he possessed the secret to how everything in the universe worked. A br...
- Added: Aug 28, 2016
- Length: 34:45
