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Caption: Maud Hixson, Credit: Olivia Wilcox
Singer Maud Hixson loves giving audiences her spins on great old Christmas songs. But she also enjoys singing songs that should be better known. Wh...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
It must be the holiday season because Cornbread Harris fronts his band at a Blues Party at the Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis. It’ll be next Thursd...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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Topic 1: This movie star knew what depravation felt like; Topic 2: How Jimmy Stewart stole our hearts

  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 52:47
Caption: Minneapolis Jazz Guitar Duo, Credit: Rachel Guvenc
David Martin and Serdar G comprise the MJGD - Minneapolis Jazz Guitar Duo. The duo plays a lot of great standards. You might expect that of a jazz ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Minneapolis Jazz Guitar Duo, Credit: Rachel Guvenc
David Martin and Serdar G comprise the MJGD - Minneapolis Jazz Guitar Duo. The duo plays a lot of great standards. You might expect that of a jazz ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Tjarnblom, Credit: Erica Pirness
Tjänrnblom plays traditional music from Swedish and Finnish tradition, and the group’s tunes . The group plays Thursday August 5 at the American S...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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On this episode of the Apple Seed you're going to hear a story called "Onions" from Cindy Rivka Marshall. It's a Jewish folktale about a young girl...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KKRN, KTXK, and WVPE


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Maud Hixson, Credit: Olivia Wilcox
Maud Hixson performs Songs of the 1920s this Saturday July 24 at Crooner’s in Minneapolis. Then on Sunday August 1, Maud is right back at Crooner’s...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: The Gay 90's in downtown Minneapolis. , Credit: Minnesota Historical Society
In downtown Minneapolis, there's a gay bar with several dance floors conveniently named the Gay 90's. The Gay 90’s hasn’t always been gay. The bar...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: Pat Donohue, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
Pat Donohue, Tim Sparks and Phil Heywood are Minnesota-based guitarists who play the strings using individual fingers, in other words, without hold...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Plant Based Poets performance flyer, Credit: Jesse Brodd
The Plant Based Poets Show stages organic self-expression through live music, dance, art & food. It’ll be outdoors at the Hook and Ladder in Minnea...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Ian George, Credit: Danielle Aubert
Ian George thinks that magic happens when jazz geniuses interpret his folkish compositions. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Ian addressed how ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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The stages of grief in the context of house hunting

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 10:56
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Randomizing, we spotlight on 2005 jazz releases times five this episode: Eddie Bon Paris leads, Katrina sent him our way. Piano Professor Oscar Pet...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, WMOT, KRZA, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Lila Ammons , Credit: Andrea Canter
Audiences know Lila Ammons for her renditions of blues and historic jazz, but the pandemic has caused Lila to think about a new emphasis. She talke...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: Lila Ammons , Credit: Andrea Canter
Lila Ammons performs Saturday night June 5 at 7 at the Granada in Minneapolis. Twin Cities music fans know Lila Ammons for her renditions of blues ...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Sprig of That, Credit: AJ Williams
Sprig of That is a violin-guitar-tabla trio with a new CD of all commissioned compositions. It’s a challenging direction, but one that fits the mus...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Hedonistic Sustainability is the idea that living sustainably should be enjoyable for all.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
Caption: Steve Kenny, Credit: Andrea Canter
What Would Monk Do? Interprets the work of the legendary Jazz composer Thelonious Monk, and plays original music reminiscent of Monk. In a conversa...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Robert Robinson, Credit: photo by Terence Penister
Minneapolis gospel music icon Robert Robinson talked with Phil Nusbaum about Robert’s Black History Month show slated for Crooner’s 5PM, February 2...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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You ever drive the "Loneliest Road In America"? That's what they call U.S. 50, across the Great Basin Desert through the middle of Nevada. Not many...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We catch you up with an update on fluorescing animals and then jump right into new research on Long Fin Damsel fish that use Mysid shrimp to farm a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
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On today’s show we’re talking with two enlisted veterans who rose to the top of their respective fields in civilian life: Navy veteran Chef Geoff C...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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“Everything Is A War,” focuses on stories about how serving in a war zone can stick to a person, so deeply that traces of it will magically appear ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 56:23
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Today’s show is titled, with our tongues lodged firmly in our cheeks, “The Undesirables,” because it features two wonderful veteran voices who spea...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:01