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This coming Saturday marks the return of the Loring Park Music Festival, staged by the Citizens for a Loring Park Community. The Festival runs from...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 08:00
This time we profile “Open the Door, Richard” — a 1947 novelty record that quickly embedded itself into the American consciousness.
- Added: May 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Son House and B.B. King, who both made historic live appearances in Chicago the Saturday night before Thanksgiving, 1964.
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile James “Beale Street” Clark — barely a footnote in blues history — who recorded an enduring classic, this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Windy City keyboard legend Little Johnny Jones, who was in the studio with Muddy Waters and Leroy Foster in 1949.
- Added: Apr 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded an iconic slice of down home blues, "That's All Right," this week in 1946.
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi guitarist Tommy Johnson, who cut one of the prophetic masterpieces of the blues, this week in 1928.
- Added: Apr 03, 2018
- Length: 03:29
American virtuoso Jason Moran is a genius jazz pianist known for performing experimental compositions in collaborative projects with visual artists...
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 18:11
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
The name of the Bulgarian Spring Celebration is Martinitsa. In our town, the celebration brings together the local Bulgarian performing groups for ...
- Added: Feb 22, 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
Most music listeners are unaware of cello quartets such as the Delphia Cello Quartet. But to a cellist, its’ the most normal thing in the world. Th...
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 08:00
Most music listeners are unaware of cello quartets such as the Delphia Cello Quartet. But to a cellist, its’ the most normal thing in the world. Th...
- Added: Jan 18, 2018
- Length: 08:00
This episode of The Live Feed we go to Ed’s (no Name) Bar in Winona, MN, where Black Sheep Poetry teamed up with Treedome to present a night of mus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 44:38
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
It’s a whole new combination of styles nearly a century old with a lot of cool. The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League plays this Thursday night at...
- Added: Nov 03, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Celtic tradition goes back literally centuries, and well over 100 years in our town. But if you think there’s nothing new under the sun when it com...
- Added: Oct 07, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Celtic tradition goes back literally centuries, and well over 100 years in our town. But if you think there’s nothing new under the sun when it com...
- Added: Oct 07, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily be...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 02:39:22
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...
Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB
- Added: Sep 22, 2017
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 3
The Gift and Curse of Music – Haiti’s Fight for Copyright is the story of Serge Turnier, a music producer and composer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ju...
Bought by KISA Digital Studios
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 35:55
- Purchases: 1
Minneapolis Jazz singer Rhonda Laurie is all about emotion. In a recent conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Rhonda told Phil picking songs and interpre...
- Added: Aug 23, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
