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Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 07:57
The sounds of: Water; Guana Tolomato River; saltwater; September 2016; Warm; 80 degrees.
- Added: Jan 27, 2017
- Length: 01:01
Some view traditional music styles as singular, insulated from other styles. And that has been true at certain times in certain places. But owing t...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 06:03
The New Primitives. The group is a 4-time winner of the Minnesota Music Academy award winners for best reggae and world band. And the group perform...
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 05:01
What happens when the person you thought was your daughter becomes your son, and vice versa? Two mothers struggle to accept their transgender child...
- Added: Dec 28, 2016
- Length: 33:37
- Purchases: 2
Cedric Fuller and Global Sound. It’s a group from the Twin Cities that picks up from the combinations of soul, rhythm and blues,l funk and jazz th...
- Added: Dec 17, 2016
- Length: 06:02
Old time music has the reputation of looking at it’s own history for inspiration. But it has also has a cutting edge. In general, cutting edges in ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Much of the heated dialog among bluegrass fans concerns new approaches that are evolving. But when new approaches evolve, it does not mean that the...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:38
Dakota Dave Hull plays many musical forms, all with understanding and sensitivity. Plus, his commentaries on music contain a lot of the fun factor....
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Bob Bovee is a committed singer of old folk songs, playing concert halls, living rooms and everything in between. He does it with good humor and ha...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 07:13
Merle Haggard. His dates are 1937 to 2016. He was not a bluegrass performer, but he was loved by bluegrass artists and people. Now that he is gone,...
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 06:41
Twin Cities Celtic Music icon Takes a Whole New Direction
Long a staple of the Twin Cities Irish and Scottish traditional music scenes, Laura MacKe...
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 08:12
With Pop and Bob, it’s not only a night of old-time songs. The two have a way of keeping their act fresh with wit. While they have performed togeth...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Fall is Beautiful, right? Well, we hear about it in bluegrass songs, but those beautiful falling leaves are usually meant to symbolize something el...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 06:12
Lori Dokken leads a group of musical multi-stylists in Painting Joni. The group gives fresh spins to the multi-style offerings of Joni Mitchell, co...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Patty Peterson is one of the bright lights on the Peterson jazz family tree. Her family inspired her to get involved in music. And what they taught...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 09:37
There’s a lot in bluegrass song lyrics. And yes, we know that many people use bluegrass music as the background to whatever else is going on, or ev...
- Added: Sep 05, 2016
- Length: 06:46
Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble is a long-running St Paul group that tours the state with its sometimes serious, sometimes funny offerings. Next weeke...
- Added: Aug 31, 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
We begin today with recent bluegrass, including a couple of artists who enjoy re-doing Flatt and Scruggs songs from a half century or more ago. Our...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 16
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 05:14
Once she made the decision to enter the field of music, Mayyadda has been firing on all cylinders, creating new songs and recordings to document th...
- Added: Aug 09, 2016
- Length: 05:00
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.
- Added: Aug 06, 2016
- Length: 05:14
Mark Kreitzer has always enjoyed playing a variety of songtypes and he’s a whiz on many instruments. Plus, he has refined ideas on working in diffe...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 08:14
The Filthy Animals. Well, there’s a band name that’ll grab your ear. But so does their music. The group has been playing for a number of years, it’...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 07:26
