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Caption: Bad Posture Club, Credit: Nic Lafrance
Three String Bands that play with originality come to the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis this Thursday at 7:30. The three are The Bad Posture...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: 2022 Crooner's Poster, Credit: Linda Koutsky
Pop Wagner and Charlie Maguire are folk singers inspired by Woody Guthrie, the prolific songwriter who chronicled the Great Depression and the Dust...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Captain Gravitone CD cover art, Credit: Al Fack
There are many who compose original music, but little of it breaks through to audiences. The Minnesota Original Music Festival means to change all ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Fellow Pynins, Credit: Beehive Productions
Dani Aubert and Ian George, known as Fellow Pynins, has a new CD called Lady Mondegreen. On the CD, Fellow Pynins sing and play re-imagined traditi...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
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Lisa See discusses CHINA DOLLS, a novel that traces a decade of nightclub life for Asian Americans from 1938 to just after World War II. See reveal...

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  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022
Out of the Box Opera Company Does Immersive Opera. This is opera staged in all kinds of spaces people congregate. It has done Verdi’s La Traviata i...

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022
Verdi’s La Traviata will be performed at the Canopy Hotel in Minneapolis Fri-Sunday May 27 through 29. But it’s not set on a typical opera stage, b...

  • Added: May 21, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo 2022
The Good The Bad and The Funky has been around a quarter of a century. Layne Bender of the Good the Bad and the Funky talked about the group recent...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jennifer Grimm, Credit: Nathan Nelson
This Sunday night, Jennifer Grimm sings Judy Garland, 7PM at the Chanhassen Dinner Theater. Jennifer told Phil Nusbaum that she has always identifi...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo
The Will Kjeer Group is a modern Jazz group, and includes elements of many styles in its playing. When Will spoke with Phil Nusbaum, Phil asked pia...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo
The Will Kjeer Quintet plays at KJ’s Hideaway in Saint Paul this Saturday Night March 19 starting at 9:30PM. It is a modern Jazz group, and include...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Diane Jarvi and Dan Newton, Credit: Nick Lethert
Diane Jarvi can sing in nineteen languages, and she is featured in the Café Accordion show in the Valentine’s Day season, Thursday February 17 at C...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Chris Castino, Credit: David Jackson
Chris Castino is one of those rare musicians who thrives in multiple musical styles. In his case, the styles are rock and bluegrass. In a conversat...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Chris Castino by David Jackson, Credit: David Jackson
Chris Castino is one of those rare musicians who thrives in multiple styles. In his case, the styles are rock and bluegrass. Chris leads Chicken Wi...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Hank Thunander of Saint Paul is an accordion player’s accordionist. After about 70 of playing, he knows thousands of songs and tunes and plays solo...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Hank Thunander of Saint Paul is an accordion player’s accordionist. After about 70 of playing, he knows thousands of songs and tunes and plays solo...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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
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
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: 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