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Doug Otto and Hurricane Harold have a duet featuring voice with harmonica and guitar. They play traditional blues and and Otto’s original songs tha...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The River City Jazz Orchestra sports 17 pieces. The number of pieces gives the group the ability to play in many moods, revisit old songs in surpri...
- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 07:59
Fats Waller is one of the most influential musicians in the history of jazz, and also one of the most loved by the public. His music was at the sam...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 08:00
We talk strategies for teaching computer science (CS), with Dr. Cynthia Taylor, a computer science professor at The University of Illinois at Chica...
- Added: Aug 27, 2017
- Length: 37:10
The Jana Nyberg Five. Jana leads jazz groups, she teaches music, she leads workshops, she is experienced at multiple instruments, and of course she...
- Added: Aug 01, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Do you happen to know of the Execs big band? When the group was founded in 1965, it was composed of Twin Cities business people. So the name Execs ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 08:00
We’ll hear from two amazing sisters, Katia and Marielle Labeque, play music by Satie, Riley, Bernstein, and Philip Glass on today’s What’s New.
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
Paul Barry (“Berry”) is a veteran blues band leader. Among the things that he has picked up over the years is that many people like the blues. But,...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 07:46
Joe Kopel. If there is anybody with songwriting in his DNA, it is Joe. As a kid he would write his own lyrics to existing songs. By high school, he...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 06:25
Warren Thomas Fenzi. He’s a young songwriter writes from his own experiences. Warren plays with other members of a collective, and the members back...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 08:08
We'll hear Zabur by Mohammed Fairouz and Cello Concerto by Nico Muhly, recordings with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on a special Indiana Bic...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
The Phil Hey Quartet plays at Jazz Central on May 19. It’s a group of 4 committed jazz musicians who got started playing together almost by acciden...
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 05:00
The Blues has been around a long time because it’s a way of telling it like it is. And that is how Nikki and the RueMates operates. Nikki told Phil...
- Added: May 05, 2017
- Length: 08:12
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
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
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
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
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
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
