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The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is held September 17 and 18 this fall and is live at multiple venues and available virtually, too. When festival dire...
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 08:00
The annual Laughing Waters Bluegrass Festival, held 1-7 PM on Labor Day at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis presents the best of local bluegrass, plu...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 08:00
Happy Apple, a Minnesota Jazz success story streams 8-10PM from Jazz Central Saturday March 20. The show is a benefit to help Greg Meyers fight can...
- Added: Mar 12, 2021
- Length: 08:00
The COVID-19 pandemic and the stay at home orders put in place because of it have had us all singing the blues… that is, unless you literally sang ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2020
- Length: 01:04:58
The Minnesota Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Association’s Annual August Festival was Cancelled in 2020 due to Covid -19. But the group’s executive d...
- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 08:00
The Center for Irish Music’s 2020 Irish Music Weekend takes place online, June 11-14. It’s online only this year, but otherwise, the weekend carrie...
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 08:00
Sunday June 1 at 4PM, Arne Fogel sings for the birthday of Bing Crosby. Arne is immersed in decades of great American music, and with Rick Carlson ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 08:00
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 02:52
This Twin Cities Jazz Festival takes place multiple times of year, and locates itself indoors or out, according to the season. It’s an event with a...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 08:00
This Fall’s edition of the Twin Cities Jazz Festival comes to Crooner’s in Fridley, Sunday Oct 20, 12:30 till 7:30. Coming up, the Director of the ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Michael Hauser has been playing flamenco guitar in the Twin Cities for over half a century. A great place to catch him is at brunch at the Loring, ...
- Added: Jun 27, 2019
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is a highlight of our town’s the annual music calendar and it is right ahead. The festival comes to multiple venues J...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is coming. The festival is hosted by Crooner’s in Columbia Heights, 2-7:30PM on Sunday March 31, and Jazz festival ac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Salsa is where virtuosic music meets great dancing. Shai Hayo plays timbales and leads this Minneapolis/Saint Paul-based band. He spoke with Phil N...
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Salsa is where virtuosic music meets great dancing. Salsa del Soul performs frequently around the Tin Cities, including Saturday Jan 19 at the Medi...
- Added: Jan 10, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Kathi and Dean Lavalle have been associated with many bands of the years. They have found that the little big band format, with 10 pieces, provides...
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Lavalle Jazz Cats is a little big band, 10 pieces, that plays this Wednesday, November 21 at the Applewood in Maple Grove at 7pm, and then Satu...
- Added: Nov 13, 2018
- Length: 08:00
The Bill Simenson Jazz Orchestra’s instrument lineup looks like a typical big band, but that’s where the similarity ends. Bill Simenson leads a gro...
- Added: Sep 17, 2018
- Length: 08:00
This time, we profile the March 1932 recording sessions held by Vocalion in New York City, as the nation was in the grips of the Great Depression.
- Added: Aug 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Rocket 88,” by Jackie Brenston — widely considered to be one of the archetypal records of rock ‘n’ roll.
- Added: Aug 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Baby Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo — the only number one hit on the Excello label during its 23 year run.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile “Key to the Highway” — one of the enduring classics of the blues, first recorded by pianist Charlie Segar in 1940.
Bought by KLCC
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Stick McGhee’s 1949 anthem to good times and cheap booze — a big hit that saved a fledgling Atlantic Records from bankruptcy.
- Added: Aug 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile B.B. King, who hit the number one spot on the Billboard R&B charts with “Three O’Clock Blues,” this week in 1952.
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Guitar Slim, who — much to everyone’s surprise — hit the top of the R&B charts with “The Things That I Used To Do,” in 1954.
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
