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A generation, a young trio known as Rio Nido was delighting audiences through its renditions of old vocal jazz. But in music, so it seems, all good...
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Gao Hong came from China to America in 1994. Already established as a world-class player of the Chinese pipa, she has gotten interested in the west...
- Added: Nov 23, 2015
- Length: 06:40
Sam Miltich, Grand Rapids guitar icon is coming to South Saint Paul the Saturday right after Thanksgiving. And he’ll be fronting a 5- piece band th...
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 05:00
They sing many types of traditional songs, they play many instruments, they write songs and their repertoire is a mile wide. But to folksinging due...
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 08:25
As a member of The Strokes, Albert Hammond Jr. was always caught in the Keith Richards roll; the great ax-man behind Julian Casablancas’ Jagger. An...
Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 09, 2015
- Length: 07:03
- Purchases: 2
The New music community draws adventurous particpants from many music styles. Over the course of three November days, the Zeitgeist Music Cabaret p...
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Kyle Meredith talks with David Lowery and Johnny Hickman of Cracker about their 25 year journey from the ashes of Camper Van Beethoven to writing m...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 4
The World Jazz Trio combines interests in varied musical forms, with a goal of synthesizing multiple styles into something new. The members of the ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 07:47
Maryam Yusafzadeh has been involved in many adventurous musical project over the years, and she’s at it again with a new Jazz group that combines m...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:00
The legendary Rickie Lee Jones invited her New Orleans surroundings to become part of her band on The Other Side of Desire, her 13th disc. The peop...
Bought by KHSU, KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9
- Added: Oct 26, 2015
- Length: 07:06
- Purchases: 4
One note Rhiannon Giddens returns to again and again is the hidden nature of the traditions and origins of music in America. If Rhiannon Giddens ha...
- Added: Oct 13, 2015
- Length: 37:48
Brian Miller is a Northern Minnesota guy who plays Irish Music, and specializes in the songs created by Irish lumberjacks in the old north woods. T...
- Added: Oct 11, 2015
- Length: 08:26
To Sarah Porwoll-Lee, it isn’t only that she plays new music on the clarinet. When she talked with Phil Nusbaum, she revealed that she gets excited...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 07:57
Todd Harper turned his life around when he decided to play jazz piano full time. He talked to Phil Nusbaum about his life in jazz, and about his mu...
- Added: Oct 09, 2015
- Length: 08:39
Lumber occupies a big part of the history of Minnesota and the entire Great lakes region. In the lumber industry a hundred and more years ago, many...
- Added: Sep 25, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Sarah Porwoll-Lee plays the clarinet. Her concert Saturday night October 3 features not only her and two bandmates, but premieres of newly commissi...
- Added: Sep 24, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Pat Donohue is back in town. The former Prairie Home Companion musician is a master of varied American roots styles, and brings his songs and tunes...
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 05:00
Powderhorn Park always does it with flair, and this 4th of July, it hosts musician Greg Herriges and troupes of puppeteers and dancers. Phil Nusbau...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 28, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Singing shaped notes is a long American tradition of singing, mostly based on Christian scriptures. As a folk tradition, it evolves with reference ...
Bought by KSRQ and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 21, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Ray Barnard writes and performs songs based on old-school soul. Over the years he has developed a unique songwriting voice, and he tells Phil Nusba...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Bill Pohlad talks audience interpretations, casting two actors in one role, and how truth is stranger than fiction.
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 13:05
The Roseville Big Band has been playing for dances in airplane hangars for a really long time. The next one will be in Fleming Field's Hangar #3 in...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In the old days of the northern Minnesota and Wisconsin lumber camps, many of the shanty boys had emigrated from Ireland. Of course, they brought t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske. Jazz for voice, piano and bass. They’ve been holding forth Friday and Saturday nights at the St Paul hotel lobby for 7...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 09, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
The Ancia Saxophone Quartet specializes in contemporary American Saxophone quartet music. It’s a field that bridges formal music and jazz. The ense...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 03, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
