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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Well then! Season 7 of the Granite City Radio Theater has come to a close . . . and it was EPIC!
First off, Special Musical Guest Jeremy Messersmith transfixed the audience with songs of wit, wisdom, and wonder with some help from our ever ethereal house band Collective Unconscious!
Secondly, the Shade’s Brigade Crew dove deep into our Central Minnesotan timeline to bridge the paradox between drama and comedy!
Thirdly, Dan Barth’s Trivia Challenge was so inspiring with its comic book first round, that its affected the way we’ve decided to type up sentences from now on! (It’s a writing joke, dontchaknow!)
Fourthly, Ole n Lena saved a Historic Trolley ride from a Stearns County Cluck-Nado! (with a little help from Collective Unconscious and Jeremy Messersmith . . . making his live animal acting debut!)
Fifthly, SuccessCO continued its borderline support of the show through a total lack of common sense!
Sixthly, The Honorable Mayor Dave Klies not only judged a SuccessCO Grillmaster Showdown, but he also shared a poem from the heart about fear, loneliness, and a stolen trident!
Seventhly, Wild Scholastica went to Prom!
Eighthly, there was some real fun that was had during the intermission . . . which is included in this here podcast!
Thank you again for your ears, your laughter, and your hearts for all these seven seasons! Have a great summer from the Granite City Radio Theater!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant!
Marking the end of the winter in grand fashion, the Granite City Radio Theater’s third episode of its seventh season brought some much needed warmth to central Minnesota airwaves the night of Wednesday, March 13, 2019. It was cuddly, but not in a weird way . . .
What ever do we mean?
Well, we had special musical guest, local musical icon Adam Hammer joining Collective Unconscious and showing us why he’s the Musical Director from GREAT Theater’s production of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.
We also had the Shade’s Brigade crew meet up with new and old friends right here in St. Cloud as writer Eric Webster digs deep into Minnesota history to “solve old crimes” (and there were A LOT of them!)
Dam Barth’s Trivia Challenge reaches new depths of triviality . . .
Speaking of new depths, Lena and Ole hold a press conference to address an immerging crisis.
SuccessCo once again sponsors parts of the show with products you should probably buy.
Wild Scholastica goes to the 2019 State Hockey Tournament.
The Honorable Mayor Dave Kleis waxes inspirational about the snow.
AND one of our esteemed cast members prepares for her St. Cloud citizenship test. How do you think you would do?
See, cuddly, but not weird!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
After 7 seasons of holiday cheer, we think we’ve got the jingle just right in our bells!
In this night of theatrical yule tidiness, you’ll find a number of presents to unwrap after giving each a proper shaking! Including . . .
Special Musical Guest Erik Koskinen backed up by house band Collective Unconscious . . .
The Shades Brigade crew investigating the Heist of St. Martin . . .
Holiday Trivia with Dan Barth featuring SCSU President Dr. Robbyn Wacker . . .
Numerous SuccessCO products you may or may not want to stuff into a stocking . . .
The Honorable Mayor Dave Kleis warms the heart and balances the budget . . .
Ole n Lena reveal the secrets of Santa . . .
The true and totally unembellished story of the Moldovan Meatball Bandit . . .
Wild Scholastica continues its four-part series on the bizarre habits of middle schoolers . . .
AND, there’s always the outtake from intermission . . . which is mostly just Muggsy noodling!
Thank you again for your ears, your laughter, and your hearts! Happy holidays from the Granite City Radio Theater regardless of whatever holiday you choose to hold dear!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
It’s Season 7 of the Granite City Radio Theater!
SEASON 7! Seriously! What the what?!?!?
We’re still the same, AND we’re different, all at the same time!
Special musical guest Carrie Schneider joins house band Collective Unconscious to put the alt into alt-country as this long time staple of the St. Cloud musical community is packing up and moving to Nashville.
The Shade’s Brigade crew has retired . . . to St. Cloud where Jack founds his new detective agency, and they visit with a ghost at the old Elk’s Club.
Ole and Lena confront one of the deepest political divides of our time.
The Honorable Mayor honors SCSU Homecoming.
Dan Barth’s Trivia Challenge is challenging.
AND SuccessCo succeeds in achieving an even low bar of success than anyone thought possible!
Plus, as a podcast intermission special, you’ll get to hear Muggsy Lauer meandering on his guitar as other fun things float through the air from the Pioneer Place on 5th Theater live studio audience! Seriously, people, the mic is always live!!!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
Before Southerners hid in prisons and had to deal with barbed wire baseball bats and governors . . .
Before the overrun shopping malls . . .
Before Brad Pitt made a movie that had little to do with the book . . .
There was where it all started . . . Night of the Living Dead!
When you’re hiding out in the cellar trying not to get eaten, join GREAT Theatre for their gruesome adaptation of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead!
Broadcast LIVE from the Helgeson Learning Lab Theater on Saturday, October 27, 2018, this is the second year of KVSC Radio and GREAT Theatre’s partnership to bring classic radio drama to your Halloween season!
Enjoy!
. . . while you can.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, the Midnimo Project partnership between SCSU, the Cedar Cultural Center, and Paramount Arts continues as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Faarrow, a hip hop sister duo from Toronto.
Originally from Mogadishu, Iman and Siham Hashi came to the West as children and have developed their artistic musical talent in places like Atlanta, Los Angeles, and the South by Southwest festival. Throughout the week of March 24, 2019, they were visiting classrooms and Boys & Girls Clubs all over town and then performed on Saturday, March 30, 2019 at the Paramount Theater in St. Cloud, where admission was free for students and teachers. Check out KVSC.org for details!
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
In this timely Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us excerpts from the 2019 Women’s March in St. Cloud.
As part of an international event with hundreds of sister marches in cities everywhere, over 150 central Minnesotans braved the below-zero temperatures at Lake George on Saturday, January19, 2019, to march past the Great River Regional Library, down St. Germain Street, and back to Tech High School where a lively and warm indoor rally was held.
The ten speakers represented a diverse mix of the community with an equally diverse collection of topics of concern, and they also showed how the movement itself is evolving beyond just marching and protesting.
The concerns shared within this podcast may be difficult for some folk to hear, but nonetheless, they are the issues that our community members are faced with every day of their lives.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota. Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with documentary filmmaker Chris Newberry about a project that has deep ties to our area, the Jacob Wetterling Story. Newberry and his team began filming with the Wetterling family and Resource Center back in 2015 just before an arrest was made in this nearly three-decade old case, and the raw footage of that period in time makes up the documentary. Now they are touring the area on a mission to raise funds to complete the editing of this project and produce a finished product that can properly convey the intense changes that have happened within our communities following Jacob’s abduction.
Newberry and his team will be joined by Patty and Jerry Wetterling as well as representatives from the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center Monday, May 6th, at 6:00pm at Bad Habit Brewing in St. Joseph for a discussion about the film and a trailer release in hopes of raising those funds.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits a new non-profit in St. Cloud that is creating a profound difference for some of the most vulnerable people in our community, homeless youth.
The organization is called Pathways4Youth and it’s located over on Cooper Avenue just north of Division Street.
With an estimated 150 homeless youth between the ages of 16 and 24 in the St. Cloud area, board member John Bodette and Interim Director of Programming Cheri Sutch explain how Pathways4Youth and their numerous partner organizations are providing the tools for these young folk to build themselves up and climb out of a very tough situation.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
Black History Month kicks off at KVSC with the Untold Story of Central Minnesota take on Langston Hughes.
Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU professor Mike Dando about this Harlem Renaissance icon and one of the most important cultural figures in the United State. Nearly 100 years ago, before Martin Luther King Jr., before Civil Rights, and before Black Lives Matter, there was Langston Hughes and his direct impact upon our culture that can still be felt today.
St. Cloud State’s celebration of Langston Hughes took place on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, at the Atwood Little Theater with a student poetry Open Mic, a speech by Christopher Lehman, performances by twin cities poets, and a panel discussion with the visiting poets.
This program is funded in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Grant.
