Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
For the first time in over one year, the Itasca Symphony Orchestra will perform in front of a live audience this weekend. Alexander Sandor will join the production as a featured guest pianist. In this Area Voices segment, learn about the history of ragtime music, how a professional pianist’s mishap lead to Sandor’s first time playing with a professional orchestra when he was in college, and much more.
The Hibbing Dylan Project will break ground this Saturday at 1pm on a public art installation meant to inspire creativity and contemplation. Katie Fredeen from the Hibbing Dylan Project told us all about it on the morning show. The public is invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony complete with a Bob Dylan cover band this Saturday at 1pm at the Hibbing High School!
Beverly Everett has historically performed with her back to an audience as conductor of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra. Today at noon, she’ll present a solo organ recital at First Lutheran Church in Bemidji. In this Area Voices segment, Beverly discusses her longtime relationship with keyboards and organs, how the landscape has changed in symphonies in terms of male to female ratios, and much more!
James Bird kind of likes to right – or write – past wrongs.
When the director/screenwriter (We Are Boats, Honeyglue) decided to follow a longtime yen to write for and inspire kids the way books, music and movies inspired him, in The Brave, he gave himself the Minnesota childhood he felt he missed out on.
“Of Women and Salt” takes us from present day to Miami to a family detention center in Texas, to Mexico and then back to a 19th century cigar factory in Cuba. It’s a haunting meditation on the choices that mothers make, the legacy of the memories they carry, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled, honest, human roots. (~From the Publisher)
Gabriela Garcia’s fiction and poetry have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, and the Iowa Review, She received an MFA in fiction from Purdue and lives in the Bay Area. “Of Women and Salt” is her first novel.
What We’re Reading producer and Staff Librarian Tammy Bobrowsky talks with Michelle Zauner, writer and indie rock star known as Japanese Breakfast. Michelle’s new book is called Crying in H Mart. It’s a powerful and vivid memoir about growing up Korean American and Michelle’s often turbulent relationship with her mother before she lost her battle with cancer in 2014.
