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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Which is more important: Winning, or Playing by the rules? That’s the question we’re playing around with on today’s philosophically minded Stay Human. The winners of the 2021 Great American Think-Off share their views, as do Matthew Miltich and Steve Downing. Don’t believe everything you think.
Ted Unseth is known to many for leading the Classic Jazz group, the Americana Classic Jazz Orchestra. But Ted has had quite a musical journey. He moved from Chicago to Albert Lea, Minnesota as a young kid. As the son of a Lutheran minister, classical music was on in the house. But Ted had an unexpected response to early piano lessons, as he told Phil Nusbaum.
Recently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the new US Climate Normals for 1991 to 2020.
Dave was joined by Josh Sandstrom, a meteorologist with the Duluth office of the National Weather Service, to learn more.
WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
We all know our dogs and cats have been pretty happy to have us at home during this last year. And they might feel anxious as their people go back to work away from home. Julie was joined by Dana Emerson, a certified animal trainer at the Veterinary Medical Center at the University of Minnesota. Dana shared ideas on making the transition for our pets as smooth and happy as possible.
WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
A new exhibit has opened at the Minnesota History Center about Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis—the first American to win the Nobel prize in literature, and whose work is still very relevant today. Patrick Coleman, the Minnesota History Center’s acquisitions librarian, chatted with Brian about the exhibit and more.
WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
WTIP commentator, Vicki Biggs Anderson is producing a “Retro for Radio” segment of her Magnetic North feature. Vicki is selecting and reading from her columns written in the 1990’s for the Cook County News Herald.
This column was titled “My Bobbins and Tub Runneth Over”. Enjoy!
This Duluth-based singer/songwriter/guitarist was born here but grew up in Iowa. A few years back he returned to Duluth and began performing regularly. Back in December he released a new EP, Can I, showcasing his stand-out acoustic guitar skills and rich voice. Mancieri paid his first visit to KUMD for a session on March 26, 2021 to share some tunes from the EP as well as a new song and talk about his decision to return to the city where he was born and what it’s been like getting involved in the music scene.
This Twin Cities Americana musician released an album in February of 2020, just before the pandemic shut down most live performances for a year. While hunkered down at home she’s kept her creative juices flowing with a regular songwriting group and with YouTube videos recorded in her green bathroom. She’s also been writing some new songs, and has recorded a handful of them with friends (remotely) for an EP called Between Here and There, due out on March 21. Sarah joined us over the internet to talk about the album and to play some tunes for this session aired on March 12, 2021.
Duluth musician Sarah Krueger joined us on March 5, 2021 to talk about her first album since 2014. To reflect the evolution of her creative vision, Krueger is calling her latest project Lanue. Her first album under that name, recorded in her hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is also called Lanue. Krueger shared songs from the album, which was written and recorded before the pandemic but still somehow resonates with what we’re experiencing now.
KUMD’s Chris Harwood speaks with Phyllis Root, co-author of Begin with a Bee, a children’s book written in collaboration with Liza Ketchum and Jacqueline Briggs Martin, published in 2021 by University of Minnesota Press. The illustrations were created by Claudia McGhehee.
This children’s book explores the life cycle of a hive of rusty patch bumble bees. Each year, a queen bee emerges in the spring from her hole in the ground, searches for food, finds a nesting spot, and gives birth to her entire hive. From that family, new queens will be born who will each repeat that process individually the following year.
