Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities

This week on Minnesota Music Notes Brett Carter features Minneapolis artist, Lady Midnight, with her most recent release of a new single Tide Over. Lady Midnight is known as a multidisciplinary artist who uses dance, music and other arts expressions to share her own story as well as working with kids to encourage them to use their creative energies to respond to the world around them.

Lady Midnight is her stage name, born out of a series of projects that allowed her to move more into creating and performing her own music complete with elaborate themes, costumes, and staging. Find Lady Midnight on bandcamp, Instagram and other social media under the name L8D MDNT. And watch for live performances in our area, she’s been here several times already and is sure to return.

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.

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!

It’s the season of Opening, and when my local library re-opened its doors, people gladly starting coming through. Today on Stay Human, library lovers, book geeks, library lingerers, and great music too.

Audiences know Lila Ammons for her renditions of blues and historic jazz, but the pandemic has caused Lila to think about a new emphasis. She talked to Phil Nusbaum about it.