Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities

WE GOT OUR LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE BACK! That’s the big deal here!

Well, special musical guest and Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame inductee Keith Secola is a very big deal, too, but he would certainly agree having that live audience was a big deal! House band Collective Unconscious will (and did) back Keith up on that.

Other big deals of the show include Shade’s Brigade getting weird in St. Cloud with an innovative performance, the Honorable Mayor’s new poem and his joy at being able to look at people, and Dan Barth’s Trivia Challenge challenging the challenge which is decency with the live audience scoring points along the way as Heidi Jeub defeated Eric Webster and Keith Secola to be our Season 9 Champion!!

Also a big deal, but not nearly as a big deal as the other big deals were a look behind the scenes at writing the show, a journey into the seedy world of Farmer’s Market crime, and more products you might like to buy from SuccesssCo!

Being back to a “normal” radio theater experience was incredible and it’s all because of YOU! You are the big, big deal here, dontcha know?!!

In wilderness settings, there are connections people can make to the land, regardless of their age, race or gender, by walking in the footsteps of those who have come before them.

With this in mind, a group of Minnesota paddlers set out in the fall of 2020 to travel across the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to retrace the steps of a wilderness pioneer named Arthur Carhart. Their journey took them across abandoned portages, streams plugged by beaver dams and through remote territory inside the nation’s most visited wilderness area.

Carhart made his journey to the Boundary Waters in 1921. Though a century has passed since his expedition, there were generations of people who lived in this landscape that is now defined as a ‘wilderness area.’ The Indigenous communities were here long before white voyageurs and government officials put their canoes on this countless collection of lakes, streams and pathways through the Boundary Waters.

In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with Stearns History Museum Executive Director Carie Essig as the museum begins to open back up to the public with a variety of programming coming up this month.
On Thursday, June 3, at 4:30, the Stearns History Museum will host a reception for the Minnesota League of Women Voters Exhibit, and then on Wednesday, June 9th, the Breakfast Club starts up again with CentraCare Archivist Brendon Duffy presenting on CentraCare’s role during the last pandemic of 1918.

In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, we get another glimpse at the light at the end of the COVID tunnel as life begins to slowly make its way back into downtown St. Cloud. The Whit Gallery is located at 505 W. St. Germain and is the brainchild of Heidi Jeub and a good number of community minded investors.

Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Heidi about the evolution of this gallery in our post-COVID world and how something like this might not have been able to exist before while at the same time being a throwback to a social scene of what times were like nearly twenty years ago.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage grant.

We might be getting used to this socially distanced thingy, but we still miss having YOU in the live studio audience!

It’s Season 9 Episode 2 of the Granite City Radio Theater with special musical guest Davina Sowers from Davina and the Vagabonds joining house band Collective Unconscious!

There is also, of course, the Shades Brigade crew experiencing a new kind of danger . . . from within!

Central Minnesotarian comedy gets educated.

Wild Scholastica gets theatrical.

SuccessCo offers up a springtime product for your gardening needs.

Dan Barth’s Trivia Challenge truly becomes challenging.

And, the Honorable Mayor gives area graduating seniors a message of hope and hilarity!