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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
This Minneapolis Americana musician recorded his latest album, Make it Right, in Nashville shortly before the pandemic hit. After delaying the release due to COVID, Gay is finally released it digitally on June 18. 2021 (with a vinyl release to follow). We shared our virtual session with Gay that same day and find out more about this musician, who grew up in Rochester, Minnesota and studied history before turning his focus to songwriting and performing.
Michael Lyons is the creator of Boozhoo Nanaboozhoo, a puppet podcast focused on Ojibwe language and culture. He joined the morning show to discuss his family’s experiences with boarding schools. His grandmother and grandfather both attended the Flandreau Boarding School in South Dakota. They had very different memories of their time spent. He breaks down those differences and discusses the impact of being severed from their families and their heritage. He also discusses the important process of re-discovering culture and heritage.
The latest solo album from Ian Alexy (who also performs with his brother Teague in Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank) features his Minneapolis-based backing band, The Deserters. The title, Troubadour 21st Century, is a rootsy rock homage to the life of a modern musician. Many of the cuts on the album were released as singles during the pandemic, including “Making it Shine,” which was also the title of a video series Alexy worked on during quarantine. He took the opportunity to go through 12 years of footage accumulated through his music career for the four-part series. We found out more when he joined us Live from Studio A on Wednesday, June 9th.
This year’s Duluth Homegrown Music Festival guide documents how this musician went from being an ensemble player in the six-piece band NorShore Summit to a solo artist at the beginning of last year. Abukhodair played multiple shows throughout 2020’s outdoor music season, and is currently preparing to release her first solo album. We’ll find out more when she joins Malachy for a Homegrown session on Monday, May 2 at 2pm. She’ll perform at Earthrider Brewery’s Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash on Saturday, May 8.
Ian George thinks that magic happens when jazz geniuses interpret his folkish compositions. This Wednesday night at 7:30 PM, Ian George leads the Well into the Icehouse in Minneapolis for an evening of his new Americana music. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Ian addressed how he does it.
Sergey Sinelnik and his twin brother Alexander have traveled and explored all over the world. From 2017 to 2020 they sailed over 12,000 miles and landed in Duluth, the sister city of Petrozavodsk where they had launched their 42-foot wooden boat.
They sailed to North House for this weekend’s wooden boat show this past weekend. While in town, Sergey and his interpreter Sasha Zavyalova joined Dave on The Roadhouse.
WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Now that it’s June and the Great Lakes shipping season is in full swing, we thought we’d check in with Jayson Hron of the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. Jayson is the communications and marketing director there and he joined Dave on The Roadhouse.
WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
