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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Bad Bad Hats is Kerry Alexander, Chris Hoge, and Connor Davison. They have released two albums, Psychic Reader and Lightning Round and are working on a third now. Bad Bad Hats have played venues from First Avenue to our Mississippi River Festival and early in the pandemic, Saturday afternoon was time for Islands in the Livestream, a series of thematic shows featuring covers, originals, several trips down several memory lanes like the 60s through the 90s, Pop punk, and more.
Steven Weagel has been fascinated with glass art since he first experienced it. His current glass and metal exhibit at the Crossing Arts Alliance in Brainerd is called “Light, Color and The Northern Landscape.” He joined our morning show to discuss the art of glass, its history in America and what he loves so much about it.
Despite the pandemic, the North Central University Jazz ensemble has been getting ready for a virtual show at Jazz Central Studios in Minneapolis. It is 8 to 10 PM on March 18. Peter Shu is the director of the ensemble. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Peter addressed what it is like to lead an ensemble of players whose background is not Jazz, but Rock.
Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! DOUBLE PLAYS by members of the Minnesota Association of Songwriters, including songs off new CD’s by Andrew Spreck and Two Tone, along with tandem tunes by Amanda Grace, Bob Muscovitz, Vicki Morrison Goble, Bruce Caswell, and Greg Connor. And we report on stolen beer being brewed on a Russian shipwreck. All on MHB!
(Aired 03/04/2021)
Minneapolis jazz-punk-hip-hop musician Taylor Seaberg recruited Portuguese singer and rapper Beatriz Correia Lima, Blvck Madonna bassist Roderick Glasper, and former Lizzo drummer Glory Yard for this “Live from Minnesota” performance, staged at St. Paul Neighborhood Network for KFAI’s MinneCulture.
Support for MinneCulture on KFAI comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
What Would Monk Do? Interprets the work of the legendary Jazz composer Thelonious Monk, and plays original music reminiscent of Monk. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, trumpeter Steve Kenny talked about approaching the Thelonious Monk compositional style.
