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Adventurer Eric Weicht paddles the Mississippi from Minnesota to Memphis

Eric Weicht is a former Cook County resident known for adventuring on bodies of water. He chats here with Will Moore about his most recent trip--canoeing down the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to Memphis through the month of November.

Rochester Arts: Tallulah Bankhead and the Blizzard

Film and stage star Tallulah Bankhead was rarely upstaged. But how could she compete with the Armistice Day Blizzard?


Sounds and Sparks: Jaedyn James’ “Loving You So Hard”

Sounds and Sparks is a series on WTIP that goes in-depth into new album releases by Minnesota artists, going back by track into the stories, places, and ideas that inspired every song.

Jaedyn James is a soulful, passionate singer from the Twin Cities who’s music is inspired by classic R&B, peak era Whitney Houston, and straight up rock n’ roll to create vibrant and memorable live performances. Her latest album “Loving You So Hard” deals with the ideas of love at their most intense moments. With themes unrequited romance, escaping abuse into safety, and tragic loss, her powerful voice cuts through it all to find herself stronger on the other side.

Sounds and Sparks is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Rochester Arts: Rochester – A State Guide

During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned to all corners of Minnesota, including Rochester.


Rochester Arts: Peony Capital of the World

Faribault was the Peony capital of the world. So, of course, the town needed its own annual peony fest.


Rochester Arts: Rochester: A State Guide

During the Great Depression, the government put writers back to work writing guides for each state. Writers from the Federal Writers project fanned to all corners of Minnesota, including Rochester.


Sounds and Sparks – Eli Gardiner “Live in Minneapolis”

Sounds and Sparks is a series on WTIP that goes in-depth into new album releases by Minnesota artists, going back by track into the stories, places, and ideas that inspired every song.

Eli Gardiner is an Americana guitarist and songwriter originally from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, now residing in the Twin Cities. His first live album was recorded at the Aster Cafe in Minneapolis, featuring songs from his previous album “The Fire and the Medicine” as well as many previously unreleased tracks over his decades of songwriting. Live in Minneapolis features Gardiner and his new, full live band captured as a whole for the first time.

Sounds and Sparks is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Sounds and Sparks is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Sounds and Sparks: Dre AKA Jamaican’s “1998”

Original Air Date – February 7 2023

Sounds and Sparks is a series on WTIP that goes in-depth into new album releases by Minnesota artists, going back by track into the stories, places, and ideas that inspired every song.

Dre AKA Jamaican is a rapper from Grand Marais, MN who returns with his second full length album called “1998”. The moniker of Andre Robinson, he often writes songs featuring the students of the school he works at, going over the subjects they’re learning and stories they read, along with lyrics involving fairy tales and fantasy realms. Here, Robinson and his frequent collaborator Dane Kofa talk about every song on the record.

Sounds and Sparks is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Rochester Arts: Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Print Shop

Mabel Ulrich was new at the Minneapolis book trade. But a group of doctor’s wives asked her to please open a branch of Mabel Ulrich’s Book and Print Shop in Rochester.

Rochester Arts: Casey at the Bat…Again

DeWolf Hopper was at New Ulm’s Turner Hall to stage his operetta Wang. But, of course, he couldn’t leave town without reciting the baseball poem he’d made famous. Casey at the Bat.


Rochester MN90: Dwellers in the Vale of Siddem

1911 – The superintendent of the School for the Feeble Minded in Faribault wanted to find out what had caused his charges to get so “defective.” In an era of Eugenics, the finger seemed to point to subpar family relations.

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