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18 Unique Stations from Border to Border
18 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Duluth’s first live, in-person Homegrown Music Festival since 2019 kicked off on May 1, 2022 and we gave you a preview when Stardust Collective, one of the scheduled opening-night bands, joined us in the studio on April 29. The group, featuring songwriter, guitarist, and lead vocalist Aaron Tank, drummer Amy Ugstad, bassist Eric Bong, and keyboard and violin player Shawna Weaver, uses harmonies and unusual song structures to craft its alternative rock sound.
The fiber arts are trending! There have been many workshops and festivals and exhibitions across northern Minnesota these last couple of months, and now fiber artists in the area are getting ready for the first “Pine to Prairie Fiber Arts Trail Weekend.” Jennifer Wilder is the founder of the Midwest Fiber Arts Trails, the organization behind the Fiber Arts Trail Weekend. She visited the KBXE studio along with Eve Sumsky, an area basket weaver, whose studio will be one of the stopping points on the studio tour.
http://midwestfiberartstrails.org/pine-prairie-2016/
On this very special Halloween edition of The Live Feed, Winonan Taff Roberts takes us on a ghastly journey to main and then drops us off in Pickwick MN. He recalls personal ghost stories in the most appropriate setting – Winona’s own Bunnell House. Before we get carried away, Executive Director of The Winona County Historical Society, and Mayor of Winona Mark Peterson – gives us a little history on The Bunnell House. One of the areas first homes built in Homer during the 1850s featuring gothic architecture, followed by the origins of victorian Ghost stories presented by Jennifer Weaver Assistant Director of The Winona County Historical Society.
On this episode of Culture Clique, Winona County Historical Society Assistant Director, Jenifer Weaver will tells us about some of Winona’s Disasters including floods, blizzards, plane crashes, and more. And she well tell us about the people who showed amazing courage to survive them.
On this episode of Don’t Cha Know, we learn about The Women of Winona’s Past, as presented by Jennifer Weaver. Jennifer is the Assistant Director of The Winona Country Historical Society. In this talk, we will learn about the lives of women in Winona – such as Pioneer Catherine Goddard Smith, African American entrepreneur Emma Shelton, JR Watkins daughter and adventurer Grace Watkins King, Vaudville and Film actress Myrtle Huntely and more.
Host, Carl Unbehaun, presents a cavalcade of songs by Minnesota songwriters along with his musical musings! Members of the Minnesota Association of Songwriters are featured on this episode, including Dori Weaver, Wayne Hamilton, The Sun Dogs and more. And we dispel a long-standing myth about beer–all on MHB!
(Aired 06/02/2022)
Discussed in this piece are an Arctic map made partially of Arctic muskox fur, a venison-keeper made with materials from deer, and many more pieces that unite form, medium, and context. Kristen Anderson of rural Marcell showed her textile work at a new nature center in the midst of northeast Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest. Anderson spoke with KAXE’s Travis Ryder at the exhibition opening. Hear about her work, methods, and inspiration.