Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Northern Community Radio producer Amy Clark brings us a feature piece on the Brothers Burn Mountain. Also Charlie Pulkrabek talks with Dave Alderson and Nicole Navratil, co-producers of a compilation from Minnesota musicians put out by Minnesotans United For All Families called “We Love To Be Free.” From that compilation we hear music from Steve Kaul and the Brass Kings, Charlie Parr, and Pert Near Sandstone. Also featured are tracks Brother Ali and Eyedea and Abilities.
Brenda J. Child’s latest book “Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community” examines the vital role women have played in Native American life throughout history and into current times. Dan Sinkyn’s review further details Child’s thorough and heartfelt treatment of this important subject.
The Acme Jazz Company performs Swing and a whole lot more at Crooner’s in Fridley, this Thursday October 24. Doors open at 6, and the band starts at 7:30. Phil Nusbaum visited with Acme arranger Bob Parsons and vocalist Arne Fogel for some inside Acme Jazz Company insights.
Andrea Jenkins is a poet, writer, performer, educator, and activist. She has been a part of the local poetry community for several years, earning awards, fellowships and commissions. She currently works as a senior policy aide to 8th Ward City Council Member Elizabeth Glidden, and serves on the boards of OutFront Minnesota, Forecast Public Art, and SMARTS. Andrea co-curates the Queer Voices Reading Series with John Medeiros at Intermedia Arts. Most recently she was selected to be a Naked Stages Fellow, supported by the Jerome Foundation, to produce a one-woman show loosely based on her manuscript ‘Black Pearl.’ As a transgender woman of color, she has committed herself to improving the condition of LGBT people and the broader community through extensive volunteer service and leadership roles in community organizations. Produced for KFAI by Dixie Treichel.
We often hear young people are losing interest in the Great Outdoors, but plenty of 20-somethings enjoy activities ranging from cross-country skiing to hunting. A few even pursue outdoor-related careers. In the field of outdoor communications, many of today’s young professionals are women. In this edition of Points North, Shawn highlights a few of the women who work in the field of outdoor communications.
Walter Sve is a 3rd generation North Shore commercial fisherman based near Two Harbors, Minnesota. In this segment of WTIP North Shore Community Radio’s ongoing historical series, “Moments in Time,” Sve talks with Art Fenstad of the North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum in Tofte, part of the museum’s ongoing series “Remembering the Fishing Life.”
Singing in front of a big band is how jazz fans best know Courtney Burton. But she’s also got a new combo with Eric Edwalds on the piano, sax man Rich Goldman, bassist John Etzell and Bruce Hoppe on the drums. It’s called Court’s in Session. Courtney talked to Phil Nusbaum about how singing with the big band proved to be a great training ground for combo singing.