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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
The Cedar Commissions carries on virtually in 2021. It will be a 3-night performance, March 5, 6 and 7, and 2 artists each night. This is an annual performance staged by a combination of the Cedar Cultural Center and the Jerome Foundation. Phil Nusbaum talked to the Cedar’s booking and artistic manager Robert Lehman. The first addressed the work of Cedar Commissions artist Hassan Shahid.
Today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota is the first in a series covering a relatively new form of education and community involvement, Service Learning. While many within academia and the non-profit world have known about this movement for a few years, the larger public might not be aware that students today are developing a sense of community at the same time that they are learning skills that will carry them into their careers. In this interview, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack speaks with Tami DeLand from the Minnesota School of Business about the college’s efforts to engage the community while enriching their students’ lives.
During this summer of social distancing, Pioneer 90.1 is working with the Thief River Falls Area Community Theater to produce a series of radio concerts showcasing talented local performers. Community Concert 2 features Jane Anderson, Amber Koski, Sherry Knott, Wade Benson, Zoey Helm, Javyn Eidelbes, Olivia Mooney, and Amellia Ballard.
People who have chronic health challenges are more likely to have a severe health crisis if they get Covid-19, including asthma, lung disease, diabetes and heart disease. Smoking commercial tobacco counts as a chronic health condition.
The Thief River Falls Area Community Theater is unable to stage its usual summer performances this year. Instead, TRFACT is teaming up with Pioneer 90.1 to present a virtual Community Concert Series on the radio. This first show features Sherry Knott, Scott Pream, Wade Benson, Kai Johnson, Alaina Lunsetter, and Andraya Bakken.
In Part 1 of 2 of a special Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we’re focusing on Weber’s Deck, a non-profit, community supported, Sunday afternoon destination in French Lake for hundreds of music loving Minnesotans each week. This brainchild of host and “owner of the deck”, Casey Weber, is not just a hangout for bikers and grandmas who love their county, blues, and blue-grass, but it has also become a well-known oasis of “Minnesota Nice” for bands touring the country.
Today in Part 1, we’ll be talking to some of the musicians dropping into The Deck about their impressions about this phenomenon, and in tomorrow’s Part 2 of the feature, we’ll be talking with Casey Weber as well as other area community members about how this weekly gathering of like-minded folk has evolved over the past five years into such a life and community changing event.