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17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Ann Millikan is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed St. Paul composer whose style mixes contemporary classical, jazz and world music. She composes concert music for orchestra, chamber ensembles and choir, as well as interdisciplinary projects involving theater and dance. She has two CDs on the Innova label, and teaches composition at the Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. In 2011 Millikan collaborated with the Friends of Swede Hollow on her piece “House of Mirrors” as a community outreach project for her 2010 McKnight Fellowship. She also received an Artist’s Initiative grant to compose a Swede Hollow Opera that will premiere in St. Paul in 2012. Produced by Dixie Treichel for KFAI.
Sarah Agaton Howes is an Anishinaabe artist, teacher, and community organizer from Fond du Lac Reservation in Minnesota. She is widely known for her moccasin, beadwork, and regalia classes connecting the community through art. As an Inspired Natives collaborator, Sarah brings together the Ojibwe timeless tradition with contemporary design to make heirloom usable art.
Jazz dance developed as a working-class art form in the early 20th century and represented longing, struggle and perseverance. Choreographers Erin Liebhard and Heather Westerlund are keeping jazz dance alive as co-directors of the Twin Cities’ company, Rhythmically Speaking. By pushing the envelop with their productions, they hope to inspire new conversations about jazz. KFAI’s Michelle Alimoradi has more.
The Stearns County Panchanga Society is more than just a band; it’s a community, and a rather well educated one at that! Mixing dance-able, Latin grooves with powerful, historical storytelling, the Stearns County Pachanga Society has been a live performance experience for all ages in central Minnesota for nearly fifteen years now. In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, there’s more music in the air as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with band founder and SCSU Professor Mike Hasbrouck on the eve of their premire of a new project during SCSU’s Global Goes Local Conference on Immigration in April 2016.
Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineries in Superior, Wisconsin and beyond. In the second of Pipeline Stories: A Series on MN’s Natural Resource Economy, Northern Community Radio reporter Britt Aamodt gets an overview of the sandpiper pipeline issue from Minneapolis Star Tribune reporter Dave Shaffer, and a conversation with Richard Smith about the response from his organization, Friends of the Headwaters.