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Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in the late 1960s. They gained widespread recognition in the early 1990s with their hit single “Optimistic,” which became an anthem for many during that time. [Read Transcript...]
1994 – On Gao Hong’s first tour of America, a radio listener, hearing of her concert, wondered how this Chinese musician could play a peapod? Hong played the pipa, not peapod, and decided then to move to Minnesota and make it her mission to introduce Americans to the Chinese instrument. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
October 1982: Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream had never seen a band like the Go-Go’s. No one had. An all-female group that played their own instruments, wrote their own songs and had a number one album. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
February 3, 1959 – Singer Bobby Vee was just fifteen when he filled in at the Moorhead concert for Buddy Holly and the other artists killed in a plane crash that morning. Fifty-five years later, to the day, Vee, then living a quiet life in St. Joseph, would put out his last album. Here’s Britt … [Read Transcript...]
