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Musical groups from around North America gathered in early November at the Seneca Niagara Events Center at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino in Niagara Falls, NY for the 19th Annual Native American Music Awards ceremony. Among artists nominated for an award… a relatively new musical group from Northern MN. [Read Transcript...]
Curt Almstead, known in the Twin Cities music scene as Curtiss A, couldn’t believe it. Some deranged man had just shot John Lennon dead. Almstead wanted to do something to remember the artist whose band, the Beatles, had meant so much to him. Britt Aamodt explores the origins of First Avenue’s annual John Lennon Tribute. [Read Transcript...]
In 1886, Luis Garzon was only in Minneapolis to play oboe in the touring orchestra Los Aires Nacionales de Mexico. Britt Aamodt looks at why Garzon ended up staying and how his life inspired a 2019 opera. [Read Transcript...]
This week, we listen in on a Twin Cities musician who just completed an impressive kickstarter push for her new E.P. [Read Transcript...]
