Minnesota Voices connects five composers with six community choruses around the state for a musical celebration of everything Minnesota.
August 2008
by William Randall Beard
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The Jack Brass Band is the Twin Cities' only New Orleans–style brass band. Megan Wiley went in-studio with the group as it recorded for its spring 2007 release, a CD that pays homage to the musicians who've led the genre.
March 2, 2007
Twin Cities band Boiled in Lead is keeping folk fresh in the Twin Cities.
March 2007
American Composer’s Forum composer Maura Bosch writes a choral piece about family violence, premiered by the male vocal ensemble Cantus.
March 2007
Pianist
Emanuel Ax returns to the Twin Cities for a solo concert.
March 2007
Northstar
Opera reinvents itself and renews its mission.
March 2007
Jefferson
Airplane founder Jorma Kaukonen releases his latest album on St. Paul’s Red
House Records.
March 2007
VIDEO
Claire Joubert sits down at rehearsal for an Electric Arc Radio show
to discuss inspiration, future goals, and the origin of men.
February 21, 2007
VIDEO
Megan Wiley hangs out with rocker Mark Mallman at the Turf Club's Clown Lounge for some dish on where he hangs out, a Valentine's Day tribute, and some awkward silences.
February 5, 2007
Pat Donohue—fingerpicking
guitarist extraordinaire.
February 2007
The Twin Cities Winter Jazz Fest is now a
three-day celebration of rock, blues, and jazz.
February 2007
As
part of The Current’s Fakebook series, Klosterman reads from his fourth book,
Chuck Klosterman IV , a compilation of his journalism culled from Fargo’s Forum
newspaper, Spin , GQ , and other pubs.
February 2007
The
New Primitives serve up a new album full of Caribbean, Mexican, and Afro-Cuban
flavors.
February 2007
World-famous
pianist Kevin Kenner has a special fondness for Chopin.
February 2007
Storyhill
reunites to make the “album of our lives, so far.”
February 2007
There
are 8 million stories about The Electric Fetus. This is one of them.
February 2007
Check
out Electric Fetus's twenty-five top-selling albums of 2006, plus see where local musicians
landed.
February 2007
Jazz
quartet How Birds Work has a musical vocabulary all its own.
January 2007
Chris Koza, barista by day, pop musician by night.
January 2007
Jazz
vocalist Christine Rosholt and several special guests pay homage to one of
America’s most beloved songwriters, Harold Arlen.
January 2007
Willie’s
American Guitars sees more rock stars than any venue in town.
January 2007
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