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Music

Minnesota Varsity returns!

Minnesota Varsity returns!

We're thrilled to announce the opening of our 2nd annual Minnesota Varsity project. Now through January 19th 2012, we're accepting submissions from Minnesota's high school-level Classical and Music Theater musicians for a chance to be heard on-air, online and on stage.

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Magos Herrera taps Mexico's African roots

Magos Herrera taps Mexico's African roots

When jazz singer Magos Herrera takes the stage tonight at the Ordway, she won't be trying to channel any of the great voices of her genre's majestic tradition, as much as she admires them.
by David Cazares

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Dessa's new direction

Hip hop artist Dessa joined Kerri Miller last week in the Maud Moon Weyerhauser studio to discuss how she started rapping, her song writing process, and why the she felt compelled to rework earlier songs for her new album "Castor, the Twin." She also performed three songs from the album.

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Mary Jane Alm In Studio

Mary Jane Alm and friends perform music on Radio Heartland from her new record, "Me and the Wild Blue."
by Mike Pengra

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The sounds of the Twin Cities

The sounds of the Twin Cities

From Prince to Husker Du to Brother Ali, the Twin Cities music scene has been fluorishing now for more than three decades. Midmorning looks at the elements that have made the Twin Cities a musical hotbed.
by Chris Roberts

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Cactus Blossoms keep vintage country music alive

Cactus Blossoms keep vintage country music alive

The "alt country" music scene isn't as big as it used to be, but there's still a lot of vintage twang in the Twin Cities, courtesy of the Cactus Blossoms. The Minneapolis group, fronted by a pair of brothers, harkens back to the roots of country with their earnest songs and pristine harmonizing.
by Chris Roberts

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Esperanza Spalding makes light of serious talent

Esperanza Spalding makes light of serious talent

Jazz sensation Esperanza Spalding rolls into St. Paul Tuesday night for a concert at St. Catherine's University. Spalding, an upright bassist and singer, is one of the hottest performers on the jazz scene right now.
by Euan Kerr

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Love The Beach Boys? Meet "The Wrecking Crew"

Love The Beach Boys? Meet "The Wrecking Crew"

It's a little known fact that the music on most of the hit records coming out of California in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including chart-toppers from The Beach Boys, above, was played by the same group of musicians. A new documentary showing tonight in Minneapolis, "The Wrecking Crew," tells the story.
by Euan Kerr

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