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Minnesota Sounds and Voices

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: The Spin Collective dancers

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: The Spin Collective dancers

The sun is setting on Lake Superior as members of the Spin Collective dancers soak small kevlar orbs in fuel and set them afire. Then, wielding them at the end of chains or long metal arms, they begin twirling the orbs in what's called a poi dance.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Morris Dancers welcome spring in a centuries-old tradition

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Morris Dancers welcome spring in a centuries-old tradition

Every year on May Day at a park in Minneapolis, Morris Dancers strap bells to their shins, sing, shout and clack sticks to mark the change of the seasons. It's a 500 year-old folk tradition from England that has sunk deep roots here in Minnesota.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Opera 'Parables' asks big religious questions

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Opera 'Parables' asks big religious questions

Do people who are Muslims, Jews or Christians ever think about the other religion's God? That's one of the questions posed in "Parables," which opens tonight at the University of Minnesota.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Macalester bagpipe director Mike Breidenbach

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Macalester bagpipe director Mike Breidenbach

The penetrating wail of a Scottish Highland bagpipe doesn't leave much middle ground. Either you're a fan of the stirring, toe tapping tunes the instrument can produce, or its sounds send you racing for cover. Macalester College piping director Mike Breidenbach audibly falls into the fan category.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota voices from the front lines of World War II

Minnesota voices from the front lines of World War II

From MPR's Minnesota Sounds and Voices series come two accounts from Minnesotans caring for the wounded during World War II. Dr. John Linner was a Navy doctor and served in battles at both Normandy and Okinawa. Bloomington resident Avis Schorer talks about her harrowing experience as an Army nurse during the invasion of Anzio in Italy.

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Jane Belau's piano soothes Mayo patients

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Jane Belau's piano soothes Mayo patients

Jane Belau volunteers her time every Monday and Thursday morning to play the piano in the Mayo Clinic's Gonda Building lobby. Her music entices others to sing and dance, as well as lift the spirits of patients.
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: 'Stand Up!' author traces Minnesota's protest tradition

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: 'Stand Up!' author traces Minnesota's protest tradition

As far as Minnesota protest movements go, the Occupy movement is nothing new, writer and historian Rhoda Gilman at the Minnesota Historical Society says in her new book, "Stand Up! The Story of Minnesota's Protest Tradition."
by Dan Olson

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Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Mu Daiko's drummers pound out tradition

Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Mu Daiko's drummers pound out tradition

The rhythmic pounding of a 4,000-year-old Japanese drumming tradition will pulse through Minnesota in the coming weeks as the St. Paul-based Mu Daiko drumming ensemble embarks on its 15th anniversary tour.
by Dan Olson

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