10,000 Fresh Voices

Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis

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Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.

Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


951 Pieces

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How Free-Range Chicken Brought One Family Together
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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After reading "Omnivore's Dilemma," Todd Thiesen embraced a different kind of farming. Instead of caging chickens on his small farm in St. Joseph, ...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
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Not A Paper Boy, Just An Adorable Lesbian
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Maggie Faris is a Minnesota comedian and out lesbian. She's produced two CDs and co-hosts Magnotronic, a weekly comedy podcast. KFAI's Dixie Treich...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
No Mirrors, No Apologies
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Last Import, a Minneapolis surf punk trio, didn't meet at a bar or college. Nope. They met at an all-female rock school called "Girls Rock n Roll R...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
Popping Their Hips To The K-Pop Beat
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: The Minnesota K-Pop Dance Crew., Credit: Terry Le
K-Pop isn't just a sensation in Asia. Korean pop music is so infectious University of Minnesota students are mastering K-Pop dance moves. As KFAI's...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:06
Creating Sonic Worlds For The Stage
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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A compelling play is more than just a script, actors and sets. Sound designers like Katharine Horowitz also help create a mood and sense of place f...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2018
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
Looking for Americana? Hot Sam's Has It
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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After Burnsville bumped an antique store from town, Hot Sam's reinvented itself as lovable, rusty tourist attraction for locals. KFAI's Mike Moen r...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:06
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Trespassers Welcome, Bring Binoculars
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Loretta Bickford, Credit: Ryan Dawes
Imagine a bus load of complete strangers tromping through your front yard, carrying spotting scopes and cameras with telephoto lenses. It’s just a ...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 2
Hell Yeah: Queer and Radical Performance Art
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Karen Finley performing "We Keep Our Victims Ready" at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis., Credit: Walker Art Center
In the 1990s, queer performance artists like Karen Finley (pictured) created radical, experimental and often politically risky work. These artists ...

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  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Appalachia In The City
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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In 1956, just 13 homes remained in the St. Paul's Swede Hollow neighborhood. The city called the houses a health hazard, forced people living there...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2017
  • Length: 05:55
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When Prince Called At 3 A.M.
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Ever since Prince died in 2016, people who knew him have come forward with personal stories about what the famously private star was actually like ...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 1
How a Painter Nearly Lost His Fingers
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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A flying piece of metal nearly cut Mat Ollig's fingers off. KFAI's Will Wright reports on how one artist is coping with an injury that imperiled hi...

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:29
The Bullet Was Just The Beginning
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Matthew Dressel, Credit: Sophie Nikitas
Writer Matthew Dressel was driving through the woods during hunting season and wondered, “What’s to stop a stray bullet from hitting me?” He took t...

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  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 04:50
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Happy Trails Lead To The Cowboy Church
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Joe Penrose is the senior pastor at Open Range Cowboy Church in Ham Lake, Minnesota. , Credit: Nikki Tundel
Baptisms in a horse trough. A triangle dinner bell near the altar. And a minister in a Western shirt. Welcome to the Open Range Cowboy Church, loca...

  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
A Violinst Grapples With Death
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Credit: Ryan Dawes
Near the end of his life, Franz Schubert composed "Death and the Maiden." Two centuries later, violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja grappled with the ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 03:55
Dancing Underwater While Trying Not To Drown
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Members of the Subversive Sirens synchronised swim team., Credit: Erin Sharkey
The Subversive Sirens are a Minnesota synchronized swim team that blends art, activism, and a deep love of Prince. KFAI’s Nancy Rosenbaum produced ...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
Sambusas In The Land Of Bland
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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A tiny Minnesota company tried to make a business out of selling spicy, beef pastries to local Somalis. But folks in that community wanted to make ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 04:10
Funny Asian Women Kollective Smashes Stereotypes
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Asian-American women are expected to be submissive and quiet. The Funny Asian Women Kollective — also known as FAWK — is out to change that and get...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Yucking It Up At Yoga
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Pete Girard leads a laughter yoga class in Minneapolis., Credit: Emily Bright
Forget downward dog. The new yoga is laughter yoga. KFAI's Emily Bright took her microphone to a class to listen in on the yucks, guffaws and yes, ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 1
Mixing Songs, Hoping To Get Paid
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Maya Wooley, aspiring musician inside a recording studio at Hennepin County Library in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Credit: Todd Melby
Sure, the library has books. But the Hennepin County Library in Brooklyn Park is also home to a recording studio. And inside that studio, one young...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
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Will They Be Rock Stars? Who Knows?
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Jason Vang on the upright bass., Credit: Hopewell Music Cooperative North
Prince and Jimmy Jam both hailed from North Minneapolis. Hopewell Music Cooperative North isn't out to create another rock star, but rather to prov...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1

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