Twin Cities Weekend
Series produced by KBEM
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5 to 8-minute, highly produced heads-ups highlighting great musical activities in the Twin Cities broadly conceived. The pieces feature the musicians, their music, club owners, fans, in short all of those responsible for creating musical experiences.
The Twin Cities is home to many musical forms, including jazz, folk, Latin, gospel and bluegrass to name a few. Each week on Twin Cities weekend, we select an upcoming performance and in 5 to 8 highly produced minutes, give it context. The shows are entertaining and informative. Producer is Phil Nusbaum of KBEM-FM, Minneapolis, and funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Originally of the Kom tribe in Cameroon, Kenn Wanaku has lives in MN about 20 years, and found the common ground with audiences years ago. When he ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Beasley’s Big Band got started over twenty years ago. The group plays for weddings, civic occasions, and in clubs. One great way to see the band is...
- Added: Dec 13, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Romanian Colinde (co-LEEN-day) project is coming at 5pm Saturday Dec 16 to St Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church. It features singers from the Minnea...
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Fats Waller is one of the most influential musicians in the history of jazz, and also one of the most loved by the public. His music was at the sam...
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Pat Donohue’s Prairie All-Stars became a household name during its tenure as the house band for the Prairie Home Companion radio show. They’ve kept...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Katia Cardenas is a young vocalist who moved to Minnesota from California to study at Macalester. Eleven years later, she’s still in Saint Paul, si...
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Wee Willie Walker is one of Minnesota’s great blues treasures. Willie plays a 9pm show at the Dakota in Minneapolis on Thursday night Nov 30. In a ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2017
- Length: 16:00
Tonight we look ahead to next week, Tuesday November 28, when the 18-piece Twin Cities Latin Jazz Orchestra performs at Jazz Central Studios in Mi...
- Added: Nov 19, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Mango Jam. It’s a Twin Cities band that formed in 1989, and has played in 46 states. And throw in a good deal of recording as well. Because of fami...
- Added: Nov 16, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Cedar Avenue Big Band. After 25 years they still love playing big band music, big band fans love what they do. Currently, the group plays secon...
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 08:00
The Twin Cities Community Gospel Choir had its first performance in 1990 at which it won award for quality. From that point, it assumed an importan...
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 08:00
It’s a whole new combination of styles nearly a century old with a lot of cool. The Gentlemen’s Anti-Temperance League plays this Thursday night at...
- Added: Nov 03, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Bach and bluegrass. The combination really works, as composer Carol Barnett and lyricist Marisha Chamberlain proved a few years ago when they creat...
- Added: Nov 02, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Jazz fans know Maud Hixson as a leading contemporary vocalist. But while Maud is best known for singing with small groups, she’s been building towa...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 08:00
It’s music, and theater, and circus, and throw in half-grounded in reality, too. Captain Gravitone has a whole new thing going called Banjo Time an...
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 08:00
One Ukulele. Well, it’s actually three men who sing with ukuleles and guitars, too. The group performs and spreads the word about how fun it is to ...
- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Greenwood Tree is a hammered dulcimer group featuring Stu Janis on the hammered dulcimer with Bill Cagley on the guitar. Stu and Bill have been pla...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Pavel Jany (Yanny) is known as one of the Twin Cities’ leading jazz guitarists. His most recent recorded project is called Acoustic Condition, and ...
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Mumblin’ Drew is a local guy who discovered folk music, and followed the interest. His playing is based on classic performances of American folk mu...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 08:00
Celtic tradition goes back literally centuries, and well over 100 years in our town. But if you think there’s nothing new under the sun when it com...
- Added: Oct 07, 2017
- Length: 08:00
