Minnesota Sounds and Voices

• 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.May 24, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Dan Turpening's deep, wide devotion to the accordion
  An accordion played outdoors evokes scenes of Paris in the springtime. Or, in the case of local accordion player Dan Turpening, Minneapolis in May.May 8, 2012
• 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.May 1, 2012
• 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.April 19, 2012
• 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.March 30, 2012
• 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.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, March 30, 2012
• 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.March 21, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: A Somali family reunification
  The war in Somalia does not produce a lot of good news. But in our new episode of Minnesota Sounds and Voices, we heard some first hand.March 15, 2012
• 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."February 23, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Flamingo Bingo in Rochester
  The Flamingo Bingo charitable bingo operation in Rochester last year returned $90,000 to its operator, the Rochester Senior Center Foundation.February 16, 2012
• 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.February 10, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Distance skater Horace Munoz, Jr
  With the unseasonably warm weather this February across Minnesota, the sound of skate blades on ice feels increasingly endangered. But not at the Guidant John Rose Minnesota skating oval in Roseville.February 3, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Paul Iaizzo is the Visible Heart Lab's beating core
  The University of Minnesota's Visible Heart lab is the only place in the world where researchers can study beating hearts outside the body.January 27, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Rose Hollermann, wheelchair basketball star
  Meet 16-year-old Rose Hollermann of rural Elysian, the youngest woman ever to have been picked to represent the United States in wheelchair basketball at the paralympics.January 12, 2012
• Minnesota Sounds and Voices: Pastor retires from ministering to recovering addicts
  "The end of our disease is death or recovery," the Rev. Jo Campe says of the addiction to alcohol that prompted him to contemplate suicide nearly 17 years ago. "There aren't any other options."December 28, 2011

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