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Folk, Jazz & World

• Holiday music from Robin and Linda Williams
  A broadcast of Robin and Linda Williams' Christmas special, recorded at the Fitzgerald Theater on December 1, 2007. Special guests include Chris Brashear Jim Watson and Eliza Gilkyson.Midmorning, December 25, 2007
• Michelle Shocked's spiritual journey
  When a punk rock feminist folk singer finds Jesus, the result is a beautiful live gospel album.Midmorning, November 29, 2007
• Leigh Kamman to step down as host of 'The Jazz Image'
  Kamman, who was hosted "The Jazz Image" since 1973, has been in the jazz broadcasting business for some 60 years. His last broadcast will be in late September.July 16, 2007
• Fiddler explores music to die for
  Hardanger fiddle music is not exactly a chart topper in this country. Even so, a Minneapolis musician is devoting her life to helping audiences appreciate the centuries-old Norwegian musical tradition. Karen Torkelson Solgard is also giving the music an unmistakable American accent.June 28, 2007
• West Bank festival has Pan-African vision
  Organizers are developing the Twin Cities' first Pan-African cultural festival. "Afrifest" is designed to introduce Minnesota's African immigrants to each other and the larger population.May 18, 2007
• A musician who bridges musical worlds
  Jazz great Branford Marsalis joins Midmorning to discuss his music, the meaning of jazz, and a career that has seen him work with artists from Miles Davis to Sting to the Grateful Dead.Midmorning, May 16, 2007
• From the subway to the concert hall
  When they started out, the members of Trio Voronezh played their Russian folk instruments on the streets and in the subways in Germany, France and the Netherlands. Today they're more at home in concert halls across Europe and U.S.April 20, 2007
• Red House Records enters a new era
  More than a year after the death of its founder and president, Bob Feldman, St. Paul-based Red House Records is still going strong, and embracing the digital age.April 16, 2007
• Pachanga Society brings a new sound to polka country
  This weekend, a group called the Stearns County Pachanga Society will offer St. Cloud a unique musical experience that's homegrown, but it doesn't sound like it. The society blends Latin music with a heavy dose of audience participation.April 13, 2007
• Connick celebrates the Bayou
  Musician, composer, and actor Harry Connick, Jr. Has won a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy, but his heart is still in performing jazz and supporting his hometown of New Orleans.Midmorning, April 5, 2007
• Joy, faith, and music
  A Grammy award winning choir from South Africa brings their music to Minnesota. Midmorning talks with the director of Soweto Gospel Choir.Midmorning, March 22, 2007
• "The Separation" joins crunchy guitars with crystalline polyphony
  The mystical sounds of a 15th-century choral mass mix with thrashing guitars and crashing drums this weekend at the Walker Art Center. The Walker brings together jazz drummer Bobby Previte with the St. Paul-based Rose Ensemble, a choral group more at home with ethereal medieval chant.February 2, 2007
• This weekend's action is at the Concertina Bowl
  Football fanatics still have another week before their big day, Super Bowl Sunday, arrives. But for fans of a certain kind of accordion, the biggest bowl event of the year happens Saturday in Blaine, Minnesota -- the Concertina Bowl.January 26, 2007
• Django Reinhardt: the father of Gypsy Jazz
  Guitarist Django Reinhardt would be 97 years old this week. When he was young, a fire mangled his hands, forcing him to come up with new ways to play his favorite instrument. His innovations led to a new type of jazz music that resonated through western Europe even as war tore the continent apart.January 23, 2007
• Music from the heart
  A folk singing duo from rural Minnesota finds fulfillment if not riches in music.January 19, 2007

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