After visting Tannehill Historic State Park in Alabama (Interesting history, check it out), Carly and I passed the Tannehill Opry along the road to Birmingham. Check out the sign: Music with no booze can be a tough sell. What’s their secret? Free air conditioning. And, Tater Wallace, the 92 year old lead singer of the [...]
I had a chance to attend Minneapolis City Council Member Gary Schiff’s monthly Breakfast with Gary this morning where Brother Ali was a guest speaker. Normally, I don’t make it to 7:30 events, but for Brother Ali I made an exception. It turns out that this was well worth it. Brother Ali shared a ton [...]
Gabe has a great one-on-one interview he conducted with Beck. Yep, that Beck. Here’s the back story on how Gabe found himself in this situation.
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has landed. They’re in town from the UK to participate in the St Paul Chamber Orchestra’s International Chamber Orchestra Festival. The OAE’s project manager, Ceri Jones, is blogging about her experiences traveling to St Paul (how ya like the weather, Ceri?), and has had some fun nuggets to [...]
Local Music blog, Culture Bully, is running a 60-Hour Blogathon where fresh content will go live every hour for the next 2 1/2 days. This is being done to fundraise for music programs in Twin Cities classrooms. The donations are processed through DonorsChoose.org (a great organization profiled here before) where donors can pick exactly which [...]
After watching this video of Feist on Sesame Street (awesome): I decided to take a look on YouTube to see which other celebrity appearances have been popular. As of this writing, Feist’s video has a bit over 169,000 views, but it’s also only been on YouTube for six days. The videos below are the top-10 [...]
I’m having a hard time getting worked up about digital watermarking. The most annoying thing about music with DRM “protection” was that it made it tougher to play on the device of your choice. With watermarking, a song purchased from iTunes, for example, could have your email address embedded in the file, so if the [...]
Todd Melby has a great write-up of the history of the MacPhail Center’s new construction and move across downtown Minneapolis to near the new Guthrie. While the Guthrie gets much more press, the MacPhail Center may be an even larger draw to the old mill district with families swinging by for lessons and performances. Cool [...]
