Not only are they great musically, but their performances force us to look and listen through a different filter. Post Modern Jukebox will be featured in Great Performances regularly. Hear their latest, a cover of Kanye’s Only One, featuring Emily West. If you’re looking for some perspective, you can catch the original below as well.
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A Day Away is set to be a semi-regular column (more often if you choose to contribute) telling you about activities, events, and quick-trip getaways. The standard to which we’ll hold to on our suggested activities — can you get there reasonably in a day? Or can you get there and back again in a day
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For most artists anywhere near his age, the media starts using language like, “twilight of his career”, but Willie Nelson is still doing more than 100 shows a year. His career has spanned more than 50 years. Get more commentary from Chris Richards at The Washington Post.
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Janie Myers will be exhibiting her work at the Taube Museum right now, and she is one of the early residents at the recently completed Artspace in downtown Minot. KX News has her thoughts on painting and living in the artist focused building.
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More than a few Minot acts made the cut for North Dakota’s best musical acts and performers in 2014. Check out the write-up on the awards event and nominees from the High Plains Reader here. Catch the full nominee list from the ND Music Awards website here. And here are the Minot bands and performers nominated
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One talented guy plays all the parts on a single instrument.
Read & ShareThe under-appreciated spiritual significance of Ground Hog Day, the movie, is a laughing matter and a lesson on life wrapped in one. The actual day seems like an excuse to have a midwinter party in Punxsutawney. Fortunately, for the rest of us there is a Super Bowl.
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The story of Leith and the attempted takeover by a white supremacist has gone to the big screen, and the documentary movie, “Welcome to Leith, Know Your Neighbors,”, is drawing strong reviews and packing theaters at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Do you like to take pictures? Want to get better at it? Here’s your chance to learn from one of the best.
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If you make it to Fargo in the near future and you have an interest in the oil boom, you should make a point to stop by the Plains Art Museum. Details from John Lamb of the Fargo Forum.
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Make no mistake, the cable television and content delivery markets are changing. Whether we see a revolution is a debatable point, but what isn’t debatable is that for the first time ever, cable programming providers have actual competition.
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The 2015 Norsk Hostfest entertainment has been released. The Septemeber 29th opening act is Abracadabra, an ABBA tribute group, that will be performing with the Minot Symphony Orchestra. Other headline entertainers include: Jeff Foxworthy, Marty Stuart with special guest Connie Smith, Celtic Thunder, Ronnie Milsap, Martina McBride, The Beach Boys and country-rock group, The Band Perry.
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The fact that it exists at all makes it news, but the City of Grand Forks is stepping up and funding the project with $30,000.
Read & Share sourced from: Grand Forks HeraldIf you never go into the Backstreet Boys, it could be that they were just from the wrong era. Maybe this is better....
Read & ShareThis easily qualifies as a great performance, but there's no point in explaining what the folks at Playing for Change do, just watch the video.
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The find has yet to be independently reviewed, but if confirmed it would mark the earliest discovered fragment of the Gospel of Mark.
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