Prairie Public Presents

This Sunday at 5pm: Immerse yourself in the music and voices of the original emissaries of American music to the world. In October of 1871, the oldest university in Nashville, Tennessee, teetered on the brink of collapse. To survive, Fisk University staked its last $40 on a set of field hymns and 10 descendants of American slavery.

This week on Prairie Public Presents: A new episode of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life! Tune in Sunday at 5pm as Jack Russell Weinstein and his guest, Firoze Manji, discuss “What does it Mean to be ‘African’?”

This Sunday at 5pm, The Great American Folk Show returns with a new episode!

Sunday, October 31, at 5pm: A possessed basement. A magic mirror. A shop of spirits. Mysterious lights where they don't belong. And an “interview” with ghosts. Gather around the campfire as we open the portal to a place that isn't quite human or all the way natural.

This Sunday on Prairie Public Presents: Tune in at 5pm for "Witness In the Dark," which features two plays by Dominique Morisseau, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Tony Award nominee.

On this week's Prairie Public Presents, hear a conversation with author Dr. Anton Treuer ("Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask") and United Tribes Technical College President Dr. Russ McDonald.

How the book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask" came about, and how it seems to be working.

This week on Prairie Public Presents: A new episode of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life! Tune in Sunday at 5pm as Jack Russell Weinstein and his guest, Sarah LaChance Adams, discuss “How do philosophers talk about sex, love, and desire?”

The Great American Folk Show returns with a new episode!

In the summer of 2020, composer and musician Patrick Mathews-Halmrast approached us with an idea: As a summer internship, he would work on musical ideas that were based in our "sense of place." He'd heard us while helping with the harvest on the family farm near Georgetown, and thought we could work together. The summer culminated with Patrick taking a flight across North Dakota in a private plane (courtesy of UND professor Fred Remer). Patrick was composing, playing, and recording all the way. The result is "Ideas in the Sky."