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Arts & Culture

Arts & Culture

  • Photo: Eric And Jackie Hylden
    Episode 152 features singer-songwriter Grant Lee Phillips, CJ Landowski of Grammy-winning band Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, bluegrass band East Nashville Grass, and Texas country music from Dallas Burrow. Plus, we hear from Minneapolis rapper, poet, and musician Dessa, who is performing at Minot’s Notstock Festival on September 18.
  • A 2019 aerial photo of the UTTC International Powwow shows the turnout of dancers, drummers and visitors to the event.
    Photo provided by UTTC archives librarian, Dennis Neumann. Photographer unknown
    Buffalo's Fire Senior Reporter Brian Bull sets the stage for the 55th UTTC Powwow in Bismarck, ND.
  • On a Saturday in August, Prairie Public's Kirsten Ness and Tay Calloway stopped by the Red River Market. What started as a quick trip to see friends and maybe grab a coffee turned into a story about connection and the quiet power of showing up.
  • Episode 149 features Grammy Award-winning bluegrass musician Shelby Means, singer Leanne Surace, pianist Revere Rivers, singer-songwriter Michael Todd. Plus, Americana band Moon Cats from Pick City, North Dakota.
  • Episode 148 features singer-songwriter and poet Willi Carlisle, songwriter Deb Talan, alt-country musician Olivia Ellen Lloyd, and Irish singer Niall McNamee. Plus, a check-in with Glenn Gullickson, the visitors services assistant at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, which opens next summer.
  • Episode 147 features Seattle singer-songwriter Shelby Earl, fiddle player Josie Tompkins, Dublin musician Eoin Glackin, violinist and teacher Ellie MacPhee, and 16-year old folk musician Ned Swarbrick.
  • Episode 146 features Americana tunes from John Cowsill and Vicki Peterson, Scottish bagpipes by-way-of East Grand Forks from Jeremy Kingsbury, NYC rocker Willie Nile, and singer-songwriter Victoria Sorensen. Plus, live from Medora, North Dakota, family acoustic band Figuring It Out.
  • Episode 145 features Wisconsin singer-songwriter Hillary Reynolds, Minnesota bluegrass and jazz trio Squid City Slingers, country artist Katie Wallace, Celtic performer Joy Shannon, and Theodore Roosevelt historian and performer Kurt Skinner.
  • Episode 144 features musician Kate Daisy Grant, indie singer-songwriter Thalia Zedek, singer Amelia Coburn, and Americana musician Alaina Stacey. Plus, a visit with Brian Rodgers of Camp ReCreation in Richardton, North Dakota, which is marking its 50th year serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  • Episode 143 features singer-songwriter Kai Crowe-Getty, educator and musician Big Chief Bo Dollis Jr., multi-instrumentalist Isabel Olive from Half Gringa, Carla Olson of The Textones, and songwriter and activist Dan Pallotta.
  • Episode 142 features Zydeco legend Jeffery Broussard, Grammy Award nominated singer Tony Kamel, North Dakota musician Brandon Kruger, London singer-songwriter Reema, and Americana artist John R. Miller.
  • Episode 141 features a tribute to Jill Sobule, Ohtis frontman Sam Swinson, new music from singer-songwriter Hendricka, folk group Lowland Hum, and guitarist Sam Moss.