Dan Olson's 'Minnesota Sounds and Voices' special

Barbara Holmes
The Rev. Barbara Holmes
Jeffrey Thompson | MPR News file

This audio sample offers assorted highlights from Dan Olson's "Minnesota Sounds and Voices" series, which features tales from around the state.

Stories included in this special are: forest ecologist AmberBeth Van Ningen, dancer Nancy Raddatz, Kathy Dummer of Blue Mounds State Park, educator Jamal Abdur Salaam, Dakota educator Sisoka Duta, jazz man Butch Thompson, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes and piper Dick Hensold with members of Messiah's Men.

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