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Today's music: Trio Voronezh

Today's music: Trio Voronezh

Trio Voronezh will be performing tonight on the campus of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. The trio, which takes it name from the Russian town where they are from, have fun with a wide variety of musical styles played on authentic Russian folk instruments.
by Jim Bickal

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Lou Reed, leader of the Velvet Underground, has reportedly died

Lou Reed, leader of the Velvet Underground, has reportedly died

Lou Reed epitomized New York City's artistic underbelly in the 1970s. Reed died Sunday morning on Long Island of complications from a liver transplant earlier this year, his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, said.

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Lou Reed, leader of the Velvet Underground, has reportedly died

Lou Reed, leader of the Velvet Underground, has reportedly died

Lou Reed epitomized New York City's artistic underbelly in the 1970s. Reed died Sunday morning on Long Island of complications from a liver transplant earlier this year, his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, said.

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New album celebrates Minnesota lumberjack songs

New album celebrates Minnesota lumberjack songs

Twin Cities musician and scholar Brian Miller has been discovering and preserving the songs that lumberjacks in the northern Minnesota woods were singing in the 19th century. Miller and Randy Gosa will perform Friday, Oct. 11 at the Hinckley Fire Museum in Hinckley, Minn. On Saturday, Oct. 12 they will play at a CD release party at the Celtic Junction in St. Paul.

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A little-known song about Minneapolis

Today is the 78th birthday of singer Jill Corey. Corey was well-known for singing American pop standards during the 1950s. She sang with the Percy Faith Orchestra and was a regular on one of Johnny Carson's first television shows. In 1953, she was featured on the cover of Life magazine and released her first single, "Minneapolis." It was written by Bob Hilliard and Minneapolis-native Sid Lippman. Jill Corey quit show business in 1961 after marrying Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Don Hoak in 1961. She re-started her career after Hoak died of a heart attack in 1969.
by Jim Bickal

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Ronstadt a silenced songbird

Ronstadt a silenced songbird

Linda Ronstadt has revealed that she can no longer sing a note; she has Parkinson’s. She ushered in a pretty fair era in music in the late ’60s and early’70s, along with James Taylor, Carole King, and the Eagles: folk rock. She was the decade’s highest-paid female singer and it wasn’t because of the high-glitz…
by Bob Collins

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Minn. Orchestra supporters gather to offer solutions to lockout

Minn. Orchestra supporters gather to offer solutions to lockout

Some 600 people gathered in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday night to discuss possible solutions to resolve the ongoing Minnesota Orchestra lockout.
by Euan Kerr

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'Greatest guitarist' Albert Lee on 50 years in music

'Greatest guitarist' Albert Lee on 50 years in music

The legendary British guitarist Albert Lee is visiting the Twin Cities this week for a three-night stint at the Dakota.

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JJ Cale dies; wrote hits for Clapton, Skynyrd

Grammy-winning musician JJ Cale, whose best known songs became hits for Eric Clapton with "After Midnight" and Lynyrd Skynyrd with "Call Me the Breeze," has died. He was 74.

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