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Music

Lil Uzi Vert to perform in St. Paul

His hit song "XO Tour Llif3" peaked at No. 7 on the billboard charts and has been played more than 800 million times on Spotify.
by MPR News Staff

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Source: Aretha Franklin is seriously ill

Source: Aretha Franklin is seriously ill

The Queen of Soul canceled planned concerts earlier this year after she was ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest up. Last year, the 76-year-old icon announced her plans to retire, saying she would perform at "some select things."
by The Associated Press

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Music brings together Minnesota Orchestra musicians, South African students

Music brings together Minnesota Orchestra musicians, South African students

It may have been Saturday morning, but hundreds of students, teachers and parents crammed into the Eurocon Primary School just outside Cape Town, South Africa, to welcome members of the Minnesota Orchestra.
by Euan Kerr

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Dispatches from Cape Town: Learning new music in a soccer stadium

Dispatches from Cape Town: Learning new music in a soccer stadium

The Minnesota Orchestra Brass Quintet brought -- and found -- very different genres of music at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town Thursday.
by Euan Kerr

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Sammy Brue performs 7th Street Entry Tonight

Sammy Brue performs tonight at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. His album "I Am Nice" was released two years ago when he was just 15 years old.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'A very sacred space': Minn. Orchestra musicians visit Mandela's Robben Island cell

'A very sacred space': Minn. Orchestra musicians visit Mandela's Robben Island cell

The Minnesota Orchestra began its two-week, five-city tour of South Africa Wednesday, as part of a yearlong celebration of the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth. Nearly a third of the orchestra's musicians visited the prison where the country's apartheid government imprisoned Mandela for 18 years.
by Euan Kerr

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Beyonce and Jay-Z to play at US Bank Stadium

Beyoncé and Jay-Z will be performing tonight at U-S Bank Stadium in Minneapolis as part of their "On the Run II" tour.
by Cathy Wurzer

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