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Morning Edition: Music

Minneapolis blues musician Cornbread Harris to celebrate 94th birthday with a sold-out show

Minneapolis blues musician Cornbread Harris to celebrate 94th birthday with a sold-out show

Beloved Minneapolis blues musician Cornbread Harris will take the stage this weekend in front of a sold-out live audience at the Hook and Ladder.
by Cathy Wurzer and Britta Greene

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Sounds of self-quarantine: Minnesota musicians share how they're doing and a song

Sounds of self-quarantine: Minnesota musicians share how they're doing and a song

Throughout this pandemic, MPR News has been asking Minnesota musicians to send us a song and an update on how they’re doing. Take a scroll and listen to some of the artists we’ve heard from so far.
by Cathy Wurzer and MPR News Staff

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NPR Music's annual Tiny Desk Contest is now open

Every year, NPR Music invites unsigned artists from all over the country to apply to its Tiny Desk Contest. Thousands submit videos, and the team at NPR picks just one winner.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Poliça back in action, releasing new album after singer’s accident

Poliça’s new album, “When We Stay Alive,” comes out on Friday. It’s the band’s first since singer Channy Leaneagh fell last winter while trying to clear ice dams from the roof of her home in Minneapolis.
by Cathy Wurzer and MPR News Staff

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"We Are the World" recorded 35 years ago this week

“We Are The World” was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie, and it was designed to raise money and awareness around a famine in Ethiopia. The song became an immediate hit. It won a Grammy and raised more than $63 million in humanitarian aid for Africa and the United States.
by Cathy Wurzer

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35 years since Foreigner was No. 1 with ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’

Guitarist Mick Jones later told Songfacts that he wrote the song about the search for love that could last, after going through a series of relationships that eventually ended.
by Cathy Wurzer

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David Bowie announced his Sound and Vision tour 30 years ago this week

It was a bit of a gimmick. He wanted to force himself to write new songs, so he said he'd use the tour to officially retire his old hits. He promised to never play them again on stage.
by Cathy Wurzer

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