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Minnesota musicians are up for five Grammy Awards this year.

 are nominated for Best Orchestral Performance, specifically for a performance of Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 (conducting Sibelius is widely considered one of Osmo Vanska's strengths).

's new cd of choral music "Life & Breath" is nominated for three different Grammy Awards: Best Engineered Classical Album, Best Choral Performance (for the Kansas City Chorale), and Classical Producer of the Year. Clausen teaches at Concordia College in Moorhead.

 album "Can You Canoe?" is nominated for Best Children's Album. The album was created on 

a month long paddle down the Mississippi. 

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The locked out Minnesota Orchestra is nominated for best classical performance, the Okee Dokee Brothers are up for their children's album, and a new CD by composer Renee Clausen is up for three Grammy Awards.

Minnesotans nominated for five Grammy Awards

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