August 31, 2006 - All this week we've been dipping into Minnesota's ethnic music scene through a series called "Notes from Home." Today, we focus on Oromo music. After fleeing Ethiopia to escape persecution, more Oromo people have landed in Minnesota than any other place in the world. The music they've brought with them pulsates with joy. Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts reports.
August 30, 2006 - In the third installment of our ethnic music series, "Notes From Home," MPR's Chris Roberts visits a Somali mall in South Minneapolis to learn more about the music Somalis' generally keep to themselves. Roberts gets a guided tour from a Somali music fan and talks with a local music store owner.
August 29, 2006 - This week we're sampling the ever increasing variety of ethnic music in Minnesota in a series called "Notes from Home." In today's installment, the music of India. Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts reports.
August 28, 2006 - On this segment of MPR’s “Notes from Home,” Chris Roberts looks into the local music scene in Hmong community.
June 29, 2006 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles local hip-hop artist Desdamona. The two discuss her stage name, B-girl movement, spoken word scene, and CD “The Ledge.” Report also includes commentary from writer Dwight Hobbes and Theresa Sweetland, Intermedia Arts Programs Manager
June 8, 2006 - For more than a century the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis has been the place where immigrant energy, radical politics and campus culture collide. That rich, occasionally volatile history is the inspiration for Bedlam Theater's latest production, which also happens to be a musical. It's called "West Bank Story." Minnesota Public Radio's Chris Roberts reports.
May 12, 2006 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Twin Cities rapper Omaur Bliss. Roberts interviews Bliss about the optimism in his music and on growing up in East St. Paul. Segment also includes comments from Steve McPherson, music editor of Pulse.
April 13, 2006 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles students preparing for the first "Poetry Out Loud" competition in Minnesota.
March 30, 2006 - MPR’s Chris Roberts presents a compilation of interviews with three long time Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus members who talk about it’s importance in their lives.
March 24, 2006 - MPR’s Chris Roberts reports on MInneapolis’s Mixed Blood Theater production called "Point of Revue," which has 15 African American writers interpret the state of Black America in 2006.