10,000 Fresh Voices
Series produced by KFAI Minneapolis
Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
Local arts, culture, history and environmental features made possible by the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
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For years, there were only two in the nation, but in 2011, Minnesota got its first with US Bicycle Route-43, the 600-mile Mississippi River Trail f...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 05:21
Minnesota is known for its 10,000 lakes and maybe more specifically, for its canoe culture through the pristine lakes of the Boundary Waters. Over ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2024
- Length: 06:00
One particularly boisterous and sonorous spring, podcaster and long-distance hiker Alison Young chose to walk the entirety of the Superior Hiking T...
- Added: Mar 21, 2024
- Length: 06:00
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 07:02
Nestled in the Rondo community of St. Paul, among the burgeoning business district of a revitalized neighborhood, is a publishing entity ready and ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 05:34
In the 1970s, Cynthia Johnson was a working musician who got hired to sing on a couple of demos. Then, out of nowhere, one of those demos became th...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 07:26
What does sound look like? What does it feel like? A new artist and scholar-led project called Sound Stories is exploring these questions. Sound St...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 06:54
Every fall, a geographic phenomenon funnels thousands of raptors (birds of prey) just past Duluth. This creates both an opportunity to monitor spec...
- Added: Oct 17, 2023
- Length: 06:01
Two-hundred years ago, an Italian aristocrat traveled to the Northwoods of present-day Minnesota in an attempt to make a name for himself. He wante...
- Added: Oct 10, 2023
- Length: 06:58
More individuals who have fled Afghanistan are trying to make the Twin Cities their home. A resource site in Minneapolis, now nearing its first an...
- Added: Oct 04, 2023
- Length: 04:15
In 2016, genealogist Mica L. Anders interviewed 7 families about their summer cabins in the north woods of Minnesota for the Minnesota Historical S...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 06:42
After learning that their landlord had donated to a former KKK leader, HUGE Improv Theater knew they needed to move. So how did a small arts non-pr...
- Added: Sep 13, 2023
- Length: 05:24
Death is a scary to talk about. But some people in Minneapolis meet up every month to talk about just that. It’s called Death Cafe, and KFAI's Matt...
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 06:03
KFAI's Matthew Schneeman shares two stories of grief, family, and healing in and around Sax-Zim bog in Northern Minnesota.
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 07:54
Video game music, or VGM, is a genre of music that is quickly taking off, even outside of traditional gaming platforms. Madeline Karita Fleming spo...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 03:55
Since the 90s, street art has been a mainstay within the metro area, finally earning its due in the Lyn Lake Street Art series which held its first...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 06:01
The St. Paul nonprofit Women’s Advocates founded one of the first shelters in the country for women escaping domestic violence. It started in the e...
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 06:46
Erin Aldridge (AHL-dridge) is a prominent classical violinist in the Twin Ports of Duluth and Superior. But in recent years, a slightly rowdier for...
- Added: Jun 20, 2023
- Length: 06:08
Since the mid-90s, Ecuador Manta has performed traditional music from the Andes mountains at school workshops, community festivals and every night ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2023
- Length: 06:27
Sex is hard to talk about. We often speak about it so indirectly. In Minnesota, many of us are even more adept to tiptoeing around the issue. But S...
- Added: Jun 13, 2023
- Length: 07:42