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    December 15, 2018
    ‘Let’s make it happen,’ Garth Brooks replies to Mark Dayton’s call for another MN show
    Garth Brooks had to know one concert would not be enough for his huge Minnesota fan base. So when tickets to his May 4 concert sold out Friday...
    entertainment/musicDecember 15, 2018 - 12:31pm
    Buck Owens, Lisa Todd and Roy Clark. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.
    Roy Clark, country star who hosted 'Hee Haw' variety show, dies at 85
    Roy Clark, a country guitarist, singer and cornpone comedian who headlined the hit variety show "Hee Haw" and was known for crossover hits including...
    entertainment/musicNovember 15, 2018 - 7:41pm
    Moorhead native Bjorn Hunstad, who performs as Bloomer, was recently crowned the 2018 American Beatbox Champion. Courtesy of American Beatbox Championships
    Can't beat the feeling: Minnesota native crowned 2018 American Beatbox Champion
    NEW YORK CITY — Jazz, pop, reggae, classical, rock. Music is everywhere: on the radio, on your phone — even in the headphones of a co-worker...
    entertainment/musicNovember 15, 2018 - 6:00am
    October 22, 2018
    The country music group Delta Rae includes Brittany Holljes, third from left, who just released a deeply personal essay that she was inspired to write after the Kavanaugh-Ford hearings. MUST CREDIT: Shervin Lainezplay button
    How country music has - and hasn't - addressed the #MeToo movement in a difficult year
    Like millions of people last month, Nashville singer Brittany Hölljes watched the Senate testimony from Christine Blasey Ford, who alleged Supreme...
    entertainment/musicOctober 22, 2018 - 2:30pm
    October 11, 2018
    Submitted photo The husband and wife folk singing duo Curtis & Loretta will be performing Saturday night at The Barn Theatre in downtown Willmar. One of the songs they will be performing is the "Willmar 8 (We Are All Equal You Know)", written about the Willmar 8 bank strike. Curtis & Loretta is made up of Curtis Teague and Loretta Simonet.
    Curtis & Loretta shine folk light on Willmar 8
    WILLMAR — Loretta Simonet and Curtis Teague, as the folk duo Curtis & Loretta, have traveled the country sharing the music they love. Saturday...
    entertainment/musicOctober 11, 2018 - 7:31am
    October 4, 2018
    Submitted photo Pipa master Gao Hong will perform Saturday with the Bach Society of Minnesota in Willmar. A Pipa is a Chinese guitar.
    Bach Society of Minnesota plans workshops, concert at Willmar Senior High
    WILLMAR — The Bach Society of Minnesota will open its 2018-19 concert season with concerts this weekend, and it will include workshops...
    entertainment/musicOctober 4, 2018 - 8:28am
    October 3, 2018
    Image of Peggy Sue record by Holly Buddy, Coral 1957 from Wikimedia Commons. https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Coral_9-61885_-_PeggySue.JPGplay button
    'Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue', immortalized by Buddy Holly, dies at 78
    Peggy Sue Gerron was 17 years old, a senior at a Catholic girls school, when the world heard her name radiate through the airwaves over and over...
    entertainment/musicOctober 3, 2018 - 7:37am
    September 12, 2018
    Kris Vox of Hairball performs Prince at their July 3 Bayfront Festival Park concert in Duluth. Eric Sherman / Special to Forum News Serviceplay button
    Hairball's use of makeup for Prince portrayal raises concerns
    The Minnesota-based arena rock tribute band Hairball prides itself on near-identical portrayals of icons like Alice Cooper. So when a white vocalist...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 12, 2018 - 4:39pm
    September 7, 2018
    A jewel laden robe donning, Cher is lowered onto the Fargodome stage Saturday, August 7, 2004, to open her Living Proof Farewell Tour concert. Darren Gibbins / The Forum
    Cher bringing nationwide tour to Upper Midwest next year
    ST. PAUL -- Cher will be on a nationwide tour with two stops in the Upper Midwest in May of 2019, it was announced Friday, Sept. 7. The 72-year-old...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 7, 2018 - 3:28pm
    September 5, 2018
    Kanye West at the Kids See Ghosts listening party in Santa Clarita, Calif., June 8, 2018. Kanye’s last two years have included wild stretches of chaos, public trauma, divisive flirtations with partisan politics, and health struggles that played out both in public and in private. (Julian Berman/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Keeping up with the Kanye West apology tour, from slavery comments to Drake
    Admitting fault and seeking redemption. This is the road that Kanye West is apparently attempting to travel. Months after becoming a tangential...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 5, 2018 - 10:44pm
    September 4, 2018
    Sani, left, and Rabi Baba, with their baby, Sa’adat spend their first day ever at the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights on Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. “It’s amazing! Lots of people, lots of food,” said Sani. (Jean Pieri / Pioneer Press)
    Minnesota State Fair attendance breaks 2 million mark
    FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- Minnesota State Fair organizers are calling the 2018 Fair “the best ever” after final Labor Day figures broke the...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 4, 2018 - 9:23pm
    Alex Frecon poses with the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth. Special to Forum News Serviceplay button
    If you're a Minnesotan, this music video is for you
    MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Frecon was tired of explaining. A proud native of the western suburbs of the Twin Cities, Frecon, who currently lives...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 4, 2018 - 11:22am
    September 3, 2018
    Courtesy photo Perfect Fifth consists of Willmar students Marcus Ornelas, from left, Emily Malmgren, Pedro Cruz, Julia Thaden and Jacob Meyer. They placed third Saturday in the Minnesota State Fair County Fair Talent Contest finals and won the chance to perform Sunday night at the State Fair grandstand.
    Update: Willmar student singers make it to State Fair grandstand performance
    WILLMAR – Five student singers about to start their junior year at Willmar Senior High performed Sunday at the Minnesota State Fair grandstand...
    entertainment/musicSeptember 3, 2018 - 10:16pm
    August 30, 2018
    The coffin of Aretha Franklin during a public viewing at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Aug. 28, 2018. (Paul Sancya/Pool via The New York Times/Copyright 2018)
    Aretha's last ride: The vintage hearse that carried Rosa Parks will now bear the Queen of Soul
    When Aretha Franklin is laid to rest Friday, she'll travel as she did all her life: with grace and glamour. The hearse that will carry her is...
    entertainment/musicAugust 30, 2018 - 8:30am
    August 24, 2018
    Minnesota State fair breaks first-day attendance record
    FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. -- The Minnesota State Fair broke an attendance record Thursday, Aug. 23. The Fair saw 122,695 visitors come through the gates — the most ever for the first day of the fair. The previous record was 119,145 in 2010. Last year, 117,877 came through the gates...
    entertainment/musicAugust 24, 2018 - 9:38pm
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