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![Guitarist Zacc Harris played on New Years Eve at the Icehouse in south Minneapolis. ] GLEN STUBBE • glen.stubbe@startribune.com Monday, December 31,](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/WB3TETY6TFKEIZXJFLCFRAS2WQ.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Success of Minnesota record label shows how an artist-friendly business can flower
Connecting Midwest musicians with listeners, Zacc Harris' Shifting Paradigm Records shows how an artist-friendly enterprise can flower.
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Pick Six: Praise for Ariana Grande, Brynn Cartelli, Larry Englund, more
Pick Six is a half-dozen cool things in music, from two points of view.
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Twin Cities concerts of the week: Ella Mai, Big Turn Fest, Buddy Guy with Mavis Staples, Beirut
The big gigs for Feb. 22-28, also including Pert Near Sandstone's Winter String Gathering, Big Head Todd, Walter "Wolfman" Washington and Young the Giant.
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See Peter Tork's pre-Monkees 1963 yearbook photo from Carleton College
The college in Northfield also dug up a 1982 school-newspaper interview with its famous alum after his death Thursday.
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Review: Elton John says farewell to his friends at Target Center
REVIEW: The rock icon was too loud but pleased fans with exciting piano, countless classics.
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Dominick Argento, acclaimed Minnesota opera composer, dies at 91
"For me, it's been a love affair with my community here," he once said. "I do think of myself as a Minnesota composer."
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Aerosmith, Rascal Flatts, Pitbull added for inaugural TC Summer Jam
They join Tim McGraw and REO Speedwagon for this 3-day rock-and-country jam in July at Canterbury Park in Shakopee.
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Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo gets Afro funky covering Talking Heads in Minneapolis
In her return to the Cedar, the Grammy-winning African star delivered some of her own tunes and interpreted Talking Heads' music.
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Minnesota Opera hits better balance with old favorites, women artists for 2019-20 season
ANALYSIS: The 2019-20 season mixes old and new with improved gender representation.
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![Musician and now playwright Stanley Kipper in front of his childhood home on Oakland Ave. S. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Musi](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/3SDWFWQ43MKGCXQFZ6FIWEIMAE.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
How a black family integrated a white Mpls. neighborhood in 1950s
An old secret spawned a play about how a family integrated a Minneapolis neighborhood.
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What would you pay for Bob Dylan's boyhood bathroom sink?
A young Bobby Zimmerman apparently used this upstairs sink in his childhood home in Hibbing, Minn.
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![Kyu-Young Kim opened the evening on the violin.] Members of the SPCO will play music and tell stories around the idea of "home" at the Turf Club, a ro](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/D47XXJG5UEHNPNOQFPM2ON6CGA.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Twin Cities residents 'Say Home' in new work by SPCO composer in residence
What does home mean? A host of Minnesotans responded, for a work being debuted by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
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The good, the bad and the Elton: 30 milestones on the Yellow Brick Road
As Elton John's farewell tour heads to Minneapolis, we look back at 30 songs — the good, the bad and the undeniably Elton.
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Inspired by Bob Dylan, Kenyan folk-rocker journeyed to Minnesota to tour the world
Hearing Bob Dylan convinced J.S. Ondara to leave Kenya for Minnesota. Now he's taking his music to the world.
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Clarkson's voice, personality dazzle, but St. Paul concert could have been stronger
Kelly Clarkson's voice and personality dazzle, but her St. Paul concert lacked winning pacing.
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