Podcasts by Twin Cities Song Story
The Twin Cities is full of original theatre and homegrown music; here is where they collide. TC Song Story, hosted by Mark Sweeney, takes the scalpel to one song written and asks its composer
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Catalog Models|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 16 from 2016-08-11T15:16:40
What do David Bowie, witches, chairs and fears have to do with a show about a couple planning a dinner party? Catalog Models (Mark Sweeney and Gemma Irish) dive into how these elements found the...
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Phillip Gonzales in a Diner|Twin Cities Song Story: UnEpisode1 from 2015-08-24T15:00:02
Experience podcasts like they were before the internet! The NoisePicnic Podcast Festival is coming up August 28th and 29th at the Phoenix Theater. It will feature six live shows of all your favo...
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Andrew Gaylord|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 14 from 2015-05-27T03:42:08
Andrew Gaylord is a listener. If you ask him a question he’s more than likely to want to hear your answer than to give you his own. As one-half of PlaceBase productions he’s traveled...
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Ted Moore|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 13 from 2015-04-12T22:08:54
Ted more is a sound designer and composer who thrives in punctuating stillness and tension. His work manipulates live instrumental performance and recordings with software through written proces...
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Fruit Fly: The Musical|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 12 from 2015-03-22T22:16:37
In Fruit Fly: The Musical, Sheena Janson and Max Wajtanowicz thinly fictionalize twenty years of friendship between a gay man and straight woman. This month’s Song Story, features Max and ...
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Sweet Land The Musical|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 11 from 2015-02-11T17:00:19
The much loved Minnesotan film Sweet Land, based on a short story by Will Weaver, is not standard musical theater material. The story lives in quiet actions and awkward silences as cultural barr...
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Jill Bernard|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 10 from 2015-01-15T04:51:09
It’s episode ten and it’s Jill Bernard! Jill is the creator of Drum Machine, the amazing one woman historically placed solo improvised musical. She’s also one of the most fearl...
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The Live Instructional Video|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 9 from 2014-12-31T06:17:04
Ryan Dean creates work under the name The Live Instructional Video . His 2014 Minnesota Fringe Festival show Lazerjuice was a multidisciplinary work of modular theatre that mixed elements of da...
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Jonah and The Whale|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 8 from 2014-12-19T04:54:54
David Darrow and Blake Thomas sit down after a long rehearsal to talk about ‘The Wandering Wondering’ from Jonah and the Whale: A New Musical. They wrote the song when faced with the...
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Beaverdance!|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 7 from 2014-11-19T02:52:47
Beaverdance! A Marxist Holiday Fur Trading Musical returns to Bedlam Theatre this holiday season after premiering in 2009. This time around the show has five new songs. In this episode composer ...
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Van Winkle–A Folk Musical|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 6 from 2014-11-05T15:31:59
Caroline Wigmore returns to the Twin Cities for a showcase of her original musical Van Winkle – A Folk Musical. She is joined by orchestrator, Jen Green. The two discuss the song ‘Watchin’ the ...
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Sandbox Theatre|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 5 from 2014-10-20T19:04:13
Sandbox Theatre’s Killer Inside is being billed as their own take on a Musical. This is the first time the group has incorporated music from the start of their idea-generating process. Theo La...
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Mark Sweeney|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 4 from 2014-10-08T19:16:36
Let’s get a general idea as to why I’m doing this Podcast. Then I talk to Mark Sweeney about his song ‘A Matter of Time’ from his musical The Unknown Matters. It’s a musical about dark matter, ...
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Keith Hovis|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 3 from 2014-09-22T14:00:21
Keith Hovis stood out in the Minnesota Fringe Festival for his dark musical comedies, with Mrs. Housel: A Suicide Suite he gets seriously dark. We talk about his song ‘The Nine Lives of Mrs. Hou...
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Eric Sharp|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 2 from 2014-09-08T16:00:47
Eric Sharp let us pop by the Mu Performing Arts rehearsal room to talk about ‘Holy Crap, Here I Am’ from his new play Middle Brother. Middle Brother is a fictionalized physical theatre telling o...
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Katie Hartman|Twin Cities Song Story: Episode 1 from 2014-08-25T16:25:33
It’s the first episode of Twin Cities Song Story! This episode features Katie Hartman of The Coldharts. She guides us through the process behind writing ‘In the Valley of the Many Colored Grass...
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