![]() ![]() And you've got a whole panel of people who do this. Like the whole curation part of it, I find to be a cool thing. And if artists are accepted, we pay them $200 for a two-year contract, and they get to keep all the rights. Now what's really cool about what we do is we're an all-Minnesota streaming service, so we relate to artists all over Minnesota, ask them to submit to our curator team, that music is evaluated by this team. Jeff Radford: MNspin is a streaming and download service brought you by Hennepin County Library, paid for by the Friends of the Library. I wonder if you could just start by - you know, for anyone who hasn't heard of this ongoing project - telling us what it is. Jeff Radford: Jill, thanks for having us on. Jill Riley: Welcome to The Current’s Morning Show. Listen to our interview using the audio player above, and read a transcript below.Ĭourtesy Hennepin County Library Interview Transcript I connected with two librarians and coordinators of MNspin, Ehsan Alam and Jeff Radford. So we wanted to take a few minutes to tell you all about it. And it just happens to be asking for some local music submissions at this time. There's this ongoing project and collection of Minnesota music from the Hennepin County Library called MNspin. And we know that here at The Current it's why we say, "Great music lives here." But there are so many different ways to connect with the Minnesota music community communities within the Minnesota music scene connect with each other and with music fans in a variety of ways: there's the old-school radio, the internet, and in-person events at various venues around the state.īut how about the library? I know you're thinking books, right? But you can think so much bigger and so much more when it comes to the library, because I've got something to tell you about here that's a combo of the internet and the library and the music scene. ![]() With every year, every scene, each region of the state, Minnesota continues to be fertile ground for great music. ![]() And Lizzo, who - not born here - but spent the beginning of her career right here in Minnesota. Yes, there's Bob Dylan and Prince and Soul Asylum. We know that Minnesota has a long-storied history of great music, and this state has produced some pretty big names who at one time, let's not forget, were the up and comers, and then went on to international stardom. ![]()
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