• “Family Day” is this Saturday, February 28th from 10 am until 12 noon at the North Dakota Museum of Art – based on the UND campus in Grand Forks. Family Day is two hours of discovering and creating art…. for children, parents, care-givers, grandmas and grandpas. The event is free this Saturday at the NDMOA.

• A program called “Warrior Words II”, first-hand stories from the perspective of those who have served their country in the military, will be read at the Fire Hall Theater in downtown Grand Forks this Sunday, March 1st, beginning at 2:00 pm. Along with readings and conversation, coffee and pie will be served. More information at – infor@ggfct.com.

• The Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra will perform this weekend, Saturday, February 28th at 7:30pm at the Empire Arts Center in downtown Grand Forks. In keeping with the orchestra’s season-long emphasis on Scandinavian music, the concert will feature Nordic Moods – a Feast of Scandinavian Music” and features the U.S. premiere of Grand Forks’ native Matthew Peterson’s “Hyperborea.”

• “Spank – The Fifties Shades Parody” will be performed on stage at the Chester Fritz Auditorium in Grand Forks, on the UND campus, on Friday, February 27th. Curtain time is 7:30 pm.

• The Last Potluck Supper: The Church Basement Ladies – will performed at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on Sunday, March 1st. Curtain time is 3:00 pm.

• Memphis: The Musical will be onstage at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on Tuesday, March 3rd. Curtain time is 7:30 pm.

• Grand Forks Central High School presents “The Music Man”, March 5th, 6th and 7th. Curtain time is 7:00 pm, next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Grand Forks Central High School.

• Dance to music from the 20s, 30s, and 40s at the “Spring Swing Fling” featuring the University of Minnesota – Crookston C Jazz Band, on Saturday, March 7th at 7:00 pm in Bede Ballroom, on the UMC campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Matthew Wallace of the North Dakota Museum of Art is the guest.

The guest is regional artist and NWMAC Board of Directors member Mary Ann Laxen.

East Grand Forks, MN resident Mary Ann Laxen – representing Polk County on the 7-county Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (NWMAC) Board of Directors – is a well-known and respected regional artist who has a strong passion for the arts and for life! She shares her passions and her support of the fine arts in northwest Minnesota.

Ron West chats with Richard Speas from NCTC Athletics and Student Life.

Tuesdays at 7PM:

Join Philip McKenzie for three hours of classical music with a theme on Northern Classics, a Pioneer 90.1 Original.

About the show

Each week a theme ties together a selection of music geared toward those who don’t listen to classical music all that often and are interested in learning just a little bit about the music, the composers, and the events in the world happening at the same time.

Phil always welcomes ideas for themes and music and performers. E-mail your thoughts on the form below. Start a dialogue and, literally, be heard!

About Phil

Phil grew up in Crookston, MN, getting his first taste of broadcasting as a high school student bringing jazz albums – Chick Corea, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock – over to the college station at UMC to get on to a friend’s weekly show. While attending the University of North Dakota he applied work study hours to a Saturday morning show at KFJM-FM on campus.

While at UND he commuted to Winnipeg to study oboe and eventually landed a job with the Virginia Symphony. The freelancing and teaching that accompanied the regular playing weren’t enough to hold him to the career however so after seven years he packed up his oboe and found his way back to the midwest for business school at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

He’s been back in the region for over a decade and is excited to share his passion for the best music written over the past 300 years.