Ron West catches up with Matt Wallace of the North Dakota Museum of Art/NDMOA

Listed Events
• Northland Community Band Concert – Thursday, April 16th at 7:00 pm in the NCTC Theater/Thief River Falls. Admission is five dollars at the door.

• Northland Chamber Choir and Northern Jazz “Hoedown Concerts” on Saturday, April 18th and Sunday, April 19th at the NCTC Theater/Thief River Falls. Tickets available at Kezar music in TRF for 12, which includes a meal. The meal and performance on Saturday begins at 6:30 pm and on Sunday at 2:00 pm.

• The Summer Performing Arts Company (SPA) of Grand Forks will hold auditions for “Die Fledermaus” on April 19th at 2:00 pm at Red River High School in Grand Forks. Rehearsals start July 13th.
• “Art See” is Friday, April 17th from 4:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Empire Arts Center – downtown Grand Forks.

• Grand Forks Master Chorales and the UND Music Department will perform “Elijah” on Saturday, April 11th at the Chester Fritz Auditorium on the UND campus in Grand Forks. Performance time is 7:30 pm.

• A “Maple Syrup Festival” will be held on Saturday, April 11th in Vergas, MN – near Fergus Falls. Scheduled is a 5K run, a Maple Syrup pancake breakfast and tree sapping for all visitors to the event.

The guest this week is NWMAC spokesperson Therese Jacobson, of Alvarado, MN.

Glen Braget chats with Dennis Brent. Dennis has been involved in the behind the scenes world of professional wrestling for over 30 years. Since getting his start working for Fritz Von Erich in World Class Championship wrestling in 1984, Brent had a wonderful career working for/with the UWF, NWA, WCW, Smokey Mountain and WWF/WWE wrestling promotions in many capacities. He is a NY Times bestselling author, writing a top-10 bestseller in 2004 called THE STONE COLD TRUTH, published by Simon and Schuster. It debuted at #6 and was in the Top 50 for 26 weeks. He also co-wrote JR’s COOKBOOK and CAN YOU TAKE THE HEAT, both with Jim Ross.

Brent will be the next recipient of the Cauliflower Alley Club’s James C. Melby Historian Award at the group’s 50th anniversary reunion April 13-15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rasslin Memories returns for a fourth season with an episode dedicated to discussing the AWA in the first half of the 1970’s. George Schire also discuss all the work that went into putting together his latest book of AWA match results, A.W.A. Record Book: The 1970s Part 1 1970-1974 , co-authored with another noted pro wrestling historian Mark James.