The Minot Symphony Association has completed fundraising to meet a $10,000 challenge grant offered in 2024 through Minot Area Community Foundation’s Chuck and Madge Westlie Fund, the foundation announced this week. With the funds raised, a new set of Adams Professional Generation II ...
Aashur Olson, of New Salem, regularly performs with the Bismarck Symphony Orchestra as well as the Olson Brothers Trio. Recently he was the featured solo violinist with the Minot Symphony Orchestra. Olson was this year’s winner of the Young Artist Competition hosted by MSO each year. Olson, a senior student, performed “Saint-Saens’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso” on violin. “I grew up being homeschooled and part of the curriculum was watching orchestra videos. I think that is where I first started to take an interest in the violin.” Olson said. To prepare for ...
Minot High School will present the play, “She Kills Monsters: Young Adventurer Edition,” Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 20-22. The play, by Qui Ngyuen, is an epic fantasy featuring a cast of 14 Minot High students. The action-packed story of grief, discovery and acceptance features a ...
An artist from Maxbass, Lila Farden, who goes by the stage name Lila Bea, has been rising within the small town music scene. Starting off like a lot of local musicians, Farden began her music journey singing in her high school choir. Learning from these experiences, Farden has progressed to ...
Historians today tell us that the ancient Celts arrived at the shores of Britain around 1,000 BC and lived there during the Iron Age, the Roman Age and the post Roman era. Living on an island with limited opportunity for air travel, they longed for opportunities to make their own fun. The Celts could hardly wait for February 2nd to roll around when Imbolc, a pagan festival, marked the beginning of spring’s arrival. This had been determined as the approximate midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox. Two and a half millennia later, Christian clergy began to bless ...
Mouse River Players returned the support shown for its theater by the Railroad Museum of Minot with a check presentation this past Saturday. In the summer of 2024, MRP board secretary Lin Knickerbocker read an article about how the flood protection construction at Roosevelt Park had shut ...
