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Bobby Aro, 1984
August 12, 1984 Bobby Aro sings a ballad at Elde’s Supper Club, located between Duluth and Esko, on Aug. 5, 1984. (Bob King / News-Tribune & Herald) Bobby Aro: Old-time music like they love it By...
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Before the music died in 1959, it lived in Duluth
A copy of the poster for the Winter Dance Party concert that was held on Jan. 31, 1959, from an ad in the Duluth News Tribune at the time. (News Tribune file image) Before it died, the music lived in...
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Duluth TV personality Jack McKenna dies at age 91
We received word from KUWS radio’s Mike Simonson, on the Radio Superior Facebook page, that longtime Twin Ports radio and TV personality Jack McKenna died Sunday, Dec. 8 at age 91. Jack McKenna does a...
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The Louie Show, 1996
Comedian Louie Anderson, in character as Duluth psychotherapist Louie Lundgren, in a CBS publicity photo for “The Louie Show” from January 1996. (Cliff Lipson / CBS / News Tribune file) There’s been...
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Happy 72nd birthday, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan – then Bobby Zimmerman – as a sophomore in the Hibbing High School yearbook, circa 1957. (News-Tribune file photo) Today, May 24, 2013, is the 72nd birthday of Northland native and music icon...
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Homegrown Music Festival photos
Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival, which opened Sunday, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Here is a gallery of News Tribune photos from – or associated with – Homegrown Festivals of years...
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World-famous voice with roots in Duluth
April 19, 1998 Duluth native Lorenzo Music uses the studios at Minnesota Public Radio in downtown Duluth in April 1998 to tape commercials and other voice-over roles. “Cartoon (characters) are very...
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Heartland Band and country music in the Northland, 1982
March 4, 1982 The Heartland Band, a Northland country music group, as seen in February 1982 – clockwise from lower left: Mark Russell, Steve Johnson, Al Oikari, Greg Brown, Jack Purcell and Craig...
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Velvet Sam serenades Duluth, 1980
Dec. 28, 1980 Michael Aguirre, alias Velvet Sam, performs a song-gram for Tom Pratchios (left) as Scott Campbell watches on Dec. 18, 1980. (Bob King / News-Tribune) This music man turns songs into...
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Duluth’s Recycla-Bell club for teens, 1996
March 10, 1996 Joyce Campbell (from left), owner of the Recycla-Bell in Duluth, stands in front of the building with regular visitors Malahn Amend, 20, Genevieve Gaboriault, 16, and Leah Smith, 17, in...
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Today, May 24, 2012, is the 71st birthday of music legend and Northland native Bob Dylan, born in Duluth as Robert Zimmerman in 1941 and raised in Hibbing. I compiled a bunch of text and photos about...
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Remembering KDAL overnight DJ ‘Little Joe’ Laznick
April 10, 1966 Former taxi, truck and ambulance driver turned disc jockey Joseph “Little Joe” Laznick keeps watch over his nighttime family in this photo from April 1966. (Charles Curtis /...
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Listening to Rawhide at Johnny’s Bar in Superior, 1981
November 1981 The crowd at Johnny’s Bar in Superior twirls to the sounds of Rawhide in November 1981. (Duluth Herald file photo) Rawhide plays to tough crowd at Johnny’s By Bob Ashenmacher, Duluth...
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Break dancing takes Duluth by storm, 1984
I found a file of break dancing photos in the News Tribune Attic, and oddly enough every single one of them was from 1984. It seems like that was the year break dancing really took off in Duluth, at...
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Beach Boys play Duluth, 1984
The Beach Boys have made several stops in the Northland over the years, but the performance that made the biggest waves in the News Tribune archives was their concert at Wade Stadium on July 8, 1984....
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Famous Lashua, Duluth’s singing cowboy
The post on Duluth’s first television station from a few weeks back included a mention of “Famous, a country-western singer.” The name “Famous” piqued my curiosity, so I went digging in the files and...
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