Fresh Fruit on KFAI - 90.3 FM HD Minneapolis

08/15/2024

Tonight August 15, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie for an evening of innovative music by Pioneering LGBT American Composers. They experimented with new sounds, electronic music, new performance techniques, invented new instruments, used alternative tuning systems, mixed art disciplines, and have inspired generations of musicians, dancers and artists internationally. I’ll be playing music by John Cage (1912-1992), Wendy Carlos (1939-), Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Meredith Monk (1942-), Alwin Nikolais (1910 -1993), Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016), Harry Partch (1901-1974), Cecil Taylor (1929-2018).

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07/25/2024

… AND WE’RE BACK!
Join us for news and talk about , the Rainbow Health closure, Primt Time Emmys, celebrity passings, the Olympics and Vivian Jenna Wilson’s feud with Elon Musk!
Tune in tonight at 7 on for 90.3 FM in and around the world at KFAI.org, Noncommercial Community-Powered Radio! ***r

07/18/2024

Tonight July 18, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie for a Special Remembrance of longtime KFAI volunteer Patricia Nelson“Pat”(August 20 1955, in Brooklyn, N. Y. - January 29th, 2024 in Minneapolis)
She started at KFAI in 1997 and wore many hats into 2022 including host and engineer with the Le***an Power Authority, Womanist Power Authority, Fresh Fruit and The Wave Project. She also was a board member, participated in International Women’s Day and Black History Month programming and taught board certification classes for many years.
She was also a computer consultant, Ham Radio operator, Haiku poet and Buddhist.
Pat will be missed by many. Condolences to her life partner Kim Hines/ Studio Egg LLC(also a former Fresh Fruit host), family and friends.
I always enjoyed seeing and speaking with Pat. Somehow she could be funny and serious at the same time.
Tonight I’ll be playing excerpts of interviews I did with Pat over the years about her experiences with KFAI, and a special memory interview with Mike Stapp, her longtime board certification teaching partner and Ham Radio inspiration. Plus music that Pat used on her Fresh Fruit show.

Pat’s Celebration of Life Service on May 18, 2024 was live streamed and recorded: https://watchitlivestream.com/p-nelson/

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11/16/2023

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Community Center for LGBTQI2S Minnesotans

11/16/2023

Starting at Midnight is KFAI’s Funkraiser for Give to the Max Day on Nov.16 with 24 Hours of Funktastic music to Funk you up good. Please give online at givemn.org/kfai

Dixie will be playing a Q***r-o-licious mix of Funk & Groove on a special Fresh Fruit from 6-8pm.

10/27/2023

If you value community voices like ours, be sure to join our membership drive!

The inaugural is on KFAI! You can make an even bigger impact with your gift by donating to KFAI through GiveMN’s “Give to the Max Day” website. KFAI still receives the full amount of your pledge – plus your gift makes KFAI eligible for additional funds.

10/26/2023

JOIN US TONIGHT at 7 PM Central for Fresh Fruit with Alfred Walking Bull, Malcolm Lee and Comrade Tom Vance! We’re live tonight to discuss LGBTQ+ pop culture, politics, and current events. The opinions are 100% ours, but we think most of our listeners will agree! 😉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
90.3 FM HD Minneapolis on KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio and around the world at http://www.kfai.org

10/19/2023

Tonight October 19, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie and guests Aiden Bettine, Low aka Yolow Zines and Dianna Hunter.
It’s also KFAI’s Fall membership drive so please give any amount to support Fresh Fruit,
serving the community for 45 years with q***r issues, q***r voices and q***r perspectives.
612-375-9030 or online www.kfai.org

Aiden Michael Bettine(he/him), trans archivist and historian, curator of the Tretter Collectionin GLBT Studies and co-founder of Late Night Copies Press Low (they/them) aka Yolow Zines, an exhibiting zine fest artist.

The First Annual Midwest Q***r & Trans Zine Fest, founded by Aiden, is October 21- 22, 2023, at Open Book in Minneapolis. Over 70 local and regional exhibitors will have their work for sale, ranging from hand made zines to small-run publications. The Midwest QT Zine Fest strives to be a new hub for the exchange of q***r zines and related materials in the region and an opportunity for q***r and trans zinesters and artists to engage with one another.
** Masks and vaccination proof are required or proof of negative COVID test within 72 hours.

Dianna Hunter, (she/her), Le***an Writer, Educator, Urban Grower & Forager. In the 1970s Dianna was involved as a le***an feminist in Minneapolis and lived on several back to the land
women only farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Following that she became a farmer and farm advocate and educator.
She directed programs in writing and gender equity and taught writing and women's and gender studies at four universities, retiring in 2012. Dianna has written two nonfiction books “Wild Mares: My Le***an Back-to-the-Land Life”” and “Breaking Hard Ground: Stories of the Minnesota Farm Advocates”. Her most recent book is the novel “Clouded Waters”, a mystery-romance, released October 10, 2023 by Holy Cow! Press She currently lives in Duluth, MN with her wife.

Plus music and surprises.

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09/28/2023

TUNE IN TONIGHT at 7 PM for our special guests from Out & Sober Minnesota to round out ! Michael Bak and Bob McHale will join us to talk all things recovery in the ***r community plus we’ll have some thoughts on JVN, Wayne Brady, unions wins, and the OutFront Gala! 90.3 FM HD Minneapolis or around the web at KFAI.org THE COMMUNITY’S TRUE VOICE KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio

09/21/2023

Tonight September 21, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CDT with Dixie with guests Martina Mayotte. and Deidre McCalla

Martina Mayotte, (they/he/she), is co-writer, music director and pianist with Christopher Street: A New Musical (world premiere). It tells the journey of 3 Midwesterners during the 1979 Gay Pride Parade in New York City. What experiences and self discovery await them? This family friendly production is filled with music, dance and surprises. Performed at LUSH Lounge & TheaterNE Minneapolis, September 22-October 1, 2023.

Deidre McCalla - Singer/Songwriter (she/her), is a Black woman, mother, le***an, and feminist, creating contemporary folk music with soul. The award winning singer-songwriter-guitarist celebrates 50 years of making music. Deidre is touring the US playing acoustic solo, and will be at the Ginkgo Coffeehousein St. Paul on Saturday, September 23, at 7:30 pm.

From her first album on Roulette Records in 1973, recording with the groundbreaking women’s label Olivia Records in the 80s and 90s and then MaidenRock Music in the 2000s, to her current album “Endless Grace” that has been embraced by the greater folk community as one of the 10 Best Folk Albums of 2022, she is still going strong.

In 2023 Deidre’s song “Shoulder To The Wheel”, from “Endless Grace”,
won the 19th Annual International Acoustic Music Award for Best Folk/Roots/Americana Song, making Deidre the first woman to ever win that category in IAMA history.

plus music selections from “Endless Grace” and “Christopher Street: A New Musical”
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08/17/2023

Tonight August 17, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie for a JOE MEEK TRIBUTE.
Robert George "Joe" Meek (1929-1967) born in Newent, Gloucestershire, England was a pioneering gay record producer and engineer. A gay man in the 1950s didn't only face being beaten up but also being arrested because homosexuality was outlawed. Joe moved to London in 1953.

He made a major breakthrough in sound production in the 1950s & 60s with his innovative recording and pioneering studio techniques such as multiple over-dubbing, close miking, direct input of bass guitars, the compressor, and effects like echo and reverb as well as sampling. Even today his influence as a producer and audio engineer remains in the recording industry.

Joe is also widely remembered for his concept album “I Hear A New World” (1960) and his song "Telstar" (1962), recorded by the Tornados, which became the first record by a British group to reach No.1 on the US Hot 100 and spent five weeks atop the UK singles chart. On February 3, 1967 Meek shot his landlady and then himself.
All songs played tonight were produced by Joe Meek.

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07/20/2023

Tonight July 20 Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie. My guest is q***r jazz vocalist, songwriter, and theater artist Leslie Vincent. I’ll be talking with her about her music, new jazz album “About Last Night” to be released July 22, 2023 at Crooners Supper Club with a live performance, her experiences with performing and other upcoming events. Plus I’ll be playing her music throughout the show.

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06/22/2023

Join us tonight for 24 Hours of PRIDE on KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio for a special two-hour ! Your hosts Alfred Walking Bull and Comrade Tom Vance welcome community maven Amy Marie as we talk pop & ***r culture, local arts, q***r music and TV news, politics and SO MUCH MORE! Tune in to 90.3 FM Minneapolis or around the world at KFAI.org, THE COMMUNITY’S TRUE VOICE!

06/22/2023

Starting at midnight 24 Hours of Pride broadcasting on KFAI.
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06/15/2023

Tonight June 15, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie for a Tribute to Jean-Nickolaus Tretter (1946-2022), gay, archivist, historian, and activist. Tonight I will be playing a short radio documentary I produced in 2010 entitled “The Tretter Collection: Preserving Q***r Culture”. It includes interviews with Jean Tretter and people who have used the archives for research, preservation, and education. I’ll also be playing an excerpt of an interview I did with Jean in 2012 about his radio show “Night Rivers” (mid-80’s-2000) on KFAI that highlighted LGBT classical music composers, and a clip of Jean doing his show in 1994 (courtesy of the Tretter Collection), plus an excerpt of his retirement reception, that I recorded in 2012, at the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter History Pavillion in Loring Park during TC Pride.

Jean was a visionary who saw the importance of saving q***r history and made sure it was preserved for future generations.
He began collecting everything he could that was LGBTQ2S+, including books, papers, pins, posters, letters, artifacts, etc,, in the early 1970’s when not many people even thought it was relevant. His collection eventually grew too large for his apartment and was taken in by the University of Minnesota in 2000. Now housed in the Elmer L. Anderson Library, tucked safely below the earth in a temperature controlled environment with thousands of international items, The Jean-Niclolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Le***an, Bisexual and Transgender Studies is one of the largest LGBTQ collections in the United States.

“A Celebration of Lffe for Jean-Nickolaus Tretter” will take place on Friday June 23, 2023 from 1pm-3pm CST.
Free and open to the public at the Elmer L Anderson Library, UMN and streamed live online.
info: continuum.umn.edu (events)

Also coming up is KFAI Celebrating Pride Month with 24 hours of q***r programing on Thursday June 22, 2023,

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06/13/2023

Dixie here. Here’s a great article by Patrick Strait about by my experiences with Fresh Fruit on KFAI over the years. It’s in DISPATCHmsp (hard copy & online) that reports on arts & culture in Minneapolis-St. Paul. This issue highlights creative work from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Issue No. 26 June-2023. Photo by Lisa Rae.
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06/03/2023

Happy Pride Month!
https://www.kfai.org/minneculture-take-a-road-trip.../

Zaylore Stout (he/him) is a gay, African American attorney and author of “Our Gay History in Fifty States.” He was inspired to write “Our Gay History” while he was on a cross country road trip. Passing through Laramie, WY, he was reminded of Matthew Shepard, the gay student who was tortured and left to die in Laramie in 1998. Stout wanted to honor Shepard and other q***r Americans throughout history.
“Our Gay History in Fifty States” is an award-winning illustration of q***r American history on a state by state basis. Zaylore is currently working on his second book, “Our Black History in Fifty States.” KFAI’s Dixie Treichel spoke with Zaylore about his work and some of the Minnesotans who most inspire him.

05/18/2023

Tonight May 18, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie. Helping celebrate 45 years of Fresh Fruit on KFAI my guests are performers with Q***r Circus MN. Silver Slipper Productions
Founders Martinoa Mayotte, The Bearded Lady (they/he/she), Gabe Gabriel, The Ringmaster (he/him), Producers/Casting Directors Midnightwaterfairy, The Flying Faerialist (they/them), and Stella Rockstar, The Black Magic Woman (she/her).
Q***r Circus promotes q***r and non-binary visibility, while offering an all-inclusive space for performers and audiences. They perform around the Twin Cities in a wide variety of venues such as Can Can Wonderland, Lush, Minnesota Fringe Festival, Twin Cities Pride and others. Also tonight, music and surprises …..

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05/11/2023

Happy Birthday Fresh Fruit! Celebrating 45 years on KFAI since May 11, 1978!
Special thanks to all the hosts and engineers throughout the years!
This is a list of most of the known ones:
Ted Faigle-Kell, Richard MacDougall aka Shannon, Mark Matthiessen aka Maya, Kirk Hoffmeier (founders), Claude Peck, Marj Schneider, Gary Peterson, Steve LaVigne,
John Sutton, Eleanor Savage, Kim Hines, John Killacky, Debra Davis, Rob Yeager, Leigh Combs, Dixie Treichel, Aundary Guess, John Townsend, Nick Metcalf, Roxanne Anderson, Rochelle James, Abigail Garner, Ann McNally, Women of Color Building Project, Felicia Washington, Bob Tracy, Ka, Max Gries, Gender Hotdish, Norman Strizek, Pat (Patricia) Nelson, Adam Fairbanks, Katrina Plotz, Peter Gokey, Kendrick Davies, Andy Birkey, Keith Pederson, Jeremy Brezovan, Torsten Magnus Peterson, Quinn Villagomez aka Shimmer, Trevor Charon, Alfred Walking Bull, Cole Graske aka BE, Comrade Tom Vance, Malcolm Lee.

Tune in every Thursday night 7-8pm CST 90.3 FM HD Minneapolis-St. Paul

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05/05/2023

KFAI is Celebrating 45 years on air with a free community concert - Fri, May 5, 2023, Doors 6:00pm, Music 7:00pm, 21+, FREE with Registration, RAIN or SHINE
UNDER THE CANOPY @ The Hook AND LADDER THEATER
https://thehookmpls.com/event/utc23-kfai45/
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05/03/2023

Celebrating Pride Month on KFAI KFAI is celebrating Pride with 24 hours of broadcast programming produced and delivered by the Twin Cities LGBTQIA+ Thursday, June 22, 2023—starting at midnight on 90.3FM in Minneapolis and Saint Paul and online at kfai.org.

04/20/2023

Tonight April 20, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie. My guests are M Nijiya (They/Them) is a non-binary and trans tattoo artist and owner of Jackalope Tattoo. M’s specialties include black and gray portraits, gender confirming tattoo work, scar cover ups for mastectomies, trans top surgery and 3D ni**le tattooing. Also joining us are M’s wife and shop manager, Renata Nijiya (she/her) and Jackalope tattoo artists Katie Kroeck (she/her), and Megan Sierra (she/her).
Jackalope Tattoo is an all non binary, trans, q***r or female identifying tattoo shop in Minneapolis. The 15 tattoo artist shop is a non intimidating space where workers and clients can be themselves. Plus music and surprises …..
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03/24/2023

Join us live for Fresh Fruit on KFAI - 90.3 FM HD Minneapolis!
TODAY is the last day for the Spring Member Drive, be sure to make your donation tonight!

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03/23/2023

HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYBODY!
Tune into 90.3 FM Minneapolis or around the world at KFAI.org for Fresh Fruit on KFAI - Fresh Air Community Radio tonight at 7 PM! Join your hosts Alfred Walking Bull, Malcolm Lee and Comrade Tom Vance for the latest POP CULTURE breakdown, music and news! We’ll be talking Sam Smith, fat phobia, Lukas Gage, kink representation in media, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons, allyship, ’s Trans Refugee bill AND SO MUCH MORE!

03/16/2023

Tonight March 16, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie. Tonight is Trans Trailblazers: Kate Bornstein and Venus de Mars.
Kate Bornstein (she/they) is a non-binary trans person, playwright, performer, author and educator. I am playing an interview I did with Kate in 2012. She was touring with her book “A Q***r and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir.”
She spoke about her plays, performances, non-binary/trans/q***r theory and her new book.
Venus de Mars (she/her) is trans multidisciplinary artist and founder of the band Venus de Mars and All the Pretty Horses. I had a long interview with her in 2014 about her art, music career, upcoming memoir, and her trans experience. I will be playing an excerpt of this interview. Plus music by Venus and surprises …..

It’s also spring pledge drive! Fresh Fruit focuses on q***r issues from q***r perspectives. This is vitally important to our community and we’ve been doing for almost 45 years!. We couldn’t do it without listener and community support.
Please give what you can to support Fresh Fruit and KFAI
by calling 612-375-9030 or online www.kfai.org

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03/08/2023

02/16/2023

Tonight February 16, Tune into Fresh Fruit, 7-8 pm CST with Dixie and co-host JJerome T Evansfor a Black History Month celebration with guest ZZaylore Stout.
Jerome is producer and host of the TV show “Bottomless Coffee with Jerome” on MCN6 and he is running to represent Ward 12 on the Minneapolis City Council.
Zaylore is an attorney, author and historian. He will be talking about his work in the community and two of his books: the award winning "Our Gay History in Fifty States" (2020), Wise Ink Creative Publishing and in progress “Our Black History in Fifty States”, scheduled for release in 2024; plus music and surprises …..

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