What is Rainbow Space? Led and founded by Kallysta Morgan, MacPhail Student Services Representative, Rainbow Space embodies MacPhail Center for Music’s mission by offering the surrounding LGBTQIA+ community and allies …
Pride Playlist by Rainbow Space
The Importance of Accessibility in Music Education
Discover the transformative power of inclusive music education through the inspiring journey of Brian and David Muhs as told by music educator and MacPhail President/COO, Paul Babcock.
The Space Where Words Fail: Asha Belk
This season’s MacPhail’s Spotlight Series joins important visual artists with our accomplished musicians in special performances. Our culminating performance brings the narrative photographer Asha Belk to Antonello Hall on Saturday, …
Engaging in Self-Care
It seems that everyday, we are inundated with tragic or disturbing news. The intensity continues to grow. We carry so much stress and anxiety from our own lived experiences it …
Teens Find Confidence with Music
MacPhail Northside Youth Orchestra The laughter’s free, the smiles, and so is participation in the MacPhail Northside Youth Orchestra (MNYO). For 5 years now, the orchestra has graced venue stages …
Early Risers Podcast from Little Moments Count and Minnesota Public Radio
Early Risers Podcast George Floyd’s death was a tragedy and a wakeup call — expanding a global conversation about race and racism. And young children have been watching it all. …
Garrett McQueen
Bassoonist | Composer | Radio Host | Producer Twitter Garrett McQueen is an active advocate for diversity in classical music. A proud native of Memphis, TN, Garrett McQueen has performed in venues …
An Electronic Approach to Music Making…with MacPhail’s EMRA Director Michael Cain
How many ways can you make music? At MacPhail Center for Music, we believe there’s no limit. Playing an orchestral instrument is one method. Programming digital technology is another. We’re …
Bluegrass Rhapsody with Poet Anthony Ceballos
As music genres go, bluegrass is all its own. Its melodies and messages spring from a particular soil: the hardscrabble land of rural Appalachia. The poet Anthony Ceballos hails from …
Blooming in the Desert
By Sue Ruby As educators and performers, many of us lack exposure to and knowledge of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) composers. Even before the pandemic and death of George …
Alternatives to Problematic Children’s Songs
The Sing Play Learn department at MacPhail Center for Music has been busy revamping parts of our curricula for the last couple of years. Our goal was to research the origins of the songs …
Sing Play Learn Podcast – Alternatives to Problematic Children’s Songs
Learn about the new songs that have been added to the Sing Play Learn classes in this podcast with Cari Gregerson, Amanda Breininger, and Erika Bennett.
Community Pride Award from Lavender Magazine
Timothy De Prey, Director of Individual Instruction, is the recipient of a Community Pride Award from Lavender Magazine. Timothy believes that “through music, one can create change, justice, tolerance and …
Recognizing Juneteenth at MacPhail
with JD & Fred Steele Each year on Juneteenth, MacPhail will pause to reflect how the monstrous chapter of American slavery has deeply harmed so many over hundreds of years and celebrate …
Sing Play Learn Podcast – Children’s Books About Inclusivity
Podcast by Jane Tate and Cari Gregerson featuring Adam Marshall, Ivory Doublette, Stacy Canino
A More Excellent Way
Remembering George Floyd, Today we remember an all too familiar pain, but we keep moving forward. We fight to create a better nation than our mothers and fathers, their mothers …
Garden of the Righteous Documentary
MacPhail Center for Music, in partnership with the East Side Freedom Library and Heyde Center for the Arts and Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater in conjunction with Unitarian Society of Menomonie, …
Black History Playlist
with Mikalia Bradberry Hello my name is Mikalia Bradberry and Happy Black History Month! I’m so glad to be able to share some works with you that are near and …
LISTEN! PLEASE! A Documentary by J.D. Steele
Please note: This film contains brief instances of adult language. In a year when the pain and injustice of systemic racism has once again placed our city and our nation …
Talking About Race
What we believe and how we talk about race is of the utmost importance. The National Museum of African American History & Culture asks How do we teach such challenging subject …
Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books
Representation matters – it’s important and affirming for kids to see characters who look like them and the people in their families in the books they read. It’s equally important …