An instrumental song arranged and performed by Gaelynn Lea Tressler. In her interview for Stories of Wisdom from Bodies in Seperation (SWaBS) Gaelynn, a professional musician, discusses the role in her life of writing and performing music during the COVID-19 pandemic. This song was originally released in 2015. This item is related to "Interview ...
Creator:
Tressler, Gaeylnn Lea
Created:
2020
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
This script and storyboard were written by Blake Thomas and created with the intention of being produced by the performers of Take It With You, the nonprofit organization that produces hour-long, originally scripted, live radio theatre podcasts. These productions include voice actors, original music, and sound effects and are normally performed ...
Creator:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-12
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this music video, the Jaakola-Ripley family plays a song written by Jagger Ripley-Jaakola and Xander Ripley-Jaakola entitled "Couch Potato." The video also contains an artist statement from Lyz (Elizabeth) Jaakola: "'Couch Potato' is a song we came up with during COVID-19 Stay-at-Home order. Hopefully our song and video will encourage others ...
Documentary filmmaker Mike Scholtz presents nine short documentaries featuring visual artists and a musician from the Northeastern Minnesota region as they discuss making art during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these short videos, each artist talks about how the pandemic, or the killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed, af...
Creator:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-08
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Ann Forsman (also known as Ann Kathryn when performing music) shares stories of her life as a musician and a non-profit employee during the time of COVID-19 in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes how she first heard of the virus, and knew it was serious when the community started cancelling basketball games and major events. She shares the story of...
Creator:
Forsman, Ann Kathryn
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-09-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Daniel Benoit shares his experience of living and creating during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks about the way he first heard about the novel coronavirus and details where he gets his news. He mentions that he intentionally follows a broad political spectrum of information and reads with a critical awareness of potential bias. He ex...
Creator:
Benoit, Daniel
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Gaelynn Lea Tressler shares stories of her life as a musician and disability rights activist during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth. She describes how she believes some of her friends might have caught the virus in March of 2020 but were never tested. She describes how she first learned of the virus through a fellow musician Alan Spa...
Creator:
Tressler, Gaeylnn Lea
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-08-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
George Ellsworth shares stories of his life as a healthcare business employee, musician, and parent in Duluth, Minnesota during the time of COVID-19. He describes how he first heard of COVID-19 and thought it would perhaps be like the H1N1 Bird or Swine flu epidemics of a few years ago. Then he noticed that federal briefings and language seemed ...
Creator:
Ellsworth, George
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-09-06
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Helmi Strahl Harrington shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She begins by briefly sharing some of her background about coming to the United States from Germany as a child, her mother’s success with playing the accordion, and how the instrument became such a large part of Helmi’s life. She discusses the various...
Creator:
Harrington, Helmi Strahl
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-10-15
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Israel Malachi shares some of his experiences during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He recalls driving cross-country in late January, listening to the radio, and hearing about the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. He says he had just been at a North American Music Manufacturers [NAMM] show in Los Angeles, California, and had interacted wi...
Creator:
Malachi, Israel
Contributor:
Nicklawske, Mark
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jason Wussow shares his experiences of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. He recalls first hearing about the novel coronavirus in January, and says that after a series of experiences it became clear that this was going to be a problem. In mid-March he had to cancel a sold out concert and close the doors of his business, Wussow’s Conc...
Creator:
Wussow, Jason
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-21
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jazmin Wong shares her experiences at work and in her community during this time of COVID-19. She talks about her role as the shop coordinator for Indigenous First Arts and Gift Shop at AICHO [American Indian Community Housing Organization], where she has continued to be employed throughout the pandemic. She describes the many ways AICHO has bee...
Creator:
Wong, Jazmin
Contributor:
Lundgren, Paul
Created:
2020-08-13
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jeremy Davis shares his experience of living during the time of COVID-19. He talks about the challenges of being an essential worker as a drywall taper, where many of his coworkers do not wear masks. Jeremy is a pow wow dancer, and plays drums and sings with a group called Cedar Creek. The annual in-person pow wows have all been cancelled this y...
Creator:
Davis, Jeremy
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-07-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jonathan Otis shares his experiences of living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jon names his preferred news outlets, but says that in the past month or two he has intentionally distanced himself from the news media due to the negativity, choosing instead to listen to music albums, podcasts, or audio books, read books, or work on profes...
Creator:
Otis, Jonathan
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Karen Sunderman, or Karen Sunderman LaLiberte, shares her experiences living during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that her life and work were first affected by the novel coronavirus during a trip to Arizona in March. She describes her transition to working from home. As a critical consumer of news, and working in the news industry,...
Creator:
Sunderman, Karen
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Kathy McTavish shares her experiences as an artist living and working during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. She speaks about the early days when awareness of the novel coronavirus was increasing in the United States and how this impacted her artistic events, deadlines, and interactions. She describes moving her creative work to online format...
Creator:
McTavish, Kathy
Contributor:
O'Brien, Christopher
Created:
2020-10-01
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Lyz Jaakola shares stories about her life as a musician, parent and educator during the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. She describes how her family’s band, The Indian Head Band, needed to adapt and change from playing life events to sharing their music via Facebook during this time. She describes how they were all used to ...
Creator:
Jaakola, Lyz
Contributor:
Scholtz, Mike
Created:
2020-07-31
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Paul Lundgren shared stories and perspectives as an active, social Duluth resident during the time of COVID-19. He has produced the Homegrown Music Festival field guide content every year since 2006, and this year the annual festival was cancelled due to quarantine right before the field guide was set to go to print. He also discusses his work o...
Creator:
Lundgren, Paul
Contributor:
Spehar, Elizabeth
Created:
2020-07-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Robin Washington shares experiences from his life and work during the COVID-19 pandemic. He lists the news outlets he turns to for information and says that as a journalist he is well connected to colleagues and their work and explains that because of these connections, the information in his social media feed tends to be quite reliable compared...
Creator:
Washington, Robin
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-28
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Samuel Miltich speaks about the impacts of COVID-19 on his life and his music career. He recounts how in March he was performing in Florida and had to depart early, just as the country was beginning to shut down. He says the pandemic led to the cancellation of his rigorous schedule of on-the-road performances. He talks about how the economic imp...
Creator:
Miltich, Samuel
Contributor:
Villiard, Moira
Created:
2020-08-07
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth