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John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon
Join us for coverage of the 2023 John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.

Beargrease 2016: Robin Eschner's love song for the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published January 27, 2016 at 10:17 AM CST
Robin Eschner

California composer and artist Robin Eschner has spent over a year visiting Minnesota, composing a song cycle about the history and culture of sled dog mushing and northern Minnesota, and that magical place where they intersect: the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon.

Credit Robin Eschner
A team coming unto the Sawbill checkpoint, 2015

 Crazy Cold Beautiful will be performed twice:

Friday - February 5th - 7:00 pm   
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Grand Marais, MN
with Sawtooth Elementary School Students

and
Saturday - February 6th - 4:00 pm
Sacred Heart Music Center
Duluth, MN
with Hermantown Elementary School Students

waiting_for_the_mail_from_st_concert.mp3
sneak preview of "Waiting for the Mail," part of Robin Eschner's song cycle "Crazy Cold Beautiful"

 
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Environment & Outdoors Northland Morning InterviewsBeargrease 2016John Beargrease Sled Dog MarathonRobin EschnerCrazy Cold Beautiful
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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