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The beautiful Burning Hills Amphitheater set the backdrop for a special LIVE show and bonus concert featuring Paulette Carlson --- Warner Brothers recording star, Grammy nominee and CMA award-winner known for her rise to fame as founder and lead-singer for the nationally acclaimed Highway 101 band. Other guests include cowboy poet Rodney Nelson, singer-songwriter Jesse Veeder Scofield, and former Burning Hills Singers Levi & Bethany Andrist.

Broadcast times will be announced here soon, so stop back!

For booking, contact Merrill: 701.205.2665 Merrill@dakotaairtheradioshow.com

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Paulette Carlson, founder and lead singer, Highway 101.

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Gordon "Crazy Fingers" Lindquist entertains the crowd in Maddock, ND, on Oct. 8, 2011. Go to the Listen to Shows page to enjoy the Maddock show online now.

A unique live variety show with music, comedy, and local history, performed in "old time radio" style at locations across the upper Great Plains. Each show is recorded for radio broadcast and includes . . .

* Host Merrill Piepkorn and The Radio Stars band

* Comic, historian, artist and writer Steve Stark

* Fun local history

* Local talent and celebrities

* The Dakota Airheads Acting
Troupe

What is Dakota Air?

Music!

Comedy!

UPCOMING SHOWS:

On the radio:
Tune in this weekend to hear our show from Harvey, ND,
on your local
Prairie Public radio station:

- Sat. May 19, 7pm
- Sunday, May 20, 11pm
- Thurs., May 24, ypm

Next live show:

Saturday, June 30, 2012
2:30 pm MT
Burning Hills Amphitheatre
Medora, ND
Tickets: (800) 633-6721

(above) Kate Stevenson performs Peggy Lee's "It's a Good Day" in this video produced by our friends at Basin Electric Power Cooperative, a Dakota Air prime corporate sponsor. Watch the video for a taste of what Dakota Air is all about… and the important role of our sponsors in making it happen.

What's new:

BNSF Railway climbs aboard!

Dakota Air is proud to welcome BNSF Railway as the company adds its support to the full Dakota Air season as a major sponsor. The railroad was key in building the Dakotas, and continues as a vital community link. Today's BNSF Railway is the product of nearly 400 different railroad lines that merged over the course of 160 years.

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Hear our show from Harvey, ND, on Prairie Public radio this weekend with guests cowboy, poet, and columnist Ryan Taylor, Harvey-area Centennial Singers, opera star Jeff Kitto, and singers Scott Swang and Janice Toso. Tune in to your local Prairie Public radio station at times listed at right.

Enjoy our Jamestown show now on our Listen page! On March 31 we saluted the golden era of radio in honor of the 75th anniversary of KSJB 600AM in Jamestown ND. Guest included Harley Sommerfeld with a tribute to the big-band; Kate Stevenson performing music of 40s-50s-60s pop singer Peggy Lee, singing/yodeling sensation Kristi LaRae Goldade, state poet laureate Larry Woiwode and The Prairie Harmony Singers.

Host Merrill Piepkorn visits with guest stars Bill & Kate Isles in Hopkins, Minnesota, on October 29 with Radio Stars fiddler Loy Larson. Hear the show now on our Listen page.