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Christiansen family

The Christiansen family: (back row, left to right) Olaf, Elsa, and Paul, and (front row, left to right) Jake, Edith, and F. Melius, 1938.

Christiansen, F. Melius (1871‒1955)

Norwegian immigrant musician F. Melius Christiansen founded the St. Olaf College Choir in 1911. Through his career as a conductor, composer, and arranger, he established the preeminent Lutheran a capella (unaccompanied) choral tradition in America.

Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider, a composer and big-band leader originally from Windom, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 2008. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Neva Pilgrim

Neva Pilgrim, 1978. Cottonwood County Citizen.

Denny Diamond and the Jewels

Denny Diamond and the Jewels (A Neil Diamond cover band) performing as part of the Windom Concert Series, 2016. Photograph by Dave Fjeld for Cottonwood County Citizen, Windom, 2016. Used with the permission of Dave Fjeld.

Windom Concert Series

Residents of Windom, a community in southwestern Minnesota with approximately 3,000 citizens, created a musical concert series in 1948. The series’ governing body, the Windom Concert Association, became one of the longest continually operating Minnesota organizations of its kind.