Centerstage Minnesota

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Centerstage Minnesota showcases the talents of Minnesota musicians. A local production of Northern Community Radio: KAXE - Grand Rapids and KBXE - Bemidji. Also heard on KSRQ in Thief River Falls and on WTIP in Grand Marais.

Centerstage Minnesota is a two hour program airing on Fridays and includes interviews, highlights, music and stories of Minnesota music.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


850 Pieces

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Caption: The Slamming Doors
This week's feature is an interview with Adam Herman of the Iron Range band The Slamming Doors. Also we continue the look back at the music from 20...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Bill Bulinski
Bill Bulinski was born in Chicago and his family moved to Ely early in his life. At 13 he placed an ad in the paper that initiated the formation of...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Martin Zellar and Nick Ciola
Martin Zellar was the frontman of The Gear Daddies, a late 80's/early 90's Minneapolis based band with whose members formed bonds while living a c...

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peter Ostroushko
The fifth installment of "Sam and Friends" has Sam Miltich talking with well known Ukrainian-American mandolin and fiddle player Peter Ostroushko. ...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dave King
Dave King is a highly accomplished drummer primarily working in the Jazz genre, though he is also in the Minneapolis pop band Halloween Alaska, and...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Reina del Cid
Reina del Cid grew up in Fargo. She attended the University of Minnesota on a scholarship awarded to her by The Jackie Robinson Foundation. Despite...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Breanne Marie
Breanne Marie is a relatively new country western musician who is rapidly becoming visible, along with her band The Front Porch Sinners, in Duluth...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Shannon Selberg (Cows, Heroine Sheiks)
Shannon Selberg was the downright frightening frontman, vocalist, and part-time bugle player for eleven years for the legendary Minneapolis punk/n...

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Mary Bue, Credit: Sarah Holden
This episode includes Duluth musician talking with Northern Community producer Amy Clark, and one half of the Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank talking t...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Monroe Crossing, Credit: Jamey Guy
Monroe Crossing, named after "The Father of Bluegrass" Bill Monroe released their thirteenth full-length record, "The Road Has No End" last year. F...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nikki Matteson of Nikki and the Ruemates
Nikki Matteson's appearance as a teen on Prairie Home Companion was only the beginning. Down the road a ways she met Rich Rue, and the two have bee...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alicia Corbett of Tea and Sympathy
Though Alicia Corbett is an acclaimed musician and songwriter among the musicians inhabiting the Twin Cities, her music is a virtual secret to many...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Ryan and Jesse Dermody of Brothers Burn Mountain
Ryan and Jesse Dermody have chosen to approach life on their own terms. The specifics of that implication involve many creative pursuits, music occ...

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  • Added: May 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: No Grass Limit
This past winter Northern Community Radio volunteer programmer and producer Dave Lathrop showed up on a Saturday to attend and cover an event put o...

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  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alex "Crankshaft" Larson of Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders
Alex "Crankshaft" Larson grew up in the country about an hour north of the Twin Cities where he and his brother killed time playing music. After ye...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Teague and Ian Thomas Alexy of Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank, Credit: Joshua Priestley
Ian Thomas Alexy, and Teague Alexy migrated west from The East Coast eventually settling in Holyoke, Minnesota around 2005. They immediately began ...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Half-Eaten Burritos
Filling in at the helm for this edition of Centerstage Minnesota is Northern Community Radio's intern from Grand Rapids High School, Erika Kooda. J...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Tim Saxhaug of Trampled By Turtles
Trampled By Turtles' recent 10th Anniversary tour of Minnesota included a stop in Grand Rapids on May 8th at The Reif Center. For Trampled By Turtl...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Brian Laidlaw, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek
Brian Laidlaw is a singer / songwriter out of the Twin Cities. For the past year he's been working on a project inspired by Bob Dylan, and made pos...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Gary Shulte
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota features another installment of "Sam and Friends." Gypsy jazz guitarist Sam Miltich talks, and performs with,...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2