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.


851 Pieces

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Caption: The Band - I Like You
Charlie Pulkrabek talks with I Like You. Once in a while a band comes along that are working well within genres and sounds that you've heard before...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Bad Companions
The Bad Companions are a Minneapolis band formed relatively recently in 2011. The players in The Bad Companions are a who's who of players that hav...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Southwire at Tycoon's in Duluth, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 4/20/13
A new band out of Duluth, Southwire, while drawing from some well established musical traditions, are operating in the realm of invention. When you...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jim Miller and Kristi Tell-Miller
The first edition of Northern Community Radio's new commitment to Minnesota music and musicians in the form of offering an hour of Centerstage Minn...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marc Gartman of Fever Dream, Coyote, and Two Many Banjos
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota is all music. We start with three from acts that feature Duluth musician Marc Gartman; Fever Dream, Coyote, a...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 55:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Brothers Burn Mountian
In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota we hear music from Lehto & Wright, Actual Wolf, Hounds of Finn, Reina del Cid and the Cidizens, Hobo Nephe...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 56:17
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jim and Kristi Miller
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Germaine Gemberling and Rich Mattson
In this edition of Charlie brings you music from The Goobz, The Slamming Doors, Germaine Gemberling, Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders, Diet Folk, H...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Acoustic Smoke
Joseph Holt and Roy Hershberger traveled long distances, decades, on different musical paths before an off-the-cuff jam session sparked the the beg...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Hounds of Finn: Irish Fair of Minnesota - 2013
In this hour of Minnesota Music we hear from new music from Hounds of Finn, and we go back a few years with Boiled In Lead. Also Davina & the Vagab...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Julie Johnson & the No-Accounts, Credit: Peter Lee
If you want to play the flute professionally it will, almost without variation, means you will be the caretaker of revered tradition, and you will ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Matt Ray of Matt Ray & Those Damn Horses on Stage In Park Rapids
During this edition of Centerstage Minnesota we hear music from Willie Murphy & the Angel Headed Hipsters, Patty and the Buttons, Matt Ray and Thos...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Peter Ostroushko
This edition of Centerstage Minnesota features another installment of "Sam and Friends." Gypsy jazz guitarist Sam Miltich talks to master of the ma...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Acoustic Smoke, Credit: Stephen Holt
Joe Holt of Acoustic Smoke brings us an essay in this edition of Centerstage Minnesota called "The Zen of Songwriting." Also, music from Acoustic S...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 57:23
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Little Man (Chris Perricelli), Credit: Emily Utne, Clothing: Up Six
This edition features music from the recent, self-titled release from Actual Wolf. You'll also hear from Big Walter Smith and the Groove Merchants,...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Golden Smog
In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota Charlie Pulkrabek uses supergroup Golden Smog as a reference point into the Minnesota bands related to Gol...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 55:14
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Big Adventure
Music in this edition of Centerstage Minnesota from Hounds of Finn, Morgan's Run, Pert Near Sandstone, Engelhart and McGown, Tom Feldman, Hull and ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 56:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Charlie Parr at the Park Rapids Armory Square, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 9/19/13
Charlie Parr is a singular musician. Given his refreshingly humble nature, you'll never hear that from Charlie Parr himself. But it's simply true. ...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 58:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Colleen Myhre
In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota, Northern Community Radio Producer Amy Clark brings is a piece featuring Duluth area musician Colleen Myhr...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 55:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chris Holm from The Fattenin' Frogs, Credit: Ryan Siverson
Music in this edition of Centerstage Minnesota from the new record from Fattenin' Frogs and Snobarn. Also tracks from No Grass Limit, Romantica, Gr...

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  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 57:45
  • Purchases: 2