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

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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 ...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 53:42
  • 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...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 54:11
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
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: 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: 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
  • Purchases: 2
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 ...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 03, 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
  • 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: 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: 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...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2