Area Voices

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

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Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show connect listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in northern Minnesota.

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

Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show keep you up-to-date on the local arts scene, help you stay informed on cultural happenings, and transport you to Minnesota's storied past. Connecting listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in Northern Minnesota. All in a week's work on Area Voices.

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


785 Pieces

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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature inspired a group of people in Hibbing, MN to create access to public art in the small, northern Minnesota mi...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
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Mental illness affects each and every one of us. 1 in 4 adults experiences a mental illness each year. 1 in 10 children. We all know someone dea...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 07:20
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Stained glass artists Kellie and Jordan Lindquist envisioned a life nestled in the woods and infused with creativity. After living on the west co...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 08:09
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The Verse Like Water program started by Central Lakes College instructor Jeff Johnson has been bringing world class American poets to the Brainerd ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 07:36
Caption: Anne McKeig & Katie Carter, Credit: Anne McKeig
Area Voices tells the arts, culture and history stories of northern Minnesota. In this segment of Area Voices, we learn about a native northern Mi...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ragamala Dance, Credit: ragamaladance.org
The Ragamala Dance Company has brought their "emotional vistas" of Indian Dance to audiences large and small for the past 25 years. The troupe bri...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 11:35
Caption: Tammy Schotzko, Samantha Nienow, John Andringa
TED Talks have been available online as videos and podcasts for years. More recently, TED has branched to communities across the country, creati...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 08:58
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TEDx events carry the TED mission of ideas worth sharing to communities all across the country. The TEDx experiences are locally organized and ha...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 13:23
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Minnesota leads the nation in support for artists and the arts. Sheila Smith is the Executive Director of MN Citizens for the Arts. She stoppe...

  • Added: May 05, 2017
  • Length: 11:32
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In this segment of Area Voices, Marsha BMarthaler talks to Katie Carter about the Bemidji Sculpture Walk. Spring is the time of year to make the t...

  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 09:52
Caption: Maxwell Kelsey, Credit: Katie Carter
The lacrosse seed was planted in Maxwell Kelsey's mind when he was just six years old. Life continued to nourish that seed throughout his formativ...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 11:33
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Katie Carter talks with Dawn Loeffler, caretaker at Farm By The Lake in Bagley. Dawn tells the history of Farm By The Lake and shares the many upc...

  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 09:20
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Three members of the strings section of the Minnesota Orchestra stopped by the KBXE studio in Bemidji Wednesday. They are traveling rural Minnesot...

  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 17:14
Caption: Daughter Water, Credit: Annie Humphrey
Annie Humphrey stopped by the KBXE studio to chat about her new project Daughter Water. If you see a giant puppet walking the roadsides next week, ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 16:21
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It's First Friday and that means all kinds of good stuff happening in in Northern Minnesota! In this interview, we learn about what is happening i...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 15:16
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Every first Friday of the month, we find out what is happening in the arts scenes around our listening area. This is the report from Ely, MN!

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 06:32
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Every First Friday we find out what's happening in the arts scene around our listening region. In this segment, find out what's happening in Bemid...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 06:36
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In this segment of Area Voices Anishinaabenaajimon, Anton Treuer discusses the complicated and long honored history of American Indians serving in ...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Mark Bridge lives in Park Rapids. He's a musician, a historian, a history re-enactor, a chef and a revivalist of recipes from days long gone by....

  • Added: Jun 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:56
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Headwaters School of Music and the Arts hosts its annual Fiddle Camp this week in Bemidji. Kids ranging from 7-16 years old learned dozens of f...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 08:22