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.


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Erika Bailey-Johnson is committed to sustainability, honoring Mother Earth, and exposing children to Ojibwe language. A newly enrolled member of t...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
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The Crossing Arts Alliance has been brainstorming ways to create opportunities for arts access during times of social isolation. Online art classe...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 11:53
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Springboard for the Arts is a nonprofit that has been helping artists with the business of art for more than 40 years. From workshops focused on p...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 1
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The Watermark Art Center in Bemidji has a new exhibit opening today, a photography exhibit celebrating the kids and their animals who came in last ...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 14:02
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The Northern Minnesota Addiction Wellness Center will soon open north of Bemidji. Using a biological, psychological, sociological, spiritual mo...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 16:51
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On the first Friday of every month we connect with Katie Marshall from the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. She lets us know about the First F...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 05:21
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Ever first Friday of the month we connect with Betty First from the Ely Folk School. She educates us on the upcoming classes and workshops happenin...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 06:19
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Every First Friday, our Area Voices producer Katie Carter gives us an idea of what's going on in Bemidji, Brainerd and other communities in our lis...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 07:40
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Stories of a great aunt traveling by train from northern Minnesota to the Twin Cities to attend demonstrations and lectures dedicated to the women'...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
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Bemidji State University brings Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella to the Bangsberg stage this weekend. BSU Voice Professor Jennifer Olson spearhe...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 15:14
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Shelly Nelson found a dead butterfly in her yard while living in Hawaii. The find inspired her to create a piece of jewelry. Today she receives s...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
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Cari Ebert is a nationally recognized pediatric speech-language pathologist, an early intervention specialist, apaxia specialist, an autism mom, a...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 13:48
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Drama will essentially be pulled out of hats this weekend in Bemidji! Five playwrights, five directors, 20 actors, a handful of musicians and a sel...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 16:27
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Cross Country skiers from across the planet will converge on Bemidji this weekend to compete in the 38th MN Finlandia Ski Marathon. Mike Huerbin h...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 11:10
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David Eichholz and Ted Manderfeld make up to music and comedy act Deuces Wild, Dueling Pianos. They will perform this Saturday at the Sanford Cent...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 10:07
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In addition to its multiple gallery spaces exhibiting artwork created in locales ranging from across town to across the globe, the Watermark Art Ce...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 08:59
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Kelly Schultz has a fascination with fascinators and hats. Her Bemidji-based Angeline Alice Millinery began after she was was inspired by head ado...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 15:18
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Bemidji Community Theater brings its second run of performances of the farce Boeing Boeing to the Chief Theater this weekend. We spoke with Derric...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 12:06
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The Rail River Folk School in Bemidji will host the world premiere of the film LN3: Seven Teachings of the Anishinaabe in Resistance this Sunday af...

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 16:12
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Aimee Bouchard parlayed her artistic passion into her career as a graphic desinger. She's now moved full circle, from designing on the computer s...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 12:40