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.


783 Pieces

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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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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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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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World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Swann & host Katie Carter
Anthony Swann has been many things. A chef on a travel train, owner and operator of a jazz infused coffee shop, an art enthusiast, an avid world t...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 07:19
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Dee Furfaro, Lenore Siems and April Larson make up the celtic, folk, bluegrass band Caleigh. They've been making sweet, soulful music together for...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Walker, MN-based Child Psychologist Amy Donnan created her line of My Feelings(tm) toys out of her drive to to help young people having trouble wit...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
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In this segment of Area Voices, host Katie Carter talks with Beverly Everett, conductor of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra (BSO), and Del Lyren, mem...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2016
  • Length: 12:19
Caption: John Theroux
Once seen on battle fields, chain maille has made its way to red carpets and fashion magazines. In this segment of Area Voices, host Katie Carter ...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:58
Caption: A Beast of a Pout! , Credit: North Country Guide Service
Some call it poor man’s lobster, others just call it ugly. At any rate, it’s usually a catch that leaves fishermen talking. The burbot, commonly...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 09:27
Caption: Nik Nerburn, Credit: Nik Nerburn
Nik Nerburn grew up in northern Minnesota and is working as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. He recently covered the presidential inau...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 09:41
Caption: Ely Snow Sculpture, Credit: mrsbirchscabin.blogspot
Each First Friday, we check in with Katie Marshall of the MacRostie Arts Center in Grand Rapids, MN, Molly Olson from the Ely Folk School,and Katie...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 23:34
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Michael Meuers has worked in public relations for the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe for 20+ years. His friendship with native elder Larry Stillday taugh...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 10:03
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A conversation about the Neilson Spearhead Center and the one day, winter event Snow Sparkles and Winter Wonders.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
Caption: Getting Aquainted, Credit: john nieto fine art
"I've yet to find an indigenous people who, in their language, there's a specific word for art, because it's so intrinsic, and so much a part of...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:43
Caption: Jane Russell
A conversation with Dan Karalus, Executive Director of the Beltrami County Historical Society.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Mace , Credit: npr.org
A conversation with Simone Senogles and Noreen Hautala about the state of affairs in Standing Rock. This segment aired October 28, 2016.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 15:57
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Cannonball, ND, Credit: npr.org
KBXE Volunteer Dan Gannon speaks with three students from Trek North High School in Bemidji about their perspectives of the Standing Rock protest a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 08:46
Caption: Nevada Littlewolf, Credit: Bush Foundation
Nevada Littlewolf is the first Anishinaabe woman to serve on the Virginia, MN city council and a leader in in many respects. We spoke with Nevada ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 17:35
Caption: Women's March 2016, St. Paul, MN, Credit: Katie Carter
Area Voices producer Katie Carter rode along on a bus from Bemidji full of women and girls headed to the Women's March in St. Paul. This segment o...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 18:11