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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The Anishinaabe Arts Festival this weekend in Bemidji celebrates Indigenous artists in a wide array of mediums… painters, dancers, quill workers, m...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Director and Lead Educator Dacia Dauner stopped by the morning show to discuss the school, the festival and upcoming theme camps for kids including...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 14:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Fire History was the topic for the Thursday, June 16, 2022 Brown Bag Lunch Series at the Beltrami County Historical Society. Sean Dunham, an arche...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Lakeland Public Television’s newest documentary is called When the Music Stopped. It focuses on the effects of COVID -19 on the Minnesota music sc...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Katie Carter has a meaningful in-depth conversation about Juneteenth with Steven Parker, BSU & NTC Diversity Coordinator.

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 14:29
  • Purchases: 4
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Erin Lynn Marsh’s poetry collection I May Never Be Able to Stop Writing Love Poems considers the a neurotic side of falling in love… from sending f...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Artist and art therapist Alena Hrabčáková worked with students in Red Lake from 2005-2012. Since then, she’s purchased her family’s ancestral home ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 16:29
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One Goal: A Coach, A Team, and a Game That Brought a Divided Town Together by author and Amy Bass chronicles the growing pains and blossoming of Le...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 11:02
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Trampled by Turtles’ Dave Simonett will perform three solo shows this week starting in Duluth at the Sacred Heart Music Center tonight. He’ll be in...

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 09:54
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Sway Wild –Mandy Fer and Dave McGraw will end their spring tour at the Historic Chief Theater in downtown Bemidji tonight. Dave and Mandy have been...

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 18:10
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It's spring! Yay! Creative energy is in the air all over northern Minnesota! In this segment, we continue our conversations about first Friday arts...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 09:32
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Every first Friday of the month we check in with Katie Marshall from the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids to find out what will be happening on...

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 10:31
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Brian Milller and Randy Gosa’s band, The Lost Forty, is all about melding arts with culture and history. Together, they’ve been on a mission to rev...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 16:59
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The Northwest Minnesota Foundation seeks landlords to take part in their Landlord Risk Mitigation Fund initiative that aims to help homeless youth ...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 05:47
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Umbrellas of Unity is a collaborative installation that will fill the ceiling of the Kaul Gallery at the Watermark Art Center in Bemidji this Augus...

  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 06:50
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Among the 336 kids competing at the MN State AA Speech Tournament today will be Amy Frenzel and Ev Cordts from Bemidji. Hear all about what they lo...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 14:56
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Nancy X Valentine grew up in Fergus Falls, MN after her American father, Chinese mother, and brother moved from China to the United States while sh...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 13:16
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Mary Thoreson’s original composition Birdspiration will have its world premiere Wednesday evening at the Bemidji State University Percussion Ensemb...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 14:59
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Hard to believe it's been two years since we lost him. Headwaters Music and Arts in downtown Bemidji is hosting Souvenirs: A Tribute to John Prine ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 10:44
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The Reif Center Dance Program has enhanced lives of dancers in Grand Rapids and the surrounding communities for over 30 years with a wide array of ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 15:39