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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Painter Diamond Knispel's exhibit Wild Whimsy of the Northwoods hangs in the MacRostie Art Center thru June. She'll be giving an artist talk June ...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 14:47
  • Purchases: 1
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We connect with Betty Firth from the Ely Folk School every first Friday of the month. She educates us on all the learning opportunities happening a...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 09:38
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Every First Friday Katie Marshall from the MacRostie Art Center fills us in on the first Friday events and the new exhibits at the MacRostie galler...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2021
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
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CelloWoman is an original song story taking the stage at Rail River in Bemidji this weekend. We learned all about it and even found out what a chin...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 11:20
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Senator Tina Smith joined the morning show just after attending the wreath laying ceremony at Fort Snelling this morning. She discussed the ceremo...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 08:38
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Poet, writer, retired English teacher, and longtime Dylan aficionado William Tecku joined the morning show on Dylan’s 80th birthday to chat about t...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 1
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What started as something called the "Brainerd Lakes Area Anti-Racism Conversations" morphed into an anti-racism book club in the Brainerd area tha...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 21:09
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Ina Park, MD is a sex-positive STI enthusiast on a mission to normalize conversation around STDs in an effort to break down stigmas associated wit...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:51
  • Purchases: 1
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For the first time in over one year, the Itasca Symphony Orchestra will perform in front of a live audience this weekend. Alexander Sandor will jo...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 12:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The Hibbing Dylan Project will break ground this Saturday at 1pm on a public art installation meant to inspire creativity and contemplation. Katie...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Beverly Everett has historically performed with her back to an audience as conductor of the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra. Today at noon, she'll pres...

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  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 18:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Scandinavian folk artist Pieper Bloomquist joined the morning show sharing the history of scandinavian folk art, differences between various scandi...

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  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 16:50
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Area Voices producer Katie Carter clues us in on exhibits and opportunities for artists in Bemidji, Park Rapids, Brainerd and Virginia in this segm...

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  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Every First Friday we check in with the Ely Folk School to find out what they've got cooking for the month. In May they've got a birding by ear cl...

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  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 07:53
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Every First Friday we check in the Katie Marshall from the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids. She lets us know all the happenings going on. Lis...

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  • Added: May 10, 2021
  • Length: 09:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Zoe Carrasco was attending Girls State in St. Paul when Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of killing Philando Castile. It changed her perspecti...

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  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Gabrielle Congrave Baggenstoss is a Regional Navigator for Support Within Reach, a sexual violence resou...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 15:04
  • Purchases: 1
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The Bemidji Area Arts Endowment (BAAE) has been supporting arts projects thru grants and scholarships in the Bemidji area since 1997. May 7th is ...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2021
  • Length: 11:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Steven Parker is Bemidji State University’s Diversity Officer. He joined the morning show to discuss his work, the impact police related deaths ha...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2021
  • Length: 22:56
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Nature gives us hope. Art gives us hope. Inspired people give us hope. We are celebrating hope this week and Kellie Rae Theiss is a painter who g...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 18:14
  • Purchases: 1