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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Caption: Vivienne Morgan: Nature/Nurture/Typology/ Beltrami County, Cumbria
Close your left eye. Now close your right eye. See how everything shifts? That’s Vivienne Morgan’s approach to photography. Vivenne talked with Are...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marley Kaul Lily Patch, Credit: (c) Marley Kaul
Marley Kaul is a Bemidji artist and professor emeritus of Bemidji State University. His new book "Letters to Isabella" features 77 full-page egg te...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Some things are hard to talk about. They hit too close to home, or make us uncomfortable, or we just don’t know how to start the conversation. A gr...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 2
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A lot of us are familiar with Will Weaver and his books, novels, short stories and his writing for young adult readers. Will is an author and a pro...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 10:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Scott Lykins and John Taylor Ward have helped to make northern Minnesota a more musical place for several years. They co-founded the Lakes Area Mus...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 1
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What is an "atavist?" We asked the same question of the unique quartet, Jazz Atavist. Music director Eric Gustafson joined us in the studio to talk...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: An Emily Krueger Original
Northern Minnesota has no shortage of talented artists. If you drive through downtown Bemidji, you might just see the work of one such artist. Emil...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 11:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Actress Julie Kaiser will perform a one-woman show benefitting the Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning this Friday at the Armory Square in Par...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Haddie Hadachek is a potter who works from her studio near Brainerd, unless she's traveling the world to talk with potters around the globe. Haddie...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 11:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Alauna Yust is the producer of Area Voices for Northern Community Radio. She has a cool job that brings her all around the Bemidji area covering th...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mary Therese with Her Original Batiks at KBXE Studio
Mary Therese calls herself a surface painter. She paints everything from the exterior walls of buildings to silk fabrics. Mary Therese specializes ...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Nicholas Jackson is Bemidji-based illustrator, but his work has been published around the globe. His images are fantastical and imaginative and his...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Tony Powers is a designer, glasswork and tattoo artist based in Brainerd, Minnesota. This week, he's sharing another of his talents with the Braine...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Clearwater County Historical Society features three unique schoolhouses: a log school built in the 1880s, a Works Progress Administration schoolhou...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:40
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Chris Holm is from Clearbrook and Bemidji, he says, is his third home. (Bagley is his second.) Holm will be celebrating the release of Ribbit Rhyth...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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The Bemidji Symphony Orchestra is kicking off another concert season. They have a concert this Saturday at the Bemidji High School Auditorium. They...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 11:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Doug Ohman is a Minnesotan photographer. His subject? History. He has several books published through the Minnesota Historical Society Press featur...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Creative Minnesota has a brand new study out. It’s an in-depth study that measures the economic impact of nonprofit arts and culture organizations ...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 10:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Alauna Yust is a documentary filmmaker. A film she produced in 2014 for Twin Cities Public Television has been nominated for a regional Emmy award....

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 11:18
  • Purchases: 2
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Area Voices is Northern Community Radio's series bringing you the arts, cultural and historical stories of Northern Minnesota. This week, Area Voic...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 1