KAXE Audio Highlights
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 Steampunk
among the steam trains:
lifestyle/fashion event celebrates a
past vision of the future. Amy Clark
brings us a conversation with
Richard Rosval, organizer of a
Steampunk Fashion Show held May
17 at the Duluth Depot train museum.
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Producer
Dave Lathrop documents the "draw
band" process at the Cabin Fever
Reliever Bluegrass gathering in
Duluth.
Dave follows one of the draw bands
as they pull together a performance
with very limited time for
preparation.
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Bill Batchelder, Owner of Bemidji
Woolen Mills, will be
representing Minnesota Republicans
as a delegate attending the
Republican National Convention this
year in Tampa Bay, Florida. He
joined Louise Mengelkoch for a
conversation in Bemidji at our KBXE
studios.
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Michael
Meuers speech from the 2012 Annual
Meeting. Michael won
the Marcia Nottingham Community
Impact award for his Ojibwe language
sign project in Bemidji.
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Northern Community Radio Producer
Amy Clark presents a documentary
about Duluth based musician
Charlie Parr. |
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Did you miss the broadcasts of The
Great Northern Radio Show from The
Chief Theater in Bemidji. Well you
can listen to it streaming right
here. Our thanks to Great Northern
Radio Show Producer Aaron Brown, and
everyone else who helped make the
Bemidji Great Northern Radio Show a
success.
Great Northern Radio Show - Bemidji,
Minnesota - April 7th, 2012 |
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"Solveig":
Minnesota filmmaker documents
Duluth-based Arctic indigenous
painter
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The indigenous people from the far
north of Scandinavia have endured
years of abuse. Governments in the
region tried their best to eliminate
their culture, but the Sami people
persevere. These people now enjoy
new legal protections and even a
semi-autonomous parliament, but
challenges remain. An acclaimed Twin
Cities filmmaker recently focused
her lens on one woman of Sami
heritage who lives and paints in
Duluth. Amy Clark explores the story
of Solveig Arneng Johnson, and the
new documentary that bears her name. |
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Jahn
Gadzo
talks with Scott Hall on the
Morning Show about Easter traditions
celebrated for many generations by
his family in Slovakia. Jan
left Slovakia in 1969 and landed in
the Iron Range town of Chisolm.
Jan is the owner of Adrej's Bakery
which specializes in potica
(Poh-teet-zahs), a delicious eastern
Eurpean pastry. In his family
everyone has a role in preparing the
for Easter holiday... |
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Brenda
Child talks with Scott Hall
about her new book,
Holding Our World Together:
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of
Community. They discuss the
pre-European and post-European
Ojibwe culture, particularly as it
relates to female roles in Ojibwe
society. |
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Chris
Matthews talks with Heidi Holtan
about his new book titled
"Jack Kennedy: The Elusive Hero"
on
Real Good Words. |
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"Maggie Montgomery talked with
Gary Taubes this week on The
Morning Show. Taubes is an
acclaimed science writer who argues
that certain kinds of
carbohydrates...not fats and not
simply excess calories...have led to
our current obesity epidemic.
It's described as "an eye-opening,
paradigm-shattering examination of
what makes us fat." |
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"Art From Within" is the title of
the March exhibit at the
Bemidji Community Art Center.
The exhibit features art work by
Ojibwe and non-Native artists who
have been affected by the criminal
justice system. The work in this
exhibit focuses on the artists'
expressions of what the Bill of
Rights means to them. Art work shown
here by artist
Wesley May. Hear our talk
with him
here.
Review this weekend's cultural
offerings at the
Culturology Calendar blog. |
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DAVID
TREUER AND "REZ LIFE"
Charlie
Pulkrabek talks with northern
Minnesota native David Treuer about
his new book about growing up on the
Leech Lake Reservation. |
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Amy
Clark talks with Gunflint Mail Run
organizer and musher Frank Moe
When the John Beargrease sled dog
marathon was cancelled, racers
banded together to offer an
alternate course. The
Gunflint Mail Run race,
organized with only a couple weeks
of advance notice, was one result. |
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AARON
BROWN & THE 8TH DISTRICT INTERVIEWS
Independent
producer Aaron Brown brought us his
conversations with potential DFL
challengers to the 8th district
congressional seat currently held by
Chip Cravaack (R). They include Rick
Nolan, Jeff Anderson and Tarryl
Clark... read
more on
MinnesotaBrown.com... see his
video interviews
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Levon
Helm, Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder,
Lucinda Williams, and... who?
Linda Chorney
put a lot of work into her new,
self-released album,
Emotional Jukebox, and
embraced social media to make it a
Grammy competitor in the Americana
Album category this year.
Hear the Currents interview with
this surprising contender. |
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Jim
Jones,
Cultural
Resources Director of the
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
talks with
Scott Hall about
the closing of the Pamida store in
Bemidji and what he thinks she be
done with that site, which is a
sacred burial ground of at least 22
Dakota people. You can also
read
Megan
Treuer's letter to the editor in the
Bemidji Pioneer for more
information. |
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Minnesota
assumes management of the Wolf:
The gray wolf recently went off the
Federal Endangered Species List. DNR
Wildlife Biologist Dan Stark talks
about how the state will manage the
wolf. |
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Iris
Jensen on What's For Breakfast:
Iris was the feel-good hit in
KAXE-land last week when she joined
John and Heidi on the Friday morning
show for What's for Breakfast.
You can hear the whole interview
here, including her beautiful
rendition of "Hark The Herald Angels
Sing". Grab a hanky before you
listen. |
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Oliver
and Gertie Juntenen and the History
of Suomi: It's not a town
or township, but when
Finnish-American families moved
there 95 years ago it became a
vibrant community that exists to
this day. Oliver and Gertie were
born and raised there. They met in
grade school and still live on their
family's original homestead |
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Paul
Metsa's "Blue Guitar Highway"
Paul Metsa joins Charlie
Pulkrabek on
Centerstage Minnesota to talk
about Minnesota music and his new
book titled
Blue Guitar Highway. |
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Project
Care Free Clinics
Free clinics in Hibbing, Ely, and
Grand rapids are now seeing people
without insurance or underinsured.
Most are employed but can't afford
basic health care or insurance.
In this interview, the Executive
Director of
Project Care Free, Carrie
Estey-Dix, Nurse-Practioner Sue
Koprowski, and Paramedic Tim George
talk about how the clinics got
started and the people who use them. |
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Marty
Cobenais from the Indigenous
Enviornmental Nework on the Morning
Show. Tribal
leaders from all over the U.S.
recently attended the White House
Tribal Leaders Summit in Washington
D.C. At the Top of their
agenda was to present President
Obama with the "Mother Earth Accord"
and urge him to oppose the Keystone
Pipeline Project that proposes to
build a 1700 mile pipeline from
Alberta to the western plains to
Gulf of Mexico. Marty talked
with KAXE's Scott Hall this week
about the Keystone Pipeline Project. |
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A
Converation with Patrick Desjarlait
about new Red Lake welcome signs
Scott Hall and Maggie Montgomery
speak with artist Patrick Desjarlait
about the new welcome signs for the
Red Lake Nation. The artwork is
entitled "The Council of Clans" and
features the symbols of the Seven
Clans at Red Lake. |
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They're finally here - the
higher-fidelity recordings of the
inaugural Great Northern Radio Show
with Aaron Brown, broadcast live
from Hibbing October 15, 2011.
Great Northern Radio Show #1101,
hour 1
Great Northern Radio Show #1101,
hour 2 |
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Jackie
Blue from Leech Lake Tribal College
Mika
Pacheco-Northbird from Leech Lake
Tribal College
Miikinaa is the Ojibwe word for
path. Listen to this conversation,
"Miikinaa": First-generation Leech
Lake Tribal College students share
their stories.
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From
Chelsea Annette's Discovering Ojibwe
We've got the tracks to Place Names
and 11 Teachings from Discovering
the Little Brothers. On our
Ojibwemowin page. |
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