Daily Programs

Monday:
For the Birds
Local Sports
Living On Earth

Tuesday:
Phenology Plus
A Talk On The Wild Side
All Things Equine

Wednesday:
For the Birds
Local Food w/ Maggie
Our History
Realgoodwords

Thursday:
Early Bird Fishing Guide
Culture Calendar/Arts Roundup
Making Sausage
Sports Page
Culturology
IT Connections with Chad and Dan
Centerstage Minnesota

Friday:
For the Birds
Border News
Mom of Pop Culture
What's For Breakfast
May We Have A Word With You
Dr. Michael Fox

Saturday:
Living On Earth
Car Talk
Between You and Me
Green Cheese

Sunday:
Centerstage Minnesota
RealGoodWords
Backporch Harmony
Alternative Radio
Land Legacy 
NCI 
Grand Rapids
 
Hibbing Bemidji
 
Bagley Brainerd
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Do you work for or volunteer with a non-profit community organization?  KAXE/KBXE is commited to bringing you information about what's happening in your community.  Read more here on how to submit your event/organization information. 
8TH ANNUAL KAXE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FESTIVAL
Saturday, July 21, under the Rotary Tent at KAXE. The line-up includes a Young Musicians' Showcase, followed by Cafe Accordion Orchestra, then sets from Lydia Loveless, Sena Ehrhardt, , and the finale with Bill Kirchen. Tickets are $35, $45 the day of the festival. Northern Community Radio members recieve at $10 discount. Young people ages 13 to 21 pay $10. Reserve your tickets now. Call 1-800-662-5799.
  NEW MUSIC
Norah Jones and Jack White collaborated with Danger Mouse on the recent concept album Rome.  Now Norah's solo with Danger Mouse handling production, and Jack has his first solo full-length.  Both could be construed as break-up albums.

Also new: Bonnie Raitt, M. Ward, Paul Thorn, Alabama Shakes, Dirty dozen Brass Band, and many more.  See the list of new music in the collection here.
brochure cover GEOCACHING
What the heck is geocaching?  The MN DNR defines it like this: Geocaching is a treasure hunt! It's an outdoor activity that combines hiking and exploring using a hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) to locate either virtual or actual treasure caches.

Let us know about your geocaching adventures in northern Minnesota this Saturday on Between You and Me with Gail Otteson and Michael Goldberg from 10-noon.  Email us...

    THE GREAT NORTHERN RADIO SHOW JUNE 16TH IN BRAINERD Our traveling road show continues helmed by Aaron Brown.  This time we'll be at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, broadcasting and performing live from 5-7pm on June 16th.  Join the fun!
 

KAXE Audio Highlights

  SoundClipSteampunk 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.
  SoundClipProducer 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.
  SoundClip 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.
  SoundClip Michael Meuers speech from the 2012 Annual Meeting.  Michael won the Marcia Nottingham Community Impact award for his Ojibwe language sign project in Bemidji. 
Great Northern Radio Show  SoundClip Northern Community Radio Producer Amy Clark presents a documentary
about Duluth based musician Charlie Parr.
Great Northern Radio Show  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.

SoundClip Great Northern Radio Show - Bemidji, Minnesota - April 7th, 2012
SoundClip"Solveig": Minnesota filmmaker documents Duluth-based Arctic indigenous painter  - 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.
SoundClipJahn 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...
  SoundClipBrenda 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.
  SoundClipChris Matthews talks with Heidi Holtan about his new book titled "Jack Kennedy: The Elusive Hero" on Real Good Words.
  SoundClip"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."
  SoundClip"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.  
  SoundClipDAVID 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.   
  SoundClipAmy 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.
  SoundClipAARON 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 here. 
  SoundClipLevon 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.
SoundClipJim 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. 
SoundClipMinnesota 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.
SoundClipIris 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. 
SoundClipOliver 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
SoundClipPaul 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.
  SoundClipProject 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. 
  SoundClipMarty 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. 
SoundClipA 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.
Great Northern Radio Show  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.

SoundClip Great Northern Radio Show #1101, hour 1
SoundClip Great Northern Radio Show #1101, hour 2
  SoundClipJackie Blue from Leech Lake Tribal College 
SoundClipMika 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.

 

  SoundClipFrom 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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