Four years ago, Lakeland Public Television(LPTV) revived a beloved music program that aired decades ago. Backroads showcases northern Minnesota musicians and has become somewhat of an Austin City Limits of the northland. Each September, LPTV schedules a week's worth of concerts complete with live audiences. Beginning in November, those concerts and backstage interviews with the artists begin airing on LPTV as the Backroads season takes off. The new season of Backroads begins filming Monday,

Each week John and Heidi pull up a chair to one of our member’s kitchen tables and get to know them a little bit better. This week’s caller, Robert Jevne of Grand Rapids homemade nutty granola, with a dollop of yogurt and milk all mixed together and a whole wheat English muffin slathered in butter. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. Thanks to our sponsor Homestead Mills for their support of this program! Let us know if you want to be our guest on What's For Breakfast . All it takes

The final podcast-only edition is here of Dig Deep for September as we drill down to money in politics and lobbying, etc. Aaron Brown is our liberal commentator and Chuck Marohn is our conservative - send us your thoughts! Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!

Jonathan Edwards, who performs as Wayward, stopped by the KBXE studio recently to play a few songs and talk about music and hobos and his upcoming album on CenterStage Minnesota. Hear the whole conversation by clicking below. CenterStage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music. Join host Brett Carter, Fridays at 2:00 and 10:00 on KAXE/KBXE.

Each week we talk with Marshall Helmberger from The Timberjay about the news in NE Minnesota. Today we heard about a new bridge over the Vermilion River connecting ATV/Snowmobile trails, how Keith Ellison, MN's Attorney General responded to Frontier Communications and we meet a sauna fanatic Glenn Auerbach . Marshall also tells us how the bear hunting season has gone and reminds us to head to the woods tomorrow - grouse season opens up!

Each week we talk with Marshall Helmberger from The Timberjay about the news in NE Minnesota. Today we heard about a new bridge over the Vermilion River connecting ATV/Snowmobile trails, how Keith Ellison, MN's Attorney General responded to Frontier Communications and we meet a sauna fanatic Glenn Auerbach . Marshall also tells us how the bear hunting season has gone and reminds us to head to the woods tomorrow - grouse season opens up!

This morning we had the chance to meet and talk with MN artist Nicole Camene . Listen to our conversation and read a little more about her work to create a temporary public art installation at the new Grand Rapids pedestrian bridge, just in time for the Rural Arts and Culture Summit coming up October 3-5th, put on by Springboard for the Arts. Check out the Grand Rapids Arts and Culuture Commission here. More on Nicole Camene: Through a grant given by Grand Rapids Arts & Culture Commission

We continue on looking at 2020 elections with conservative Chuck Marohn and liberal Aaron Brown on Dig Deep. We look this time at how candidates are picked and the inside baseball of the presidential elections. Is there an issue that you vote on for president? Let us know! Sign up for the Dig Deep Podcast!

Today we learned the Ojibwe word for blueberry pie. Mmmm, blueberry pie! Michael Lyons is the mastermind behind our favorite Ojibwe puppet couple - Nana Boozhoo and Natasha. Today they taught us language through a song... in the video we also get a love song. These two are such a great example of a loving relationship....we're so glad to bring them to you on KAXE/KBXE. You can see Michael Lyons September 25th at the Nett Lake School sponsored by our friends at KBFT - Bois Forte Tribal Community

Program 85 Charles Blandin's Legacy: A Thriving Paper Mill in the 1960s and '70s; A Sudden and Unexpected Transformation in 1977 A radio series produced by historian Don Boese. Don is the author of eight books dealing with local history in Itasca County, including "John C. Greenway and the Opening of the Western Mesabi", and the main source for this series, "Papermakers: the Blandin Paper Company and Grand Rapids, Minnesota". The series begins with the arrival of the first Euro-Americans to the