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This Saturday in Bemidji, Northern Community Radio will host its first-ever vinyl and CD music sale fundraiser in honor of National Record Store Day. This independent northern Minnesota public radio organization has been collecting donated LPs and CDs for the past month to sell as part of this live music event Brigid’s Pub in downtown Bemidji starting noon on April 18.
There are very few record stores in northern Minnesota, but independent music is strong through the locally created radio programming of Northern Community Radio. KAXE/KBXE is celebrating the old-school technology of vinyl with live music and a used music sale at Brigid’s Pub in downtown Bemidji on Saturday April 18th from 12-5pm. Northern Community Radio music has always been at the forefront of its programming. Recently staff and volunteers of KAXE/KBXE have been restoring the historic collection of vinyl that created the sound of northern Minnesota over the last 39 years. It includes polka and rare folk, jazz and rock and roll.
All week, Northern Community Radio has been playing records on the air and sharing people’s memories of their record collections. That project to restore the original vinyl library from the old KAXE studios in Grand Rapids will unearth many unique genre recordings and classics, bringing a whole generation of indy music to back to life. And while there are few as excited as me, KAXE’s old polka library was arguably the state’s best for many years. Now the oom-pa-pa is back in the house.
Northern Community Radio produces and distributes my Great Northern Radio Show, which next airs live June 13 from Grand Marais.
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