Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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Northern Community Radio is an independent, nonprofit organization that operates a unique community-based public radio station, KAXE and KBXE. NCR serves most of north central, northeastern and northwestern Minnesota with a 100,000-watt signal originating in Grand Rapids at 91.7 FM and a 50,000-watt signal in Bemidji at 90.5 FM. Northern Community Radio also operates translators in Brainerd at 89.9 FM 

Northern Community Radio is a different kind of radio. When you tune in NCR you hear northern Minnesota...its people, environment, communities, attitude. These are the "stars" of NCR programs. NCR is a place where people gather to dance to good music or to find out about the flowers in the ditches and the birds at their feeders. It's a place to learn about the world, laugh, meet good neighbors, and share ideas.

Series

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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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213 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


Latest Pieces

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This week on Stay Human, Sasquatch protects his territory, Ann Marie Newman and Adrianne Reiners protect their mental space, and we’ll hear stories...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Storyteller Ann Marie Newman joins "Area Voices" to discuss the upcoming story slam event "Spooked," happening 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Keg...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 10:28

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: :58
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring an interview with Minnesota musician Elizabeth Ghandour from the band Elour and highlighting Minnesota artists in ...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:49:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Say Uncle, this week on Stay Human. Friends and neighbors tell stories about that guy who’s sort of like your Mom or Dad, but so much cooler! It’...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
  • Purchases: 1
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In Patty Wetterlings new book, "Dear Jacob: A Mother’s Journey of Hope", we get a detailed account of the decades-long investigation to bring Jacob...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 13:22
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As a newly selected fellow in a rural arts program, theater director Mary Knox-Johnson is already planning a massive musical stage production she h...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 11:12
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music including Belfast Cowboys, Dessa, ...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:50:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Duluth writer John Teschner's new thriller is a timely story about a fight over ancestral land in Hawaii.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 10:55
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On "Area Voices," Everett discussed this year's Bemidji Symphony Orchestra concert series and the tightknit community of musicians who bring their ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 14:35