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.

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Live concerts on KAXE

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Local stories produced by KAXE/KBXE thanks to the generous support of contributors to the 1 day local journalism fundraiser.

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A highlight of live music events for the upcoming week throughout the listening area along with a live music event and interviews.

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Two live, traveling, free music and spoken work events that highlight local musicians, writers, and storytellers, and support the local music scene.

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The restoration and celebration of an extensive collection of rare vinyl recordings that showcase life and music in northern Minnesota.

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Free concerts in KAXE's amphitheater on the Mississippi River.

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NorthernCheapskate.com is frugal living website and radio feature from northern Minnesota dedicated to helping people save money every day.

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'Northern Voices: Celebrating Ties to Minnesota's Northland,' shares sustainable practices, traditions, and indigenous and ancestral ways of life of Northern Minnesotans.

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In the Nigaane Language Program at the Bug-O-Nay- Ge-Shig School near Bena, elementary students learn to speak the language of their ancestors.

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We share stories from Our History during the Morning Show


Latest Pieces

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The Sax Zim Bog attracts birders from across the glove. Learn more about it in this segment of Let's Visit!

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 25:04
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Joanne Pels spent most of her life in the Walker area. In this segment discover how her life experiences led her to becoming the first female Cass...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 19:12
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Rosie Gray joined the Leech Lake Art League shortly after retiring in the Walker, Mn area. It changed her life. Learn about the art league and th...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 18:25
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Erin Haefele has a lifetime of fond summer memories in Walker, MN. She wanted to raise her family there, so she moved north from the twin cities....

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 15:27
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Trout Unlimited Chapter 642 promotes a variety of ways including their Trout in the Classroom initiative, fly-tying events and even a women’s retre...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 12:29
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Centerstage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 01:44:09
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Steve Downing tells us how serious cooking means a serious mess.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:54
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Centerstage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music.

  • Added: Dec 31, 2019
  • Length: 01:45:05
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Getting ready for next year by correcting our vision to 2020. Could this be the year it finally all comes into focus? OK, no. But still, we can squ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
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Each week Boozhoo Nana Boozhoo creator Michael Lyons brings us Ojibwe language from our puppet friends. Take a listen!

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 05:29