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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Dig Deep is a podcast of KAXE/KBXE – with Chuck Marohn and Aaron Brown – Minnesota leaders with different perspectives digging into the way our tow...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 19:05
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Nik Nerburn is a documentary storyteller, a photographer, a blogger and a filmmaker. He's also the Greater Minnesota Outreach Associate for MNarti...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 10:46
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Today we welcomed MN author James Luger in our studios for the 1st Friday Cavalcade of the Arts. James has a new novel called "Lost in Dalat - The...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 13:19
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Carrie Dlutkowski is passionate about fiddle music - particularly the Scottich, French-Canadian and Metis styles which date back to the 17th and 18...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 11:56
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Bring Her Home: Stolen Daughters of Turtle Island is a collaborative, curated, traveling art exhibit featuring the works of 20 Indigenous artists f...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 13:27
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Steve Downing ponders about how weather professionals choose the words they use and if they might on occasion wax poetic without even intending to.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 05, 2019
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
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We all get an extra hour today, whether we deserve it or not. I'm spending mine on Stay Human, watching the clock and winding the watch, with stori...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:30
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Today we were treated to a story from our friends Natasha and Nana Boozhoo and we learn the Ojibwe words Waagosh and Waabooz - the fox and the rabb...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2019
  • Length: 05:50
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Guitar great Bill Kirchen is featured on Stay Human - he's pictured here with volunteer music programmers Charlie Parson and Joan "Tunes" Downham, ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:32
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What are our cultural assumptions about women’s relationship with power, influence and authority and how does this show up in the way we talk? ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 21:50
  • Purchases: 1