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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7 Pieces

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

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16 Pieces

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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58 Pieces

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

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88 Pieces

'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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18 Pieces

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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33 Pieces

We share stories from Our History during the Morning Show

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51 Pieces

Host Jim Gallagher covers canoe culture, people, adventurers, and crafters in Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


Latest Pieces

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The story of the African men and women who carried the body of the famous explorer Dr. Livingstone across Africa so that his remains could be retur...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:44
  • Purchases: 1
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In a not-too distant time, where public gatherings are illegal, making concerts impossible, two women are willing to break the law for their love o...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 13:14

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 10:41
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Writer E.R. Ramzipoor's new novel of historical fiction takes place in Nazi occupied Belgium where a gang of ragtag journalists and resistence figh...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
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E.R. Ramzipoor's The Ventriloquists; Sarah Pinsker's A Song for a New Day; Brad Meltzer children’s book series Ordinary People Change the World, hi...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:59
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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 liber...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 52:02
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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 ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 16:44
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More from our Dig Deep commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn on how the system works - how elections 2020 are at this moment - how the primarie...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 21:31
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It's time for our next round of our monthly Dig Deep conversations with liberal commentator Aaron Brown and conservative Chuck Marohn. They tell u...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 19:12
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On Stay Human, a wonderful new story from Terry O'Brien, "Five Pounds of Burger", about learning to get your own meat. Jim Gallagher gives us an u...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:27