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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Centerstage Minnesota features Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:43:29
Caption: Jeff Sawyer, Sawyer Corcoran and Katie Carter
Sawyer Corcoran from Puposky is a kid who is fueled by music. He's been playing violin since the age of 4 and the mandolin came shortly thereafter...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 16:24
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Steve Downing shares the many things that make autumn his favorite season of the year.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1
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We're surrounded in the real world by super-villains, billionaires with unlimited resources and unlimited appetites for power. But all is not lost!...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Close to Home visits the North Central Farm & Antique Association show in Blackberry and host Grant Frashier contemplates technology.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Olivia Skaja recently won the Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championship in Mountain Iron for the third time in her life. She’s passionate about ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 11:33
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On this segment of Strong Women Heidi Holtan and John Bauer talk to Ashley Hanson and Joy Dolo from Sod House Theater.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 17:01
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Grant Frashier visits the North American Bear Center in Ely.

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 1
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"I do a lot of mental snapshots. I'll look up, see something, go back down and paint it and try to capture them that way...it gets more expressive...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 11:54
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TigerLion Arts, a professional theater group based in Minneapolis will bring Nature: A Walking Play to both Puposky and Ely this month. The produc...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 17:00