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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Lots of art activities this Labor Day Weekend. Andrew Dziengel has five picks for what to check out.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:09
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Today on Stay Human, friends and neighbors talk about living history. John Beltman and Mark Sage describe their experiential archeology, Tracy Kam...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring an interview with Travis Zimmerman of the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, and highlighting Minnesota art...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:52:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Stay Human, we’re going out on the waters. Putting in at the Boundary Waters, fishing the Great Lakes, the Blessing of the Fleet in A...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring two interviews, one with Minnesota artist Aurora Baer and the second with Siri Undlin of Humbird. Highlighting othe...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:48:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring two interviews, one with the folk duo Storyhill and the second with Jeff Arundel from The Scarlet Goodbye. Highligh...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:51:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Centerstage Minnesota featuring Minnesota artists in an eclectic mix of folk, rock, blues, jazz, and world music including Chastity Brown, Dessa, T...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:50:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Professor Jason Fitger returns and misadventures abound in Julie Schumacher's new novel "The English Experience."

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 10:11
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A.R. Frederiksen's short stories are atmospheric with lots of thrills and chills. A.R. Frederiksen is a writer from Denmark and former exchange st...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:05
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Writer Barry Babcock credits the Bonga family, descendants of an African slave, as being an important part of Northern Minnesota's history.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:21