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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“I really appreciated the really well made, strong felt…I learned that to be able to wear something or use something, it actually has to be really ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 15:47
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“Haiku are kind of the most gem-like, jewel-like poem. They are very short. Unlike other poetry, they don’t use fancy words, metaphor, simile, rh...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 14:35
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“It really opens your mind, it gets you exposed to a bigger world. It triggers a whole different part of our brain…It’s actually been proven that ...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 10:59
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Bigfork, MN is a remote, naturally beautiful community in northern Minnesota. With the Bigfork River running right through this small town that is...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 07:41
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Bigfork, MN is a remote, naturally beautiful community in northern Minnesota. With the Bigfork River running right through this small town that is...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 07:29
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“I don’t know that he gained his income from painting. I think he was just kind of recently recognized as having value in his paintings. I’m sure...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 12:22
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On Stay Human, stories from (so-called) white people - Scott Hall spends a night in an ice house on Red Lake, Mary DeYoung desegregates her college...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
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Ever first Friday of the month, Katie Carter fills us in on what arts events are happening in Bemidji and other communities in northern Minnesota.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 09:33
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Every first Friday we check in with the Ely Folk School to find out what classes and events will be happening in the coming month. Betty Firth fi...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:49
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Every first Friday of the month we check in with the MacRostie Art Center and Executive Director Katie Marshall fills us in on the upcoming arts ev...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 10:28