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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10 Pieces

Local independent producer David McDonald recently returned to Grand Rapids, Minnesota after serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 2012 to 2014. During his service, he interviewed over 40 fellow Peace Corps Volunteers as well as recorded a fascinating variety of audio from all over Morocco.

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252 Pieces

Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice. As of July 1, 2015, Acoustic Stories will continue as Arts Review.

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1 Piece

Each week host Bobbie Kleffman talks with people who have a passion for horses.

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8 Pieces

A live style and fashion show produced by and including Anishinaabe and BIPOC designers and models and radio interviews with artists who participated.

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785 Pieces

Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show connect listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in northern Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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41 Pieces

Reviews from a wide variety of arts venues and events around Minnesota.

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61 Pieces

Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to Minnesota arts culture and history. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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5 Pieces

The annual Bemijigamaag Powwow brings together natives and non-natives to celebrate the tradition of the powwow and community. Presented by Ampers and supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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40 Pieces

Between You & Me Podcast will produce and create content relevant to the daily life and culture of Northern Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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148 Pieces

Between You and Me is our weekly get together, a mix of music and conversation. Including commentaries from regular contributors like Aaron Brown, Guido and The Last Word


Latest Pieces

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Web of Sunsets, Low, John Mark Nelson, Peter Wolf Crier, Mary Bue, Charlie & Emily Parr, Austin Plaine, Emily Jayne, Roma di Luna, Dark Dark Dark, ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:30
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Average Mammals, The Suicide Commandos, Dillinger Four, Motion City Soundtrack, Peter Wolf Crier, Communist Daughter, Actual Wolf, The Minor Planet...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:01:06
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Alauna Yust is the producer of Area Voices for Northern Community Radio. She has a cool job that brings her all around the Bemidji area covering th...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:51
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Sonya Kosler was born in Montana and lives now in Dent, Minnesota, at the literal southwestern edge of KAXE-KBXE land. She's a member of the Lakes ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:26
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Ryan Kutter lives near Grey Eagle, Minnesota where he gardens and makes wooden furniture and writes. An english major, he graduated from St John's ...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:52
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:34
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Susan Hensel is originally from the Finger Lakes area of New York state. She's a world traveler who settled in at the University of Michigan for he...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
Caption: Mary Therese with Her Original Batiks at KBXE Studio
Mary Therese calls herself a surface painter. She paints everything from the exterior walls of buildings to silk fabrics. Mary Therese specializes ...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Nicholas Jackson is Bemidji-based illustrator, but his work has been published around the globe. His images are fantastical and imaginative and his...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 1