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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Segments that explore the meaning and lasting impact of Dylan’s work on the Minnesota music and literary scenes through the eyes of one or more other working musicians or writers. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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A radio segment about Ojibwe language and culture that features puppets. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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121 Pieces

The Call of the Wild is a call to your heart. The call to the wild part of yourself that you want to express in the work that you do. Sometimes you can even make a living doing what you love. And sometimes you can’t, but you still do it. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Centerstage Minnesota showcases the talents of Minnesota musicians. A local production of Northern Community Radio: KAXE - Grand Rapids and KBXE - Bemidji. Also heard on KSRQ in Thief River Falls and on WTIP in Grand Marais.

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Centerstage Minnesota Features are value-added segments focusing on various aspects of Minnesota's music landscape, past and present. Centerstage Minnesota Features are produced by Nothern Community Radio, and are made possible by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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A focus on regional events, sites, and places and how they relate to the community.

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Coming Home: the Gary Burger Story is an hour-long documentary about the life and times of Gary Burger, former front man of The Monks. Produced by Milt Lee and written by Jamie Lee.

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This program contains state and local conversations on COVID-19.

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Stories from Northern Minnesota's arts and culture scene.

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Topical conversations about the history, present and future of Minnesota with our commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


Latest Pieces

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Tony Powers is a designer, glasswork and tattoo artist based in Brainerd, Minnesota. This week, he's sharing another of his talents with the Braine...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
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Steve Downing reviews the October 2nd presentation at MacRostie Art Center by Sheila Smith, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:59
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Jim Gallagher talks with canoe racer and race organizer Mark Walters about the Minnesota Canoe Championship Race held earlier in September in Bemid...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 10:45
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing writer and director in the Twin Cities. Her most recent books are "The Next Best Thing...

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:39
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Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: :44
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Marjorie Buettner's new collection of haibun is "Some Measure of Existance" recently published by Red Dragonfly Press which has also published coll...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:03
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Jill Dermody is currently working on the third draft of her book, "The Skyrian Memoirs", about her experience volunteering on a horse farm in Greec...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:10
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Clearwater County Historical Society features three unique schoolhouses: a log school built in the 1880s, a Works Progress Administration schoolhou...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 09:40
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Chris Holm is from Clearbrook and Bemidji, he says, is his third home. (Bagley is his second.) Holm will be celebrating the release of Ribbit Rhyth...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1