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

A series that documents stories told by people affected by the pandemic.

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113 Pieces

Realgoodwords : conversations with Minnesota writers that explore the stories and the inspiration behind them.

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297 Pieces

This program consists of guest essays from local writers and essayists, read by the writer. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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2 Pieces

A look into the personal histories, stories, and notable contributions of MN indigenous women. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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56 Pieces

A look into the impact of women leaders and women's leadership roles in Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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12 Pieces

A lot was happening the summer of 1967. In this series, Producer Grant Frashier looks back at ten events of the summer of love and tells the history around it in 90 seconds.

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10 Pieces

The Arts in Northern MN

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852 Pieces

A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.

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29 Pieces

The Great Northern Radio Show is a live stage production featuring musicians, storytellers, history, radio theater, and plenty of local flavor from the communities of Northern Minnesota.

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51 Pieces

Phenology is the rhythmic, biological nature of events as they relate to climate.


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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • 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...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


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