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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158 Pieces

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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38 Pieces

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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103 Pieces

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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148 Pieces

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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Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat". She's also one of five...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:31
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Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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Bickey Bender is a multi-media artist who lives in the Park Rapids area. She primarily works with papermaking, but has tried many artforms as a for...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 11:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Tammy Bobrowsky interviews actress, gamer, and head of Geek & Sundry Felicia Day on her new book, "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)."

Bought by KVSC, WABE, and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 3
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Steve Downing reviews recent events at the new Watermark Art Center in Bemidji, Minnesota, including the Lin Enger reading & workshop, the annual m...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:50
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Grant Frashier reports on the Bovey Farmer's Day Parade in Bovey, Minnesota.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
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The Heart Goes Last, You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), Black Chalk, Fake Fruit Factory, The Art of Memoir, The Year of the Gorilla, The ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
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Delina White, Lavender Hunt and Sage Davis are a family of beadwork artists. Delina has been beading since she was a girl, taught by her grandmothe...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 14:54
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator, an engineer who became a teacher and helped transform Itasca Community College's engineering program. His inter...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Lowell Carpenter is one of the writers - and the director - of the original play "Walking the Tightrope." The play features stories from the Kirkbr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 10:35
  • Purchases: 1