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

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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213 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


Latest Pieces

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Karen Gustafson has an exhibit at the Talley Gallery at Bemidji State University now through September 24th. Here's a review of the exhibit from No...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
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Al Milgrom is an emerging documentary filmmaker. He’s called himself “the oldest emerging filmmaker in America”… In his nineties, he may be right....

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 16:30
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Lin Enger is a Minnesota man. He’s also a professor of English and an author and he’s been published in notable literary journals. Lin has a brand ...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:48
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Paul Spring, Charlie Parr, Ol' Yeller, American Scarecrows, Haley Bonar, Toby Thomas Churchill, Black Diet, Lizzo, Paul Metsa, Preston Gunderson, C...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:11
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Southwire, Nicholas David, Dark Dark Dark, Corey Medina, Astronautalis, Big Walter Smith and the Groove Merchants, Allison Scott, The Honeydogs, La...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:00
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Niki Becker, The Fattenin' Frogs, Davina and The Vagabonds, The Slamming Doors, The Gestures, Bully, Arcwelder, The Hold Steady, Heatbox, Dessa, Th...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:30
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Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three childrens picture b...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist,teacher and poet from the Twin Cities. He describes the map of his activities as an archipelago of isl...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:58
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Alex Stolis has been a janitor, a counselor, a waiter, a bartender, a housekeeper, a salesman, a cook, a criminal, and has been, and a never was. T...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
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