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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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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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 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Jane Freeman is Bemidji-based watercolor painter. Her paintings are vivid, bold and detailed. Jane admits to having an obsession with light - to a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 1
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St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Judy Garland, Sonny Knight & The Lakers, Chants & Seas, Germaine Gemberling, Barb Ryman, I Like You., Jillian Rae, Atmo...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:00:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Hobo Revival, The Brass Kings, Paul Spring, The Ericksons, Tabah, Hippo Campus, Connie Evingson, Cloud Cult, and more.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:58
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The Blue Girl, Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Ready Player One, Kitchens of the Great M...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 05:48
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Steve Downing reviews the Northbound Caravan show at the KAXE Amphitheater in Grand Rapids, MN, includes bands Rob Wheeler & the Wheeler Dealers, i...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 03:13
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Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Sheila Packa lives in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. She has published three books of poetry. Sheila Packa also edited the acclaimed anthol...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:43
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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 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:32