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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7 Pieces

Local stories produced by KAXE/KBXE thanks to the generous support of contributors to the 1 day local journalism fundraiser.

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16 Pieces

A highlight of live music events for the upcoming week throughout the listening area along with a live music event and interviews.

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Two live, traveling, free music and spoken work events that highlight local musicians, writers, and storytellers, and support the local music scene.

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5 Pieces

The restoration and celebration of an extensive collection of rare vinyl recordings that showcase life and music in northern Minnesota.

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4 Pieces

Free concerts in KAXE's amphitheater on the Mississippi River.

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58 Pieces

NorthernCheapskate.com is frugal living website and radio feature from northern Minnesota dedicated to helping people save money every day.

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88 Pieces

'Northern Voices: Celebrating Ties to Minnesota's Northland,' shares sustainable practices, traditions, and indigenous and ancestral ways of life of Northern Minnesotans.

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18 Pieces

In the Nigaane Language Program at the Bug-O-Nay- Ge-Shig School near Bena, elementary students learn to speak the language of their ancestors.

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33 Pieces

We share stories from Our History during the Morning Show

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51 Pieces

Host Jim Gallagher covers canoe culture, people, adventurers, and crafters in Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


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