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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19 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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1 Piece

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


  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:26

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 06:28
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Kari Hedlund interviews Shannon Murray and Corey Medina in the KBXE studio.

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 26:29
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Seth Bjornrud is a paraprofessional in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Mi'Lara McKenzie is a middle schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. She likes to sleep, eat and draw robots.

  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: :44
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Louis Saxton is a middle schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidj. He loves to walk in the woods, he's a photogr...

  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:43
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Honor LaCroix is a middle schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. Honor likes to read and write and draw with...

  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:19
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:20
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Jon Wayne & the Pain, Emily Jane, Actual Wolf, Ian Thomas Alexy, Buffalo Eyes, Chastity Brown and more.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:13
  • Purchases: 1
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I Like You, Trampled by Turtles, Actual Wolf, The Downing Brothers, Barbara Jean, Sonny Johnson, Bob Dylan, Podipto, The Lowest Pair, Wanda Davis, ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:53:46
  • Purchases: 1