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

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

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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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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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We share stories from Our History during the Morning Show

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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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From about 1980, well into the 2000's, the foundation of the rock coming out of the Twin Cities was heavy, very high energy, cathartic. The female-...

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Caption: Reina del Cid and the Cidizens, Credit: Desiree Forget
Reina del Cid is one of those people that would be wildly successful in whatever she chose to do with her life. Lucky for music fans she's chosen p...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
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Caption: Barbara Jean, Credit: Stephan Hoglund Photography
Charlie Pulkrabek reviews Barbara Jean's recently released record, "Darker Than Blue."

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
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Caption: Leech Lake Dancers, Credit: Grant Frashier
Presented by Northern Community Radio and Aaron Brown, The Great Northern Radio Show blends the classic model of a radio variety show with some mod...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:03
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Steve Downing attended and participated in open mic night at the First Stage of the Lyric Center for the Arts in Virgina. Participants included: Lo...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:55
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:43
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Kathryn Kysar has published two books of poetry. She's received fellowships and residencies from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endow...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
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Julia Klatt-Singer writes, and paints, and walks the dog. Her work can be found online and heard on The Real Phonic Radio Hour. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:53