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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Tim J. Brennan has been a secondary English teacher for over 30 years. He writes, golfs and plays husband and dad in Austin, MN. The Beat is a da...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
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Marlys Guimaraes, a registered nurse is a member of the Jack Pine and League of Minnesota poets. Her work has appeared in the "Talking Stick", "The...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:36
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Julie Hathaway grew up on farm in southeastern Minnesota, and currently lives in Rochester. She's been writing for as long as she can remember, but...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:29
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:12
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Nikki Anderson-Weir is a high school student in Bemidji. Recently she stopped into the Northern Community Radio studios in Bemidji and recorded som...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:07
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:01
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
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Bob Bringham, Erik Koskinen, The Slamming Doors, Chastity Brown, Sonny Johnson, Brothers Burn Mountain, Steve Kaul And The Brass Rings, Spider John...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Andy Dee, Little Man, Bob Mould, Push On Junior, The Lowest Pair, The Slamming Doors, Erik Koskinen, Brothers Burn Mountain, Doug Haining Quintet, ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:40
  • Purchases: 1