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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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

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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineri...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WDSE


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineri...

Bought by WDSE and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Britt Aamodt is traveling along the route of the proposed Sandpiper pipeline that would bring North Dakota crude oil across northern MN to refineri...

Bought by WDSE and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 2
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Britt Aamodt talks with John Bauer and Heidi Holtan about where she went and the people she met along the proposed sandpiper pipeline.

Bought by WDSE and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 2
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Roe Family Singers, Charlie Parr, Faith Boblett, Bigtree Bonsai, Kitchie Boogie, More Than Lights, John Wayne & The Pain, The Premiums, Ipso Facto,

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 57:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Chastity Brown, John Mark Nelson, Actual Wolf, Erik Koskinen, Haley Bonar, Jeremy Messersmith, US, Bigtree Bonsai

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 54:08
  • Purchases: 1
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The Bad Plus, Happy Apple, Max J, Spymob, Actual Wolf, Fathom Lane, Roe Family Singers, Martin Devaney, Hounds Of Finn, Perry Windecker, Christoph...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Javier Matos, Javier & The Innocent Sons, Charlie Parr, The Jayhawks, Faith Boblett, Uncle Shurley, Maryann Sullivan, Sam Miltich & Dave Karr, Wan...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Capitol Sons, Run Westy Run, Bob Mould, Howler, Erik Koskinen, Barbara Jean, Silverback Colony, Brothers Burn Mountain, Robert Leo Newton, Disaster...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:02