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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10 Pieces

Local independent producer David McDonald recently returned to Grand Rapids, Minnesota after serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 2012 to 2014. During his service, he interviewed over 40 fellow Peace Corps Volunteers as well as recorded a fascinating variety of audio from all over Morocco.

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252 Pieces

Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice. As of July 1, 2015, Acoustic Stories will continue as Arts Review.

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1 Piece

Each week host Bobbie Kleffman talks with people who have a passion for horses.

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8 Pieces

A live style and fashion show produced by and including Anishinaabe and BIPOC designers and models and radio interviews with artists who participated.

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785 Pieces

Area Voices explores the arts, culture, and history of Northern Minnesota. Through in-depth interviews, hosts of Northern Community Radio's Morning Show connect listeners to the area's unique cultural heritage and the experience of life in northern Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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41 Pieces

Reviews from a wide variety of arts venues and events around Minnesota.

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61 Pieces

Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to Minnesota arts culture and history. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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5 Pieces

The annual Bemijigamaag Powwow brings together natives and non-natives to celebrate the tradition of the powwow and community. Presented by Ampers and supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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40 Pieces

Between You & Me Podcast will produce and create content relevant to the daily life and culture of Northern Minnesota. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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148 Pieces

Between You and Me is our weekly get together, a mix of music and conversation. Including commentaries from regular contributors like Aaron Brown, Guido and The Last Word


Latest Pieces

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Diet Folk, Chants & Seas, Bigtree Bonsai, Barbara Jean, Hounds of Finn, Fathom Lane, Faith Boblett, Ryan Lee, D.B. Curtis and the Suspects, Suburbs...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 59:34
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Mary Bue, Diet Folk, Saint Anyway, Brothers Burn Mountain, Silverback Colony, Gear Daddies, Barbara Jean, Erik Koskinen, Sonny Knight & the Lakers,...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 58:06
Caption: Teachings at Turtle Island
This is the fifth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Saint Anyway
What do you get when three Cloquet High School grads head off to Berklee College of Music in Boston, McNally Smith College of Music in Saint Paul, ...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sonny Johnson: World-Touch Cultural Heritage Week (April 12, 2013)
Sonny Johnson has been well known to people in, and around Bemidji for several years now. Sonny Johnson is a musician that recently celebrated his ...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lila Ammons and Dean Brewington of the Lila Ammons Jazz Quintet
Twin Cities leader of the Lila Ammons Jazz Quintet and the Jazz Trio, Lila Ammons was destined to be a blues and jazz singer. She grew up in Chicag...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 28, 2014
  • Length: 56:38
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Aaron Brown, Brian & Andrea Strom
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...

Bought by WTIP, XRAY.fm, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 3
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Nikki Anderson-Weir, a high school student from Bemidji first read on the Beat last year and was one of the readers in the first Beat Cafe. This ye...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Louis Saxton a sixth grader at School Craft Learning Community only recently started writing poetry. At home he enjoys sitting in the woods by hims...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1