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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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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Aaron Tank, Jerree Small, Nolan John, Martin Devaney, Prudence Johnson & Dan Chouinard, Minnesota Klezmer Band, Patty And The Buttons, Brian Laidla...

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  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Brothers Burn Mountain, Known Only Locally, Useful Jenkins, Jonathan Rundman, Little Man, Unbelievable Jolly Machine, The Brothers Burn Mountain, S...

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  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 54:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Shangoya, Christine Rosholt, The Fattenin' Frogs, The Brothers Burn Mountain, Brothers Burn Mountain, Useful Jenkins, Slamming Doors, Pert Near San...

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  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 1
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The Hold Steady, Brothers Burn Mountain, Crankshaft & The Gear Grinders, The Bad Companions, Javier & The Innocent Sons, Slamming Doors, Useful Je...

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 55:13
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Useful Jenkins, The Slamming Doors, The Brothers Burn Mountain, Colleen Myhre, Hobo Nephews Of Uncle Frank, Davina And The Vagabonds, Rich Mattiso...

  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 55:46
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

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  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Sonya Kosler is a poet who lives in Dent, Minnesota. She belongs to the Lakes Area Story Guild, the National Storytelling Network, and the Northlan...

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  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
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AnnaMae Sovick's first graders at Schoolcraft Learning Community spent a semester learning all about food and why people eat what they eat. Then th...

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  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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The Bad Companions, The Parlour Suite, Four Horse Johnson, Thea Ennen & The Algorythms, The Electras, Brothers Burn Mountain, Wayne Suchy, Little M...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
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AnnaMae Sovick's first graders at Schoolcraft Learning Community spent a semester learning all about food and why people eat what they eat. Then th...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:38