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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Radio essays recorded in the writer's own voice about topics related to northern Minnesota art, culture and history. Made possible in part by the M...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scott Hanson, Clearwater Hot Club w/ Sam Miltich, and Great Northern Radio Show Players, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek - 3/2/14
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 and WDSE


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:58:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Germaine Gemberling and Rich Mattson
Germaine Gemberling grew up in St. Paul. Germaine's career in music began early, in her teens, as part of an all female punk band working with Twin...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: May 07, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Mallory Pierce lives in Brainerd, she's a senior in high school and she learned early on that whenever things got rough, she could count on music a...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
  • 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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:44
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Little Man (Chris Perricelli), Credit: Emily Utne, Clothing by: Up Six
Not long after the turn of the last century Ike Reilly and his band drove up from Chicago for a few annual, three night stands at The Turf Club in ...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1