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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783 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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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: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
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Rebecca Dosch Brown is a recent Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Awardee, and a Loft Mentor Program Mentee. She's had poems published in Ky...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:42
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The Bo Conrad Spit Band, The Como Avenue Jug Band, The Fattenin' Frogs, Little Man, Ol' Yeller, D.B. Curtis and the Suspects, Fathom Lane, Bigtree ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 57:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Kitchi Boogie, Colleen Myhre, Mary Bue, Thea Ennen & The Algorythms, The Replacements, Reina Del Cid & The Cidizens, Dakota Dave Hull, Martin Devan...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:05
Caption: White Iron Band (Matt Pudas), Credit: Dragon Pheonix Photography
Formed in Ely, Minnesota, the White Iron Band's music delivers layered songs that pay homage to the best of outlaw country music with an irrepressi...

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Dylan Hicks, Virgil Cane, Alison Scott, Brothers Burn Mountain, Jerree Small, Dave Frishberg, Connie Evingson, The Bad Plus (Joined By Wendy Lewis)...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 56:55
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Mary Bue, Brian Laidlaw, Kitchi Boogie, Miriam Tell, Diet Folk, The Electras, Aitas, John Wayne & The Pain, Wide Eyes, Magic Castles, Deformo

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 55:37
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Gear Daddies, Bill Dankert And The Real Austinaires, Actual Wolf, Reina Del Cid & The Cidizens, Bigtree Bonsai, Little Man, Teague Alexy, Southwire...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 57:25
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1