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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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...

Bought by WTIP


  • 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
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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: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Romantica, The Jayhawks, Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelless, Saint Anyway, Low, Greg Tiburzi, Actual Wolf, Faith Boblett, Green River Outfit, ...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:16