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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Segments that explore the meaning and lasting impact of Dylan’s work on the Minnesota music and literary scenes through the eyes of one or more other working musicians or writers. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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158 Pieces

A radio segment about Ojibwe language and culture that features puppets. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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121 Pieces

The Call of the Wild is a call to your heart. The call to the wild part of yourself that you want to express in the work that you do. Sometimes you can even make a living doing what you love. And sometimes you can’t, but you still do it. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Centerstage Minnesota showcases the talents of Minnesota musicians. A local production of Northern Community Radio: KAXE - Grand Rapids and KBXE - Bemidji. Also heard on KSRQ in Thief River Falls and on WTIP in Grand Marais.

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Centerstage Minnesota Features are value-added segments focusing on various aspects of Minnesota's music landscape, past and present. Centerstage Minnesota Features are produced by Nothern Community Radio, and are made possible by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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A focus on regional events, sites, and places and how they relate to the community.

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Coming Home: the Gary Burger Story is an hour-long documentary about the life and times of Gary Burger, former front man of The Monks. Produced by Milt Lee and written by Jamie Lee.

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This program contains state and local conversations on COVID-19.

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Stories from Northern Minnesota's arts and culture scene.

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Topical conversations about the history, present and future of Minnesota with our commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


Latest Pieces

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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
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Papa John Kolstad, Crankshaft, Robert One-Man Johnson, Kevin Bowe And The Okemah Prophets, Saint Anyway, Pimentos For Gus, Big Walter Smith And Th...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 57:14
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Saint Anyway, Rich Mattson, Germaine Gemberling, Colleen Myhre, The Jayhawks, Little Man, Run Westy Run, Bigtree Bonsai, Actual Wolf, Fathom Lane,...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 58:23
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The Fattenin' Frogs, Crankshaft & The Gear Grinders, The Brothers Burn Mountain, Little Man, Polica, Fever Dream, Boiled in Lead, Green River Outfi...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 57:41
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Acoustic Smoke, Barbara Jean, Bigtree Bonsai, Sonny Johnson, Frankie Lee, Brian Laidlaw, Connie Evingson, Fathom Lane, The Hang-Ups, Bellwether, Lu...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "The Silence Says." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:09
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Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. He's published three chapbooks of poet...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
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John Gorka, Actual Wolf, Mark Olson, Blood Washed Band, Terry Longtin, Greg Tiburzi, Portage, Sonny Johnson, The Bad Plus (Joined By Wendy Lewis), ...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 57:21
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1