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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20 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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The restoration and celebration of an extensive collection of rare vinyl recordings that showcase life and music in northern Minnesota.

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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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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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Big Ditch Road, The 4onthefloor, Bob Mould, Saint Anyway, Martin Devaney, Blood Washed Band, Amy Adams, The Murder Of Crows, Brian Laidlaw

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 56:10
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Davina & The Vagabonds, Sony Holland, Fathom Lane, May Bue, Southwire, The Vibro Champs, Cadillac Kolstad & The Flats, Steve Kaul, The Honeydogs, T...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 41:24
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Red Lake Singers, Ipso Facto, Brother Ali, Jon Wayne and the Pain, Shangoya, Chastity Brown, Sonny Johnson, Actual Wolf, The Goobz, The Murder of C...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:09
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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