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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10 Pieces

Power in the Wilderness: Dramatized episodes about Iron Range historical figure Victor Powers.

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213 Pieces

What We're Reading is Northern Community Radio's discussion on the books we're reading and talking about. Hosted and produced by Tammy Bobrowsky.

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17 Pieces

Each Friday Morning we pull up a chair to one of member's kitchen table and get to know them a little better.

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8 Pieces

A series of interviews with artists that explores a community arts project addressing the aftermath of suicide.

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106 Pieces

Wordish is a writer-centered audio segment that features Minnesota artists reading original poems, short fiction and creative essays. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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21 Pieces

The next generation of youth making real, relevant radio.


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