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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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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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 Fattenin' Frogs, Faith Boblett, Mike Merz & The Can O'Worms, Ol' Yeller, Bob Dylan, Bellwether, Greg Tiburzi, Blood Washed Band, The Como Aven...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:37
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Germaine Gemberling, Lance Benson, The Brass Kings, Hobo Nephews Of Uncle Frank, Lucy Michelle And The Velvet Lapelles, Diet Folk, Marcy Playgroun...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Kitchi Boogie, Little Man, Jon Wayne & The Pain, Sonny Johnson, Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelless, Aaron Tank, Two Many Banjos, Coyote, Matt R...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 56:26
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Christine Rosholt, David Frishberg, Denny Malmberg Quartet With Cahrmin Michelle, Claudia Schmidt, John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, Bill Gessner, Robert...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 57:27
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D.B. Curtis & The Suspects, Tea And Sympathy, Brothers Burn Mountain, The Slamming Doors, Sonny Johnson, Breanne Marie, Blood Washed Band, The Fa...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 56:29
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:21
  • 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: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rena Haus
In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota, Northern Community Radio Producer Britt Aamodt presents a feature on Blues, country, and folk singer-song...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Actual Wolf, Faith Boblett, 12 Rods, Reina Del Cid & The Cidizens, Saint Anyway, The Fattin' Frogs, Crankshaft And The Gear Grinders, Little Man,...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 57:41