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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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
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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