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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1 Piece

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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5 Pieces

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

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4 Pieces

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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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:19
  • 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...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:17
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Tina Dybvik occasionally sounds off in the Downtown St. Paul Voice, her verse has appeared in Huff/Post 50, the Meloncholy Dane Quarterly, and Iron...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
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Dennis Herschbach is a northern Minnesota writer whose poems have won awards in national contests. He is also the author of a number of fiction and...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:10
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Brian Daly moved to Minnesota from Massachussetts in 2011. He's an artist and educator living in Minneapolis now. He writes poetry, and punk rock m...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
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Iman Mefleh, in her words, is a product of the Minnesota winter wonderland, born in a snowstorm in Minneapolis, and raised in a Lebanese-Scandinavi...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: Germaine Gemberling and Rich Mattson
In this edition of Charlie brings you music from The Goobz, The Slamming Doors, Germaine Gemberling, Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders, Diet Folk, H...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
This is the third installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 4