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.

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Segments that explore the meaning and lasting impact of Dylan’s work on the Minnesota music and literary scenes through the eyes of one or more other working musicians or writers. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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158 Pieces

A radio segment about Ojibwe language and culture that features puppets. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.

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121 Pieces

The Call of the Wild is a call to your heart. The call to the wild part of yourself that you want to express in the work that you do. Sometimes you can even make a living doing what you love. And sometimes you can’t, but you still do it. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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Centerstage Minnesota showcases the talents of Minnesota musicians. A local production of Northern Community Radio: KAXE - Grand Rapids and KBXE - Bemidji. Also heard on KSRQ in Thief River Falls and on WTIP in Grand Marais.

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38 Pieces

Centerstage Minnesota Features are value-added segments focusing on various aspects of Minnesota's music landscape, past and present. Centerstage Minnesota Features are produced by Nothern Community Radio, and are made possible by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

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103 Pieces

A focus on regional events, sites, and places and how they relate to the community.

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Coming Home: the Gary Burger Story is an hour-long documentary about the life and times of Gary Burger, former front man of The Monks. Produced by Milt Lee and written by Jamie Lee.

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This program contains state and local conversations on COVID-19.

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148 Pieces

Stories from Northern Minnesota's arts and culture scene.

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Topical conversations about the history, present and future of Minnesota with our commentators Aaron Brown and Chuck Marohn. Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by the people of Minnesota.


Latest Pieces

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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
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In this edition of Centerstage Minnesota we hear music from Lehto & Wright, Actual Wolf, Hounds of Finn, Reina del Cid and the Cidizens, Hobo Nephe...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 56:17
  • Purchases: 2
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Everyday Disasters." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnes...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Julie Hathaway grew up on farm in southeastern Minnesota, and currently lives in Rochester. She's been writing for as long as she can remember, but...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
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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...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
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Deb Muotka is originally from Grand Rapids, though before moving back to Grand Rapids she lived in Milwaukee, and Nashville, and elsewhere. She's a...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:57
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:40
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James C. Henderson is a graduate of Metropolitan State University's Creative Writing program, and Hamline University's MFA program. He lives in New...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:24