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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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