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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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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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

Caption: Charlie Parr
Travis plays tracks from a variety of Minnesota artists. We hear from, Atmosphere, BK-One, Charlie Parr, Martin Zellar, Craig Finn, and Janiva Magn...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:52
Caption: Susan Carol Hauser: "My Kind of River Journey"
Bemidji area resident Susan Carol Hauser's most recent book is a nonfiction chronicle of an 18 day journey down the Mississippi. Susan joins Maggie...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 10, 2012
  • Length: 18:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Mary Strother discusses how she has evolved her artistic process and how she gathers her photography's subject matter. Her exhibit appear during Fe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Brian Miller
Brian Miller talks with Travis Ryder about getting how his interest in Irish music led him to Minnesota lumberjack songs.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tea and Sympathy
Charlie concentrates on female artists from Minnesota. We hear from Lucy Kaplansky, Germaine Gemberling, Tea and Sympathy, and Calamity Jean.

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Historian Gerry Kangas on the origins and traditions of the Finnish Laskiainen Sliding Festival. The 75th Laskiainen Festival was held the weekend...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 09:14
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Julia Maki
Deer River native Julia Maki talks with Heidi Holtan about her book "My Mom Hunts Submarines." Julia discusses seeing the world as a anti-submarine...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mary Casanova
Part of the "American Girl" series which presents characters of young contemporary girls dealing with contemporary issues.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Jim Jones, Cultural Resources Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council talks with Scott Hall about the closing of the Pamida store in Bemid...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 11:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Galactic Cowboy Orchestra
Lisi Wright of Galactic Cowboy Orchestra talks with Dave Lathrop about their two recent full length releases, and about making this diverse soundin...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:20
  • Purchases: 2