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

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