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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From JFK Elementary in Babbitt, Minnesota as child to Pike Bay on Cass Lake, Minnesota, long after her father's passing, Jamie Lee is still held up...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
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They ride a mile for every degree above zero the temperature rises to on the day of the ride. Dianne talks to Travis about the ride, tips on winter...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
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  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 14:08
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
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This collection of short stories captures the beauty, triumph and challenge of making the leap of moving from the city to a small town on the North...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 28:06
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Heidi Holtan talks with Therese Zink about this collection of writing in various forms penned by modern day rural health care professionals. Things...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 20:08
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From the squeamish advertisements and sweatshops of the 1890's to the risqué bullet bras and silk sleepwear of the 1940's and 50's, Susan Marks chr...

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:17
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It’s not a town or township, but when Finnish-American families moved there 95 years ago it became a vibrant community that exists to this day. Ol...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 23:36
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Travis Ryder gets into the Holiday Spirit in this edition of Centerstage Minnesota with music from Bill and Kate Isles, Low, Caliegh, Bob Dylan, an...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 58:51
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A career journalist takes on and eventually overcomes artistic, academic, and health challenges and lives to tell about it in "Film School."

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 26:06
  • Purchases: 1