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

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Guido and Dodger used to travel all the time during the holidays, but shifted to heading South.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:52
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We tread along old roads to places we've been before. Only a few times in an average American's life do we change our Christmas venue...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:59
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Wahwahtay Benais: The Thunderbird Within the Northern Lights by Doug MacRostie. The oppression, hardship and discrimination that Native Americans...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 42:17
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Christmas reminds us that we've survived another year and still have some semblance of a family and a haphazard network of friends... we made it! T...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
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You have to actually see this Christmas tree to fully appreciate it: it's black and upside down.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
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"The Last Hunter - An American Family Album" by MN Author Will Weaver.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 20:30
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The height of washed luxury, the true mark of the backwoods aristocracy, is the outdoor shower.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
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As to Shower vs. Bath, Guido will take both. And if there can be a sauna in the same room, all the better.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
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Most showers take place in a tub - that's America for you. Why waste a little water when you can create a system designed to waste 20% more?

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 02:34
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Bestselling author Adriana Trigiani is back on Realgoodwords this week talking about her grandmothers, including Lucy from Chisholm.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 30:14