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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Local stories produced by KAXE/KBXE thanks to the generous support of contributors to the 1 day local journalism fundraiser.

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20 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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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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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
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“The Assassination of Hole In The Day”: Author and Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State, Anton Treuer, talks about his new book about the dynamic a...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 26:22
  • Purchases: 4
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As a kid, Guido envied his friends who had two, hands-on Grandmothers.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:35
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In Judeo-Christian tradition we track families through the fathers side. Unless of course you are not a landed male heir. It's not that you don't m...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:23
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"...These Grandmothers, man, they don't play by anyone's rule book. Truly, they never have... They weren't always Grandmothers, that's something it...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
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Jennifer has been around hand bells since she was a youngster. The bells even rang at her wedding ceremony. Now she's in the bell choir at Commun...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 09:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Sela Oveson: Her Music's In My Bones, by Doug MacRostie. I have been quoted saying "Sela is one of my favorite MN musicians - she has a fire that b...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 37:53
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By Centerstage MN host Doug MacRostie. It's not too often that the debut release from a band is a double CD, but Matt Ray and Those Damn Horses are...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2010
  • Length: 32:13