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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23 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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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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We talk with KAXE Member Julie Crabb, and there is a very specific way to make bacon...

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 12:23
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MN author Keven Malmquist talks with Heidi Holtan about "F.L. Wasselwick's Return of the Golden Turtle"

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 14:47
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Federal Court rulings in 1988 and 1999 upheld the off-reservation fishing, hunting and gathering rights of many Ojibwe people in Wisconsin and Minn...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Insist upon yourself. Be original.” We’ll be talking on Between You and Me and about what makes you original. Do you pa...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:01:56
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When they told me no two snowflakes are exactly alike, I cam to my own conclusions... I couldn't accept the idea that because none had ever seen it...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Just about the time you think you've really got something it hits you - you're chord progressions aren't original...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:24
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The real problem is you can only hook up words a certain number of ways before you become one of those randomizing robots...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:58
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Art aficionado Guido covers that art scene around northern MN

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 08:07
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The difference between seeing a band live and hearing a band on CD can be night and day. The reason for this is simple: it's hard to recreate the e...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 34:39
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Something about falling in love with music while stationed in Iraq strikes me as profound... The other day a young man named Alex Aldrich came into...

  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 14:06