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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22 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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Last march, Armas Yuhala trapped tons of the “rough fish” in the Mississippi near Cohasset. He sold them to fish markets in New York City.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 10:43
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A Field Guide To The Bait In Your Bucket. Fish biologist and author, Tom Dickson, talks about the fish we use to catch fish.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:35
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 12:30
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Did you believe in the tooth fairy? Did you wear braces? This week we’re taking up the topic of TEETH, as suggested by 4 year old KAXE member Iris....

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 02:00:54
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We talk with KAXE Member Karen Lucachick from Sissebakwet - she isn't having a Ukrainian breakfast, but hotdogs (without buns)...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 08:53
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Before we learned to sit up right at the diner table and chew with our mouth closed, we were swinging through the trees and eating whatever we coul...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
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This week, Guido shares a story of the special relationship hockey players have with their teeth.

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Christina Brown, The Northern Cheapskate, put her money where her teeth are...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: :59
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Teeth are the most violent things on the human body...

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 02:44
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I'm joined in-studio by Aaron Kaercher from Ely for live music and conversation.

  • Added: May 10, 2010
  • Length: 25:08