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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21 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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Ostroushko is actually two Ukrainian words put together: Ostro and Ushko which mean Sharp and Ear, and as one of the most accomplished instrumental...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 33:32
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KAXE Intern Tim Krueth (A.K.A. Timtern) reviews Us, the latest release from Minneapolis hip-hop artist Brother Ali. BrotherAli.com describes Us as,...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
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We'll also travel back in time and hear the story of a song. John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of ...

Bought by mnartists.org


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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A wooden bowl is also the tree, the saw and the sanding...everything we make is a story.

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 02:48
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Aaron Brown was a chubby kid with unkempt hair and homemade clothes who says, "punctual fat kids reap the rewards."

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:39
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Handmade & homemade isn't a guarantee of anything, is it? For example, you don't want to make your own submarine...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:54
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Is HOMEMADE always better? Our audience is filled with people who make their own beer, wine, bread, soap, kombucha, jam, pickles, clothing and ever...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:37
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We talk with KAXE Member Lorrie Janatopoulos from the woods near Makinen. She was having Puffins cereal with milk and a banana. And two Cuties whic...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 11:19
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Dr. Anton Treuer has a new book on the history of the Ojibwe in Minnesota. It’s published by the MN Historical Society Press. Treuer is Professor...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
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John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2